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The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970)
The Tyranny of Stuctureless by Jo Freeman
Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 87 posts.
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USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, according to Harvard Chan School’s Atul Gawande.
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The FAA’s Hiring Scandal
Inside a decade of struggle to bring a scandal to light
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Atlanta Fed predicts -2.8% GDP
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta2025219 points248 commentscited by 18Tech Industry & Business details
GDPNow forecasting model provides a "nowcast" of the official estimate prior to its release by estimating GDP growth using a methodology similar to the one used by the US Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy
Claude Free, Pro, and Max users can now opt in to having conversations used to improve models, with a five-year retention period for participants.
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Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)
We let Claude run a small shop in the Anthropic office. Here's what happened.
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DHH Is Worse Than I Thought
DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.
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Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison20251,750 points1,049 commentscited by 16Society, Policy & Culture details
Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account, Apple …
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Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up
78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those productivity claims are bullshit.
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Cloudflare to introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots
Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content.
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Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'
Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk ‘s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities should have precluded him from gaining the necessary security clearances to do so…
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NVIDIA Puts Grace Blackwell on Every Desk and at Every AI Developer’s Fingertips
CES—NVIDIA today unveiled NVIDIA® Project DIGITS, a personal AI supercomputer that provides AI researchers, data scientists and students worldwide with access to the power of the NVIDIA Grace ...
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Android developer verification: Early access starts
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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Sam Altman’s DRAM Deal
Or: How the AI Bubble, Panic, and Unpreparedness Stole ChristmasWritten by Tom of Moore’s Law Is DeadSpecial Assistance by KarbinCry & kari-no-sugataBased on this Video: https://youtu.be/BORRBce5TGwIntroduction — The Day the RAM Market SnappedAt the beginning of November, I ordered a 32GB DDR5 kit for pairing with a…
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A letter from Sam & Jony
Building a family of AI products for everyone.
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Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
I’m surprised that you’re surprised
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How Much OpenAI Spends on Inference and Its Revenue Share with Microsoft
EDIT: I am updating this post to reflect that these numbers are based on accrual accounting, meaning that these amounts are from the quarters I am referencing. Anyone telling you otherwise is misinformed. As with my Anthropic exclusive from a few weeks ago, though this feels like a natural premium
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Octoverse: A new developer joins GitHub every second as AI leads TypeScript to #1
In this year’s Octoverse, we uncover how AI, agents, and typed languages are driving the biggest shifts in software development in more than a decade.
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LLM inference prices have fallen rapidly but unequally across tasks
Epoch AI is a research institute investigating key trends and questions that will shape the trajectory and governance of Artificial Intelligence.
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Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover
Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.
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Sequoia backs Zed
From the Zed Blog: This investment lets us pursue our vision for bringing a new kind of collaboration directly into the IDE.
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The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora
Disney and OpenAI have reached an agreement to bring more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars characters to Sora for fan-inspired short videos. The agreement emphasizes responsible AI in entertainment and includes Disney’s company-wide use of ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API.
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The Hater's Guide to the AI Bubble
Hey! Before we go any further — if you want to support my work, please sign up for the premium version of Where’s Your Ed At, it’s a $7-a-month (or $70-a-year) paid product where every week you get a premium newsletter, all while supporting my
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Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer (2016)
When the story of how I landed a job at Airbnb went viral, I was surprised at how infatuated people were with my negotiations. Media stories portrayed me as some kind of master negotiator—a wily ex...
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Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
Who decided these personalized Siri features should go in the WWDC keynote, with a promise they’d arrive in the coming year, when, at the time, they were in such an unfinished state they could not be demoed to the media even in a controlled environment? Three months later, who decided Apple should double down and…
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Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?
How Chinas strategic focus on 3D printing and patent incentives since 2020 created a "minefield".
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Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index
We are proud to share the next step in our journey towards tech independence: building our very own search index!
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Are OpenAI and Anthropic losing money on inference?
Deconstructing the real costs of running AI inference at scale. My napkin math suggests the economics might be far more profitable than commonly claimed.
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Bad Dye Job
It might have made some sense to bring someone from the fashion/brand world to lead software design for Apple Watch, but it sure didn’t seem to make sense for the rest of Apple’s platforms. And the decade of Dye’s HI leadership has proven it.