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Y Combinator's quiet 0.6% stake in OpenAI now worth $5B+
John Gruber surfaced a figure that has been notably hard to pin down: Y Combinator holds roughly 0.6 percent of OpenAI. Against the company's current $852 billi
Alert-driven monitoring: dashboards are decoration, alerts are the job
Most monitoring projects center on dashboards because they look like productive output, but nobody actually sits and watches charts all day. The real product of
Ask.com shuts down after 25 years as IAC exits search business
IAC has wound down Ask.com, ending the search engine's 25-year run as of May 1, 2026. The company framed the closure as part of a broader strategic narrowing, c
Banksy statue of suited man blinded by flag appears overnight in central London
A statue attributed to Banksy went up overnight in Waterloo Place, London, depicting a suited man carrying a wind-blown flag that obscures his vision as he step
BYOMesh pushes LoRa mesh radios to 100x existing bandwidth
A new project called BYOMesh claims to deliver roughly 100 times the bandwidth of existing LoRa mesh radio implementations. LoRa, a long-range low-power RF prot
DIY galvanic hair electrolysis: a soldering iron, a car battery, and a pop can
A hobbyist documents building a homemade galvanic hair electrolysis machine, the only FDA-recognized permanent hair removal method. Galvanic electrolysis works
DO_NOT_TRACK: one env var to silence telemetry across every CLI tool
A new proposal pushes for a single standard environment variable, DO_NOT_TRACK=1, that any CLI, SDK, or framework should honor as a blanket opt-out from analyti
Harvard study: OpenAI's o1 beats ER doctors at triage diagnosis, 67% vs 50-55%
A Harvard trial published in Science pitted OpenAI's o1 reasoning model against emergency department physicians using identical electronic health records, and t
In defense of obscurity: why hiding implementation details still pays off
A common refrain in security forums—'security through obscurity is bad'—gets the principle wrong. Kerckhoffs's actual point was that systems shouldn't rely *sol
Instructure confirms Canvas breach; ShinyHunters claims 275M records taken
Instructure, the company behind the Canvas learning management system, has confirmed a cyberattack that exposed user data across its customer institutions. The
Ladybird April 2026: inline PDFs, speculative HTML parser, big JS engine wins
Ladybird shipped a dense month of browser engine work, merging 333 PRs from 35 contributors. User-visible additions include an inline PDF viewer powered by bund
LLMs favor resumes written by themselves, skewing AI-screened hiring
A controlled correspondence study finds large language models systematically prefer resumes generated by the same model doing the screening, even when underlyin