1801
Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index
We are proud to share the next step in our journey towards tech independence: building our very own search index!
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 16,887 posts.
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1802
Betting on the Pope was the original prediction market
500 years before Polymarket, the Vatican fought to stop gambling on papal affairs. Should we worry that it’s back?
1803
Bye, Prime
Why? · As I wrote in Not an Amazon Problem (and please go read that if you haven’t) I don’t see myself as an enemy of Amazon, particularly. I think the pressures of 21st-century capitalism have put every large company into a place where they really can’t afford to be ethical or the financial sector will rip them to…
1804
Mistral OCR
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
1805
A few words about FiveThirtyEight
Silver Bulletin will begin publishing some new features soon — including Trump approval ratings. But the media just lost an extremely valuable resource.
1806
"Big 3" science fiction magazines including Asimov's and Analog acquired
For other news from February, see my previous grapevine. This report is available free to the public. If you like my writings on genre issues, consider backing my Patreon.
1807
Things we've learned about building products
To celebrate 50k subscribers to Product for Engineers, here are the 50 most important lessons we’ve learned about building great products.
1808
The Demoralization is just Beginning
This is a map of primary trading partners, US vs China, and how it has evolved over the last 20 years. Think about it, and realize this probably reflects your experience.
1809
Atlanta Fed predicts -2.8% GDP
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta2025219 points248 commentscited by 18Tech Industry & Business details
GDPNow forecasting model provides a "nowcast" of the official estimate prior to its release by estimating GDP growth using a methodology similar to the one used by the US Bureau of Economic Analysis.
1810
One Logo, Three Companies
Fountain pens in Japan.
1811
Apple's Software Quality Crisis
Tim, I think we are not cooking
1812
The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks
Wealth inequality is driving the economy.
1813
The “strategic reserve” exposes crypto as the scam it always was
Today, President Trump announced that the US Government would begin using taxpayer dollars to systematically buy up a variety of cryptocurrencies. Crypto prices shot up on the news. This is revealing, as crypto boosters have argued for years that cryptocurrency has legitimate economic value as a payment system outside…
1814
2025 Hiring Pause
Together with all of American higher education, Cornell is entering a time of significant financial uncertainty. The potential for deep cuts in federal research funding, as well as tax legislation affecting our endowment income, has now been added to existing concerns related to rapid growth and cost escalations. It…
1815
GPT-4.5: "Not a frontier model"?
OpenAI's latest model raises more questions than answers, but no, the AI bubble isn't popping quite yet.
1816
GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)
While Silicon Valley obsesses over AI, a weight-loss drug is quietly becoming the biggest economic disruptor since the internet. Here's why your job, investments, and future depend on understanding it
1817
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AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – let's look at the data
Traffic trends from WebMD, Quora, Stack Overflow, Chegg, G2, CNET, Reddit, Wikipedia, and Substack!
1819
AMD RDNA 4 – AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series Graphics Cards
New AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series graphics cards deliver enthusiast-level gaming experiences supercharged by AI.
1820
IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp
IBM announced it has completed its acquisition of HashiCorp, whose products automate and secure the infrastructure that underpins hybrid cloud applications and generative AI.
1821
Alexa+
Powered by generative AI, Alexa+ is your personal AI assistant that gets things done—she’s smarter, more conversational, more capable, and free with Prime.
1822
EdgeDB is now Gel and Postgres is the future
EdgeDB is now Gel. New identity, renewed focus on delivering the best PostgreSQL data platform in the world.
1823
Hyperspace
My interest in file systems started when I discovered how type and creator codes 1 and resource forks contributed to the fantastic user interface on my original Macintosh in 1984. In the late 1990s, when it looked like Apple might buy Be Inc. to solve its operating system problems, the Be File System was the part I…
1824
History of CAD
The People, Companies and Computer Systems That Changed Forever the Practice of Engineering and Manufacturing. A "Brief" History of CAD by David E. Weisberg
1825
Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code
Today, we’re announcing Claude 3.7 Sonnet, our most intelligent model to date and the first hybrid reasoning model generally available on the market.
1826
Freelancing: How I found clients, part 1
tools, tactics, troubles along the way
1827
We don't need startups, we need Digital-Mittelstand
While the German economy is stagnating, Digital-Mittelstand may offer a solution.
1828
Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022)
I think it is important to have a bias for action. Like anything else, this is something you can make a habit of. Moving forward allows you to make progress. I don’t know about you, but I’ve frozen up in the past not knowing what the right path was for me. Moving forward, even the smallest possible step, helped break…
1829
The Birth of Chipzilla
Or, the early history of Intel Corporation
1830
Private antitrust cases are going through the courts
Private antitrust cases against Equifax, Pepsi, American Express, the Ultimate Fighting Championship, and Corteva are going through the courts. And it turns out, judges get the monopoly problem.