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Let’s talk about that moment when AI output shows up unsolicited in a human interaction. It happens a bit too much for my taste. What should the etiquette be? I...

Let’s talk about that moment when AI output shows up unsolicited in a human interaction. It happens a bit much for my taste. What should the etiquette be? I’ve...

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-ceo-altman-defends-pentagon-work-to-staff-calls-backlash-really-painful-76d769ec Comments URL: https://news.ycom...

Overview Built this because people working with large document sets had no free tool that handled batch processing cleanly. Features - Tesseract is free and ru...

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/coruna-iphone-hacking-toolkit-us-government/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237692 Points: 134 Co...

Update We're seeing recovery across all services. We're continuing to monitor for full recovery. Posted Mar 03, 2026 – 20:06 UTC Update Actions is operating no...

U.S. TAXPAYER DOLLARS · LIVE ESTIMATE Live Estimate Overview - Operation Epic Fury — Estimated U.S. Cost Since Strikes Began: $0 - Daily Burn Rate Breakdown – T...

Another day, another Github outage. Files are not loading, cannot create repos, etc. Comments on Hacker Newshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237018 Points...

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> “A significantly smaller team, using the tools we’re building, can do more and do it better.” > – Jack Dorsey, announcing 4,000 layoffs at Block, February 202...

Front‑Seat Insights One of the small advantages of riding in the front seat of a Cuenca taxi, apart from the superior view of traffic misdemeanors and roadside...

The Hidden Cost of Card Payments vs. QR‑Based Payments in Ecuador One of the small advantages of riding in the front seat of a Cuenca taxi, apart from the supe...

Introduction Andy Warhol famously said: > “What’s great about this country is that the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You ca...

Today, we’re releasing an update to ChatGPT’s most‑used model that makes everyday conversations more consistently helpful and fluid. GPT‑5.3 Instant delivers mo...

Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost native In 'Why is Claude an Electron App?'https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/02/21/why-is-claude-an-electron-app.html D...

Background Until now, current chair of the Federal Communications Commission Brendan Carr has mostly been in the news for his role in weaponizing the FCC to se...

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Video My first science video in 3 years Physics Girlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3m3AMRlYfc Discussion Hacker News commentshttps://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Physics Girl: Super‑Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3m3AMRlYfc Hacker News discussion: Commentshttps:/...

The Florida Board of Governors, which oversees the state’s university system, approved a freeze on Monday that pauses hiring new faculty through the federal H‑1...

The Core Problem You can't manually QA an AI agent. When you ship a new prompt, swap a model, or add a tool, it's hard to know whether the agent still behaves...

Background Identity and age verification are becoming increasingly common policy discussions worldwide. Often these measures are tied to proposals that would b...

Over drinks a few weeks ago, a friend told me he'd been offered a promotion to an Engineering Manager role. He planned to decline it, but wanted to hear my take...

Over drinks a few weeks ago, a friend told me he'd been offered a promotion to an Engineering Manager role. He planned to decline it, but wanted to hear my take...