What Happened to Fry’s Electronics
For about three decades, Fry’s Electronics was the go-to computer store for enthusiasts, almost an Ikea of computer stores. It was a big box store, larger than Comp USA, selling not just software and pre-built computers and peripherals, but also parts, and even discrete components. So what happened to Fry’s Electronics? The chain peaked at […]
Can you reverse engineer our neural network?
A lot of “capture-the-flag” style ML puzzles give you a black box neural net, and your job is to figure out what it does. When we were thinking of creating our own ML puzzle early last year, we wanted to do something a little different. We thought it’d be neat to give users a complete […]
Corgi Labs (YC W23) Is Hiring
Who we are About Corgi Labs Corgi Labs uses proprietary AI to optimize payment acceptance, boosting revenue through superior fraud prevention. We are data-driven with an explainable AI approach for transparency About the team We’re looking for Founder’s Associates (2 roles: 1 in US and 1 in Singapore) to work closely with the founders at […]
Mercury 2: The fastest reasoning LLM, powered by diffusion
The fastest reasoning LLM, powered by diffusion Today, we’re introducing Mercury 2 — the world’s fastest reasoning language model, built to make production AI feel instant. Why speed matters more now Production AI isn’t one prompt and one answer anymore. It’s loops: agents, retrieval pipelines, and extraction jobs running in the background at volume. In […]
Show HN: Moonshine Open-Weights STT models – higher accuracy than WhisperLargev3
Voice Interfaces for Everyone Moonshine Voice is an open source AI toolkit for developers building real-time voice applications. Everything runs on-device, so it’s fast, private, and you don’t need an account, credit card, or API keys. The framework and models are optimized for live streaming applications, offering low latency responses by doing a lot of […]
Pi – a minimal terminal coding harness
There are many coding agents, but this one is mine. $ npm install -g @mariozechner/pi-coding-agent Copy About Why pi? Pi is a minimal terminal coding harness. Adapt pi to your workflows, not the other way around. Extend it with TypeScript extensions, skills, prompt templates, and themes. Bundle them as pi packages and share via npm […]
Looks like it is happening
For a while now I’ve been speculating about what would happen when AI agents started being able to write papers indistinguishable in quality from those that have been typical of the sad state of hep-th for quite a while. Sabine Hossenfelder today has AI Is Bringing “The End of Theory”, in which she gives her […]
Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston
February 24, 2026 PRESS RELEASE Apple accelerates U.S. manufacturing, with Mac mini production coming later this year Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston, and a soon-to-be-launched training center will support advanced manufacturing skills development CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today announced a significant expansion of factory operations in Houston, bringing the future production of Mac […]
How to talk to anyone, and why you should
It started with two incidents on the same day. In a fairly empty train carriage, a stranger in her 70s approached me: “Do you mind if I sit here? Or did you want to be alone with your thoughts?” I weighed it up for a split second, conscious that I was, in effect, agreeing to […]
How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week
*This post was updated at 12:35 pm PT to fix a typo in the build time benchmarks. Last week, one engineer and an AI model rebuilt the most popular front-end framework from scratch. The result, vinext (pronounced ”vee-next”), is a drop-in replacement for Next.js, built on Vite, that deploys to Cloudflare Workers with a single […]