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Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN (opens hackerbooks.org)
About 16.5k books mentioned by at least two HN commenters since 2007, each linked back to the comments; built with Claude after Karpathy's HackerTube.
Top stories
Funding
Data analytics provider Hex Technologies, which says it has rebuilt its platform for AI agents, raised a $100M Series D led by Peak XV at a $1.2B valuation (Tim Keary/Forbes) (opens forbes.com)
Hex says it rebuilt its data analytics platform for AI agents; Peak XV led the $100M round at a $1.2B valuation.
Funding
Broccoli AI, which sells AI agents to plumbing, HVAC, and electrical companies, raised a $22M Series A and a $30M Series B; a source says it is valued at $300M (Nick Lichtenberg/Fortune) (opens fortune.com)
Broccoli AI sells AI agents to plumbing, HVAC and electrical companies; the Series A and Series B were announced together, with a source putting the valuation at $300M.
Acquisition
Saudi Aramco acquires a 49% stake in AI startup Humain, contributing ~$2.6B in cash in 2026 plus AI, compute, and digital assets; Saudi Arabia's PIF retains 51% (Dean Takahashi/GamesBeat) (opens gamesbeat.com)
Aramco contributes about $2.6B in cash in 2026 plus AI, compute and digital assets for 49% of Humain; Saudi Arabia's PIF keeps 51%.
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Funding
Hyperbolic, which lets companies rent AI compute across ~30 neoclouds, raised a $30M Series A-1 led by Lip-Bu Tan's Walden Catalyst; it has raised $50M to date (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider) (opens businessinsider.com)
Hyperbolic lets companies rent AI compute across about 30 neoclouds; Walden Catalyst, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan's fund, led the round and total funding is $50M.
Funding
OpenAI reportedly lowers funding target for new round (opens techcrunch.com)
OpenAI’s latest funding round doesn't seem to be living up to expectations.
Acquisitions
Acquisition
ServiceNow confirms it acquired Israeli startup Sweep to speed up customers' migrations to its CRM, for an undisclosed price estimated at hundreds of millions (Allon Sinai/CTech) (opens calcalistech.com)
Sweep speeds up customer migrations to ServiceNow's CRM; the price was undisclosed but is estimated in the hundreds of millions.
Acquisition
Salesforce to buy Rune in its most significant national security deal (opens thenextweb.com)
Rune's AI software helps the military plan supplies near the front line; it joins Missionforce, the defence business Salesforce launched a year ago.
Launches
Launch
Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust (opens github.com)
OmniDiff diffs code in 25 languages plus config, images, PDFs, archives and fonts, and is written in Rust.
Launch
ernd: the credit card for the AI stack (opens ycombinator.com)
A credit card for AI spend: faster inference, better GPU access and 4% back on AI.
Launch
Nitroduck designs new colors, flavors, and disease resistance into fruits and veggies (opens ycombinator.com)
Nitroduck delivers CRISPR inside a pollen grain so breeders can move traits straight into crosses, saving years on breeding campaigns.
News
News
OpenAI plans a post-midterms policy and PR blitz, pushing mandatory "speed limits" for powerful AI and rebranding its data centers as "AI compute campuses" (Axios) (opens axios.com)
Axios reports OpenAI will push mandatory "speed limits" for powerful AI and rebrand its data centers as "AI compute campuses" after Tuesday's midterms.
News
North Korea linked to massive Binance crypto heist (opens theverge.com)
The FBI says North Korea was behind the $6.3 billion Binance heist of October 29th; Bloomberg reports Binance ran a global war room of about 100 people to contain it.
News
Google's data center energy head says space data centers cost up to 100x more than Earth-based ones, and US power supply is sufficient but permits are slow (Amir Efrati/The Information) (opens theinformation.com)
Google's data center energy head says space data centers cost up to 100x more than Earth-based ones, and US power supply is sufficient but permits are slow — Data centers in space could cost up to 100 times as much as those on Earth, Google's head of data center energy said this week …
News
Apple CEO says the company doesn’t ‘want to ship AI for AI’s sake’ (opens techcrunch.com)
Apple's new CEO defended the company's current position in the AI landscape.
News
Judge allows NAACP lawsuit over xAI data center pollution to move forward (opens techcrunch.com)
A federal judge in Mississippi refused to dismiss the NAACP's Clean Air Act suit over the gas turbines powering xAI's Colossus 2 data centre.
News
Palantir CTO tells Stratechery he doesn’t regret working with Anthropic (opens thenextweb.com)
Shyam Sankar told Ben Thompson that Palantir was caught in Anthropic's clash with the US Department of War and does not regret working with Anthropic.
Discussions
See all 12 →AI agent swarms in Minecraft fail to build civilization, drown in bureaucracy (opens tomshardware.com)
The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks (opens nolanlawson.com)
My 2 side projects have now made $14K together in a year. Here's what I'd tell myself on day 1 (opens reddit.com)
Civil engineer here. Claude is incredibly powerful in my field, but using AI is practically taboo. Is it like this in other industries ? (opens reddit.com)
the funniest part of reliance q2 is this wasnt even a jio quarter (opens reddit.com)
Anthropic's Mythos-class model allegedly leaked on Hugging Face 💀 (opens reddit.com)
Building PureCliniq in Pune: helping vets keep caring for pets after the visit. Roast my site. (opens reddit.com)
My SaaS gets ~8,000 Google impressions a week from blog posts. Here's the exact content plan (opens reddit.com)
Analysis and trends
AnalysisOpinion
Can enterprise AI pay for the boom? (opens siliconangle.com)
The artificial intelligence buildout is making an enormous bet on what businesses will eventually be willing to pay for intelligence. In our research this summer on forecasting the AI bubble, we argued that a key indicator to watch is productive utilization by enterprise customers.
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