VCs, Superhuman Mail founder share red flags about product-market fit
Top investors from Iconiq and Sapphire Ventures, along with Rahul Vohra, the founder of Superhuman Mail, share the do's and don'ts for building hit products.
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Trump eases Canada tariffs ahead of US midterms
The move comes as Trump's Republican Party scrambles to maintain control of the US Congress, with a Republican candidate in a key Senate race saying she had lobbied to lift the tariffs on Canadian products.
‘Generation Right’: Israeli youth show strong support for the right
Some three quarters of Jewish first-time voters identify as right or centre-right, higher than rest of Israeli society.
FCC Democrat warns broadcasters to resist Trump’s media pressure tactics
Democrat Anna Gomez warns broadcasters against yielding to the Trump-era FCC's claims of fake polls and news distortions.
Why is Trump questioning Ilhan Omar’s name?
A Justice Department filing listed a different name for her, prompting Trump to call for her resignation.
Hegseth warns prediction market bets warp military judgment, endanger troops
Pentagon memo: Insider trading gives US enemies key intel on military operations.
Updated Google privacy policy says your Gmail might be used for advertising
Turning on Personal Intelligence gives the company more data for ad targeting.
Freed US citizen was tortured in Russian jail, former Ukrainian prisoners say
Ukrainians held alongside the American say they witnessed beatings and sexual humiliation by Russian guards during his detention.
White House lifts tariffs on some Canadian goods as midterm elections loom
From 30 October, tariffs will be eased on some products, including certain machinery, and placed on others, such as carpets.
Scalpers offer Apple iPhone Duo buyers hundreds extra outside Beijing launch
Apple's global launch of the foldable iPhone Duo brought scalpers to the Beijing flagship store looking to pay big for the already pricey devices.
Vercel moved to kill static credentials. Then developers spotted its own deployment token.
Vercel wants to eliminate long-lived API keys from its ecosystem, and it is giving Marketplace vendors until January 2027 to The post Vercel moved to kill static credentials. Then developers spotted its own deployment token. appeared first on The New Stack .
TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 roundtables: Go deeper on the challenges founders are solving right now
TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 is coming to SoWa Power Station in Boston on November 4, bringing founders, investors, and operators together for a full day of candid conversations, practical sessions, live pitching, networking, and smaller roundtables built for deeper discussion.
Russia, Ukraine agree to Melania Trump-brokered localised ceasefire
President Trump says it was First Lady Melania Trump’s initiative that led to a ceasefire in Oleshky.
Trump’s broken promises: economy, war and ICE
Mehdi Hasan debates ex-Trump adviser Steve Cortes on the economy, Trump’s immigration policies and Islamophobia.
Colin Sherriff obituary
My friend and former colleague Colin Sherriff, who has died aged 75, worked in social housing for half a century, including as a director at three housing associations, Circle 33, Thames Valley Housing and English Churches Housing Group. He then became chief executive of Windsor and District housing association, which was set up to receive housing stock transferred out of local authority ownership. He was their first (and initially only) employee, and from 1994 to 2006 added 450 people to his team, creating a positive tenant-focused culture. Continue reading...
Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro
Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro Kimi K3.1 Pro landed on the Kimi API today - it's not yet open weights, but Moonshot promise "Full model weights will be released by Nov 4, 2026". They're also offering a "Highspeed" version that's 2-3x faster, at twice the price (except for input token cache hits, which are priced the same). The US dollar pricing is $2.00/million tokens for input and $10/million for output - the same as GPT-6.1 Sol and half the price of Claude Opus 5.5. Moonshot's own benchmarks show Kimi as approximately level with Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra - beating them on a few benchmarks, coming close on others. Artificial Analysis scored Kimi at 55 - ahead of Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra, and Gemini 4 Argon (all at 53) and behind only Claude Opus 5.5 (58). This is the first time a (soon-to-be) open weight model has scored this highly against the frontier. I tried it out via the Moonshot API using the llm openai endpoint command I added to LLM 0.32 back in August: llm openai endpoint \ https://api.moonshot.ai/v1 \ --key kimi \ -m kimi-k3.1-pro \ "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle" \ --responses \ -o reasoning_effort low \ > kimi-k3.1-pro-pelican-low.stdout.txt \ 2> kimi-k3.1-pro-pelican-low.stderr.txt llm openai endpoint can run prompts against any OpenAI-compatible endpoint but doesn't log the results, hence the extra options to save stdout and stderr (the reasoning trace). Here are the pelicans I got for Kimi K3.1 Pro on the three reasoning levels it supports - low, medium, and max. This is max: For comparison, I ran fresh pelicans against Kimi K3 on those three reasoning levels. Via Hacker News Tags: ai , generative-ai , llms , llm , llm-pricing , pelican-riding-a-bicycle , llm-release , ai-in-china , moonshot , kimi
Abandoned Popcorn Time apps had to be disabled to prevent a zombie army
Remember Popcorn Time, the app that served as an easy-to-use front end for streaming torrents of movies and TV shows? Development of the MPAA's least-favorite app of the 2010s has been abandoned for years, but the "Netflix of Piracy" software is still installed on millions of devices that are just waiting to join a bot […]
Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/1017600/google-personal-intelligence-privacy-policy-ads-update Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50214218 Points: 351 # Comments: 171
Jack Dorsey’s Block made an AI model that talks to you like an awkward new friend
Jack Dorsey's Block announced an AI model called Dessa that's trained "from scratch on nothing but human conversation," and to show off the model, Block shared chats it has had with humans that can occasionally be a little awkward and uncanny. Take this one, for example, shared by Dessa lead Ragavan Thurairatnam. The conversation between […]
The Pentagon's guidelines for "responsible AI" aren't always followed, report shows
The Pentagon is building weapons and projects with AI capabilities that officials say don't always closely adhere to the agency's own guidelines for AI, according to a congressional watchdog report published in October.
Carta and NewView partner, hoping to entice more startups to let employees sell shares early
A new program wants to encourage more startups to allow workers to cash out early by making it easier to transact tender offers.
Russia's attacks on Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, are intensifying. DW asked people on the ground what life is like
Russia's attacks on the Ukrainian capital are hitting harder and more frequently, making 2026 one of the long war's bloodiest years for Kyiv. DW asked people on the ground what life is like.
Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech
Article URL: https://block.xyz/dessa Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50213925 Points: 380 # Comments: 136
AI jobs are waiting while GPUs sit idle. Kubernetes has a new plan.
Welcome to another edition of Road to KubeCon! We’re tracking movements in the Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystem as we count The post AI jobs are waiting while GPUs sit idle. Kubernetes has a new plan. appeared first on The New Stack .