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World Labs is Joining AMD
Accelerating the future of AI research and compute
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 999 posts.
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Sonnet 5.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a clear upgrade over Claude Sonnet 5, runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work.
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What would a serious AI product look like?
Every “AI” tool is missing critical features that you would need if you wanted to do real work with them. What would those look like, if they existed?
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Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
A first-person account of a 1993 NVIDIA stock option grant, a decades-later discovery of a vesting discrepancy, and how the statute of limitations settled it.
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When did Google get so weird?
I recently had an experience while doing a simple Google search that was so profoundly weird that it stopped me in my tracks. Understanding this Google se...
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The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures
In a recent episode of President Curtis , the President struggles with opening a door on two separate occasions. These doors don't work beca...
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Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI
(New York, September 21, 2026) Explosive new documents released last Thursday in Authors Guild v. OpenAI—the major book authors’ ongoing lawsuit alleging OpenAI and Microsoft illegally trained their products on copyrighted books—show that executives and employees at both companies intentionally […]
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Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
Conversations, my federated instant messaging client for Android, started out as many traditional open-source projects do: as an attempt to scratch my own itch. Development started in January 2014 in my student dormitory, and within weeks I started dogfooding and using the client as the primary means of communicating…
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Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story
100% cotton paper. 100% crazy.
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Factorio that you can touch
Hello, we have very unusual Friday facts for you.
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Does Georgism work? Five years later
A guest post by Lars Doucet
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Goodbye Google
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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California is chasing wealth that has feet
California has $8.14 trillion in land sitting right under its feet. It's chasing billionaires instead.
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ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit
arXiv is pleased to announce that three leading philanthropic organizations have provided multimillion-dollar support for arXiv. These new multiyear…
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28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days
28.0% of 668,355 job postings open on employers' own careers sites have been up for more than 90 days. Age by category, country and applicant tracking system, the employers with the most open postings, closures and reposts. Measured at the source, monthly.
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Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries
If signed, Seattle will become the first city in the nation to prohibit the pricing tactic Seattle, Washington – The Seattle City Council today passed…
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Tokens too cheap to meter
tokens are going to be as cheap as electricity within the decade
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Transit rewards
Today, Waymo is excited to announce our transit rewards program, which we will initially offer in the San Francisco Bay Area, with future cities to follow. This first-of-its-kind initiative rewards riders with Waymo Cash when they connect their Waymo rides with public transit and use their Visa card.
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The current balance of power in open models
The expanded form of a testimony I prepared for Congress.
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An update on how we confirm your age group on Discord
We’re launching a revamped, privacy-focused age assurance solution including methods that won’t require an ID or selfie. Here’s how it works.
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Claude Opus 5.5
Claude Opus 5.5 leads in agentic coding and knowledge work, and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5 on typical workloads.
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OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev
TypeSafe's Jev is a genuine breakthrough – snap judgments with calibrated probabilities instead of generated text. My bet is OpenAI is already figuring out how to copy it, and then embed it inside its own models where Jev can't follow.
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9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game"
More than 93,000 visible appearances of brands promoting unhealthy food and drink, alcohol, gambling and speculative products were recorded during coverage of the largest FIFA World Cup in history, new research has found. Unhealthy food and drink brands accounted for more than seven in ten, with 65,722 appearances.
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I said no and Apple said yes
The one where Apple decides consent doesn’t matter anymore.
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Spymarks, not Watermarks
Watermarks that spy on users are no mere watermarks
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I don't want to read what you didn't write
Intentional writing will likely become more valuable.
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Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less
The DRUGS Act (‘Domain Reform for Unlawful Drug Sellers Act, H.R. 6352 & S.3399) is legislation that would rob you and millions of Americans of daily medications that keep them healthy and alive. Worse yet, the legislation is backed by Big Pharma front groups.
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Grok 4.7
SpaceXSI's most powerful model for coding and knowledge work. Twice as fast, at half the price of comparable models.
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What Sun got wrong
We have the whole Oxide team coming to Emeryville this week for our annual OxCon meetup. For a remote company, an in-person meeting is uniquely energizing, and in preparation for that, we made some t-shirts featuring Oxide logos that are an homage to past computer companies.
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Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to
Thirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows — to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype — at the registry layer. The fix: registries charge companies for supply (they already do), then route a slice automatically to the maintainers who make…