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Hacker News Discussion on Shubham Bose’s ‘The 49MB Web Page’

Daring Fireball

Privacy-focused MVNO Cape raised a $100M Series C at a $900M valuation, and says its revenue grew from $4.5M in 2024 to $37M in 2025 (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)

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Office NCAA Bracket Marks Yearly Interaction With Coworkers

The Onion

Marathon's ranked mode homework explains holotags, score targets, and penalties

Polygon - All

Mark Zuckerberg's original metaverse vision is effectively over, after renaming Facebook to Meta and spending ~$80B on the endeavor, as his focus shifts to AI (New York Times)

Techmeme

Prediction markets are trying to lure journalists with partnership deals

The Verge - All Posts

Google reveals its solution for true Android sideloading: a mandatory waiting period

The Verge - All Posts

Cursor says Composer 2 is "frontier-level at coding" and is priced at $0.50/1M input tokens and $2.50/1M output tokens, with a faster variant costing 3x more (Cursor)

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Brandy Speaks Out After Ray J Goes Off on These Popular Rappers Over Dating Rumors

The Root

★ AppleScript: ‘Save MarsEdit Document to Text File’

Daring Fireball

New Southwest Seating Policy Sparks Discrimination Concerns Among Black Women

The Root

Meta is actually keeping its VR metaverse running, for now

The Verge - All Posts

Sources: TP-Link told US federal agencies probing its China ties that CEO Jeffrey Chao applied for US permanent residency under the $1M Trump Gold Card program (Kate O'Keeffe/Bloomberg)

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Meta plans to reduce its reliance on third-party vendors for content moderation, in favor of AI tools that it says are better at spotting scams and other tasks (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

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All battle pass skins in Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 2

Polygon - All

Fortnite creator update will change Star Wars video games forever

Polygon - All

Waymo says its fleet hit 170M+ miles as of December 2025, and its Waymo Driver system was involved in 92% fewer serious-injury crashes than human drivers (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

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Epic and Disney now let Fortnite creators make Star Wars games

The Verge - All Posts

Strait of Hormones

The Onion

Cursor launches Composer 2, an AI agent trained solely on coding-related data to perform autonomous, lengthy coding tasks, to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

Techmeme