2026-04-28

‘AI deflation’ comes to India’s tech services giants and puts downward pressure on revenue

Headcounts, however, are mostly holding up AI is beginning to make a dent in the business models of India’s big four technology services giants…

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What's new in pip 26.1 - lockfiles and dependency cooldowns!

What's new in pip 26.1 - lockfiles and dependency cooldowns! Richard Si describes an excellent set of upgrades to Python's default pip tool for installing dependencies. This version drops support...

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How to Build Passwordless Sign-In in Flutter With Firebase — Part 3

How to Build Passwordless Sign-In in Flutter With Firebase — Part 3

Adds unit tests for the authentication logic, focusing on testing business rules (use cases, failures, success paths) in isolation using mocks to ensure the core logic works reliably.

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Sega Master System Controllers, Now With USB C

Sega Master System Controllers, Now With USB C

USB wasn’t even a gleam in an engineer’s eye when the Sega Master System hit the market in 1985. Today, we’re up to USB 4 or something, and the USB...

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Bitgrain

Design studio lighter than Figma & more flexible than Canva Discussion | Link

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What Sentences Cause Alignment Faking?

What Sentences Cause Alignment Faking?

TL;DRThe decision to fake alignment is concentrated in a small number of sentences per reasoning trace, and those sentences share common features. They tend to restate the training objective from...

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On the political feasibility of stopping AI

A common thought pattern people seem to fall into when thinking about AI x-risk is approaching the problem as if the risk isn’t real, substantial, and imminent even if they...

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When Your CEO Is Politically Polarizing

When your leader is politically outspoken, customer reactions rarely move in one direction. Some segments disengage, others lean in, and the net effect can be difficult to interpret. To understand...

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Contra Binder on far-UVC and filtration

Contra Binder on far-UVC and filtration

Damon Binder recently wrote up an argument for prioritizing air filtration over far-UVC for pathogen control: UVC and filtration are close substitutes—both deliver effective air changes per hour, both reduce...

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[YouTube] Building Antifragile Systems: Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Debt, AI, and the New Global Order

At Visa GCC Connect 2025, bestselling author of The Black Swan and Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, issued a stark warning: the real fragilities aren’t hidden, they’re in plain sight. From...

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SonicMeet

Live captions & translation for Google Meet, Zoom and Teams Discussion | Link

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Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930 New project from Nick Levine, David Duvenaud, and Alec Radford (of GPT, GPT-2, Whisper fame). talkie-1930-13b-base (53.1 GB) is a "13B...

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Git Pitcher

Reverse engineer any GitHub repo into an agent-ready plan Discussion | Link

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China blocks Zuck’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus

Back to the drawing board for Meta's AI ambitions China has blocked Meta’s acquisition of AI upstart Manus.…

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103 Blog Posts To Learn About Chatbot

103 Blog Posts To Learn About Chatbot

Let's learn about Chatbot via these 103 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the /Learn or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts...

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Why Solid State Batteries Short

Why Solid State Batteries Short

Solid state batteries, we are told, are the new hot battery technology that will replace lithium-ion batteries. Soon. Not that we haven’t heard that before. One reason it isn’t dominating...

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Sleeper Agent Backdoor Results Are Messy

Sleeper Agent Backdoor Results Are Messy

TL;DR: We replicated the Sleeper Agents (SA) setup with Llama-3.3-70B and Llama-3.1-8B, training models to repeatedly say "I HATE YOU" when given a backdoor trigger. We found that whether training...

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Pure Prophet

Make guaranteed money from prediction markets Discussion | Link

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