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GitHub Status – Incident with multiple GitHub services

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💥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Subscribe to updates for Incident with multiple GitHub services via email and/or text message. You'll receive email notifications when incidents are updated, and text message notifications whenever GitHub creates or resolves an incident. VIA SMS: Afghanistan (+93) Albania (+355) Algeria (+213) American Samoa (+1) Andorra (+376) Angola (+244) Anguilla (+1) Antigua and Barbuda (+1) Argentina (+54) Armenia (+374) Aruba (+297) Australia/Cocos/Christmas Island (+61) Austria (+43) Azerbaijan (+994) Bahamas (+1) Bahrain (+973) Bangladesh (+880) Barbados (+1) Belarus (+375) Belgium (+32) Belize (+501) Benin (+229) Bermuda…

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My Phone Replaced a Brass Plug

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💥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: For months, I spent my Wednesday evenings in a tin tunnel just outside Edinburgh, wearing a ridiculously looking (and equally uncomfortable) jacket. I'd lie on the floor and count breaths, then walk down the range, ducking under ceiling beams. The floor says DUCK in white paint every five metres, the beams have posters saying "DUCK" as well, but occasionally I still hit my head, too busy checking the scoring cards. If you're unlucky, a shot lands near a ring line and you need help. You…

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TorchTPU: Running PyTorch Natively on TPUs at Google Scale

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🔥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The challenges of building for modern AI infrastructure have fundamentally shifted. The modern frontier of machine learning now requires leveraging distributed systems, spanning thousands of accelerators. As models scale to run on clusters of O(100,000) chips, the software that powers these models must meet new demands for performance, hardware portability, and reliability.At Google, our Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) are foundational to our supercomputing infrastructure. These custom ASICs power training and serving for both Google’s own AI platforms, like Gemini and Veo, and the massive…

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Southern District of New York | U.S. Soldier Charged With Using Classified Information To Profit From Prediction Market Bets

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💥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, Acting Attorney General for the United States, Todd Blanche, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), Kash Patel, and Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the FBI, James C. Barnacle, Jr., announced today the unsealing of an Indictment charging GANNON KEN VAN DYKE, a U.S. Army Soldier, with unlawful use of confidential government information for personal gain, theft of nonpublic government information, commodities fraud, wire fraud, and…

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GitHub – refactoringhq/tolaria · GitHub

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✨ Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Tolaria is a desktop app for Mac for managing markdown knowledge bases. People use it for a variety of use cases: Operate second brains and personal knowledge Organize company docs as context for AI Store OpenClaw/assistants memory and procedures Personally, I use it to run my life (hey 👋 Luca here). I have a massive workspace of 10,000+ notes, which are the result of my Refactoring work + a ton of personal journaling and second braining. You can find some Loom walkthroughs below — they…

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Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They’re the Bad Guys

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💥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: It took just a few months of President Donald Trump’s second term for Palantir employees to question their company’s commitments to civil liberties. Last fall, Palantir seemed to become the technological backbone of Trump’s immigration enforcement machinery, providing software identifying, tracking, and helping deport immigrants on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), when current and former employees started ringing the alarm.Around that time, two former employees reconnected by phone. Right as they picked up the call, one of them asked, “Are you tracking…

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Using the internet like its 1999

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🔥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Table of Contents If you only use social media and video hosting frontends - getting fed by algorithms and visiting the same 5 sites everyday on constant doomscroll, then the internet has never been alive for you. That experience is perhaps ~3-5% of what the internet could be. For the vast majority of people, yes - the internet is dying: living inside an algorithmically controlled echochamber that they will never get out of, they live and die by what they are “supposed to see”. But,…

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Meta to cut 10% of jobs, or 8,000 employees, report says

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💥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Meta is planning to cut 10% of its workforce, amounting to 8,000 employees, according to a report from Bloomberg. Meta also will not hire for 6,000 roles that are currently open. According to an internal memo sent to employees Thursday and viewed by Bloomberg, Meta told staff that the cuts will begin on May 20. Reuters had earlier reported on Meta’s plans for sweeping layoffs. TechCrunch has reached out to Meta for comment. “We’re doing this as part of our continued effort to run the…

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An update on recent Claude Code quality reports \ Anthropic

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✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Over the past month, we’ve been looking into reports that Claude’s responses have worsened for some users. We’ve traced these reports to three separate changes that affected Claude Code, the Claude Agent SDK, and Claude Cowork. The API was not impacted.All three issues have now been resolved as of April 20 (v2.1.116).In this post, we explain what we found, what we fixed, and what we’ll do differently to ensure similar issues are much less likely to happen again.We take reports about degradation very seriously. We…

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Meshcore.io – Why The Split?

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Since inception, the MeshCore development team have been working hard to build MeshCore. We’ve released more than 85 versions of the MeshCore Companion, Repeater and Room Server firmwares with support for more than 75 hardware variants. All of this has been hand crafted, by humans. We have always been wary of AI generated code, but felt everyone is free to do what they want and experiment, etc. But, one of our own, Andy Kirby, decided to branch out and extensively use Claude Code, and…

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