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Your brain was never designed for this much bad news

Your brain was never designed for this much bad news

πŸ”₯ Check out this trending post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: During several recent conversations, people have told me that they’ve stopped checking their phones in the morning. Not because nothing was happening, but because everything was. They described the feeling as standing under a waterfall of perpetual bad news. This experience is far from an isolated one. According to Reuters Institute’s 2025 Digital News Report, 69 percent of Canadians at least occasionally avoid the news now. Globally, 40 percent report they at least sometimes or often do the same, the highest figure ever recorded.…
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Trump’s economic popularity hits a new low, a poll shows

Trump’s economic popularity hits a new low, a poll shows

πŸš€ Discover this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: affordability,Donald Trump news,gas prices,PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: A new poll from PBS News, NPR and Marist shows that a third of Americans approve of the way President Donald Trump is handling the economy, reaching his lowest approval rating ever on an issue long considered one of his strengths with voters. Sixty percent of Americans overall disapprove of Trump's economic approach. The 33% who agreed is the lowest since Marist began asking the question in 2019. Economic concerns were part of the reasons that fueled…
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Linux Finally Eliminates The strncpy API After Six Years Of Work, 360+ Patches

Linux Finally Eliminates The strncpy API After Six Years Of Work, 360+ Patches

πŸ”₯ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: Linux 7.2 has finally eliminated the strncpy API from the Linux kernel. The strncpy() function for copying up to a specified number of bytes has long been deprecated and after six years of work and hundreds of patches, no more users of the strncpy interface within the Linux kernel remained that it has now been eliminated. The strncpy function within the Linux kernel has been a "persistent source of bugs" for years due to counter-intuitive semantics and behavior around NUL termination along with performance…
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US Open 2026: Wyndham Clark stands firm as Scottie Scheffler moves in at Shinnecock Hills

US Open 2026: Wyndham Clark stands firm as Scottie Scheffler moves in at Shinnecock Hills

✨ Check out this insightful post from BBC Sport πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: Scheffler's score was deceptively good on a day when high winds reached 40 mph and made sure the greens became firmer and more dangerous.Only one other player, Argentine Emiliano Grillo - who moved to par for the tournament after signing a three-under 67 - has broken the 70 record.It was draining. As is often the case in the US Open. Ten players started the day below par. In the end, there were only five.The average score for the third round was 73.61, the highest…
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Developers don’t understand CORS – Chris Foster

Developers don’t understand CORS – Chris Foster

✨ Explore this trending post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: Developers don't understand CORS July 10, 2019 β€” Chris Foster One of the best things about working in full stack consulting is that I get to work with a great number of developers with different skill levels in companies from various sizes and industries. This provides an opportunity to see what universal struggles come up. One that seems common and relevant recently is this: Too many web developers do not understand how CORS works. This seems particularly timely to point out because of the recent…
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WATCH: Barack and Michelle Obama open the Obama Presidential Center with Springsteen and Stevie Wonder

WATCH: Barack and Michelle Obama open the Obama Presidential Center with Springsteen and Stevie Wonder

πŸš€ Check out this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Barack Obama,Bruce Springsteen,Chicago,joe biden,Michelle Obama,obama presidential center,stevie wonder βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: Former President Barack Obama, accompanied by three former presidents, celebrated the opening of his Presidential Museum in Chicago in an extraordinary event on Thursday that brought together politicians, celebrities, athletes and other internationally known figures. Watch the full concert in the video player above. Bono, John Legend, Christina Aguilera, Marc Anthony and Eddie Vedder took turns on stage in front of Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Wonder. Read more: 4 things to know about the…
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When I reject AI code even if it works β€” Vinicius Brasil

When I reject AI code even if it works β€” Vinicius Brasil

✨ Read this trending post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: With implementation getting faster and faster, the real bottleneck moves to reviewing the volume of code generated by AI. I’m not even talking about your coworkers’ (and their agents’) PRs, but your own git diff after your coding agent has finished its job. Even when I follow good practices – like starting with the plan mode, dividing big tasks into phases, and shipping small changes – I still feel cognitive overload when reviewing something I haven’t actually thought through myself. GENERATED BETTER FIT Before coding…
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The Supreme Court sides with a Texas marijuana user who says owning a gun is not a crime

The Supreme Court sides with a Texas marijuana user who says owning a gun is not a crime

πŸ’₯ Discover this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Marijuana,second amendment,Supreme Court βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) β€” The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a Texas marijuana user who wants to legally own a gun, the latest in a string of firearms cases from the court that have expanded gun rights. The justices sided with Ali Daniel Himani, who said the law prohibiting anyone who illegally uses drugs from carrying weapons violates the Second Amendment. Himani was not charged with any other crimes or using a weapon while under the influence. He listens: The…
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Project Fetch: Phase two \ Anthropic

Project Fetch: Phase two \ Anthropic

πŸ”₯ Read this insightful post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: Michael Ilie, C. Daniel Freeman, and Kevin K. TroyIn August 2025, we ran an experiment to see how much Claude could help Anthropic employeesβ€”who were not robotics expertsβ€”perform sophisticated (and amusing) tasks with an off-the-shelf robotic quadruped (henceforth, a robodog). We called this Project Fetch. We found that access to our state-of-the-art model at the time (Claude Opus 4.1) helped one team substantially outperform the other, who had to rely only on the internet and their own ingenuity. The Claude-enabled team got more done, faster.Before…
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Watch: Vance holds a media briefing at the White House after Trump signed the war agreement with Iran

Watch: Vance holds a media briefing at the White House after Trump signed the war agreement with Iran

πŸ”₯ Discover this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Donald Trump news,Iran,iran agreement,iran war,JD Vance βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: The U.S. Navy, as part of an agreement to end the war, has lifted its blockade of Iranian ports by allowing more than a dozen ships to pass, Vice President J.D. Vance said Thursday. Vance provided the update at a White House news conference, where he also said the largest amount of oil since the war began was now flowing through the Strait of Hormuz. Vice President J.D. Vance will hold a news conference at the White…
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