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Targeted Bets: An alternative approach to the job hunt
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 999 posts.
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Something Big Is Happening
A personal note for the non-tech people in my life on what AI is starting to change — why it's moving faster than you think, and what to do about it.
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Spanish traders set the standard for GnuCash database design
TLDR: Spanish traders in the 1600s did not want to count their thumbs, which influenced GnuCash's database design choices in 1997. Much like a horse's arse set the standard for railways . How seemingly odd design turns out to be a genius solution that serves people pretty well.
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A brief history of oral peptides
Semaglutide is a peptide. Your stomach’s entire job is to destroy peptides.
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Windows 95 released August 24, 1995
People lined up around stores at midnight like they do for a new Apple product.
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‘Fuck you, make me’ without saying the words
Make the Trump administration object. Make them defend the indefensible — in public. Make clear why the apps were removed from the app stores and force Musk — and Trump, if he chooses — to argue that those things are A-OK by them. In court.
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The current balance of power in open models
The expanded form of a testimony I prepared for Congress.
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Dude, where's my supersonic jet?
3 innovators reimagining how we fly
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People who grew up with high economic connectedness earn more
Hard work is grinding and only partly reliable. Luck is random by definition. Research on who you know is far more specific than most networking advice.
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One item purchased, ten emails
A single online order now generates ten emails. A look at how retail email got this far out of hand.
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Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve
Cache reads are quadratic and dominate your long agentic conversations.
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Reasons robotics is hard
And why you should ignore demo videos
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Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise
Backed by a $10 billion planned investment over the next decade, Micron Research Labs will unite academia, government, startups and industry to advance the memory and compute breakthroughs that will define the AI era BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU) today unveiled…
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Thank You, Deno
Deno is joining Cloudflare & winding down its investment in the runtime. We're all better off because of its existence.
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Chase to become new issuer of Apple Card
See how our clients and partners—from small business owners to workforce training leaders—work with JPMorganChase to drive meaningful impact and economic growth where they live and work.
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What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x
A given level of LLM intelligence costs about a thirtieth of what it did a year ago, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Using Artificial Analysis's…
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Drupal is now light-years ahead of its reputation
DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026 DriesNote presentation.
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Don't Subscribe So Casually
Or, why your AI subscription is worth analyzing
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Apple Is Holding My Pictures Hostage Until I Accept Their New Terms of Service
It started off a few months ago, when my iPad suddenly couldn’t play videos any more that it had recorded. It would show the first frame, but hitting the play button wouldn’t do anythin…
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The US Government Is Now a Shareholder in 26 Companies
Washington has taken equity stakes in 26 companies across nine sectors since January 2025. It has $181 billion left to deploy. Here is every deal, every sector, and where it's going next.
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Education shouldn't be held for ransom
Google told K-12 schools they could turn off AI, but only if they gave up search too. That isn’t integration. It’s holding education for ransom.
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Lines of Code Are Back (and It's Worse Than Before)
The metric we killed is back, and AI made it worse
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Changes to Sourcehut's terms of service regarding LLMs
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
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Charles Tandy, the mastermind behind Radio Shack
He was also involved in taking the Pier 1 chain nationwide
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When AI Costs More Than the Engineer
Anthropic spends 2.3x payroll on compute. Top software firms spend 0.4x. Three scenarios for where the rest of the market lands by 2029.
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Covering electricity price increases from our data centers
Anthropic commits to covering consumer electricity price increases caused by its data centers, including grid upgrades and new power generation.
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Apple is going to raise device prices, but when?
Link to: https://x.com/markgurman/status/2067741507273289766
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NYT and vaping: How to lie by saying only true things (2022)
An exercise in spotting agenda journalism: dissecting a 2022 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑌𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 article on teen vaping sentence by sentence to show how it pins an EVALI hospitalization on legal nicotine vapes while never quite saying so—since the actual cause was illegal THC products. Every misleading sentence is technically true.