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Designing Electronics That Works

https://nostarch.com/designingelectronics
1•0x54MUR41•4s ago•0 comments

Most LLM cost isn't compute – it's identity drift (110-cycle GPT-4o benchmark)

https://github.com/sigmastratum/documentation/blob/main/sigma-runtime/SR-EI-03/benchmark_report_S...
1•teugent•59s ago•1 comments

Show HN: PlanEat AI, an AI iOS app for weekly meal plans and smart grocery lists

1•franklinm1715•1m ago•0 comments

A Post-Incident Control Test for External AI Representation

https://zenodo.org/records/17921051
1•businessmate•1m ago•1 comments

اdifference gbps overview find answers

1•shahrtjany•2m ago•0 comments

Measuring Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Dev Productivity

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089
1•vismit2000•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Lazy Demos

http://demoscope.app/lazy
1•admtal•5m ago•0 comments

AI-Driven Facial Recognition Leads to Innocent Man's Arrest (Bodycam Footage) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9M4F_U1eEw
1•niczem•5m ago•1 comments

Annual Production of 1/72 (22mm) scale plastic soldiers, 1958-2025

https://plasticsoldierreview.com/ShowFeature.aspx?id=27
1•YeGoblynQueenne•6m ago•0 comments

Error-Handling and Locality

https://www.natemeyvis.com/error-handling-and-locality/
1•Theaetetus•8m ago•0 comments

Petition for David Sacks to Self-Deport

https://form.jotform.com/253464131055147
1•resters•8m ago•0 comments

Get found where people search today

https://kleonotus.com/
1•makenotesfast•10m ago•1 comments

Show HN: An early-warning system for SaaS churn (not another dashboard)

https://firstdistro.com
1•Jide_Lambo•11m ago•1 comments

Tell HN: Musk has never *tweeted* a guess for real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto

1•tokenmemory•11m ago•2 comments

A Practical Approach to Verifying Code at Scale

https://alignment.openai.com/scaling-code-verification/
1•gmays•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: macOS tool to restore window layouts

https://github.com/zembutsu/tsubame
1•zembutsu•16m ago•0 comments

30 Years of <Br> Tags

https://www.artmann.co/articles/30-years-of-br-tags
2•FragrantRiver•23m ago•0 comments

Kyoto

https://github.com/stevepeak/kyoto
2•handfuloflight•23m ago•0 comments

Decision Support System for Wind Farm Maintenance Using Robotic Agents

https://www.mdpi.com/2571-5577/8/6/190
1•PaulHoule•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: X-AnyLabeling – An open-source multimodal annotation ecosystem for CV

https://github.com/CVHub520/X-AnyLabeling
1•CVHub520•27m ago•0 comments

Penpot Docker Extension

https://www.ajeetraina.com/introducing-the-penpot-docker-extension-one-click-deployment-for-self-...
1•rainasajeet•27m ago•0 comments

Company Thinks It Can Power AI Data Centers with Supersonic Jet Engines

https://www.extremetech.com/science/this-company-thinks-it-can-power-ai-data-centers-with-superso...
1•vanburen•30m ago•0 comments

If AIs can feel pain, what is our responsibility towards them?

https://aeon.co/essays/if-ais-can-feel-pain-what-is-our-responsibility-towards-them
3•rwmj•34m ago•5 comments

Elon Musk's xAI Sues Apple and OpenAI over App Store Drama

https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-xai-lawsuit-apple-openai
1•paulatreides•37m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Build it yourself SWE blogs?

