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In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad
A rough start to what would later become one of my favorite tech ads from the 80s.
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 999 posts.
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Treason in the Futures Markets
People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets
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Puget Systems Most Reliable Hardware of 2025
We look back at our records for 2025 to highlight specific brands and models of workstation computer components that we found to be exceptionally reliable.
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Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier
阶跃星辰于2023年4月成立，以“智能阶跃，十倍每个人的可能”为使命。阶跃星辰坚定自研超级模型，积极布局算力、数据等关键资源，发挥算法和人才优势，已完成 Step-1 千亿参数语言大模型和 Step-1V 千亿多模态大模型的研发，在图像理解、多轮指令跟随、数学能力、逻辑推理、文本创作等方面性能达到业界领先水平。
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NLnet announces funding for 67 more open-source projects
We are happy to announce that 67 new projects have been awarded grants today as part of the Next Generation Internet intiative, across three different funds: NGI Zero Commons Fund , NGI TALER and NGI Fediversity . We congratulate the developers and engineers involved with these projects, and thank them for their…
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DHS Quits Granting Green Cards–Almost
This policy is illogical and will harm Americans, their employees, employers, and family members. It will drive talented people to other countries and make America a less competitive place for business.
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Books are not too expensive
Let’s Explore a Little Math
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The AI Productivity Gap
Why the productivity gains from AI are still small.
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AMÁLIA and the future of European Portuguese LLMs
Thoughts on the new technical report from AMÁLIA: The Open Source LLM for European Portuguese
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Anthropic Economic Index report: economic primitives
New metrics of AI usage provide a rich portrait of interactions with Claude in November 2025, just prior to the release of Opus 4.5.
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Hypergrowth isn’t always easy
Tailscale's CEO talks about outages: what they are, why they happen, and how Tailscale is making them smaller and less frequent.
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An Apology
We launched an AirTag silencing tool recently. We have always made products we want for ourselves, and this was no different - we wanted it for AirTags on our bikes. (Some of us here have bikes more valuable than our cars.) In retrospect though, this also has the side effect of aiding someone with bad intentions to tra
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Automating AI Away
A. Karpathy once said that OpenAI researchers are effectively "automating themselves away" by improving their AI. Right now I develop Beagle SCM with Anthropic's Fable and it is of course a brilliant model able to spot nits in a mountain of code, file tickets, make fixes. Still, yesterday it managed to commit the…
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The UK government's Low Value Purchase System is a waste of time
It can be hard running a small business. If you want to sell to a large organisation like the UK Government, there are forms to fill in, checks to comply with, tenders to bid on, and a hundred other things. Luckily, there's the RM6237 Low Value Purchase System to make everything better. If a department wants to buy…
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Ideas aren't getting harder to find (2022)
You can still discover stuff, I promise
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The operating cost of adult and gambling startups
In adult and gambling markets, even routine work gets harder: hiring, payments, ads, fundraising, and explaining what you do.
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U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for "Armageddon,"
Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military
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It is an amazing time for programmers
Many legends of software development, like John Carmack or Chris Lattner, are very approachable. Check out their projects and go talk to them!
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Agents of Chaos
Natalie Shapira 1 Chris Wendler 1 Avery Yen 1 Gabriele Sarti 1 Koyena Pal 1 Olivia Floody 2 Adam Belfki 1 Alex Loftus 1 Aditya Ratan Jannali 2 Nikhil Prakash 1 Jasmine Cui 2 Giordano Rogers 1 Jannik Brinkmann 1 Can Rager 2 Amir Zur 3 Michael Ripa 1 Aruna Sankaranarayanan 8 David Atkinson 1 Rohit Gandikota 1 Jaden…
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How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?
Office Hours question asked by by Ian H. on May 1, 2026 Q: Memory prices could move from 15% to 40% of the BOM of a device. This seems incredible. So how can Apple deal with this? This has been on …
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I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy
Why I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy.
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If I could make my own GitHub
My friend and I have a game where we talk about what we'd do if we were rich. Not rich like 'paid off the mortgage' rich. Rich like a man who owns a submarine he's never been inside. Rich like a man whose third wife has a skincare
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You are falling behind because you haven't fed the insincerity machine
I was lucky enough to witness the beginnings of social media, working on the platforms that made it happen. I’ve also seen the decline of its first iterations and products. Currently I am witnessing the idea of a social web being perverted, weaponised and automated out of any trace of human or social aspect…
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Claude is a Contrarian
Of all the LLMs I’ve used and driven daily, Claude is the one that absolutely contradicts my instructions.
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Can we replace a $150k Looker with a bucket of HTML files?
(BI) Software is dead, apparently
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Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model
Thomson, the company's proprietary LLM, was trained and is run at a fraction of the cost of comparable frontier models and remains fully owned and controlled by Thomson Reuters
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Seeing like a spreadsheet
How the commercial spreadsheet reshaped America
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State of Show HN: 2025
I downloaded every Show HN post since the site was launched and ran them through a hierarchical topic model. I set out to discover what the Hacker News community finds interesting but in the process I ended up uncovering macro-economic trends, evidence of voting rings/fraud, and subtle shifts in behavior over the…
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The bread paradox: why convenience always wins, and why SaaS isn't doomed
No, you're not going to code your own Jira