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Memorizing session transcripts isn't useful
Keep track of artifacts, not scratch. Alt title: Claude, please stop trying to memorize random crap
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 999 posts.
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Factories are just rooms
Posted on Friday 3 Jul 2026. 723 words, 2 links. By Matt Webb.
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Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective
Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive: In retrospect, he said, the “trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn’t really accelerated in the way that we expected,” and that the company’s bets on the new structure “haven’t come to fruition yet.”
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Please stop the AI confidence theater
We don’t need an extra reason to be anxious
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Half-Baked Product
A fable about ovens, founders, and the second-highest priority that never gets done.
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The US Government Is Now a Shareholder in 26 Companies
Washington has taken equity stakes in 26 companies across nine sectors since January 2025. It has $181 billion left to deploy. Here is every deal, every sector, and where it's going next.
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The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing
The Stringer Bell rule is obsolete, as Trump and state attorneys general let the egg producers off the hook for a brazen conspiracy. Still, egg prices did drop as a result of the investigation.
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The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs?
A 4-year study of 100 successful blogs reveals how Google's updates and AI transformed blogging. See which sites survived and which disappeared.
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The fall of the theorem economy
How AI could destroy mathematics and barely touch it
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The Age of Personalized Hardware Is Coming
Small personal devices are multiplying whether we build them or not. The real opening is the software that runs on them, and who gets to write it.
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Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
Isaac 1 is a mobile robot for the home — designed and assembled in San Francisco. Five colorways, private by design, and capable of far more than folding.
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Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
We're opening the waitlist for our Monetization Gateway, which will allow you to charge for any web page, dataset, API, or MCP tool behind Cloudflare. The charges will settle in stablecoins over the x402 open protocol, with no payments stack of your own to build.
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Redeploying Fable 5
Anthropic is redeploying Claude Fable 5 starting July 1, with updated cyber safeguards and a new jailbreak framework.
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Why jet engines aren't made in China
What China’s jet engine program tells us about the limits of industrial policy
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Claude Sonnet 5
Our most agentic Sonnet yet, with top-tier intelligence for coding and everyday professional work.
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The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level
A look at the decline of the labor share of income that occurred post-COVID, comparing its dynamics to declines in earlier periods.
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Popping the GPU Bubble
Photon, Moondream's inference engine, achieves near-realtime VLM inference (~33ms on NVIDIA B200). This is a peek into how it delivers up to 35% higher decode throughput by optimizing how the GPU works.
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Microsoft Needs Windows Lite
Microsoft is losing Builders fast. They're switching to MacOS and Linux. The biggest pull keeping people on Windows, outside of shear inertia, is content creation and gaming. However, even these are falling to Linux.
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Rocketlab acquires Iridium
Unites Rocket Lab's leading launch and satellite manufacturing capabilities with Iridium's global network, spectrum, and experience to unlock critical space applications. Adds material revenue scale and is significantly accretive to Rocket Lab's cash flow generation and profitability.
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Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it
In 2022, I wrote about the damning fall of events tech company Pollen. The short of it: Pollen seemed to have pulled off the improbable feat of building a business in the notoriously low margin industry of events, surviving Covid-19, and building a solid software engineering organization. In April
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HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88
How hiring is becoming a luck filter.
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Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing
Alt title: The reports of tokenmaxxing’s death are greatly exaggerated.
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Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other
Releasing Town Square. Bring back the feeling that real people are browsing your site with you.
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Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers
More than a decade ago, a group of young, internet-connected Belarusian dissidents launched a series of increasingly high-stakes, increasingly surreal confrontations with the corrupt, authoritarian government of Alexander Lukashenka, a man who is often called "the last Soviet dictator."
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The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs
Using artificial analysis benchmarks we try to predict when an open source LLM will be released that matches frontier LLMs.
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Why current LLM costs are not sustainable
AI has a cost problem. The solution that will emerge will be simpler than we expect.
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