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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 999 posts.
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Technofascism
In July 2016, Peter Thiel walked onto the stage at the Republican National Convention and told the crowd three things. First: “I build things.” Second: “I’m proud to be gay.” Third: “I’m proud to be a Republican.” What he did not say was that he had spent years funding a blogger named Curtis Yarvin, who wrote under…
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The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here
Three years ago, we released the design for the Adept, a unique trackball perfectly suited for the use of QMK, for 3D-printing, and for ambidextrous use across a wide variety of applications.
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Tech valuations are back to pre-AI boom levels
The chart below compares the forward P/E ratios for the S&P 500 and the S&P 500 Information Technology sector. Subscribe for daily updates.
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Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter
Step 5 Preview is StepFun's flagship model for agentic work, built on a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture (27B active / 600B total parameters).
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xAI, SpaceX, and the Race for AI Buildout
An artisanal, free range blog. GMO-free. Sincere always, expect for the rare occasion. No AI was used in the making of this site or its content.
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AI is going to kill app subscriptions
Curated niche app opportunities from Reddit, scored by difficulty and demand.
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Session is shutting down in 90 days
The Session Technology Foundation cannot continue without your support. Donate today to help Session in its fight for survival.
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Heart aerospace completes first flight of largest electric aircraft
Heart Aerospace’s X1 demonstrator became the world’s largest battery-electric aircraft ever flown, demonstrating electric flight at airliner scale and advancing development of the ES-30.
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Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers
But a Redfin analysis found that AI data centers have benefits: In northern Virginia, taxes on data center equipment are likely contributing to a surge in education spending.
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Apple, What Have You Done?
I've been an Apple user for over a decade and generally very happy with that life choice, but since iOS / iPadOS 26 and MacOS Tahoe were released a few month...
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Microsoft Needs Windows Lite
Microsoft is losing Builders fast. They're switching to MacOS and Linux. The biggest pull keeping people on Windows, outside of shear inertia, is content creation and gaming. However, even these are falling to Linux.
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Can we stop with the uptime percentages?
I was reading Jason Gorman’s article “The Wall Confronting Reliable Coding Agent Autonomy” and he says: the journey from 90% to 99% reliability is just as hard…
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Picard 3.0
The Picard team is happy to announce the new major version 3.0 of MusicBrainz Picard, now available to download . MusicBrainz Picard is the official tag editor for the MusicBrainz database and helps you get your music collection sorted and cleaned up with data from MusicBrainz.
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How to buy a good car for $1000
Elite circles have their own cultural knowledge. So does the bottom 40%. Here's some of mine.
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MCP is a fad
Model Context Protocol has taken off as the standardized platform for AI integrations, but this popularity will be short-lived.
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Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement
5 projects are awarded a total of $31K
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The Doom Justifies the Valuation
I’ve been in Berkeley for the last 2 weeks. I haven’t really been back here for a while, and it’s worse than you can believe. This is a cult of atheistic hedonists needing AI doom to be true to justify their life choices. Or acceleration. Or something. They need to make impact. I mean, narcissism of small differences…
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I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months
A business report from a 3D printing enthusiast
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Competition is not market validation
How to not fall into the fallacy of seeing competition as a proof of Product-Market Fit
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How Quickly Can the DoD Rebuild and Recast the Munitions Industrial Base?
The U.S. munitions industrial base should be rebuilt and recast for modern wars of precision and attrition. What is a realistic timeline for this goal? By analyzing DOD budget documents and industry announcements, this analysis provides a clearer picture of the planned future.
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Private healthcare makes industries less innovative. It's time for change
1 in 4 American workers stay in their jobs because of the healthcare. It suppresses wages and working conditions - and prevents innovators from heading out on their own.
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PVX-001: open-source Covid-19 vaccine starts Phase 1 trial
First participants safely dosed in Melbourne, Australia, on August 31, 2026, in the first-in-human trial of our broadly-protective COVID-19 vaccine candidate PVX-001.
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AI is too expensive
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I toured Unitree's factory. I'm more bullish on the West
Everyone thinks China's robot factories are automated. They aren't. The robots are Chinese; the robots that make robots will be Western.
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The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate
In a world racing to automate every interaction, the organisations that invest in genuine human connection are quietly building something no algorithm can copy.
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The SpaceX IPO will be the theft of the century
An S-1 full of fantasies, insiders who will pocket millions, index companies that have changed the rules: it's all a recipe for regular people to have their pockets picked.
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Price per 1M tokens is meaningless
It stops being all about the vibes when the API bill hits you. Many companies are now discovering that AI can indeed be pricey. One habit that might be driving up your AI bill is comparing models by $X per 1M tokens ....