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What is a product?
It is far too easy to create software these days, but what is the difference between a side project and a real product?
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 999 posts.
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We decreased our LLM costs with Opus
We switched to a frontier model and our costs went down. Here's the architecture that made it possible.
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Algorithmic rent-pricing litigation expands under new state and local laws
A new wave of litigation focused on violations of municipal regulations is emerging against multifamily housing landlords, many of whom are facing antitrust litigation targeting their use of certain revenue management products. The new regulations may potentially provide a simpler path to liability and the possibility…
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Richest 0.1% (8M) produce more carbon pollution than 3.5B
The world’s richest 0.1 percent (8 million people) produces more carbon pollution than the world’s poorest 3.5 billion people combined, reveals new Oxfam analysis. Published ahead of the UN climate summit (COP31) in Türkiye, the report exposes how the world's super-rich are driving climate breakdown through their…
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A statement about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia
Our official statement to the digital rights community about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia
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Build Wide, Ship Narrow
Good engineers plan before they build. The workflow I grew up seeing: write an RFC describing the feature, split it into smaller issues, then build them, each issue often blocking the next. The structure of the work was locked in before a single line of code existed.
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Where are the economies of scale in homebuilding?
Over the last few months we’ve examined the extent of the construction industry’s productivity problem.
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Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B
Bending Spoons S.p.A. (NASDAQ: BSP) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Miro at an enterprise value of $1.355 billion.
969
Six Characters
What the PNR locator on your boarding pass actually contains, and why the fare calculation line on your e-ticket is written in a currency that does not exist.
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Investors get real-time view of UK bond market activity for the first time
For the first time, investors and market participants can access a single, real-time source of prices and trading activity across the UK bond market, following the launch of its bond consolidated tape, operated by ETS Connect UK.
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Open Source as We Know It Is Dead
I've been part of open source for most of my life. This year, the projects I love started closing their doors to outside contributors, and I don't blame them one bit, but it makes me sad. A personal look at how AI is changing open source as I've known it.
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What Happens If OpenAI Dies?
If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It's $70 a year, $18 a quarter, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 10,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of NVIDIA, Anthropic
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Familiarity is the enemy: On why Enterprise systems have failed for 60 years
My thoughts on why enterprise knowledge systems have failed for sixty years, and what might finally replace them. A couple of weeks ago I demoed one part of what I have been building to a senior exec at a global enterprise - someone who had been asked to lead and guide
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Lean Eval for Alignment on Faithfulness
We turn intent into mathematics, verify every step formally, and make sure the machine does what it is supposed to.
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Layoff Thinking
Were you recently laid off? I have some, hopefully, helpful thoughts to survive the maelstrom of self-doubt and pain that's swirling around inside your head.
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Google has acquired Crusoe's data center site in southeast Wyoming
Google has acquired Crusoe’s southeast Wyoming data center site after Crusoe completed site selection, approvals, and power strategy for the campus.
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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 stagnancy of publishing and the disappearance of the midlist
How did we get here? And how do we get back?
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The iPhone explains 33–52% of fertility decline among women aged 15–44
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.
980
Pixar's True Story
The true story of Pixar's IPO and the Silicon Valley investment bankers who took a chance on Steve Jobs' passion project.
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The Secret Life of Circuits is now in stock everywhere
For the past couple of weeks, you could get my latest book — The Secret Life of Circuits — directly from the publisher.
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Big Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six States
Fired at 17 for leaking secrets. Served a cybercrime ring. Named by the Social Security whistleblower. Now the government’s model employee.
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Plug-in solar is coming. Plug-in batteries should follow
Plug-in batteries could help millions more households access the bill-saving benefits of home energy storage. With plug-in solar now on the way, Regen argues that the government should make plug-in batteries next.
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AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200
$12,431 in fake invoices, 2,797 spam emails, $0 revenue.
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The AI sell-off compared to well-known stock market crashes
The S&P 500 fell 4.4% on 5 Nov 2026, its worst day since April 2025, and is 6% below its 6 Oct record. Charted day by day against 1987, 2008, Covid and other falls since 1950.
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RimWorld 1.7 moves from Unity to Ludeon's in-house Waylith engine
Ludeon Studios is an independent game developer. We love deep PC games and story generators.
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Laguna XS.2 and M.1
We've released the first two models in the Laguna family, Laguna M.1 and Laguna XS.2, alongside the runtime we use to train and operate agents, available through two product experiences in research preview.
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A quick look at Mythos run on Firefox: too much hype?
A closer look at Mozilla's Firefox 150 "271 vulnerabilities" fixes and what they do, and do not, tell us about the alarming claims we can read online and AI-assisted vulnerability research.
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A forecast of the fair market value of SpaceX's businesses
FutureSearch's fundamentals-based forecast of SpaceX (SPCX), updated October 16, 2026. The stock fell from $192 to about $108 on the first post-IPO earnings report, then recovered to about $146, reopening a gap of about 50% to our $1.25 trillion sum-of-the-parts fair value. Revenue is doubling and the AI compute…
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