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OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery
Serious learning requires friction, frustration... and other humans
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 949 posts.
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Taking money off the table
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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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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Doubling Down on Open Source
Open Sourcing all Product Features in Langfuse under the MIT license
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The (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh
Like you, I'm sick to the back teeth of talking about AI. Like you, I keep getting dragged into discussions of AI. Unlike you‡, I spent the summer writing a book about why I'm sick of writing about AI⹋, which Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish in 2026.
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Big tech has disrupted the social contract
I rented a car from Turo this weekend and it might as well have exploded...
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Autodesk's John Walker Explained HP and IBM in 1991 (2015)
One reader of this column in particular has been urging me to abandon for a moment my obsession with IBM and look, instead, at his employer -- Hewlett Packard. HP, he tells me, suffers from all the same problems as IBM while lacking IBM’s depth and resources. And he’s correct: HP is a shadow of
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Perpetual futures, explained
Crypto’s most popular product offers capital efficiency for professionals, leveraged exposure for the masses, rich yields for market makers — and a poorly understood failure mode.
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How exchanges turn order books into distributed logs
Every modern exchange is a distributed database in disguise. This article reveals how trading engines transform chaotic streams of buy and sell orders into a perfectly ordered, replayable log, ensuring fairness, determinism, and market data reliability.
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Why most product planning is bad and what to do about it
OKRs created more ceremony than clarity, so we built Problem Driven Development: a 4-day quarterly process focused on problems, not solutions.
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Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates
Discover exciting updates to GSAP — supported by Webflow — plus product enhancements and more.
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How much do electric car batteries degrade?
Many electric cars will still have more than 80% of their initial capacity after 200,000 miles.
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California needs to learn from Houston and Dallas about homelessness
Houston and Dallas reduced street homelessness dramatically not by being more compassionate or cruel than California, but by building working systems
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Toyota runs a car-hacking event to boost security (2024)
Toyota organizes a car-hacking event that captivates participating students. We uncovered the important purpose behind the event. #TOYOTATIMES
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$50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres
We've lowered the entry price for using PlanetScale Metal to $50 and added more flexibility in storage-to-compute ratios.
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Revenge of the GPT Wrappers: Defensibility in a world of commoditized AI models
Why network effects and distribution will be king, once more
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I used to prefer permissive licenses and now favor copyleft
Within free open source software (and free content more generally), there are two major categories of copyright licenses:
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You can’t build a moat with AI (redux)
Using LLMs doesn't make a product special anymore
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Why Speed Matters
The one constant that I have observed in my professional life is that people underestimate the need to move fast. Of course, doing good work takes time. I once spent six months writing a URL parser. But the fact that it took so long is not a feature, it is not a positive, it is … Continue reading Why speed matters
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Micro.blog launches new 'Studio' tier with video hosting
The core of Micro.blog’s mission is to make it easy for people to own their presence on the web. At first, it was a simple blog host that also
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TSMC faces tough choices amid rumors for Intel foundry collaboration
Following a routine board meeting that did not present any surprises to the market, TSMC executives, alongside Taiwan’s Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs, are set to engage in negotiations with the U.S.
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Hiring a developer as a small indie studio in 2025
A practical guide for hiring a developer as a small indie studio. How we, a three-person team, managed 159 applicants using a streamlined, time-efficient process. The article covers designing relevant take-home assignments and a simple Gmail labeling system for high-volume candidate triage.
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Apple Resumes Advertising on X
Link to: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/12/apple-resumes-advertising-on-x/
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Where are vacation homes located in the US?
As of 2023, the US has around 142.3 million housing units: roughly one home for every 2.4 people in the country.
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AMD's AI Future Is Rack Scale 'Helios'
Key Announcements from AMD Advancing AI 2025
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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 was awarded "for having explained innovation-driven economic growth" with one half to Joel Mokyr "for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress" and the other half jointly to Philippe Aghion…
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The State of AI Coding Report 2025
Read the full Q2 2026 research report, explore the chart data, and download the PDF for free.
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The gift card accountability sink
The gaps scammers exploit in gift cards are the result of deliberate policy tradeoffs.
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AT&T Email-to-Text Gateway Service Ending June 17
Effective June 17, 2025, you can no longer send or receive texts using email.