16 of the most interesting startups at YC W’26 Demo Day

16 of the most interesting startups at YC W’26 Demo Day

🚀 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,…
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My minute-by-minute response to the LiteLLM malware attack

My minute-by-minute response to the LiteLLM malware attack

✨ Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Now I have the full picture. Here's my analysis:What 2.1.81 is: Claude Code v2.1.81. You had 5 Claude Code instances running at shutdown time.Shutdown timeline:01:36:33 — Force shutdown initiated01:36:36 — Shutdown stall captured (162 processes still running, 21 of them Python)01:37:11 — System bootedProcess tree at shutdown:Normal Claude Code MCP servers (2 instances):Claude Code [82193] → python3.13 [88842] → node [88854] (416MB) Claude Code [35621] → python3.13 [45088] → node [45091] (228MB)These are MCP server bridges — Python wraps a Node.js MCP server. Normal behavior.A…
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Data Centers Ready – The Senate Wants to See Your Energy Bills

Data Centers Ready – The Senate Wants to See Your Energy Bills

🚀 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Climate,Government & Policy,data centers,electrical grid,elizabeth warren,Josh Hawley ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Two U.S. senators on Thursday fired the latest salvo in an increasingly active front against data centers and their energy uses. Senators Josh Hawley and Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) asking it to collect details about energy use from data centers — and how that use affects the grid. The senators urged the EIA “to establish mandatory annual reporting requirements for data centers and other large loads,” they wrote in the…
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Building a blog with Elixir and Phoenix

Building a blog with Elixir and Phoenix

✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TL;DR: it’s an Elixir app using Phoenix server side rendered pages, with the blog post pages generated from Markdown using NimblePublisher. It’s running on a self-hosted Dokploy instance running on Hetzner, with bunny.net as a CDN sitting in front of it. This is a very belated write up of how this blog was put together! There’s nothing terribly original here, but I figure it could come in handy for someone out there as a reference. And the world needs more Elixir content. Why Phoenix I…
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Apple has made big strides in iOS 26 security, but leaked hacking tools still leave millions vulnerable to spyware attacks

Apple has made big strides in iOS 26 security, but leaked hacking tools still leave millions vulnerable to spyware attacks

🚀 Discover this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,Apple,China,Coruna,cybersecurity,Darksword,Google,hackers,hacking,iOS,iverify,Lookout,russia,Spyware,Zero-days 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A common assumption among iPhone security experts was that finding vulnerabilities and developing exploits for iOS was difficult, requiring a lot of time, resources, and teams of skilled researchers to penetrate layers of security defenses. This meant that iPhone spyware and sub-zero vulnerabilities, which the software vendor did not know about before exploiting them, were rare and only used in limited, targeted attacks, as Apple itself says. But last month, cybersecurity researchers at Google, iVerify, and Lookout documented several large-scale hacking campaigns using tools known…
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OpenTelemetry Profiles Enters Public Alpha

OpenTelemetry Profiles Enters Public Alpha

🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Since OpenTelemetry first introduced Profiles, momentum has only grown towards building a unified industry standard for continuous production profiling, standing alongside traces, metrics, and logs. Today, the Profiling SIG is proud to announce that the Profiles signal has officially entered public Alpha, and we are ready for broader community use and feedback.Production profiling for allContinuously capturing low-overhead performance profiles in production is a technique that has been used for decades. It helps troubleshoot production incidents, improves user experience by making software faster and reduces…
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The two biggest dramas in Silicon Valley have crossed paths: LiteLLM and Delve

The two biggest dramas in Silicon Valley have crossed paths: LiteLLM and Delve

💥 Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,Startups,TC,Delve,malware,security compliance ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: This is one of those real-life Silicon Valley episodes that appears to have been ripped from the HBO satirical show. This week, some truly heinous malware was discovered in an open source project developed by Y Combinator alumnus LiteLLM. LiteLLM gives developers easy access to hundreds of AI models and provides features such as spend management. It's a hack hit, being downloaded up to 3.4 million times a day, according to Snake, one of several security researchers monitoring the incident. The project had 40k…
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French e, è, é, ê, ë – what’s the difference?

French e, è, é, ê, ë – what’s the difference?

💥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Pronunciation of the letter e in French is ambiguous. There are four ways to pronounce it: /e/ (as “e” in “hey”, called “closed e”), /ɛ/ (as “e” in “bet”, called “open e”), /ə/ (as “a” in the name “Tina”, called “schwa”), or it can remain silent; however, it may also form part of a larger group of letters where the pronunciation may be different. In this post, we shall learn some basic rules you have to know if you want to be…
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ByteDance’s new AI video creation model, Dreamina Seedance 2.0, is coming to CapCut

ByteDance’s new AI video creation model, Dreamina Seedance 2.0, is coming to CapCut

🚀 Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Apps,bytedance,capcut,seedance 2.0 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: OpenAI may be stepping back from its efforts in the video creation market with the shutdown of its Sora app, but ByteDance confirmed Thursday that its new audio and video model, Dreamina Seedance 2.0, is now rolling out to its editing platform, CapCut. ByteDance says the model allows creators to craft, edit and sync video and audio content using prompts, images or reference videos. The phased rollout will begin for CapCut users in Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, with more markets…
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Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features

Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features

💥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A Walmart ads vehicle This week’s announcement shows Walmart further integrating Vizio and looking to more deeply leverage Vizio OS’s ads and tracking capabilities to fuel its $6.4 billion ads business. In Vizio’s final quarter as its own company, its ad business made a gross profit of $115.8 million, and its hardware business lost $6.7 million. Walmart doesn’t break out Vizio’s financials, but in a February call with investors, John David Rainey, CFO and EVP of Walmart, said Vizio “saw triple-digit growth in advertising” during Walmart’s…
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