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Meta is working on a 'super sensing' type of facial recognition technology for its smart glasses lineup. The software will be able to recognize people by name and keep a better track of what users are doing throughout the day. It will be opt-in only. The company is reportedly working on two new pairs of smart glasses and also re-evaluating its privacy policies and potential safety risks associated with the technology.

Instacart CEO Fidji Simo is joining OpenAI to lead its applications business. Simo has served as an OpenAI board member over the last year. She will remain CEO of Instacart for the next few months. Simo will focus on enabling OpenAI's traditional company functions to scale as it enters its next phase of growth, which will allow CEO Sam Altman to increase his focus on research, compute, and safety, which are critical as the company approaches superintelligence.

Aurora Innovation plans to expand its driverless trucking route beyond Dallas to Houston and into El Paso and Phoenix. The company plans to start sending its self-driving trucks out at night and during adverse weather conditions in the second half of 2025. It already runs freight with self-driving trucks in those conditions, but with a human safety operator behind the wheel. Running at nighttime would double the company's drive time and is a key milestone.

The saola is a bovine that hangs out in the mountainous forests of Vietnam and Laos. The species wasn't scientifically described until 1993 and has still never been seen in person by scientists or studied in the wild. It is a critically endangered species with an estimated population ranging from 50 to up to a few hundred individuals. An international team of scientists has reconstructed the saola genome, hinting at some potential good news for the chances of its conservation. The saola are split into two populations with considerable genetic differences, which means there may be enough genetic diversity to start working on building a captive breeding program.

The first release of the PostgreSQL 18 beta is now available for download. It contains previews of all of the features in PostgreSQL 18, but some of the details of the release may change during the beta period. The update improves performance and the developer experience and introduces new security features. It also adds monitoring and observability tools. This post goes over the new update.

Copying and pasting into chat apps can be tedious, but assistants like Copilot aren't as smart as the 'thinking' chat apps. This makes it clear why AI IDEs exist, but using them can get expensive because of the pay-per-use pricing as opposed to effectively unlimited prompts for a monthly subscription as with thinking apps. This Hacker News thread contains a discussion on the current state of AI IDEs and how they compare to chat apps. The thread mentions lesser known alternatives to Cursor and Windsurf, such as Roo code and aider-chat, that unlock different workflows.

Bill Gates expects his foundation to exhaust its coffers and spend more than $200 billion over the next 20 years. The total of Gates' donation is expected to be the second-largest philanthropic gift in US history, adjusted for inflation. His foundation has already spent more than $100 billion on a range of causes. Many of the foundation's beneficiaries have been people in low-income countries with endemic and frequently deadly diseases.

It can be difficult to find examples of good high information density UIs. This Hacker News thread lists resources for finding these examples and tips for how to find good examples. One of these methods is to look at programs used by pro creatives - some people regularly spend their days using a single such product as their primary work tool. Another source of good examples of dense information communication can be found in command line system monitoring tools.

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AI agents are starting to operate with real autonomy and becoming decision makers - a future where agents sell software to other agents is not far off.

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Sahil Lavingia, the second employee of Pinterest and founder of Gumroad, is also an unpaid contractor working with the Department of Veterans Affairs in a role facilitated by the Department of Government Efficiency.

The Clojure ecosystem is abnormally stable because its community avoids breaking things.

Apple's internal silicon design team, which is behind the creation of the chips used in the Apple Silicon line, is working on chips for smart glasses.

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Stripe is launching USDC and USDB accounts in 101 countries. The new stablecoin-funded accounts will help Stripe facilitate cross-border transactions between businesses. The accounts will also support balances held in British pounds, euros, and US dollars. Stripe has also announced a profiles feature to help businesses find each other and verify their identities and a tool to make it easy for developers to embed artificial intelligence agents into their products.

Apple plans to shift the focus of mobile Safari's search experience to AI search engines. Searches in Safari fell for the first time ever last year due to people increasingly using large language model-based solutions. Google and Apple shares dropped after Apple's plans were revealed as investors fear that the deal that makes Google the default search engine may not last. It is unlikely an AI search engine will become the default as the technology still needs to improve, particularly when it comes to indexing.

