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My thanks for WorkOS for, once again, sponsoring Daring Fireball for the last week. If you’re ready to sell to enterprise customers, your product may be ready — but is your auth infrastructure? If you’re building B2B SaaS, especially AI, you quickly need enterprise features like …
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Anthropic says ‘evil’ portrayals of AI were responsible for Claude’s blackmail attempts
Fictional portrayals of artificial intelligence can have a real effect on AI models, according to Anthropic.
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‘Matrix Resurrections’ Lawsuit Ends With a $57 Million Payout for Warner Bros.
A yearslong legal battle against Village Roadshow over 'The Matrix Resurrections' sees Warner Bros. now substantially richer.
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iBuyPower’s Trace X Gaming PC Is the Fishbowl You Want to Swim In
At this point, buying a prebuilt PC may cost the same as building it yourself.
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Meta to Start Capturing Employee Mouse Movements, Keystrokes for AI Training Data
Katie Paul and Jeff Horwitz, reporting for Reuters in late April: Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and ​keystrokes for use in training its artificial intelligence models, part of a broad initiative to b…
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We’re feeling cynical about xAI’s big deal with Anthropic
On the latest episode of the Equity podcast, we discussed what xAI's deal with Anthropic might mean for parent company SpaceX.
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Adult children who feel almost nothing on routine calls with a parent — not love, not irritation, not connection, just dutiful neutrality — aren’t emotionally numb, they’re correctly registering that the relationship was never quite built, and the absence of feeling is the body’s honest report on a closeness that was assigned rather than developed
The parent is talking. Something about a neighbor, or the weather, or a doctor’s appointment that went fine. The adult child, on the other end of the line, is making the appropriate sounds at the appropriate intervals. *Mm. Right. Oh, that’s good.* The voice on the other end keep…
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Can Bhavish Aggarwal Drag Ola Krutrim Out Of The Rut?
In June 2023, on a visit to India, OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman said Indian startups looking to build…
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Psychology suggests that the loneliest moment in midlife isn’t a holiday or an anniversary — it’s a regular Wednesday afternoon when you realize you don’t actually know who in your life would notice if you went quiet for a week, and the realization arrives so calmly that it takes another few weeks to admit it counts as something worth grieving
The loneliest moment in midlife, for many people, does not arrive on a holiday. It does not arrive on an anniversary. It does not arrive at any of the dates the culture has earmarked as occasions when loneliness is, in some sense, expected and therefore prepared for. It arrives, …
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Indian Startup IPO Tracker 2026
Dalal Street emerged as a founder’s paradise in 2025, with 18 Indian startups listing on the bourses and collectively mopping…
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Psychology suggests that adult children who are the most loyal to their parents in late life are often the ones who never quite became close to them — the loyalty is the substitute for the closeness that didn’t form, and the visits, the calls, the careful attention are sometimes a daughter’s way of paying for an intimacy that was supposed to have been included
Research on adult children caring for aging parents consistently finds that caregiving satisfaction is not predicted by the volume of care provided. It is predicted, instead, by the quality of the underlying relationship — by whether the caregiver feels recognized within a bond t…
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Psychology says the cruelest thing about being raised by a narcissistic but charming parent isn’t anything they did at home — it’s the structural impossibility of being believed by anyone outside the house, and a child who learns early that the world will never see what they see grows into an adult who has stopped trying to be understood by people who weren’t there
She is nine years old, standing at her teacher’s desk after school, trying to explain why she didn’t want to go home. The teacher listens with the soft, patient face teachers use when they think a child is being dramatic. Then the teacher says, kindly, that she met the girl’s mot…
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Why You Probably Shouldn’t DIY a Car Airbag
Car airbags are both a very simple concept and a marvel of engineering, replacing the bone-shattering impact of unforgiving plastic and steel with a relatively soft landing in a funky-smelling …read more
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Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES
Article URL: https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/03/incident-report-cve-2024-yikes.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086082 Points: 239 # Comments: 62
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Multimaterial SLA Printer Will Make Your Head Spin
For the last few years, the must-have feature that companies are competing to show off on their filament deposition 3D printers is multi-material printing. Be it tool swapping or a …read more
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Speech Jammer Gets Jammed Up
This project is perhaps the single most passive-aggressive thing we’ve ever seen on this site: rather than tell someone directly to ‘shut up’, [Blytical]’s speech jammer lets you hack their …read more
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Tracing Olfactory Receptor Mapping Between the Nose and Brain
The way that the sense of smell works is that olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) are wired up to olfactory receptors (ORs) in the nasal epithelium, from which they send signals …read more
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Become an AI Engineer | Enrollment Ends Soon
Our 6th cohort of Becoming an AI Engineer starts in about a week.
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EP214: Claude Code vs. OpenClaw: 5 Design Dimensions
Both are highly capable, but they have key architectural differences.
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Space Cadet Pinball on Linux
Article URL: https://brennan.io/2026/05/09/pinball-and-escrow/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48082968 Points: 285 # Comments: 97
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Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler
Article URL: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116550899908879585 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086190 Points: 487 # Comments: 151
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