Amazon's stock dropped 10% despite reporting record Q4 revenue of $213.4 billion, as investors reacted negatively to the company's forecast of $200 billion in capital expenditures for 2026 and a quarterly earnings miss. The massive spending projection, likely related to AI investments and cloud infrastructure, overshadowed the strong sales performance.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has pledged to actively lobby U.S. lawmakers regarding immigration policies, expressing deep concern about current immigration issues. Cook's commitment represents Apple's direct engagement in immigration policy advocacy at the federal level.
Isaac Asimov's 1980 review of George Orwell's *1984* praises the novel's portrayal of totalitarian society and explores its themes of surveillance, propaganda, and suppression of individual thought. The review has resurfaced on Hacker News, generating discussion about Asimov's literary perspective on Orwell's dystopian classic.
Tiger Data advocates for using Postgres as a unified database solution by 2026, arguing that its extensions can replace specialized databases like Elasticsearch, Redis, MongoDB, and InfluxDB through features like vector support, JSONB, and time-series capabilities. The proposal has sparked discussion on Hacker News about the feasibility and trade-offs of consolidating diverse database needs into a single Postgres platform.
Hypernetworks (Hnets) are a specialized type of neural network designed to model hierarchical, tree-structured data by incorporating the hierarchical relationships directly into the network architecture. This approach addresses the limitations of standard neural networks when processing data with inherent hierarchical structures, sparking discussion in the AI community about potential applications.