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AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics
AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics, boosting the economy, and beginning to approach the railroad boom
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 949 posts.
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How to be a leader when the vibes are off
...and the vibes are definitely off It feels different in tech right now. We’re coming off a long era where optimism carried the industry. Something has curdled. AI hype, return-to-office mandates, and continued layoffs have shifted the mood. Managers are quicker to fire, existential dread has replaced
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Cerebras launches Qwen3-235B, achieving 1.5k tokens per second
Cerebras powers the world's fastest AI inference on the biggest wafer chip. Cerebras CS-4 delivers up to 30x faster inference than GPUs.
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Tokens are getting more expensive
"language models will get cheaper by 10x" will not save ai subscriptions from the short squeeze
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A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z
A friend made me aware of a reading list from A16Z containing recommendations for books, weighted towards science fiction since that’s mostly what people there read.
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Stop selling “unlimited”, when you mean “until we change our minds”
Claude Code joins the AI pricing bait-and-switch
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Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO
It is more important than ever that the social web is not controlled by corporations. Today, Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership. We're transferring ownership of key assets to a new European not-for-profit entity, ensuring our mission remains true to a…
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The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks
Wealth inequality is driving the economy.
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Kurt Got Got
The night we spent without control of our Twitter account.
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How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer
Many software engineers are fatalistic about company politics. They believe that it’s pointless to get involved, because: Technical decisions are often made for…
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Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3
From chatbots to agents
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Evidence that AI is destroying jobs for young people
A big nerd debate with bigger implications for the future of work, technology, and the economy
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The side hustle from hell
11 months in The Side Hustle From Hell
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Goodbye, Slopify
There’s no way I’m going to continue a subscription to a streaming service that suggests AI-generated music with AI-generated album covers. A bloated, Electron-based desktop application with a terrible UI is only going to add up.
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IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products
IKEA is launching 21 new smart home products focusing on lighting, sensors, and control — all built to work with Matter, the universal smart home standard. A significant step in making smart home technology easier to use, more affordable, and better adapted to real-life needs in the home.
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Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell Ecosia (2018)
Because we believe that the world would be a better place if more businesses were driven by a meaningful cause instead of greed.
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Waymos crash less than human drivers
Human drivers keep crashing into Waymos that aren't even moving.
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Business co-founders in tech startups are less valuable than they think
This is Verdi's personal website. He writes about interesting ideas or projects.
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LLMs are cheap
A lot of people think LLMs are expensive to operate. That was true a couple of years ago, but these people haven't updated their views after an approximately 1000x reduction in prices over two years.
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BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024)
Silent changes in payment methods on big creator funding platforms raise some unpleasant questions.
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Abundance isn't going to happen unless politicians are scared of the status quo
It’s A Race Between Building Up and Burning Down
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A $1k AWS mistake
A cautionary tale about AWS VPC networking, NAT Gateways, and how a missing VPC Endpoint turned our S3 data transfers into an expensive lesson.
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Sam Altman’s DRAM Deal
Or: How the AI Bubble, Panic, and Unpreparedness Stole ChristmasWritten by Tom of Moore’s Law Is DeadSpecial Assistance by KarbinCry & kari-no-sugataBased on this Video: https://youtu.be/BORRBce5TGwIntroduction — The Day the RAM Market SnappedAt the beginning of November, I ordered a 32GB DDR5 kit for pairing with a…
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MrBeast Failed to Disclose Ads and Improperly Collected Children's Data
The Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) recommended MrBeast update advertising and data collection practices.
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Our Farewell from Google Play
Our project started in 2016 with the goal of offering alternatives to apps with basic functionality that demanded – back then at install time – many permissions they did not need. From our humble beginnings with Privacy Friendly Torchlight, our apps have always been available in the Google Play Store. Our current…
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AI founders will learn the bitter lesson
Historically, general approaches always win in AI. Founders in AI application space now repeat the mistakes of AI researchers.
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FLX1s phone is launched
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What makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization (2024)
The people who create software generally refer to themselves as software engineers, and yet if they graduate from university, it is typically with a degree in computer science. That has always felt a little strange to me, because science and engineering are two pretty different disciplines – yet ...