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Our $200M Series C / Oxide

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✨ Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Well, yes, on both fronts, so let us explain a little.First, we have the luxury of having achieved real product-market fit: we are making a product that people want to buy. This takes on additional dimensions when making something physical: with complexities like manufacturing, inventory, cash-conversion, and shifting supply chains, product-market fit implies getting the unit economics of the business right. All of this is a long way of saying: we did not (and do not) need to raise capital to support the business.So if…

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Simplifying Vulkan One Subsystem at a Time

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✨ Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: When those of us in the Vulkan® working group want to modify the API—whether it’s a new hardware feature to expose, a new use case we want to address, or even just a gap in the spec we want to address—we have one invaluable tool that we make heavy use of: extensions! Extensions are a wonderful way for us to get improvements to the Vulkan API out to developers without waiting for a new core version. They let vendors expose novel functionality and enable us…

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Why Eastern Cultures Are More Cooperative : The Salt : NPR

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🚀 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Teamwork needed: Successfully growing rice requires villages to work together to build irrigation systems and get the crop planted. By comparison, wheat is easier to grow. Handout/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Handout/Getty Images Teamwork needed: Successfully growing rice requires villages to work together to build irrigation systems and get the crop planted. By comparison, wheat is easier to grow. Handout/Getty Images Ask Americans to describe themselves, and chances are you'll get adjectives like "energetic," "friendly" or "hard-working." In Japan, the responses would likely be…

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AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It

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✨ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It (via) Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye from Berkeley Haas School of Business report initial findings in the HBR from their April to December 2025 study of 200 employees at a "U.S.-based technology company". This captures an effect I've been observing in my own work with LLMs: the productivity boost these things can provide is exhausting. AI introduced a new rhythm in which workers managed several active threads at once: manually writing code while AI generated an alternative version,…

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Grindr trials premium $500 per month plan to become ‘AI-first’ app

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✨ Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Grindr. (Leon Neal/Getty Images) Gay hook-up app Grindr is currently trialing a new ultra-premium subscription plan – that uses artificial intelligence and costs members $500 per month. The plan, called EDGE, is being tested with a selection of users in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, with prices ranging from $349.99 to $499.99. Grindr has confirmed that EDGE will not replace the current Grindr Unlimited subscription service, but rather sit above it. READ MORE: Grindr announced extra safety measures for LGBTQ+ athletes at Winter…

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Zulip project values

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🔥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Building software that will always be there for our users When choosing software that will be core to how one’s organization operates, such as a team chat platform, there is an important question: “Will this product still exist and be responsibly maintained in a few years?” We have designed our company, community, and technology with the explicit goal of Zulip being actively developed for many years to come. This theme cuts across many of the decisions described below. It is also reflected in our history:…

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Brutalist Southbank Centre finally listed after 35 years of refusals

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🚀 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Yesterday, Historic England confirmed to the AJ that, on its advice, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) had Grade II listed the centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, Hayward Gallery and terraced walkways and stairs. The Twentieth Century Society, which launched a bid early last year to secure the long-demanded heritage protection for the centre, hailed the decision as a ‘victory over those who derided so-called “concrete monstrosities”.’ The campaign group described the reinforced concrete complex as a  ‘post-war architectural masterpiece’. The riverside…

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Discord Alternatives, Ranked: Taggart Tech

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💥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I've been running a Discord server for about four and a half years now. When I started streaming during the pando, I had no idea that I would end up building a community. Hell, I'd never even used Discord before. I only knew what it was because I had to stop my students from using it. Don't like reading? Click here for the final scores. But folks kept asking for one. My viewers expected a community hub in which people who found their way to…

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antirez/voxtral.c: Pure C inference of Mistral Voxtral Realtime 4B speech to text model

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💥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: This is a C implementation of the inference pipeline for the Mistral AI's Voxtral Realtime 4B model. It has zero external dependencies beyond the C standard library. The MPS inference is decently fast, while the BLAS acceleration is usable but slow (it continuously convert the bf16 weights to fp32). Audio processing uses a chunked encoder with overlapping windows, bounding memory usage regardless of input length. Audio can also be piped from stdin (--stdin), or captured live from the microphone (--from-mic, macOS), making it easy to…

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Why “just prompt better” doesn’t work

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✨ Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Earlier this week we published “Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem”, which made it to the HackerNews front page and drew responses from developers across industries and roles. We learned a lot from the (40+) survey responses that poured in, as well as the heated debate on how coding assistants impact software development. The latter deserves its own article-a separate post curating best practices in coding agent setup is in the works. For this follow-up article however, we will focus on main findings…

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