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Polymarket weather bet manipulated with a hairdryer

https://twitter.com/aaronjmars/status/204701725127...

College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work

https://sentinelcolorado.com/uncategorized/a-colle...

F-35 is built for the wrong war

https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/the-f-35-is-...

ReMarkable firing up to 40% of their workforce

https://e24.no/naeringsliv/i/ExboXl/remarkable-kut...

Income Growth over Five Generations of Americans

https://read.dukeupress.edu/demography/article/doi...

The PowerShell-Haters Handbook

https://telcontar.net/Misc/rants/PowerShell

Google Cloud customer wakes up to $18,000 bill despite $7 budget

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artific...

Bitwarden CLI NPM package has been compromised

https://opensourcemalware.com/npm/@bitwarden/cli

Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn08jy6w0l5o

Pandas feels clunky coming from R. What about Haskell?

https://mchav.github.io/being-less-clunky/

Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit

https://isaaccorbrey.com/notes/jujutsu-megamerges-...

Meta to cut 10% of jobs to 'offset' Mark Zuckerberg's AI spending

https://www.ft.com/content/fe875f6c-f45c-4dbd-9d18...

Work with the garage door up

https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Work_with_the_gara...

Not buying another Kindle

https://www.androidauthority.com/amazon-kindle-202...

The RAM shortage could last years

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligenc...

Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/world-of-warcraft/tu...

Why Japan has such good railways

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-japan-has-suc...

Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI

https://gizmodo.com/failed-companies-are-selling-o...

A Pascal's Wager for AI doomers

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/16/pascals-wager/

Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7

https://tokens.billchambers.me/leaderboard

Wealth doesn't trickle down – it just floods offshore, research reveals (2012)

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/jul/21/o...

The Story of Mel (1983)

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html

Nobody got fired for Uber's $8M ledger mistake?

https://news.alvaroduran.com/p/nobody-got-fired-fo...

Google says 75% of the company's new code is AI-generated

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ai-generate...

Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data

https://github.com/drasimwagan/mdv

Optimizing Tail Sampling in OpenTelemetry with Retroactive Sampling

https://victoriametrics.com/blog/kubecon-eu-2026-s...

NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/04/any-...

Meta Tells Staff It Will Cut 10% of Jobs in Push for Efficiency

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-23...

Tim Cook Calls Apple Maps Launch His 'First Big Mistake' as CEO

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/23/tim-cook-appl...

Fields Medal Video: Maryna Viazovska (2022)

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2022/07/05/fields...