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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 715 posts.
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How Singapore's government-run dating service works
Here are the 30+ questions in the matchmaking tool that Singapore is deploying on government workers.
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AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it
Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye from Berkeley Haas School of Business report initial findings in the HBR from their April to December 2025 study of 200 employees at a …
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Getting arrested in Japan
This is what happens when you get arrested in Japan and where you're sent off to will leave you speechless.
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Don't make me talk to your chatbot
It's fine that people talk to chatbots, but they shouldn't expect me to listen to theirs.
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The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic
Anthropic faces a Friday deadline to allow domestic surveillance and automated killer robots.
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Giving university exams in the age of chatbots
Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
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More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke
Answering questions and concerns.
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Global Intelligence Crisis
A Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future
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The room the economy can't see
(This post is written mostly by Claude, you can tell that it isn’t in the same voice as my other work, but it has notes of it. All the personal anecdotes are still from my life, and it’s interesting that this is one of my most popular posts of all time. Go figure. Also Interesting: […]
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FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap
FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels highlights open source, European digital sovereignty, BSD, Linux, community innovation, and free software.
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The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books
I was a pretty avid reader as a kid, but as I transitioned to adulthood, my ability to focus on the written page withered. It seems I’m not alone: PISA reports reveal unprecedented drops in reading ability , professors in elite universities claim that humanities students can’t finish books , and looking around me, it…
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The insecure evangelism of LLM maximalists
I just can't help feeling these training wheels are getting in the way of my bicycle commute.
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The two Christian saints who are the Buddha
Let me tell you the story of saints Barlaam and Josaphat of India. A king named Abenner, who persecutes Christians, hears from his court astrologers that his son will attain great power and rule ov…
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No country for mediocre mathematicians
White lies of AI from a struggling geometer
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GitHub and the crime against software
An investigation into collapse of Github and how the decay of our tech infrastructure is a crime against software. Detailed comparisons of Github, Gitlab, Codeberg, and more from a distributed systems and software performance expert.
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Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective
Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive: In retrospect, he said, the “trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn’t really accelerated in the way that we expected,” and that the company’s bets on the new structure “haven’t come to fruition yet.”
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The "AI agent hit piece" situation clarifies how dumb we are acting
Edit: related blog published Feb 22 – Openclaw is Spam, Like Any Other Automated Email My personal blog here is dedicated to tech geek material, mostly about databases like postgres. I don…
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Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure of the complex numbers (2024)
I discuss several commonly held perspectives on the complex numbers and explore how their differences engage with several aspects of structuralism in the philosophy of mathematics.
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The tech monoculture is finally breaking
A personal look at the return of excitement in technology, from the gadgets of the 1990s to AI tools and a break from the tech monoculture.
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Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails
The US House reading Dutch emails shows digital sovereignty is about who can access data, not just where it is stored.
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Punch yourself in the face with reality
Who can punch themselves in the face with reality the most? This is who will win in the age of AI.
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Communities are not fungible
Why we can’t go home again
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The advertising cartel coming to your web browser
The three companies (along with Mozilla, which is on one of their “ad features in the browser” kicks again) are drawing up a built-in advertising measurement system, called Attribution Level 1 , as a standard feature of web browsers. The system is intended to measure the effectiveness of advertising by enabling…
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Grief and the AI split
TL;DR: AI-assisted coding is revealing a split among developers that was always there but invisible when we all worked the same way. I've felt the grief too—but mine resolved differently than I expected, and I think that says something about what kind of developer I've been all along.
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The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs?
A 4-year study of 100 successful blogs reveals how Google's updates and AI transformed blogging. See which sites survived and which disappeared.
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What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025
Throughout 2025, I spoke a few times about our home energy solution, including our grid usage, our solar array and our Tesla Powerwall batteries. Now that I have a full year of data, I wanted to take a look at exactly how everything is working out, and, in alignment with