Elementl Power has signed an agreement with Google to develop three project sites for advanced reactors. Each site will generate at least 600 megawatts of power capacity. Google will have the option to buy the power once the sites are up and running. Elementl has yet to choose the type of reactor it will use. It plans to choose the reactor technology that's furthest along in development when it is ready to begin construction.

Amazon's new warehouse robot has a sense of touch, allowing it to handle jobs previously only done by humans. Vulcan has an innovative gripper that can manipulate 75% of the one million unique items in inventory at Amazon's Spokane warehouse. Vulcan will not be used to replace people - Amazon will create new, higher-skilled jobs. The robot can handle items up to 8 pounds and operate for 20 hours a day.

Many of today's best practices were drawn from long-established internet companies like Google. However, the problem with copying its current practices on the basis of its success is that most of those companies found near-invincible business models, and so almost any practice developed or selected at random likely would continue to be successful to some degree. The practices and cultures that have developed at these companies more often reflect optimizations for the benefit of various decision makers rather than optimizations for actually creating something great. The qualities that make a good engineer are often the same ones that create good engineering organizations - both start with deep understanding as the basis for innovation and recognize that vision and engineering are often deeply intertwined and mutually informative rather than linear.

Figma Make is an artificial intelligence feature that automates the process of building websites and applications. It will be available starting at $16 per person per month when purchased annually - there is no free tier. The tool uses Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet model. It is currently being tested. There is no information on when it will be released.

Zac Townsend was an Associate Partner at McKinsey. This post talks about the reasons he joined the company, his time there, the projects he worked on, and the lessons he learned from the experience. After working there for three years, Townsend learned that it is impossible to fix institutions that have gotten too big - there are too many people, too many processes, and too much regulatory overhang. This led him to create his own company.

Large Language Models (LLMs) are inherently probabilistic, which means you have to add evaluation frameworks, human-in-the-loop processes, and design for graceful failure, using LLMs for probabilistic guidance rather than deterministic answers. Unlike with traditional software, there is no way to get better at using AI than using AI - there is no substitute for trial and error. This makes it hard to predict development and makes building future-proof technology almost impossible. While software is inexpensive to distribute once written, LLMs have continued costs.

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ty is an extremely fast Python type checker and language server.

The US government is attempting to prove that Meta violated competition laws, but new evidence shows that Meta had identified TikTok as a major competitor several years ago.

Applications are 'stringly typed' when type information is available, but systems or functions are called based on strings or stringified data.

This article discusses GPU utilization with a focus on neural network inference workloads.

Users will be able to watch shows or movies right away, add them to their list of saved things to watch, and share clips with friends.

Apple has requested a stay on a court injunction that requires the company to allow developers to link to alternative payment methods in their apps.

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Google is developing its own Samsung DeX-like desktop mode for Android. Samsung DeX is a software feature that emulates a desktop UI that presents a desktop-like interface, allowing users to launch multiple apps in floating windows and control everything with a keyboard and mouse. The feature is still unfinished and almost certainly won't launch by the release of Android 16. This article presents a preview of the new desktop mode.

Amazon's Kindle app for iPhones and iPads wouldn't actually let anyone buy books in the app, until yesterday. The iOS app still doesn't allow books to be purchased directly in the app, but users can search Amazon's virtual bookstore inside the app and tap a new button that automatically pops them over to Amazon's website. Apple plans to appeal the ruling to allow third-party developers to use alternate payment processors in their apps - if successful, it could create new potential PR headaches for Apple as the company would then be taking away something from developers and users rather than preserving the status quo.

The Federal Aviation Administration has agreed to allow SpaceX to substantially increase the number of annual launches from its Starbase launch site in South Texas. SpaceX will now be able to conduct up to 25 Starship launches and landings during a calendar year. It will be required to undertake dozens of actions to mitigate environmental impacts. The company has yet to announce a firm date for its ninth Starship flight test.

Stratolaunch's Talon-A2 reusable hypersonic rocket plane has already carried multiple experiments and delivered payloads. The company is aiming for monthly flights by the end of the year and eventually wants to ramp up to weekly flights. The Pentagon has spent about $12 billion on hypersonic weapons development and testing since 2018 - none of the weapons are operational yet. China's first hypersonic weapon became operational in 2019, and Russia's government claimed it deployed a hypersonic weapon in the same year. The Pentagon's hunger for hypersonic weapons will likely fund Stratolaunch for some time to come.

