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Six strategies for making tables and relational data retrievable through RAG, from row-level chunks to hybrid RAG and text-to-SQL routing.

Learn how STPA helps engineers uncover unsafe system interactions, hidden assumptions, and failure modes before they become costly outages.

US reading scores continue to decline. This article examines the pandemic, inequality, digital habits, teacher shortages, and AI’s complicated role.

Go 1.24 rebuilt its map implementation around Swiss Tables. Here is how control bytes, better locality, and open addressing improve performance.

Running stablecoin payouts into three corridors from the same provider and the performance variance is wider than I expected. One corridor consistently credits the beneficiary within minutes. Another averages six to eight hours. sometimes minutes, sometimes next business day, and we cannot tell whether the variance is coming from the provider's liquidity depth on that corridor, the local payout partner they route through, or the beneficiary bank's own processing and risk posture. The effect...

Disclaimer: This was NOT AI generated. Not even a rough draft. This is your sign to put down Claude, loveable, VsCode (for the devs still in the thick of it). I see it every damn day, someone say “How do I get my first user?” It’s so infuriating because obviously you built something not for you and not for anyone else because if you did, you’d be using it or the person you built it for would be using it. But, alas, let’s say you’ve built something and didn’t have a target. You can still b...

I’m launching my SaaS soon, and throughout the build I’ve kept moving between believing strongly in the idea, doubting it, then believing in it again. I haven’t had the chance to validate it properly through real users yet, although I’m hoping that will come once I launch. For those further ahead, what was the first genuine sign that made you think your product was worth continuing with? Was it your first paying customer, good feedback, genuinely believing in your idea and the problem it s...

In an hour, I have a meeting with an investor and I'm nervous. I'm a first time founder and this is my first meeting with an investor. Idk what to do?

Building is exhilarating, but the most important part is not, and I think that's one of the main reasons first-time founders fall into the trap of over-building something that nobody is going to pay for. Many first-time founders heavily rely on a magical Product-led Growth that is pure fantasy. Active sales, spending hours talking to customers, and feedback loops are heavily underestimated to a point it becomes a bigtime learning [link] &#...

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I keep thinking about what happens when making a game becomes almost as easy as describing one. Not long ago, even a small game needed a lot of people and time. You needed someone who could code, someone who could make assets, and someone who understood game design. A lot of ideas never got made because they were not worth the effort. Now that barrier is starting to disappear, I wonder if we are going to run into a different problem: too much content.We have already seen this happen with AI ...

I got an ad for it, it says it’s an app that just runs in the background and gives you money. It’s for ai stuff didn’t really look too much into it. But it sounds too good to be true. Is there a catch? I want to get it but not until I know it’s not gonna be used for harm or risk myself somehow. Everytime I search it up it keeps correcting to boxberry some package company I think in the UK. Main question: what’s the catch? Free money just for running in the background. submitted by &#...

For years, prototypes were mainly used to explain ideas before building the real thing. A designer would create a mockup, a product team would write documents, and everyone would try to imagine how the final experience might work. But that process is starting to change as creating interactive prototypes becomes much faster. Instead of spending weeks describing an idea through documents and static screens, people can now create something others can actually try. A game concept can become a play...

Eu estou pretendendo fazer uma tatuagem de uma paisagem que foi muito importante para mim, é da minha cidade de origem e tem um baita significado, mas utilizando o chat GPT e o Flow não consegui obter um bom resultado, talvez seja o prompt que utilizei, anexei abaixo a paisagem, eu gostaria de um desenho que seguisse fielmente a silhueta da paisagem. https://preview.redd.it/z95ca1fgkehh1.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=de12c3a78f90806d917f1c2ff7d01a72d180146b sub...

People really really like unlimited usage. It's reassuring and usage limits suck. If someone could offer an unlimited-use agent at a fixed price that idea would turn some heads. So we've been hard at work figuring out how we do just that. We want to release a coding agent that: Performs well Has no 5-hour / weekly / monthly token quota Charges a flat rate We've been working on domain-specific agents as a concept for a while now (and I've talked about them in my other posts I...

Benchmark porn is pretty rampant in AI in general and medical AI in particular. It's tough though to benchmark the more clinical side of medicine in particular. But it shouldn't be impossible; we obviously do it all the time for trainees. But a lot of that is multidomain where each informs each other as we assess medical students and residents. AI benchmarks can be very siloed. • Clinical judgment: Does the model revise its diagnosis as uncertain evidence changes? Does it choose the next usefu...

People are noticing that frontier models can be real assholes. They: Won't follow your instructions because they think they know better Refuse to do basic tasks Will do things on you never asked for, like commit unfinished code, or refactor a file Why? Kun Chen, former engineer at Meta says blame it on the training: "The core idea of [reinforcement learning with human feedback (RHLF)] is that you ask the model to generate a few responses, and then let real humans pi...

Sales has one of the clearest use cases for AI but I think the conversation is still focused on the wrong thing. Most people talk about AI writing emails or scoring leads. The bigger opportunity is helping people get better at selling. Think about how sales coaching works today. A manager rides along with a rep once every few weeks. They watch one or two conversations then try to coach based on that small sample. The rest of the month they have almost no visibility into what is actually happenin...

T-Mobile is launching a new financing option that will allow you to pay for a device, taxes, and fees over 36 months. In an update on Tuesday, T-Mobile says its new Equipment Installment Plan (EIP) Flex 36 requires no upfront payment and will come with a 0 percent APR for a limited time. Even if […]

When a premium car brand like BMW says it has a "special surprise" in store for drivers, I'd expect something more luxurious than having a movie commercial beamed onto the dashboard. That's exactly what's happening to many BMW owners, however, who are being shown banner ads for Spider-man: Brand New Day on their Control Display […]

Hank Green, a popular YouTuber and science communicator, said he is stepping back from production amid intense criticism over his use of AI. Green described his AI usage as "not healthy," but stressed that he used it for finding research sources and not to write scripts. Much of the ensuing firestorm in this corner of […]

Memory and storage prices will be inflated for the foreseeable future, so we’re always happy to find a good deal on capable gaming hardware, like this discount on the Lenovo Legion Go S with a Z2 Go processor and SteamOS. Normally $1,137.41 (and selling for close to $1,000 at Best Buy), Lenovo has the handheld […]

The brand trip is a right of passage for influencers. It's a mark of legitimacy that a sponsor wants to invite them on an all-expenses-paid vacation, often with luxurious freebies and activities. Trips can also spur hard feelings from uninvited influencers, trigger criticism from the public, and project a certain frivolousness. Usually it is fast […]

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov blames an extortionist for planting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in a public chat to get the app temporarily removed from Apple's App Store on Monday night. "Apple removed Telegram from the App Store before contacting us," Durov says in a post on X. "This creates a potential systemic risk for […]

A security vulnerability in the cryptocurrency hardware wallet Coldcard is allowing hackers to drain the crypto from victims’ wallets. The total losses amount to more than $130 million, according to blockchain-monitoring firms.

Bingers is a new TV and movie tracker that revives the social features fans loved with TV Time, while adding support for importing their viewing history.

Starting today, you can take an additional $100 off your founder, investor, or attendee TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass, which is a nice bonus on top of our current discounted pricing.

Waymo has dropped the waitlist for its robotaxi service in Dallas, the latest step in the company's bid to scale its self-driving technology across the United States, U.K., and Europe.

The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out for defending against AI agents.