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Quarantining leaked credentials is not good enough

Simile’s CEO about his journey from the viral Generative Agents to creating 8 Billion Digital Twins of every living human... and why it’s gone from fun exploration to very serious business.

"We probably need another site that's capable of heavy and super heavy launch capability."

Cloudflare's new Bot Preference Sync automatically aligns your robots.txt file with your AI bot policies for Search, Agent, and Training. Easily manage which bots access your content without maintaining static files.

Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. But a series of tests conducted by TechCrunch found that it didn't take much to get past the restriction.

Nv's new chips need new datacenters, but you can't have bit barns without power

Nvidia continues to pour money into data center development — just as AI data centers bring lots of money into Nvidia.

Article URL: https://thomasdullien.github.io/posts/2026-08-21-three-important-steps-in-my-maturation-process/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49394496 Points: 205 # Comments: 113

Rillet CEO Nicolas Kopp shared growth numbers at a board meeting and set off a fundraising frenzy from Iconiq, Sequoia and others. Without even trying.

Anthropic is poised to debut on the stock market at a time when the public is increasingly upset about data centers and is fearful about AI taking jobs.

Apple has admitted that some roles are being impacted as it shifts its focus away from certain initiatives.

Show us the money

Thunderstorms make seismic waves that can be used to find sub-surface features.

Two years after the U.S. Department of Justice alleged that TikTok violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, it has reached a $400 million settlement.

Fahrenheit 203, the temperature GPUs stop gorging on literature

Renters say hidden Zillow listings make it harder to afford living in New York City.

The $225 Pebble Time 2 pairs quirky watch faces and apps with physical buttons, an e-paper display, weeks of battery life, and a playful hacker spirit.

https://matklad.github.io/2026/08/21/rust-glancer.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49393052 Points: 394 # Comments: 97

Nvidia research shows that AI agents can perform well, and not go off the deep end, through fine-tuning, even if the AI model isn't that great at the task.

The private Android-based OS will expand beyond Pixels next year.

Tesla will voluntarily recall about 3 million of its vehicles in China to address doorhandle safety concerns and deficient driver monitoring systems.

If you’ve been circling around Disrupt, then now’s the best time to lock in your pass and start getting ready to join the rest of the startup community gathering in San Francisco from October 13-15 at Moscone West!

Logitech increased prices by up to 25 percent last year.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of trojanized npm packages that masquerade as working calendar and streak utilities but are engineered to stealthily deliver an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Linux implant dubbed RedC2 4.0. "When the module loads, it locates the bundled binary, marks it executable, and launches it as a detached background process," TrendAI, Trend Micro's

Direct link to Legacy Survey Sky Viewer: https://viewer.legacysurvey.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49392200 Points: 252 # Comments: 67