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The Kindle Scribe is worth considering if you’re heading back to school, as its large 10.2-inch screen can display textbooks and ebooks, or let you jot down handwritten notes during class. Now through August 8th, the first-gen model (with a Premium Pen) is down to just $149.99 with 16GB of storage in refurbished condition at […]

Valar Atomics raised $1 billion at a $6 billion valuation after signing a development deal with Nvidia in June.

RIYADH — Around 95.3 percent of online purchases in Saudi Arabia were made through local retailers, compared with 55.4 percent through international shopping websites. This was revealed in the Saudi Internet Report, issued by the Communications, Space and Technology Commission (CST). The fifth edition of the report highlighted the growing adoption of digital channels among consumers, with 76.9 percent purchasing products or services online, including 85.6 percent of women and 70.2 percent of men. The report found that 95.3 percent of online purchases were made through local retailers, compared with 55.4 percent through international shopping websites. Clothing and footwear were the most purchased online products at 87.7 percent, followed by cosmetics at 46.2 percent, groceries at 41.8 perc…

CKPool's developer put the winner's hashrate at a “wildly variable” peak of 100 PH, noting that it was probably rented.

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/smaller-faster-safer-models/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158581 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://changelog.complete.org/archives/44456-celebrating-45-years-of-kermit-with-the-first-new-c-kermit-release-in-15-years-and-working-with-a-decades-old-c-codebase Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158474 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

WASHINGTON—The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today requested comment on a proposal to implement structural and substantive changes to its rules governing the disclosure of OCC information. The proposed changes are designed to improve the balance between protecting OCC confidential information from... Read More

Article URL: https://github.com/leonickson1/Swiftlet Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158333 Points: 9 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://hamvocke.com/blog/task-runners/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158287 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

Base Power’s $1 billion round will help the startup ramp production of its home batteries.

A new digital verification platform aims to reduce forged certificates by allowing employers and universities to authenticate academic records onchain.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has formally granted a petition from CME Group seeking review of a prior staff decision that conditionally approved Nasdaq PHLX’s plans to list and trade cash-settled Bitcoin index options. As a result, the approval remains stayed while the... Read More

Article URL: https://github.com/MikeLuu99/searxng-rust Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158141 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

House spending records show OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying on the chatbot to draft memos, summarize legislation, and assist constituent communications.

Hi HN, we’re Bence and Ryan, founders of Hoplite ( https://hoplite.sh ). Hoplite lets you deploy coding agents in the cloud, with a suite of tools that makes it incredibly easy to QA features. During onboarding, we port over your local setup - sessions, memories, MCP servers, and get your projects ready to run in the cloud. Here’s a demo: https://youtu.be/bnyktZ_9pjE We got here after pivoting away from the idea we applied to YC with; AI for retail investing. It ultimately wasn’t a product that we ourselves would use, nor served a customer base that we felt connected to. In reflecting on what we really wanted to do, we realised that we loved talking to founders and developers, and were really opinionated about the specific area of cloud agents. We tried out all the existing solutions, and…

Building on its recently announced plans to bring original Xbox games to PC, Microsoft is also planning to let developers bring their Xbox 360 games to PC as well, according to a leaked document, seen by The Verge, that was sent to developers recently. Xbox 360 games will be able to run on the next-gen […]

Wispr Flow's new terms of service indicate it will introduce a notetaker that generates meeting summaries and action items.

The Hut 8 subsidiary increased its Bitcoin holdings by 14% in the second quarter even as Bitcoin’s price fell.

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49157930 Points: 3 # Comments: 329

Hi HN! We’re Theodore and Louis, founders of Armature (YC P26). We reconstruct the entire session behind the MCP tool calls you receive, including what the user asked their agent to do and what the agent thought. You wrap your MCP in 3 lines of code (our SDK is available in Typescript, Python and Go) and start seeing in your dashboard: - All sessions reconstructed: it’s like reading the real conversation the user had inside Claude or ChatGPT! - A ranking of your MCP most popular use cases, built from sessions clustering - The most frequent issues your users’ agents encounter so you can fix them. Here is a quick demo: https://youtu.be/ZFlvquhyNMQ The story behind this is that we initially launched Armature as a standalone testing tool ( https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QQc-armature-maki…