Year: 2026

Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider

Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider

🔥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: April 2026 Against dependency cooldowns as a response to supply chain attacks Dependency cooldowns are suddenly in vogue. They have quite quickly become widely recommended and it looks like they're going to get fast-tracked into the basket of "industry standard best practices". The hope is that by just waiting N days after release before adopting a new version - instead of adopting it immediately - any surreptitiously inserted hacks will have been discovered by someone else and the bad release "yanked" (or removed). And…
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“This desire to go viral is exhausting”: Artists fed up with pressure to promote on social media | culture

“This desire to go viral is exhausting”: Artists fed up with pressure to promote on social media | culture

đź’Ą Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Culture,Music,Film,Comedy,Comedy,Games,Books,Radio,Stewart Lee,Black Country, New Road,Social media,Digital media,Twitch 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TThere was recently a meme featuring Tony Soprano looking distinctly menacing, with a caption that read: “Imagine telling him he needs to create short-form content to engage the algorithm.” But the feeling is inescapable: 82% of all internet traffic now consists of videos, and the number of short videos posted on the likes of TikTok and Instagram has risen by 71% per year from 2024.You may have noticed that there are a particularly high number of…
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Tactical Success, Strategic Failure? Washington Walks the Path to Defeat in Iran

Tactical Success, Strategic Failure? Washington Walks the Path to Defeat in Iran

🚀 Read this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Six weeks after the United States and Israel launched a war against Iran, what was the political object? Not the military means and objectives — those are the hammer, not the nail. The nail is: What condition in the world, what durable change in Iran’s relationship to the United States and its neighbors, were these strikes meant to produce? That question was never answered, because it was never seriously asked. The Trump administration confused the instrument for the purpose and then changed the purpose whenever…
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Ruby Wax: Totally Celebrity Review – A candid return to her most revealing celebrity interviews | comedy

Ruby Wax: Totally Celebrity Review – A candid return to her most revealing celebrity interviews | comedy

🔥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Comedy,Ruby Wax,Comedy,Culture,Stage,Television & radio 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WWhat are these shows in which veteran artists regale us with clips from their glorious careers, if not attempts to get another round of applause - without having to produce any new material? The virtue of Ruby Wax's contribution to the genre is that it is pointedly frank about it. In a show that's all about the thirst for fame and the celebrity experience, it seems so important. Co-hosted with her long-time TV producer, Cliff Tulloh, Undoubtedly finds Wax…
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Automate work with routines – Claude Code Docs

Automate work with routines – Claude Code Docs

🔥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Routines are in research preview. Behavior, limits, and the API surface may change. A routine is a saved Claude Code configuration: a prompt, one or more repositories, and a set of connectors, packaged once and run automatically. Routines execute on Anthropic-managed cloud infrastructure, so they keep working when your laptop is closed. Each routine can have one or more triggers attached to it: Scheduled: run on a recurring cadence like hourly, nightly, or weekly API: trigger on demand by sending an HTTP POST to a…
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Review of Blake Morrison’s Memoir – Life Writing Lessons from a Professor | Literary criticism

Review of Blake Morrison’s Memoir – Life Writing Lessons from a Professor | Literary criticism

✨ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Literary criticism,Books,Culture đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: "I“I have lived a life, as I have lived a life as a life writer,” Blake Morrison opens his book Tour the horizon It is arguably the most expansive and expansive literary genre with a flash of its credentials and an implicit call for further investigation. What constitutes life, and what does it mean to write about it? Can you write about yourself from within it?Before publishing his critically acclaimed best-selling book about his father's life and death, When Did You…
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Stop Flock

Stop Flock

✨ Discover this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: TL;DR (Summary) Flock Safety markets AI surveillance that goes far beyond reading license plates; color, bumper stickers, dents, and other features are used to build databases and identify movement patterns. These systems are spreading rapidly, often without oversight, and are accessible to police without a warrant. They raise serious privacy and legal concerns, and contribute to a nationwide trend toward mass surveillance. While this and other systems like it claim to reduce crime, there is little evidence to support that claim - and significant risk…
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Kinastasia Review – A treasure trove of early cinema’s visions and the dream lives they contain | film

Kinastasia Review – A treasure trove of early cinema’s visions and the dream lives they contain | film

🔥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Film,Documentary films,Film criticism,Silent film,Charlie Chaplin,Culture,Luis Buñuel âś… **What You’ll Learn**: touis Buñuel wrote that dreams were the first cinema. His short film Un Chien Andalou, co-written with Salvador Dali and inspired by their dreams, is nearly 100 years old, but its images still have the power to shock and disturb: a razor blade slicing an eyeball; Two rotting asses tied to a grand piano.Un Chien Andalou is one of dozens in this documentary about the influence of dreams in early cinema. The film is directed by Gerald…
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Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome

Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome

✨ Read this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: People are using AI in Chrome to help them get more done on the web — whether that’s answering questions, comparing information or clarifying concepts.Until now, repeating an AI task — like asking for ingredient substitutions to make a recipe vegan — meant re-entering the same prompt as you visited different pages. To make this easier, we’re launching Skills in Chrome, which lets you save and reuse your most helpful AI prompts and run them with a single click.Build your own one-click workflowsWhen you write…
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“Such a display for the water cooler!” Jane Krakowski on the Ally McBeal show – and life as the world’s biggest scene stealer | platform

“Such a display for the water cooler!” Jane Krakowski on the Ally McBeal show – and life as the world’s biggest scene stealer | platform

đź’Ą Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Stage,Culture,Television,Television & radio,Film,30 Rock,Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,Broadway,Tina Fey,US television 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 'I"I've been on three TV shows that made a little difference," says Jane Krakowski. "It sounds obnoxious for me to say that, so I hope you phrase it as if you said it." Actually, I said it too: the first was Ally McBeal, from 1997 to 2002, in which she played Eileen Vassall, a titular character in a groundbreaking show. The kind of people who liked to sit around and argue about television and postmodernism…
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