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I Am Not a Reverse Centaur

đŸ”„ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: About a year ago I wrote on this blog about how coding with LLMs would not work for me, even if there were no ethical or environmental concerns preventing me to use them. I'm not going to repeat the arguments I made that time because my views on the subject haven' t changed. What has changed, however, is that the number of contributions I receive on my open source projects has gone up, and nearly all are now made with LLMs. The other day…
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‘I think about him every time I go swimming’: David Hockney remembered by Rachel Whiteread, Jeremy Deller and more | David Hockney

‘I think about him every time I go swimming’: David Hockney remembered by Rachel Whiteread, Jeremy Deller and more | David Hockney

🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: David Hockney,Art and design,Culture,Tacita Dean,Jeremy Deller,Rachel Whiteread,Helen Marten,Mark Wallinger 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Rachel Whiteread, artist: ‘It was like he was breathing art’My earliest memories of modern artists were of David Hockney, Andy Warhol and Bridget Riley. I remember seeing a TV programme about David in the 1970s as a young kid and thinking “wow, is that what being an artist is like?” Because my mum was an artist but she wasn’t anything like that!Compared with Bridget Riley, who was very sort of cool, David seemed out…
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Mistral is rumored to raise €3 billion at a €20 billion valuation

Mistral is rumored to raise €3 billion at a €20 billion valuation

🚀 Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Fundraising,In Brief,Mistral AI ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: French AI lab Mistral is in early discussions to raise about 3 billion euros ($3.5 billion), Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing anonymous sources. The funding round will value the company at approximately €20 billion (about $23.15 billion), nearly double the €11.7 billion valuation it received in its Series C funding round last September. Mistral, one of Europe's leading AI startups, launched in 2023 with a stated ambition to “put leading-edge AI into everyone's hands.” The company has taken a more open approach…
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Looking Forward to Postgres 19: It’s About Time

đŸ”„ Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Recently, a new type of question has entered the database arena: what did this data look like last Tuesday? Maybe it's the price of a product before the holiday sale kicked in, or which department an employee belonged to before that reorg nobody asked for. Short of adding an entire audit trigger system, how can we know what data looked like before and after a change at that exact date?The SQL:2011 standard formalized a proper solution over a decade ago with temporal tables. Other database…
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SpaceX starts at $150, an 11% increase from its expected debut in history

SpaceX starts at $150, an 11% increase from its expected debut in history

đŸ”„ Read this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Space,Transportation,Elon Musk,SpaceX ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: SpaceX broke ground on its first day as a public company, immediately jumping to $150 a share after it began trading on the Nasdaq, roughly 11% higher than the $135 figure it formally priced its initial public offering on Thursday. The stock's pop is no surprise. The company's IPO was four times oversubscribed, according to Bloomberg, meaning many institutional investors did not receive allocations and would likely buy shares on the open market. Demand for SpaceX is also a function of its small float,…
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Euro-Office, open standards, and native ODF

Euro-Office, open standards, and native ODF

đŸ”„ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A welcome commitment to open standards — and why it should end with ODF as Euro-Office’s native document format. The Euro-Office pre-announcement has generated considerable coverage across the European press over the past few days. The Document Foundation welcomes the attention that open standards are receiving — and welcomes still more the commitment the announcement makes to them. Before the discussion settles, we would like to clarify one point and state one expectation. Several reports have described Euro-Office as “the first European open source office…
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Elon Musk has become the world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX’s historic IPO

Elon Musk has become the world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX’s historic IPO

🚀 Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Space,Transportation,Elon Musk,SpaceX,Tesla 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire after SpaceX made its public market debut on Friday, according to Bloomberg News. The SpaceX founder and CEO owns nearly $860 billion worth of the rocket company's stock after it was priced at $135 a share before its IPO. Combined with his Tesla stake, and the immediate rise in SpaceX stock on Friday after the start of trading, that's enough to give the tech mogul - already the richest person in the world - a paper…
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Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated frontend

đŸ”„ Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated frontend Back to Blog  |  RSS  |  Atom 2026-06-12 I've been trying to make progress on a herculean task; I want decent looking programs for personal use which I can generate quickly using AI agents yet I'm a person without taste controlling an AI without taste. I found "one weird trick" that does enough for me, the results are not extra nice but it doesn't make me gag and I'll take what I can. Style of Slop…
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Crypto guys bought the answer to the CIA’s mysterious Kryptos sculpture

Crypto guys bought the answer to the CIA’s mysterious Kryptos sculpture

✹ Check out this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Business,Business / Tech Culture,Backchannel 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: On a windy day in March, artist Jim Sanborn greeted visitors at his studio on an isolated island in the Chesapeake Bay. The visitors made him sit in front of a laptop, and he wrote a secret message. They compressed the message using a unique hash function, sent it to the cloud, and wiped the laptop clean. Sanborn hoped this action would lead to his release. But did you do it?This is the latest development in the story of Kryptos, the…
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Release v0.3.0 · WebAssembly/WASI · GitHub

Release v0.3.0 · WebAssembly/WASI · GitHub

đŸ’„ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: WASI 0.3 is official, and async is now native to WebAssembly Components. The WASI Subgroup voted to ratify WASI 0.3.0, rebasing WASI onto the WebAssembly Component Model's async primitives. Most of the changes in the 0.3 interfaces are entirely mechanical. WASI 0.2 had to perform some acrobatics to make async work, but now that async is native to the component model we can write the same things we did before but much more ergonomically. Here is a overview of the patterns we were encoding in…
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