1•bawis•38m ago•1 comments

Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code

https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11
3•Fiveplus•43m ago•0 comments

How Did the CIA Lose Nuclear Device?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/13/world/asia/cia-nuclear-device-himalayas-nanda-devi...
1•Wonnk13•44m ago•1 comments

Is vibe coding the new gateway to technical debt?

https://www.infoworld.com/article/4098925/is-vibe-coding-the-new-gateway-to-technical-debt.html
2•birdculture•48m ago•1 comments

Why Rust for Embedded Systems? (and Why I'm Teaching Robotics with It)

https://blog.ravven.dev/blog/why-rust-for-embedded-systems/
2•aeyonblack•49m ago•0 comments

EU: Protecting children without the privacy nightmare of Digital IDs

https://democrats.eu/en/protecting-minors-online-without-violating-privacy-is-possible/
3•valkrieco•49m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Anne Wojcicki to buy back 23andMe and its data for $305M

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/anne-wojcicki-to-buy-back-23andme-and-its-data-for-305-million.html
55•vidyesh•6mo ago

Comments

iamwil•6mo ago
How did she get the money to buy it back? I understand it’s from the non-profit, but how did they get the money?
antisthenes•6mo ago
You realize that's probably peanuts compared to what she walked away with in the divorce?
testbjjl•6mo ago
Is this speculation or do you have a source?
notjoemama•6mo ago
Sounds like a normal conversational speculation to me. I simply searched for her name + divorce. The Yahoo Finance article I read said there was a prenuptial in place but they settled for an undisclosed amount. At the time he was worth $30B so a $350M buyout for 23andme is probably in a reasonable assumption of what the settlement could have been. Conversationally speaking of course. We don't know either way.
iamwil•6mo ago
No. I have no idea. It's an honest question how people managed to find the money to buy it back.
getcrunk•6mo ago
Oh wow. Sold it to her self and got off on her debts. America!
solardev•6mo ago
Hasn't she been trying to buy it for a while, only to keep getting rebuffed?

From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23andMe

> In an attempt to regain control, Wojcicki made an initial bid in February 2024 to take 23andMe private, offering $2.53 per share in a joint bid, but it did not proceed.[39] In July 2024, Wojcicki offered 40 cents each for all outstanding shares not already owned by her directly or through affiliates.[40] The proposal was rejected by a committee set up to evaluate options for the company's future,[41] and in September the seven independent members of the board of directors all resigned.[42] The company subsequently filed with the SEC indicating that it was no longer open to third-party acquisition offers.[40] Users were concerned about the security of their genetic data, and were trying to delete it from the company's archives only to find out that it holds onto the data for three years before deleting to comply with "legal obligations".[43]

> In January 2025, 23andMe declared that it would need additional liquidity to fund operations, and was actively exploring strategic alternatives including a potential sale of the company.[45] Wojcicki made a third offer of 41 cents per share in March 2025.[39]

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I don't know a lot about her, but she co-founded 23andme and has been tied to it ever since. Maybe it's her baby?

decimalenough•6mo ago
> Maybe it's her baby?

Better do a DNA test to confirm.

timewizard•6mo ago
> Maybe it's her baby?

Well it's the "TTAM Research Institute's" baby now. They have an office above a UPS store and not much of a website.

https://ttamresearchinstitute.org/

moralestapia•6mo ago
There's a lot of scrutiny in this kind of deals. It's just not that easy.
patrickhogan1•6mo ago
Not how chapter 11 works. All debtors will be paid or assumed. They have to agree to the plan.
teruakohatu•6mo ago
Wojcicki's non-profit "TTAM Research Institute" domain was registered last month [1] and the current Powered by GoDaddy landing page went online around 5 June. [2]

Anyone know if its a legitimate non-profit or one of the "sort of" non-profit?

From the press release [3] ...

> TTAM Research Institute (“TTAM”), a nonprofit public benefit corporation based in California ... The TTAM Research Institute is a nonprofit medical research organization dedicated to helping scientists and non-scientists join together to unravel the mysteries of DNA - the code of life. TTAM believes everyone should have the opportunity to access their individual genetic code and be empowered to contribute it to scientific research. The TTAM Research Institute was founded and is led by Anne Wojcicki.

[1] https://who.is/whois/ttamresearchinstitute.org

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://ttamrese...

[3] https://investors.23andme.com/news-releases/news-release-det...

ChrisArchitect•6mo ago
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44271974