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Google has released early access to a version of Gemini 2.5 Pro with significantly improved coding capabilities. The model is reportedly better at coding tasks such as building interactive web apps, code transformation, code editing, and creating agentic workflows. It was scheduled to debut at Google I/O, but Google released it early in response to positive feedback. The updated Gemini 2.5 Pro is placed at the top of the WebDev Arena Leaderboard and scored 84.8% on the VideoMME benchmark.

Hyper is a simple markup language for building user interfaces that enables developers to generate complex UIs with clean syntax. It is a headless view layer focused on rendering. Hyper allows developers to ditch the hundreds of frameworks, tools, languages, idioms, libraries, and practices that attempt to solve problems within the idiomatic React stack. This post compares React to Hyper.

UK retailers Harrods, Marks & Spencer, and Co-op have all reported cyber intrusions in the past two weeks. A group that calls itself Star Fraud (but more widely known as Scattered Spider) is suspected to be the culprit of the hacks. The attacks bear all the hallmarks of the group's attacks. Other retailers have been warned to harden their defences as the group usually works its way through a sector.

Uber has announced that it will increase its in-office requirements and change benefits. Employees will be required to come into the office three days a week starting in June. The eligibility for Uber's month-long paid sabbatical benefit has been raised from five years at the company to eight years. Some employees who had previously been approved for remote work will be required to start coming in.

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Microsoft has introduced a Surface Pro convertible tablet and a Surface Laptop, both of which can run artificial intelligence models without using the internet.

A class action suit filed on behalf of developers claims that Apple's actions cost them revenue during the period it was found to have violated a court order to let developers sell subscriptions directly to customers.

Outpost is a self-hosted infrastructure that enables event producers to add outbound webhooks and Event Destinations to their platform.

Function calling allows large language models to interact with external systems.

The App Store Freedom Act aims to promote competition and protect consumers and developers in the mobile app marketplace.

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Waymo currently has more than 1,500 commercial robotaxis in operation. It is working with Magna to build more than 2,000 autonomous I-Pace vehicles at a new factory in Arizona. The factory is strategically located in one of Waymo's robotaxi markets and close to its other service areas. Vehicles will be able to pick up their first public passengers less than 30 minutes after leaving the factory. The plant will be capable of building tens of thousands of fully autonomous Waymo vehicles per year when operating at full capacity.

Microsoft has still not yet approved OpenAI's plans for restructuring. The conversion will also need the approval of the state attorneys general of California and Delaware. Microsoft wants to make sure that any changes to OpenAI's structure adequately protects its investment. It is still actively negotiating the details of OpenAI's proposal. OpenAI will move forward with the effort to restructure its for-profit division as a public benefit corporation, but the overall business will remain under the control of its nonprofit.

Uber and Chinese autonomous vehicle technology company WeRide plan to bring robotaxi services to another 15 cities over the next five years. The expansion will focus on cities outside of China and the United States and include cities in Europe. Uber has more than 15 partnerships with a wide range of autonomous vehicle technology companies, the highest-profile of which is with Waymo. Uber and Waymo will soon launch a robotaxi service in Atlanta.

Many athletes are taking GLP-1 weight-loss drugs to gain a performance edge. The practice has caught the attention of the World Anti-Doping Agency. If the organization finds that semaglutide enhances performance, poses a health risk, or violates 'the spirit of the sport', it could end up on its banned list. However, making that determination is complex, and the drug's effects could have different outcomes depending on the sport.

Feather is a lightweight DX-first web framework for Rust. It features a middleware-first architecture, easy state management using context, a developer-first experience, great tooling out-of-the-box, and more. The project aims to be the simplest Rust web framework to get started with. It focuses on developer experience without sacrificing Rust's safety and performance.

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Google's next version of Android might look quite different. The company recently published and quickly removed a blog post that detailed 'Material 3 Expressive', a redesign expected to be revealed at I/O later this month. While the original Material Design did a good job of leveraging colors and consistent theming, it made apps look too similar. The new interface appears much more varied. Screenshots from the deleted blog post are available in the article.

