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I don't know how you get here from "predict the next word."

Article URL: https://www.grumpy-economist.com/p/refine Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47162059 Points: 7 # Comments: 3

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Technology Feb 26, 2026

Apple Needs to Copy Samsung's New Security Smartphone Screen ASAP

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/samsung-galaxy-s26-privacy-display-d5bce9ab Comments URL: https://n...

Technology Feb 26, 2026

Self-improving software won't produce Skynet

Article URL: https://contalign.jefflunt.com/self-improving-software/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology Feb 26, 2026

RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/ram-now-represents-35-percent-of-bill-of-materials-for-hp-pcs/ Com...

Technology Feb 26, 2026

Show HN: OpenSwarm – Multi‑Agent Claude CLI Orchestrator for Linear/GitHub

I built OpenSwarm because I wanted an autonomous “AI dev team” that can actually plug into my real workflow instead...

Technology Feb 26, 2026

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: This isn’t our first SaaSpocalypse

Salesforce reported a solid year-end earnings and then pulled out all the stops to ward off more talk of the death of it...

Technology Feb 26, 2026

Show HN: ZSE – Open-source LLM inference engine with 3.9s cold starts

I've been building ZSE (Z Server Engine) for the past few weeks — an open-source LLM inference engine focused on two ...

Technology Feb 26, 2026

Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance

Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/tech-companies-shouldnt-be-bullied-doing-surveillance Comments URL: ...

Technology Feb 26, 2026

Gushwork bets on AI search for customer leads — and early results are emerging

Gushwork has raised $9 million in a seed round led by SIG and Lightspeed. The startup has seen early customer traction f...

Technology Feb 25, 2026

Steering interpretable language models with concept algebra

Article URL: https://www.guidelabs.ai/post/steerling-steering-8b/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47...

Technology Feb 25, 2026

Anthropic acquires computer-use AI startup Vercept after Meta poached one of its founders

Seattle-based Vercept developed complex agentic tools, including a computer-use agent that could complete tasks inside a...

Technology Feb 25, 2026

New York sues Valve, alleging its loot boxes are ‘quintessential gambling’

New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing Valve for "illegally promoting gambling" through the loot box systems i...

Technology Feb 25, 2026

Banned in California

Article URL: https://www.bannedincalifornia.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47159430 Points: 15...

Technology Feb 25, 2026

Nvidia has another record quarter amid record capex spends

"The demand for tokens in the world has gone completely exponential," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said about the company's e...

Technology Feb 25, 2026

First Website (1992)

Article URL: https://info.cern.ch Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47159302 Points: 153 # Comments: 2...

Technology Feb 25, 2026

How will OpenAI compete?

Article URL: https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2026/2/19/how-will-openai-compete-nkg2x Comments URL: https://news...

Technology Feb 25, 2026

How the new Galaxy S26 phones stack up against each other on paper

Samsung has just announced its new Galaxy S26 lineup, which includes the S26, S26 Plus, and S26 Ultra. While they aren't...

Technology Feb 25, 2026

Musk has no proof OpenAI stole xAI trade secrets, judge rules, tossing lawsuit

Even twisting an ex-employee's text to favor xAI's reading fails to sway judge. ...

Technology Feb 25, 2026

Corsair is halting Drop sales after March 25th

The Drop store, which was acquired by gaming gear giant Corsair in 2023, was a haven for mechanical keyboard enthusiasts...

Technology Feb 25, 2026

The Galaxy S26 is faster, more expensive, and even more chock-full of AI

Samsung's Galaxy S26 series is available for preorder today and ships on March 11. ...

Technology Feb 25, 2026

An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop

Article URL: https://aircada.com/blog/ai-vs-human-3d-ecommerce Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47157...

Technology Feb 25, 2026

Everyone Speaks Incel Now

After migrating from misogynist forums to social media feeds, terms like “looksmaxxing” and “mogged” are now imp...

Technology Feb 25, 2026

Judge doesn't trust DOJ with search of devices seized from Wash. Post reporter

Court to search devices itself instead of letting government have full access. ...

Technology Feb 25, 2026

The Peace Corps is recruiting volunteers to sell AI to developing nations

For more than six decades, the Peace Corps has represented itself as an agency focused on helping underserved communitie...

Technology Feb 25, 2026

The White House wants AI companies to cover rate hikes. Most have already said they would.

Many hyperscalers have already made public commitments to cover electricity cost increases.

Technology Feb 25, 2026

Trump claims tech companies will sign deals next week to pay for their own power supply

President Donald Trump tried to quell Americans' concerns about rising electricity costs during his State of the Union s...

Technology Feb 25, 2026

Making MCP cheaper via CLI

Article URL: https://kanyilmaz.me/2026/02/23/cli-vs-mcp.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4715739...

Technology Feb 25, 2026

US cybersecurity agency CISA reportedly in dire shape amid Trump cuts and layoffs

Under the first year of the Trump administration, the U.S. cyber agency CISA has faced cuts, layoffs, and furloughs, as ...

Technology Feb 25, 2026

Welcome to the post-hype crypto market

Crypto is creeping back into the startup conversation, but at ETHDenver last week, the buzz was as much about Washingt...

Technology Feb 25, 2026

RK3588 and RK3576 video decoders support merged in the upstream Linux Kernel

Article URL: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/rk3588-and-rk3576-video-decoders-support-merged-in...