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AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference
The untold story of how one AWS employee turned a 20-day nightmare into a lesson in corporate accountability. Sometimes all it takes is one person who actually gives a damn.
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How to sell if your user is not the buyer
Example: Dev = user; CTO = buyer
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Let's stop pretending that managers and executives care about productivity
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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How AI conquered the US economy: A visual FAQ
Artificial intelligence is the biggest tech construction project in a century. Here's what that looks like.
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Apple announces American Manufacturing Program
Apple announced a new $100 billion commitment to America, a significant acceleration of its U.S. commitment that now totals $600 billion over four years.
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Brennan Center for Justice Report: The Campaign to Undermine the Next Election
The executive branch is interfering in U.S. elections in unprecedented ways.
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States and cities decimated SROs, Americans' lowest-cost housing option
Low-cost micro-units, often called single-room occupancies, or SROs, were once a reliable form of housing for the United States’ poorest residents of, and newcomers to, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and many other major U.S. cities.
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Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce
Today, OpenAI for Government is announcing a new partnership with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to launch a transformative initiative. For the next year, ChatGPT Enterprise will be available to the entire federal executive branch workforce at essentially no cost.
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AI is propping up the US economy
Plus how American professors are fighting back against the AI onslaught, a backlash over AI models in Vogue, and more.
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Claude Opus 4.1
Claude Opus 4.1 is an upgrade over Opus 4 in agentic tasks, real-world coding, and reasoning.
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Eleven Music
Studio-grade music generated with natural language prompts in any style and for countless uses
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Where to find ideas
A no-BS guide for new startups, new products, new GTM approaches, and new features
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Rising young worker despair in the United States
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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One Dataset. No Warning. Google Took Everything. You're Not Safe Either
I’m an independent developer who built Punge, an on-device NSFW image detection app. The idea was simple: give people tools to manage…
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The Dollar Is Dead
When belief dies, fiat dies with it.
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Palantir: The Most Evil Company
At the cutting edge of dystopia and genocide
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Tokens are getting more expensive
"language models will get cheaper by 10x" will not save ai subscriptions from the short squeeze
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Our Farewell from Google Play
Our project started in 2016 with the goal of offering alternatives to apps with basic functionality that demanded – back then at install time – many permissions they did not need. From our humble beginnings with Privacy Friendly Torchlight, our apps have always been available in the Google Play Store. Our current…
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The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong
Antitrust critics say that homebuilding monopolies are the real culprit of America’s housing woes. I looked into some of their claims. They don’t hold up.
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OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery
Serious learning requires friction, frustration... and other humans
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So you're a manager now
Advice for first-time managers from someone who learned it the hard way, cleaned it up, and passed it on.
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Microsoft became incompetent in IT
You know what: Microsoft became miserably incompetent in IT. I develop open-source code. But that never made me one of the “I hate proprietary software or IT giant corporations” types. …
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Figma will IPO on July 31
Tomorrow, July 31, 2025, Figma plans to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “FIG.”
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The hype is the product
Large publicly traded tech companies seem to no longer consider their customers – that is, people and organizations who actually buy their products or pay for access to their services – their core foc
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Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming
This post was part of an experiment. It was largely generated by AI, and does not reflect my views. Please see the post How I Tricked Hacker News and Made The Front Page with AI Slop for details! The
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Our $100M Series B
Raising our Series B round of financing
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Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations
Wikipedia is the backbone of knowledge on the internet. Learn how the Wikimedia Foundation is safeguarding it under the UK Online Safety Act.
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Stop selling “unlimited”, when you mean “until we change our minds”
Claude Code joins the AI pricing bait-and-switch
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The leverage arbitrage: Why everything feels broken
Something fundamental has shifted in how power works, and most of our institutions haven't noticed. We're living through what might be called "leverage arbitrage divergence"—a growing gap between...