Launch HN: EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research
01About02Why Markets03Team04Blog05News MARKET STATE POLICY πθ(a|s) DELAYED REWARD Reinforcement learning environments THESIS Static worlds produce static intelligence Quant is the hardest, yet solveable data science task. We programmatically generate quant research tasks inside environments built from real market data. Agents use professional tools—and build their own in Bash—to make trading decisions and develop profitable strategies. […]
Waymo – Dallas Open to All
Starting today, anyone in Dallas can download the Waymo app and hail a fully autonomous ride. Since opening our service in February, we’ve welcomed nearly 150,000 riders in Dallas from our interest list to experience the safety, reliability, and magic of Waymo, and now we’re offering our service to everyone. We’ve proudly helped Dallasites run […]
Why some people mow a lawn better than others
You skipped the game, so here is just the optimal path. Is this what you would’ve done? An Optimal path Replay A few weeks ago, 30,954 people mowed the same lawn. This is what their paths looked like. player id: ( moves) Many came close to the optimal path. 52% of people came within five […]
The Judgment Reservoir
Execution built judgment for free. That subsidy is over. You are preparing for your annual board meeting, and for the first time in three years, you are not sure what story to tell. The numbers are genuinely impressive. The product teams launched three new products this year and cleared a feature backlog that had haunted […]
Vlt 1.0 and Hosted Package Registries
Today, we’re happy to announce vlt 1.0, and general availability of our hosted package registries and ecosystem mirrors. With these releases, vlt is now an end-to-end platform for developers, their teams and agents to ship faster, safer, and more reliably. Our Package Manager Since we first introduced vlt and vsr, the CLI has grown from […]
Dataset: Dead mental health startups, 2000-2026, coded on 18 fields
Download the data No form, no email, no signup. CC BY 4.0 — use it, republish it, build on it. What is in it 542 digital mental health organizations that left the market between 2000 and 2026 — shutdowns, bankruptcies, acquisitions, pivots and consolidations. Each coded on up to 18 fields: business model, who actually […]
The Warp Agent CLI
Highlights: The Warp Agent is now available as a standalone CLI that you can use anywhere – Ghostty, iTerm 2, VS Code, built-in Windows and Mac Terminals – and provides a superior experience for developers who do heavy terminal workflows The agent itself has built-in model-routing capabilities, comes with frontier and US-hosted open-weight models built […]
All of Winona Police Department’s Flock cameras cut down and stolen
WINONA, Minn. (Valley News Live) – Every Flock license plate reader camera operated by the Winona Police Department has been sawed off and stolen in what investigators believe was a coordinated theft. All eight cameras were taken Aug. 1, according to the Winona Police Department. A patrol officer first noticed the cameras had not sent […]
Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead
Join truemetrics – Build technology to navigate the world truemetrics helps organizations to navigate the world more efficiently. We are solving one of the biggest pain points in last mile delivery: how to get parcels, groceries, and food to the right door faster and more efficiently. Our technology sits in the smartphone of the courier […]
Mistral’s Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation
A 3B open-weights, policy-adaptive multimodal safety classifier that matches models up to 7x its size on text safety and sets a new state of the art on multimodal moderation. “Does this content promote violence against a protected group? Is this image safe to show to a minor? Did the assistant refuse the request?” Every product […]