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The Amazon tax | 147

The Amazon tax

seths.blog

The Amazon tax | Seth's Blog

Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) | 113

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

rickmanelius.com

AI;DR (AI; Didn’t Read) - Rick Manelius's Newsletter

I'm about as pro-AI as you can be, but this is becoming a pet peeve of mine (and I'm not alone). That's why I love the AI;DR acronym as my new solution for ignoring the walls of slop.

Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots | 74

responsiblestatecraft.org

Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots | Responsible Statecraft

In just over a week, the Hanover Institute has published at least 100 articles that appear tailor-made to influence chatbots

Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study | 84

Doctor-Patient_AS636914592
ysph.yale.edu

Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects | Yale School of Public Health

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

Incident with Github.com | 2

githubstatus.com

GitHub Status - Incident with GitHub.com

GitHub's Status Page - Incident with GitHub.com.

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0 | 52

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

duckdb.org

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0 – DuckDB

DuckDB v2.0 is coming this fall. In this post, we preview its headline features: DuckDB as a server, triggers, the VARIANT type, asynchronous I/O, a new SQL parser, a new storage format, and much more.

How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots | 73

timmarinin.net

How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

The secret is humble UITextField.

Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub 134

Github has been down consistently over the last few months - does it make sense to switch to alternatives? [dhruv3006]

news.ycombinator.com

Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

Github has been down consistently over the last few months - does it make sense to switch to alternatives?

OpenLogi | 47

OpenLogi

OpenLogi — a native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+
openlogi.org

OpenLogi

A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust. Remap buttons, drive DPI and SmartShift over HID++ — no account, no telemetry.

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter | 61

openrouter.ai

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter

Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months | 62

Corsair DDR4 RAM
tomshardware.com

Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices — 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399 | Tom's Hardware

Analysis of historical price data trends indicates that the memory crisis has driven RAM prices to never-before-seen heights.

Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit | 52

theregister.com

Google buys crashed airline Spirit’s data at auction, because AI

$10 million buys over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, reams of stuff from Teams, Oracle, and SAP

Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative | 106

cursor.com

Origin Code Hosting · Cursor

Incident with Github.com [resolved] | 181

Incident with Github.com [resolved]

Just got this message: "No server is currently available to service your request. Sorry about that. Please try refreshing and contact us if the problem persists."

Edit: at the time of posting there was not an incident on githubstatus.com. Now there is. https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx

Original Title: "Tell HN: GitHub Is Overloaded" [SpyCoder77]

githubstatus.com

GitHub Status - Incident with GitHub.com

GitHub's Status Page - Incident with GitHub.com.

Beware Management Consultants | 33

Beware Management Consultants

about.iceland.co.uk

Beware management consultants – About Iceland

Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM | 25

pixelcluster.dev

VRAM Management Part 2: Beyond the Limits of Physical VRAM | pixelcluster's GPU blog

Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full | 36

fabiensanglard.net

Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full

Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner | 41

philo.gay

Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner

AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira | 34

wiz.io

AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira

Fixing a bricked Framework laptop | 48

Fixing a bricked Framework laptop

quantum5.ca

Fixing a bricked AMD 7040 series Framework 13” laptop with $20 tools | Quantum

My experience fixing my Framework 13” laptop with AMD 7060 series that was bricked due to a failed BIOS update with US$20 worth of tools, instead of replacing the motherboard as suggested by Framework support.

Fairphone is now officially available in the United States | 24

fairphone.com

The Fairphone (Gen. 6+) is all about giving you more

The Fairphone (Gen. 6+) is here. With more power under the hood, a brand-new color, and more software features, it's everything you love about Fairphone. Plus more.

Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis | 39

Model intelligence, performance, and price analysis
artificialanalysis.ai

Qwen3.8 27B - Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis

Analysis of Alibaba's Qwen3.8 27B and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (tokens per second & time to first token), context window & more.

GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released | 62

blog.roboflow.com

GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

GPT-5.6 Sol is OpenAI’s strongest vision model yet. We tested Sol, Terra, and Luna across detection, counting, OCR, and extraction, then compared their results, speed, and cost with leading VLMs.

Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation 29

bfi.uchicago.edu

Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation

How does IKEA come up with names for its products? | 49

ikea.com

How does IKEA come up with names for its products? - IKEA Sweden

Sweden - The product names of IKEA may sound strange even to us Swedish speakers. In other parts of the world, they are basically incomprehensible, but fun! He

How to disable or avoid intrusive AI | 23

How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

librarian.net

How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway | 34

Alert about fire risk in the UK.
shkspr.mobi

And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway – Terence Eden’s Blog

In early February 2011 Egypt was in the middle of a political revolution. One morning, everyone's phones suddenly pinged with an alert. The Armed Forces asks Egypt's honest and loyal men to confront the traitors and criminals and protect our people and honour and our precious Egypt. A series of messages arrived all ostensibly from the network provider Vodafone. All pro-regime and all with the…

An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail | 68

moddedbear.com

An Update on Leaving Gmail for Fastmail | moddedbear.com

It's been a few months since my post on leaving Gmail which sparked a lot of discussion on Hacker News. Here's an update on how things have been going after my move to Fastmail.

Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers | 33

asmedigitalcollection.asme.org

Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers

GitHub down again? no PR access 2

Githubstatus.com currently says everything is working, but it isn't [yodon]

news.ycombinator.com

GitHub down again? no PR access

Githubstatus.com currently says everything is working, but it isn't