✨ Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: > Serviceable, repairable, upgradable Macs are officially a thing of the past.Well, not exactly. Apple’s desktop Macs actually all have modular SSD storage, and third parties sell upgrade kits. And it’s not like Thunderbolt is a slouch as far as expandability.I can see why the Mac Pro is gone. Yeah, it has PCIe slots…that I don’t really think anyone is using. It’s not like you can drop an RTX 5090 in there.The latest Mac Pro didn’t have upgradable memory so it wasn’t much different…
✨ Read this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,Media & Entertainment,Netflix,streaming ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Netflix has quietly raised its prices again. The streaming giant's affordable ad-supported tier now costs $8.99 per month, up from the previous monthly subscription fee of $7.99, Netflix confirmed to TechCrunch in an email. The Standard plan without ads now costs $19.99 per month, an increase of $2 from the previous subscription fee of $17.99, while the Premium plan also goes up by $2 and will now cost $26.99 per month. Adding additional viewers outside your household also becomes more expensive. To add…
🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: ← home I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS, connected it to my own IRC server, and pointed it at my GitHub repos. Visitors can ask it about my work and get answers backed by actual code, not rephrased resume text. the problem with "ask my resume" Every portfolio site with an AI chatbot does the same thing: feed the resume into a model and let visitors rephrase it. It's a parlor trick. The model can't tell you anything the resume doesn't…
✨ Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,In Brief,Wikipedia ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: With the success of artificial intelligence in the world of editorial and media, websites are scrambling to establish ground rules for its use. Wikipedia this week banned its editors from using AI-generated text, though it stopped short of completely banning AI from the site's editorial operations. In a recent policy change, the site now states that “using LLMs to create or rewrite article content is prohibited.” This new language updates and clarifies previous, more ambiguous language that stated that LLMs should not be used…
🚀 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Repository files navigation A liminal brush-based CSG editor and game engine with unified renderer inspired by Radiant and Worldcraft/Hammer (from the old times!) Custom OpenGL/PyGame engine supports immediate "drop-in and play" (like CryEngine Editor) Designed to be compact and lightweight (target: Snapdragon 8CX, OpenGL 3.3) Real-time lighting with (in development) stencil shadows Volumetric fog, glass & water shaders with configurable surface parms Entity I/O system inspired by Half-Life 2 (logic, triggers, lights, speakers) Terrain generation OBJ model support json level format with magic number fingerprint…
💥 Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,Social,decentralized,decentralized social network,Mastodon,social media,X ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Mastodon is making changes in hopes of making its social networking service more attractive and easier to use, especially for casual users looking for an alternative to X or Threads. The decentralized social networking software maker said Thursday it is redesigning a key part of its platform by giving people's user profiles a new look, which it hopes will appeal to organizations, as well as individuals. Mastodon is built on the ActivityPub protocol, and became better known after Elon Musk acquired Twitter,…
💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: New York City’s public hospital system announced that it would not be renewing its contract with Palantir as controversy mounts in the UK over the data analytics and AI firm’s government contract.The president of the US’ largest municipal public healthcare system, Dr Mitchell Katz, testified last week before the New York city council that the agreement with Palantir would expire in October.He said at the hearing that the contract, which focused on recovering money for insurance claims, was always meant to be short-term, and that…
✨ Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,AI,Google,Google Translate 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Live Translate, Google's AI-powered Translate feature that lets you hear real-time translations in headphones, is expanding to iOS and more countries, Google announced Thursday. With this expansion, the feature is now available on iOS and Android in the US, India, Mexico, Germany, Spain, France, Nigeria, Italy, UK, Japan, Bangladesh and Thailand. Previously, it was only available on Android in the US, India and Mexico. This capability essentially turns any pair of headphones into a one-way, real-time translation device. The real-time headphone translation experience, leveraging…
💥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Here are three stories about the state of gambling in America.BaseballIn November 2025, two pitchers for the Cleveland Guardians, Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz, were charged in a conspiracy for “rigging pitches.” Frankly, I had never heard of rigged pitches before, but the federal indictment describes a scheme so simple that it’s a miracle that this sort of thing doesn’t happen all the time. Three years ago, a few corrupt bettors approached the pitchers with a tantalizing deal: (1) We’ll bet that certain pitches will…
🚀 Read this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Startups,Venture,demo day,yc ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: AI was once again the buzzword for this latest batch of YC Demo Day companies. Nearly 190 companies participated in Y Combinator's Winter '26 panel and presented their startups at a demo day on Tuesday. These companies work on products across industries such as law, transportation, and healthcare. Admittedly, I didn't listen to every single product pitch due to the sheer size of the group and this year's demo day format available to the media: YC posted the pitch videos, one at a time,…