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A Sick People
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42m ago
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U.S. REMOVES IRAN-RELATED SANCTIONS -TREASURY WEBSITE
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BURRY WARNS OF 1987-STYLE RISK "Big Short" investor Michael Burry warned markets could be nearing a major top, saying a 1987-style crash remains possible. However, he noted that the S&P 500's recent record highs are likely to attract fresh investor money, potentially extending
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Iowa-led states ask OpenAI to keep their bots on a leash
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1h ago
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Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)
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2h ago
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i’ve just had my first real taste of the singularity and i have to say, truly exhilarating. math isn’t the only thing that will fall this year.
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Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
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30m ago
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What are you guys using to let your agent spawn other agents? I.e. NOT subagents, but to open more tmux/herdr panes, or claude agents? I have a /claude-handoff skill which I use a LOT, and I'm debating making it into /spawn /spawn would detect what tool you use (tmux/cmux etc)
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mattpocock/skills v1.2 is out! We're now the 19th most-starred repo of all time. 13.5m downloads on skills​.sh. Thanks for your support! Here's what's new: - Docs: the community's biggest ask. Every skill documented, with explanations of the main flows + troubleshooting - Clau
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Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking
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3h ago
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TRUMP SIGNALS IRAN PROGRESS, WARNS OF STRIKES President Trump said US officials are holding "very good" talks with Iran and suggested a Strait of Hormuz agreement could come as early as today. However, he warned the US would hit Iran "really hard" if Tehran backs away from a de
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No Data Centers in My Backyard
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STRAIT OF HORMUZ DRAFT DEAL AWAITS FINAL APPROVAL Regional officials told AP that Iranian and Omani negotiators have finalized a draft agreement on the Strait of Hormuz, pending approval from Iran's Supreme Leader. The proposed deal is a temporary measure to ease US-Iran shippi
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$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
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1h ago
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this has been resolved now. if you're still seeing errors (particularly the 503 one) please let me know think today is going to be an insane token volume day
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Universities would prefer no AI
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56m ago
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Position: LLMs Can't Jump
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3h ago
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This didn't really work. A passive instruction never does that much to alter output tone. So I'm shipping a new skill in v1.2: /wait-what For when you have no clue what the agent is saying
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$SPCX - SPACEX FACES $101B SHARE UNLOCK SpaceX investors are bracing for volatility as $101 billion worth of shares become eligible for trading on Thursday, more than doubling the stock's public float. The unprecedented nine-stage lockup expiry comes after a sharp post-earning
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Helsinki Hacker News Meetup
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5h ago
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Delighted to announce @JensenHuang as the first confirmed speaker for the @TomorrowXSummit and even happier that I will be interviewing him. We will have Chicken Fried Steak at the summit. Sawyer’s is my favorite place in Austin but we will of course have Denny’s.
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SPOT GOLD EXTENDS GAINS, RISES NEARLY 4% TO $4,238.29/OZ
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TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In
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1h ago
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US-IRAN DEAL ODDS REMAIN UNCERTAIN A senior Gulf official told CNN there is a 50:50 chance the US and Iran reach a deal by Friday, despite President Trump suggesting an agreement is close. Trump said talks were progressing well but warned the US would strike Iran "really hard"
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As of 8:40 am ET, El-Sayed’s lead had tightened to fewer than 15,000 votes in the state after more votes came in from Wayne and Oakland counties. cnn.com/2026/08/04/politics/…
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Some people are surprised that APIs (aka what Anthropic, OpenAI, and others provide) are treated differently than open weights in the new AI model framework. I'm not surprised at all, and it's actually very good policy. Let me explain: Model weights, APIs, and apps are three v
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Could psilocybin be the key to treating anorexia?
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2h ago
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I gave codex a video-enabled remote KVM so it can automate e2e test the iMessage-integration on OpenClaw. (iMessage is unreliable in VMs, and certain features such as read receipts require SIP to be disabled)
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The software group Palantir paid just £2M in corporation tax in the UK in 2024
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Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI
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ISRAEL MILITARY SAYS IT BEGUN CONDUCTING STRIKES IN SOUTHERN LEBANON IN RESPONSE TO A 'BLATANT VIOLATION' OF CEASEFIRE BY HEZBOLLAH
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The evidence of the impact of AI chatbots on loneliness is still really unclear & depends on the chatbot approach. This new study finds AI conversations increase loneliness, but previous published experiments find significant reduction or ambiguous results depending on usage.
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*US S&P JULY SERVICES PMI AT 54.6 VS 51.2 PRIOR *US S&P JULY COMPOSITE PMI AT 54.5 VS 51.9 PRIOR
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*US JULY ISM SERVICES PMI RISES TO 54.1 FROM 54; EST. 54.5
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ANTHROPIC BUILDS CUSTOM AI CHIPS FOR CLAUDE Anthropic has confirmed it is building an in-house chip team to design custom AI processors for Claude, aiming to boost speed, efficiency and scalability. The company will co-design hardware and AI models while continuing to rely on c
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$AAPL - APPLE RAMPS UP FOR NEXT IPHONE Bank of America reiterated its Buy rating and $380 price target after Apple's purchase commitments surged 28% to $57 billion, signaling an iPhone production ramp and component stockpiling ahead of the next launch. Apple also warned of chip
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The S&P 500 closed at an all-time high yesterday for the first time since June 2. This was its 25th all-time high of the year and 121st all-time high since the start of 2024.
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'I want to rejoin the EU Brexit has been a disaster' – Andy Burnham
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I think this worked!
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64% of Young Men Who Trade Stocks Daily Feel Like Failures.. A new study found that daily stock trading is highly correlated with demoralization in young men, with 64% of men aged 18-29 who trade stocks daily reporting feelings of failure (via Family Studies, a pro-marriage think
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Okay this was cute the first time but now we've missed 3 releases in a row because of some arbitrary rate limit to publishing releases? This is obnoxious. Anyone at Github down to bump us?
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GOLDMAN STICKS TO PAYROLL FORECAST Goldman Sachs maintained its 75,000 July nonfarm payroll forecast despite a weaker-than-expected ADP report showing just 44,000 private-sector jobs were added. The bank said ADP has had a weak correlation with official payroll data in recent y
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DeepSeek V4 Flash is Ollama's fastest growing model ever in token usage, and the most popular model on OpenRouter this week. It’s available in Pi across a range of providers. If you’ve never tried an open weight model in an open source harness, this is a good time to start.
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TSON – A JSON superset with immutable, hash-pinned schemas
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26m ago
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Shipping v1.2 of the skills today Let's go
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Silicon Valley sees AI as the solution – for everyone else
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The Russian Wildberries distribution center in Aleksin was completely destroyed in an overnight Ukrainian drone attack. Raging fires gutted the structure.
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The journalist taking on the 'tech fascists' of Silicon Valley
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$AVGO
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$NVDA - NVIDIA SHARES HIT HIGHEST IN OVER TWO MONTHS, LAST UP 4.3%
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