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Spending Too Much Money on a Coding Agent
On making use of large thinking models.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 949 posts.
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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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Why email startups fail
Comprehensive analysis of email startup failures. Why most email companies fail, burn millions in VC funding, and shut down. Learn what actually works.
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Datadog's $65M/year customer mystery solved
The internet has been speculating the past few days on which crypto company spent $65M on Datadog in 2022. I confirmed it was Coinbase, and here are the details of what happened.
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Proton joins suit against Apple for practices that harm developers and consumers
Apple's anti-competitive App Store policies are gouging consumers, enabling censorship, and harming privacy-focused developers. We're joining a lawsuit to restore internet freedom.
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China Dominates 44% of Visible Fishing Activity Worldwide
A new Oceana analysis reveals the global scale of China’s visible fishing fleet
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More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad
Sending this ad is completely destructive to all the hard work other teams at Apple have done to make Apple Wallet actually private — and, more importantly, *to get users to believe that it’s private*.
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The Unsustainability of Moore's Law
Roughly every two years, the density of transistors that can be fit onto a silicon chip doubles.
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JavaScript Trademark Update
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has dismissed our fraud claim against Oracle. We disagree with this decision.
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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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FLUX.1 Kontext [Dev] – Open Weights for Image Editing
Up until today, all capable generative image editing models were only available as proprietary tools.
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The Hollow Men of Hims
An admittedly partial - but deeply troubling - case against America's most brazen medical grift, involving Chinese knockoffs, subscription traps, and prescription gas station sex pills.
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Microsoft Dependency Has Risks
There was a recent incident where Microsoft somehow allegedly blocked a mailbox of a sanctioned individual . Any organization highly depending on MS products that might come into the crosshair should ask - can this happen to me? What would be the cost? How much I invest into prevention of this scenario? In this…
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Is Lovable getting monetization wrong?
The current (and future) monetization strategies of "Shopify for SaaS"
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How renewables are saving Texans billions
A dive into ERCOT data reveals how solar energy is driving down electricity costs for Texas
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Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls
Among adults who have not paid for news in the past year, the most common reason they cite is that they can find plenty of other news articles for free.
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The German automotive industry wants to develop open-source software together
Automotive industry signs Memorandum of Understanding
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The economics behind "Basic Economy" – A masterclass in price discrimination
Basic Economy fares are ultra-restricted airline tickets that offer a lower base price in exchange for fewer benefits than standard economy class. Introduced by major U.S. carriers in the 2010s, these fares have become a widespread strategy for market segmentation - a textbook example of price discrimination in…
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XBOW, an autonomous penetration tester, has reached the top spot on HackerOne
Learn how XBOW achieved #1 performance in autonomous penetration testing by validating real exploits and outperforming human pentesters in speed and accuracy.
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The bitter lesson is coming for tokenization
Highlights the desire to replace tokenization with a general method that better leverages compute and data. We'll see tokenization's fragility and review the Byte Latent Transformer arch.
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Excalidraw+ Is Now SoC 2 Certified
Excalidraw+ is officially SOC 2 Type I certified! Here's how we got there — the tools, policies, infra changes, and what we learned along the way.
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We moved from AWS to Hetzner, saved 90%, kept ISO 27001 with Ansible
The European CTO’s Dilemma: Keeping Compliance outside AWS
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People instantly decide whether to trust a product based on design
The Hidden Power of Aesthetics in Design
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AI is going to hack Jira
Hide your kids, hide your wife: how the Agile Industrial Complex has set us all up to be duped by AI codegen
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Break Up Big Tech: Civil Society Declaration
We, people and civil society organisations from Europe and around the world, call on the European Commission to act now to break up the powerful Big Tech
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From LLM to AI Agent: What's the Real Journey Behind AI System Development?
Confused by LLMs, RAG, & AI Agents? We break down the spectrum of AI system design with a familiar resume-screening example to show the leap in capabilities (and complexity) at each level.
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TI to invest $60B to manufacture foundational semiconductors in the U.S.
Leading U.S. companies Apple, Ford, Medtronic, NVIDIA and SpaceX strengthen partnerships with TI to unleash the next era of American innovation