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US Debt-to-GDP Ratio โ€” Live vs 2024 Official 122.9%

US Debt-to-GDP Ratio โ€” Live vs 2024 Official 122.9%

โœจ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Current federal debt, recent change, debt per person, and source methodology using official U.S. Treasury data.Updated March 19, 2026 ยท Official U.S. Treasury dataYour Share: $119,287โ†‘ increasing by $17.19/dayAlgorithmically projected from latest Treasury data(Treasury data is periodically updated)Dec 29$38.386T+$5.8BDec 26$38.381T+$27.7BDec 24$38.353T-$22.5BDec 23$38.375T-$3.1BDec 22$38.378T+$5.5BThe current U.S. national debt is $39.96 Trillion as of August 21, 2026, according to the latest data from the U.S. Treasury Department. This US debt live counter equals approximately $119,287 per U.S. citizen. The debt increases by roughly $1 trillion every 750…
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There’s no reason for software to be slow anymore

๐Ÿš€ Read this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The other day, I saw a viral tweet saying that people talking about how LLMs are causing slow, bloated, code are going to eat crow once they re-write everything in super-optimized assembly. We're not quite at the point where we want to write everything in assembly, but some variant of what Nolan Lawson said about testing, you can choose how many bugs you want now, which I less eloquently noted here, is becoming more true for performance. In response to a comment in my last…
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Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin thatโ€™s still alive

Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin thatโ€™s still alive

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this must-read post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Biotech & Health,TC ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Michael Polansky is remarkably unassuming for someone operating in a corner of the world known for outsize egos. Seated at a leafy patio outside a popular bakery in Mill Valley, an affluent town about 15 miles north of San Francisco, Polansky โ€” bespectacled, his fresh face framed by dark hair shot through with gray โ€” has the look and the friendly demeanor of a young professor. He is, in fact, both the founder of a buzzy AI and biology startup called Outer Biosciences…
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HN: the good parts

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: HN comments are terrible. On any topic Iโ€™m informed about, the vast majority of comments are pretty clearly wrong. Most of the time, there are zero comments from people who know anything about the topic and the top comment is reasonable sounding but totally incorrect. Additionally, many comments are gratuitously mean. You'll often hear mean comments backed up with something like "this is better than the other possibility, where everyone just pats each other on the back with comments like 'this is great'", as if…
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Paul Atkins Misreads Adam Smith and the American Founding โ€“ The FinReg Blog

Paul Atkins Misreads Adam Smith and the American Founding โ€“ The FinReg Blog

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: On June 30, Paul Atkins, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, stood before the Economic Club of New York and delivered a history lesson. With the nationโ€™s 250th birthday days away, Mr. Atkins told his audience that the Declaration of Independence and Adam Smithโ€™s โ€œWealth of Nations,โ€ both products of 1776, rest on โ€œthe same conviction: trust the individual, not the institution.โ€ Americaโ€™s founding documents, he said, โ€œin many respects, reflect Smithโ€™s central themes,โ€ and the founders, wary of concentrated power โ€œwhether lodged in…
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Remotely unlocking electric scooters โ€” Henri Emategui

โœจ Explore this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Note: to protect the company, I swapped out anything that could point back to it for fake examples. The domain electricscootercompany.com.br, the app package, and the user details (slug, name, and email) are all made up. None of it matches the real company. It started with a news article. A company had just dropped a bunch of electric scooters in my city. Most people saw a new way to get around town. I saw a fleet of internet-connected devices running on a backend nobody had…
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Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders

Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders

๐Ÿš€ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: We're sharing an update on our efforts to help more teams use frontier capabilities for cyber defense. Claude Mythos 5 is now available in Claude Security, and coming soon to partners' cyber defense tools. We're also launching a $35M fund to help secure open-source software and sharing plans to expand our Cyber Verification Program.In April, we launched Project Glasswing to put our most capable frontier model, Claude Mythos Preview (and its successor, Claude Mythos 5), in the hands of a small group of organizations…
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The Church of the TigerBeetle

The Church of the TigerBeetle

๐Ÿ”ฅ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Posted on August 3, 2026 by Adam Wespiser The seats of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston are somewhat comfortable. A plush base you can almost sink into, but only enough elbow room for you or your neighbor, not both. By the end of an hour, youโ€™ve explored the full space of position adjustments, and have the type of โ€œsettle inโ€ feeling I only feel on flights. The final talk of Systems Distributed 2026, titled Mission-Critical, by Joran Dirk Greef, opened with a definition…
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Tumble Forth

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Tumble Forth Hello, my name is Virgil Dupras, author of Collapse OS and Dusk OS and I'm starting a series of articles that aims to hand-hold my former self, a regular web developer, into the rabbit hole leading to the wonderful world of low level programming. Hopefully, I can hand-hold you too. The general goal is to broaden your perspectives on the subject of computing. I intend do to that through story arcs leading, step by step, to some nice and shiny objective. I also…
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now with new augmented reality mode (Interconnected)

now with new augmented reality mode (Interconnected)

๐Ÿš€ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: I updated my Galactic Compass app for iPhone with augmented reality mode. Background: Galactic Compass is a floating green arrow that always points the way to the middle of the Milky Way, 26,000 light years away. Hereโ€™s the announcement blog post from 2024. It went kinda viral at the time. It was in the โ€œtop free appsโ€ charts at the App Store briefly. In the Travel category. (I keep a list of press mentions over on Acts Not Facts.) Why so popular? Probably because…
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