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Single file Gleam BEAM programs with escript

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Gleam is a type safe and scalable language for the Erlang virtual machine and JavaScript runtimes. Today Gleam v1.17.0 has been published. Gleam Gathering But first: the first videos from the first ever all-Gleam conference have been released! You can view them on the Gleam Gathering YouTube account. The event was a roaring success and loads of fun. Stay tuned for news of the next one in 2027! Right, back to the release coverage. BEAM escripts When running on the Erlang virtual machine Gleam code…

Everand’s startup is now bringing together e-books, audiobooks and book clubs in a challenge to Amazon

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,Media & Entertainment,Social,Startups,TC,audiobooks,books,ebooks,everand,fable,reading 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Audiobook, eBook, or both? Now, you won't have to choose. Scribd Everand-owned reading subscription service wants to make choice unnecessary. On Tuesday, the company removed the wraps of a combined subscription that combines Everand's catalog of more than 1.5 million audiobooks and e-books with the social book club app Fable, which Everand acquired in 2025, into a single plan, directly challenging Amazon's dominance in digital reading. The new subscription is available to the two apps' combined 5 million readers, and provides access…

My thoughts after using Clojure for about a month

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🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I am now generating this website with Clojure (yes, right after rewriting it in GNU Make and shell; I have a problem, ok?). In a personal tradition, I used writing a static site generator as the project to play with and learn Clojure as a new language. While I’ve long scoffed at Clojure for its copious syntax (three types of brackets!?), it turns out to be pretty ergonomic and powerful. Here are my impressions after playing around with Clojure for about a month. More…

Microsoft’s new tool lets developers run AI behavior tests using textual descriptions

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,ai evaluations,AI regression testing,Microsoft 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: AI researchers and labs have progressed rapidly in evaluating AI models for everything from safety and compliance to flatness and alignment. But companies and developers appear to be facing a new, specific need: ensuring that their AI system behaves as intended for their specific product or service. In an effort to make this testing process simpler, Microsoft on Tuesday took the wraps off ASSERT, which stands for Adaptive Spec-driven Scoreing for Evaluation and Regression Testing. Microsoft says the open source framework…

CT Scans of the EV You Can’t Buy in America

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✨ Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Design to RealityEvolution of the Plastic BottleIn the dark nights of my soul, I fret about how inconsistently engineered my life is. The coffee table I made a year or two ago was intended to look like the dining room table I built a few years earlier, but in reality the two bear only a vague resemblance to each other. Open a drawer of my tool chest at random, and perhaps you’ll find a thematically-aligned collection of well-loved hand tools, meticulously cut into a nest…

Cyberdecks is having a moment, and it’s rejecting big tech surveillance with style and substance

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Hardware,Gadgets,Exclusive,cyberdeck ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: When I reached out to the self-proclaimed “open source villain” CC for an interview, I was pretty sure she was going to email me from her pink mermaid wallet. “I'm having a lot of fun,” she told me of her online shell. "It's a Tamagotchi device. It's also an e-reader. It's connected to a network with my vault and my servers, so it has access to all my server data, which has all my PDFs and books and notes and everything...and it's also connected to…

The advertising cartel coming to your web browser

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🔥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: When Meta, Google and Apple agree on a “privacy” feature, watch out. The three companies (along with Mozilla, which is on one of their “ad features in the browser” kicks again) are drawing up a built-in advertising measurement system, called Attribution Level 1, as a standard feature of web browsers. The system is intended to measure the effectiveness of advertising by enabling advertisers to correlate “impressions,” the occasions on which someone saw an ad, with “conversions,” when people bought something. Don’t look for a section…

Uber caps employee spending on artificial intelligence after going over budget in four months

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🔥 Discover this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Anthropic,claude code,Uber ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: AI has become expensive, and some companies are scaling back its use in an attempt to cut costs. This group includes Uber, which recently set internal usage caps as a way to reduce its costly spending on artificial intelligence. Bloomberg reports that the company has instituted a new rule that sets a monthly limit of $1,500 per employee and per proxy encryption tool, including Anthropic's Claude Code, or Cursor. Usage can be tracked through an internal dashboard that every employee can access, although —…

GitHub Copilot app · GitHub

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✨ Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: What you get in the technical previewThe full dev lifecyclePick up an issue or PR from your inbox, put agents on it, review the diff, and merge. Or let an agent close the loop for you.Parallel agents, fully in viewRun multiple agent sessions across repos, each isolated and tracked in real time.Built to adapt to how you workAutomate recurring workflows and extend agents with MCP servers and your own custom skills.Tell us about yourself, and we’ll see if you’re a good fit for the…

Martin Scorsese has become Hollywood’s latest voice on artificial intelligence, and it’s unlikely

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✨ Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,TC 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Martin Scorsese has signed on as a partner and advisor to AI photo-production startup Black Forest Labs, The New York Times reported Tuesday. The caveat is that one of the world's most famous living directors only uses technology in storyboarding. “For 70 years, I have been creating my own comics,” he told the Times. He said this tool helps him communicate his vision to cinematographers and production designers faster and more efficiently. Black Forest Labs is a 70-person group headquartered not in San Francisco, but…