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Flock CEO Apologizes For Calling Activists ‘Terrorists’

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🔥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley is contrite over failures of communication, telling Forbes, "I'd love to be perfect, but I'm still human."Jamel Toppin for ForbesFor the last two years, Will Freeman has been advocating against Flock Safety, an $8.3 billion surveillance company that tracks vehicles with a network of over 80,000 cameras. His organization, DeFlock, crowdsourced a map that shows where the company’s cameras are located, and helps local grassroots movements organize against Flock deployments. In an interview with Forbes last year, Flock CEO Garrett…

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Why the People Who Could Fix It Are the First to Leave

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🔥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: By month 12, Northstar has a VP of Engineering named in this installment only by her role, because what happens to her happens to a role more than a person. She came up through the company, she is good, and she has watched the last three stages from close enough to name them without the vocabulary. She sees the escalation latency that became a designed path. She sees the enterprise pod producing customizations as a default. She sees that her best people have started routing…

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Learning a few things about running SQLite

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💥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Hello! I’ve been working on a Django site recently, and I decided to use SQLite as the database. When I was getting started with using SQLite as database for a website I read a bunch of blog posts about how it is totally fine to use SQLite in production for a small site and I think it is totally fine, but what I did not fully appreciate is that SQLite is still a database, databases are complicated, and I do not know a lot about…

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How design, data and AI shaped Google’s Noto 3D emoji

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🔥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The way we use emoji has changed. In the early days, we were literal: You sent a nail polish emoji (💅) because you were, in fact, getting your nails polished.Today we lean on emoji to break down the barrier of our screens and inject a shrug, a wink or that highly specific “it’s fine but it’s actually not fine” subtext. They’re the language within the language that keeps a blunt message from accidentally killing the vibe.On World Emoji Day, here's a closer look at…

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Anatomy of a Misfeature · Olaf Alders

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🔥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: "Mechanical egg timer" by Hustvedt is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 . Padded to a wider frame; this adaptation is likewise licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.On Canada Day (July 1), 2026, Anthropic shipped a surprising “easter egg” to users of Claude Code: 2.1.198 includes an efficiency bypass which allows agents to continue on without being blocked on direction from a human. You essentially get a 60 second timer after Claude Code asks for input. If you miss the window, Claude Code helpfully does what it thinks…

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The State of Open Source AI — V1.0 · July 2026

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💥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: × The opening letter Build with us. A letter from our CTO, Raffi Krikorian In New Zealand's far north, a Māori broadcaster trains speech models for te reo — a language too small for any market — under a license that keeps the data with its people. PwC, one of the largest accounting firms in the world, fine-tuned an open model on the language of finance and runs it today for hundreds of clients, on its own hardware, with no per-token meter running. Researchers in…

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AI meets Cryptography 2: What AI Found in OpenVM’s zkVM

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🚀 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: This is the second post in the series. In case you have not read the first one on Cloudflare's CIRCL, it has more context on why we run these experiments and how our pipeline is set up. In this post, we pointed zkao, our AI auditor, at OpenVM's zkVM, and it found a critical soundness bug in its guest library openvm-pairing that lets a malicious prover forge any pairing equality. Note that this is not a soundness bug in the zkVM's proving system itself; it…

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Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Manufact

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🚀 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: About us Manufact is Vercel for MCP.We are building the MCP cloud platform to get any product ready for Claude Connectors marketplace, ChatGPT App Store and any AI agent that supports MCP.Manufact Cloud usage is more than doubling every month. We're the team behind mcp-use SDK (next.js for MCP), the open-source framework for building MCP Apps with 10k Github stars and 8M+ downloads across python and typescript. Used by 20% of US 500 like NASA, SAP, NVIDIA and more than 5,000 companies. We raised…

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Pushinka – Wikipedia

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🚀 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Dog given to John F. Kennedy by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev Pushinka (Russian: Пушинка, lit. 'Fluffy') was a dog given by the Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, in 1961. Pushinka was the daughter of Strelka, who had travelled into space aboard Korabl-Sputnik 2.[3] Pushinka arrived at the Kennedy White House after Jacqueline Kennedy had spoken to Khrushchev about Strelka at a state dinner in Vienna. Mrs. Kennedy asked about Strelka's puppies, and one was subsequently sent by…

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Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars

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✨ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars7 points by mstolpm 48 minutes ago | hide | past | favorite | 3 commentsI receive an AWS Budgets alert that my budget is exceeding the alert threshold. Threshold is 5$. Forecasted amount is listed as $3,005,575,870.47. (Yepp, right, that’s 3 billion dollars.) I haven't even used AWS actively in the last year, but AWS console lists the amount as stated above. No feedback from AWS support yet, but the support AI…

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