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Global Intelligence Crisis
A Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future
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Attention Media ≠ Social Networks
When web-based social networks started flourishing nearly two decades ago, they were genuinely social networks. You would sign up for a popular service, follow people you knew or liked and read updates from them. When you posted something, your followers would receive your updates as well. Notifications were genuine…
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Acme Weather
Over the years it went through numerous iterations — including more than one major redesign — as we worked our way through the process of learning what makes a great weather app. Eventually, in time, it was acquired by Apple, where the forecast and some core features were incorporated into Apple Weather.
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Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company
Exploring how agents become multipliers, not replacers.
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Facebook is cooked
Through the mirror into the lightly-clothed AI gooniverse
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AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
Companies that treat AI as an autonomous agent are disappointed. Those that treat it as an exoskeleton—an amplifier of human capability—are seeing…
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Micropayments as a reality check for news sites
In Digital Media Lost the Newsstand. Micropayments Are the Obvious Way Back , Rick Bruner makes the case for giving micropayments another try.
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America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks
Saving regret has less to do with procrastination than we thought, and more to do with whether your country absorbs economic shocks or lets them hit your savings
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Pebble Production: February Update
Mega update on Pebble Time 2, Pebble Round 2 and Index 01 Things are busy in Pebbleland! We’re getting close to shipping 3 new hardware products and all the ...
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How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe
Artificial intelligence promises to reshape economies worldwide, but firm-level evidence on its effects in Europe remains scarce. This column uses survey data to examine how AI adoption affects productivity and employment across more than 12,000 European firms. The authors find that AI adoption increases labour…
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The only moat left is money?
The value of human thinking is going down. The value of human attention is going up. Those two facts are pointing in very different directions.
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Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project issued the following report on the eve of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony in the social media addiction trials. The report analyzes Zuckerberg’s testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2024 against newly unsealed documents that show Zuckerberg lied
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Claude Sonnet 4.6
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a full upgrade of the model’s skills across coding, computer use, long-reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design.
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America's pensions can't beat Vanguard but they can close a hospital
$6 trillion in patient capital, $60+ billion in annual fees, and the infrastructure that never gets built
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Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning
Show HN is Hacker News’ “showcase” page where makers show and discuss what they’ve built. A few days ago I shared my own project(https://news.ycombinator.com...
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Poor Deming never stood a chance
This post is an elaboration of a shorter post I wrote about five years ago. The two management giants of the mid-twentieth century were Peter Drucker and W. Edwards Deming. Ironically, while Drucke…
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State of Show HN: 2025
I downloaded every Show HN post since the site was launched and ran them through a hierarchical topic model. I set out to discover what the Hacker News community finds interesting but in the process I ended up uncovering macro-economic trends, evidence of voting rings/fraud, and subtle shifts in behavior over the…
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How not to answer the salary question
Before you read a single line more, I will give the usual but still important caveats – this blog is my opinion, based on my experiences. Take it with a big ol’...
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The Sideprocalypse
You can't open a feed today without having AI boosters fling word salad like "agentic engineering" or "openclaw" into your beautiful but disapproving face. I'm terrible at predicting the future—you should ask me about selling NVIDIA stock in early 2022 some time—but one thing seems…
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EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear
The measures under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation will allow businesses to benefit from a more circular economy.
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AI is going to kill app subscriptions
Curated niche app opportunities from Reddit, scored by difficulty and demand.
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The evolution of OpenAI's mission statement
As a USA 501(c)(3) the OpenAI non-profit has to file a tax return each year with the IRS. One of the required fields on that tax return is to “Briefly …
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Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" [video]
"That's why I'm sending this message of urgency"
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Assistant to the Regional Manager
The problem with utopia
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Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve
Cache reads are quadratic and dominate your long agentic conversations.
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Audio is the one area small labs are winning
The story of Gradium, the anatomy of audio AI models, and why smaller labs continue to edge out larger ones when it comes to voice.
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Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation
Anthropic raised $30 billion, led by GIC and Coatue, with run-rate revenue of $14 billion and 500+ customers spending over $1 million annually.
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MiniMax M2.5 released: 80.2% in SWE-bench Verified
MiniMax M2.5: Built for Real-World Productivity.
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Lines of Code Are Back (and It's Worse Than Before)
The metric we killed is back, and AI made it worse
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How to make a living as an artist
An essay by fnnch on making a living as an artist.