This is a transcript of an interview with Mark Zuckerberg where he discusses the broader themes that place Llama in Meta's historical context. The interview covers Meta's platform ambitions over the last two decades, the evolution of social networking, and how Zuckerberg has changed his thinking about both. Zuckerberg talks about the Llama API and the tension between GPU opportunity cost and leveraging training costs, and why he thinks that the latter is worth paying for. He also discusses why Meta AI may actually bring many of his oldest ideas full circle, how that ties into Reality Labs, and why Meta ended up being the perfect name for the company.

People shouldn't let computers write for them. Their original thoughts are far more interesting, meaningful, and valuable than whatever a large language model can transform them into. Writing should be a medium for communicating original thoughts - if it's not worth writing, it's not worth reading. Language models are great for making nonsense and not so great for anything else - it's probably better to just read the prompt.

Apple's Reliability Testing Lab is at the company's campus in Cork, Ireland, which employs 6,000 people and serves as Apple's European headquarters.

If the judge in Meta's antitrust trial decides that TikTok competes in the same space as Facebook and Instagram, it could sink the FTC's bid to break up Meta.

Large language models can be used in automated black box testing, not just as a post-hoc verification step, but as a foundational driver for the code generation process itself.

It's always best to use the right tool when appropriate - LLMs are just another tool in that toolbox.

AI-generated software starts off already aged, and the people maintaining the code aren't its original creators, making it legacy code by definition.

The US jobs market grew in April, but tech jobs dropped overall.

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A vote to decide whether to turn part of south Texas into a new city centered around Elon Musk's SpaceX passed with broad support, paving the way for a newly incorporated city made up almost exclusively of SpaceX employees and people connected to the company. The brand-new city, Starbase, covers about one and a half square miles at the southern tip of Texas in a coastal spot nestled against the Mexico border. It is home to SpaceX headquarters and where the company builds its boosters and engines and launches its Starship rocket on test flights. Having greater municipal control of the area could ease some of the bureaucracy and restrictions around SpaceX's tests and rocket launches.

Eric Schmidt acquired Relativity Space to have the capability to launch a significant amount of computing infrastructure into space. Schmidt appeared before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce during a hearing in April and spoke about the need for more electricity to power data centers to facilitate the computing needs for AI development and applications. Space-based data centers would be powered by solar panels and be able to radiate heat into the vacuum of space. Relativity's Terran R will be capable of launching 33.5 metric tons to low-Earth orbit in expendable mode and 23.5 tons with a reusable first stage.

Japan's Nippon Telegraph and Telephone group claims to have created a drone that can induce and guide lightning strikes. The technology could theoretically be used to protect cities and infrastructure from lightning damage. A wire is attached to the drone - when a switch is flicked, a surge of electrical energy runs through the wire, grounding the drone electrically. This allegedly increases the strength of the drone's surrounding electric field, triggering and attracting a lightning strike. A video that explains how the technology works is available in the article.

Venom expert Tim Friede has voluntarily injected himself with snake venom 856 times across 18 years. This has led to the creation of the most widely effective snake antivenom on record. The antivenom protected mice from the venom of 19 different snake species in lab experiments. Rigorous clinical testing is required before the antivenom will be made available to humans. The researchers plan to conduct field trials of the antivenom to treat snake-bitten dogs in Australia.

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pipask is a drop-in replacement for pip that performs security checks before installing a package. It relies on metadata from PyPI whenever possible. pipask asks for consent first if third-party code execution is necessary. It uses pip to handle the actual installation if the installation is approved.

Apple and Anthropic have partnered to build a new version of Xcode that will use Anthropic's Claude Sonnet model to write, edit, and test code. Apple plans to roll out the software internally and hasn't decided if it will launch it publicly. The latest Claude models have been particularly popular for coding tasks.

FutureHouse has launched four AI tools (Crow, Falcon, Owl, and Phoenix) designed to support scientific work. Crow can search scientific literature and answer questions about it, Falcon can conduct deeper literature searches, Owl looks for previous work in a given subject area, and Phoenix uses tools to help plan chemistry experiments. The Eric Schmidt-backed nonprofit aims to build an 'AI scientist' within the next decade. Its tools still make mistakes, which may make scientists wary of endorsing them for serious work.

Amazon finally launched the first production satellites for its Kuiper broadband network last week. The company has been secretive about the project since it was unveiled in 2019. The designs of the satellites remain unknown, but a fuzzy video released by Amazon on Friday revealed enough to make out their trapezoidal shape. The mass of each Kuiper satellite is estimated to be somewhere between 1,185 and 1,259 pounds.

