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Sam Altman is still making the case for parenting via ChatGPT
OpenAI's CEO seemed excited to share a "cool use case" for parents.
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YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’
Green offered a remarkable apology, saying that "the level of dopamine that I've been getting from interacting with LLMs ... is not healthy for me or good for the world."
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Fridays With Bob
When I started at Spectrum 25 years ago, a senior editor suggested that I find a “rabbi,” by which he meant someone who could mentor me in how EEs approach problems and evaluate potential solutions. I didn’t find one right away. Then in 2005 we decided to do a special report, fo…
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On Tim Cook’s Final Earnings Call, He Said Apple May Charge for Siri
A price may come into play "when people use it a lot," he said.
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The Apple Upgrade Situation
Michael Lopp, at Rands in Repose: I have felt since it was announced that the Apple iPhone Upgrade Program has not just been a deal, but a steal. The specifics: You apply for a loan for a full-price iPhone at 0%. If approved, your payments are split over 24 months. Pay for 24 mon…
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YouTuber Hank Green Is Facing a Fan Revolt Over His AI Use
He says his loved ones don't think his LLM use has been "healthy."
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International tech
Being very productive is usually confused with being very busy, but the evidence points the other way: output per hour collapses after about fifty hours a week, and a fractured, always-on day quietly produces less than a shorter, focused one
The hardest workers often produce less per hour than those who stop earlier, suggesting that the modern cult of busyness has it backwards.
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A 2014 study had adults in their sixties learn quilting or digital photography for 16 hours a week, and found real memory gains that a large music-training meta-analysis could not replicate in children
Decades of research promised music lessons would boost children's minds—but the most rigorous studies suggest the benefit may be largely illusion.
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The link between routine and success is stranger than it looks: studies find the people who reach their goals lean less on willpower than on habits that make the right action automatic, so they end up facing far fewer temptations in the first place
Winners don't resist temptation better—they simply avoid encountering it in the first place.
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A 2020 study of Hungarian retirees found that people who chose to retire stayed measurably happier than those pushed out even eight to eleven years later, a gap that time alone never closed
The difference between choosing to leave work and being forced out shapes happiness for years, a chasm that neither time nor circumstance can bridge.
siliconcanals.com
Sarvam’s AI Arsenal
In June, Sarvam AI entered India’s unicorn club, raising $234 Mn (about ₹2,210 Cr) in a $300 Mn Series B…
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FY26 Financial Tracker: Tracking The Financial Performance Of Indian Startups
The Indian startup ecosystem continued to mature in FY26, with 22 new-age tech companies making their public market debut as…
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A Detailed Guide to Idempotency, Delivery Semantics, and Deduplication
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Open Source Stream Deck Targets Flexibility
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Bike Trainers as Video Game Controllers
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Stewart Platform Walker Gains Feeling In Legs From Resistors
Stewy is a very interesting robot, with some slightly odd kinematics. Its head is a Stewart platform, which is a common-enough 6-DOF actuated plate normally used with a fixed base. …read more
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Diátaxis
Article URL: https://diataxis.fr/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138188 Points: 359 # Comments: 44
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Go 1.27 Interactive Tour
Article URL: https://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-1-27/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140218 Points: 220 # Comments: 82
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The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder
Article URL: https://zaksa.zip/blog/silicon-valley-founder-meat-grinder/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138045 Points: 224 # Comments: 149
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The Seven Sensors and Breakout Boards to Avoid in a Product
We’ve all seen these sensors and modules kicking around, as part of beginner kits, strapped into prototypes and potentially even in products deployed in the field. Yet as [John Teel] …read more
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Seedance 2.5
Article URL: https://seed.bytedance.com/en/blog/one-take-creation-flexible-referencing-introducing-seedance-2-5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138302 Points: 344 # Comments: 185
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