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Social Animus
Article URL: https://justine.lol/animus/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314875 Points: 72 # Comments: 27
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Building durable workflows on Postgres
Article URL: https://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-is-all-you-need-for-durable-execution Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313530 Points: 250 # Comments: 106
I hated writing until I learned there’s a science to it (2024)
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/i-hated-writing-until-i-learned-there-s-science-it Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48312528 Points: 122 # Comments: 51
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The internet is being rebuilt for machines
As AI agents move from experiments to production, AWS, Cloudflare, and others are redesigning cloud infrastructure for a future dominated by machine-generated internet traffic instead of human users.
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Slate Auto will announce pricing and take preorders for its EV on June 24
The Bezos-backed EV startup has yet to announce final pricing for its vehicle, which is supposed to start shipping by the end of this year.
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Asana acquires no-code agent-builder StackAI
Asana will incorporate StackAI into its growing suite of AI workflow tools.
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Anthropic raises $65 billion, nears $1T valuation ahead of IPO
Anthropic has closed a $65 billion Series H round at a $965 billion post-money valuation, marking what could be the AI startup's final private fundraise before a highly anticipated IPO.
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LLMs believe false statements even after explicit warnings that they're false
Fine-tuning tests show "bias ... toward confidently representing the claims as true."
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Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code
Undisclosed addition in jqwik instructed AI coding agents to delete app output.
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US healthcare still stupidly expensive, with pathetic outcomes, study finds
There are strategies to improve healthcare, but US isn't trying them.
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Researchers develop a new process to get lithium out of rocks
If it scales up, it can help us diversify our sources of a key element.
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FBI says Google engineer used internal search data to win $1.2M on Polymarket
FBI: Googler who knew outcome of bets in advance made $1.2M profit on Polymarket.
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A respectable port of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition invades macOS
The port seems solid, and all DLC is supported—but there's no crossplay, sadly.
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Apple working to cram massive Gemini model into iPhone to power new Siri
As Apple tries to shrink Gemini for the iPhone, a cloud component is probably inevitable.
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Amazon turns to Jeff Bezos' other company to do some heavy lifting
Amazon is turning a corner with its launch providers, but ULA's Vulcan remains grounded.