Type-based grouping is great for tech-focused tasks, consistent naming, and large sweeping changes, while context/process-based grouping shines for domain clarity, team ownership, debugging, and mapping business problems directly to code.

Jujutsu is a version control system that treats everything as a unique but flexible 'change'.

At least one of the new iPhone models launching in 2027 will have a truly edge-to-edge display.

ANEMLL is a project that aims to accelerate the porting of large language models to tensor processors.

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Google's new AI Mode takes Search's real-time information access and combines it with generative AI capabilities to create an AI search engine experience. It is designed to make it easier for users to plan vacations, shopping trips, or learn more about any topic. Google Labs users in the US can now access AI Mode without a waitlist. Feedback on the tool has so far been positive.

Epic Games Store's new webshops feature allows developers to open webshops to offer players out-of-app purchases to circumvent fees from Apple and Google. The company will not take a cut from the first $1 million each game earns annually starting in June. Epic is bringing Fortnite back to the iOS App Store - it will incentivize users to buy digital goods through Epic directly with cheaper prices.

Aurora Innovation is the first company to deploy driverless, heavy-duty trucks for commercial use on public roads in the US. The company began running freight this week between Dallas and Houston and has completed 1,200 miles in a single self-driving truck without a driver so far. It plans to build more trucks and expand to El Paso and Phoenix by the end of the year. The company is working with Volvo Trucks and Paccar to develop self-driving trucks for high-volume manufacturing, with plans for a launch in 2027 or earlier.

Aetherflux is a company that aims to harvest solar power in space and beam it back to Earth via laser. It plans to launch a demonstration of its technology in 2026. A solar farm in space would receive sunlight all the time, enabling it to harness more power than on Earth. Aetherflux plans to use infrared lasers to send solar energy from an array of small satellites to a series of small ground stations. The US military might be the first recipient of Aetherflux's space-based power, but the company wants to be a commercially viable operation that can provide clean, affordable power to Americans everywhere.

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Redis 8 is now generally available. It has many new features and more than 30 performance improvements. The release adds eight more data structures and five probabilistic structures to help developers solve their current use cases better and build for the next generation of fast and real-time apps. It comes with a new license (AGPLv3) that makes Redis open source again.

Hyperparam addresses the lack of a user-friendly, scalable UI for exploring and curating massive datasets in the machine learning ecosystem through a suite of open-source tools that tackle different aspects of data curation. It aims to empower ML practitioners to create the best training datasets for the best models. The tools include Hyparquet, a lightweight, pure-JS library for reading Apache Parquet files directly in the browser; Hyparquet-Writer, which provides a way to write or export data to Parquet format in JavaScript; HighTable, a React-based virtualized table component for viewing extremely large tables in the browser; and Icebird, which extends Hyperparam's reach into data stored in Apache Iceberg format.

Oxide struggled to hire four years ago, so it published a blog explaining the company's approach to compensation. The blog got a lot of attention, both positive and negative, and it resulted in a surge of new people interested in working at the company. The company now has over three times the employees it previously had and a shipping product. This article looks at the lessons the company has learned over the few years of working with its compensation model, which has been essential for building a mission-focused team.

Apple VP of Finance Alex Roman allegedly lied to the court to maintain the belief that evidence of internal discussions about a 27% commission fee on some purchases linked to the App Store was real. The company had presented evidence of internal discussions that were tailor-made for litigation instead of what actually happened. Apple has also been accused of other deceptive practices. The accusations may result in punishment for Apple and Roman - the case has been referred to US attorneys, who will investigate whether to pursue criminal contempt proceedings.

Apple has been ordered to allow developers to add links to external purchase options with no fee effective immediately.

Developers can set up a link inside their apps to accept payments on iOS for digital goods using Stripe Checkout

Anthropic's new app connection feature, Integrations, builds on the company's MCP protocol to allow developers to create and host app services that enhance Claude's capabilities and let users discover and connect these services to Claude.

Using a single cache cluster shared across services means having one eviction policy and it makes monitoring and debugging harder.

WhatsApp's business platform accounted for a large portion of the $510 million in revenue brought in by Meta's family of apps.

Meta's Reality Labs posted a $4.2 billion operating loss in Q1 2025.