Naples’ 1790s civil war was intensified by moral panic over Real Analysis (2023)
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Senate passes budget with two more weeks of Homeland Security funding
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) talks to reporters following the weekly Senate Democratic policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on January 28, 2026 in Washington, DC. | Getty Images The Senate voted on Friday evening to pass the federal…
Court Filings: ICE App Identifies Protesters; Global Entry, PreCheck Get Revoked
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a16z partner Kofi Ampadu to leave firm after TxO program pause
Kofi Ampadu, the partner at a16z who led the firm’s Talent x Opportunity (TxO) fund and program, has left the firm.
Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones
Built this because tones are killing my spoken Mandarin and I can’t reliably hear my own mistakes. It’s a 9M Conformer-CTC model trained on ~300h (AISHELL + Primewords), quantized to INT8 (11 MB), runs 100% in-browser via ONNX Runtime Web.…
Show HN: Foundry – Turns your repeated workflows into one-click commands
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Jeffrey Epstein was permanently banned from Xbox Live
Would it surprise you to learn Microsoft booted Epstein from its online gaming platform? As spotted by XboxEra, the latest batch of Epstein’s email shows that in December 2013, he was “permanently suspended due to harassment, threats, and/or abuse of…
175K+ publicly-exposed Ollama AI instances discovered
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Physical Intelligence, Stripe veteran Lachy Groom’s latest bet, is building Silicon Valley’s buzziest robot brains
If co-founder Lachy Groom has any doubts, he doesn’t show it. He’s working with people who’ve been working on this problem for decades and who believe the timing is finally right, which is all he needs to know.
The $100B Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice
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