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A Possible Future • Damn Interesting

A Possible Future • Damn Interesting

💥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: © 2026 All Rights Reserved. Do not distribute or repurpose this work without written permission from the copyright holder(s). Printed from https://www.damninteresting.com/a-possible-future/ Alan Bellows here, founder of Damn Interesting. For the better part of twenty years, I kept this project afloat by working part-time engineering jobs to pay the bills, and spending the other halves of my work days researching, writing, editing, and podcasting. But in recent years, the landscape has shifted, and those part-time positions appear to have gone extinct. Employers want all or…
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“Mommy, do you love your phone more than me?”: Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond

“Mommy, do you love your phone more than me?”: Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond

🔥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: AbstractWhile there is robust literature on the negative impact of adolescent device use on physical and psychological health, there is less research on the use of technology in the presence of others and its implications for key relationships. Known as “technoference” and “phubbing,” these device-based behaviors have only recently been examined in parent-child contexts. The present study investigated adolescents' perceptions of their primary caregivers' device-centric behaviors, the emotional appraisal of that behavior, and their association with the caregiver–adolescent attachment relationship. We hypothesized that adolescents' perceptions…
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Ben Bernanke appointed to Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust \ Anthropic

Ben Bernanke appointed to Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust \ Anthropic

🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust (LTBT) has appointed Dr. Ben Bernanke, a Distinguished Fellow at the Brookings Institution and former Chair of the Federal Reserve, as its newest member. He joins an independent body that works to hold Anthropic to its mission: the responsible development of advanced AI for the long-term benefit of humanity.Bernanke led the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014, steering the central bank through the 2008 global financial crisis and the recovery that followed. Before entering government, he spent more than two…
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Focus

Focus

✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: I was something like the tenth engineer hired at Facebook. When a bunch of us old-timers get together we love to dive into nostalgia around all the time we spent together. And people who weren’t there love to romanticize what they imagine must have been the halcyon days. But the truth is startup life was mostly pretty brutal. I probably worked 120 hours per week. I had no hobbies. I ate poorly and gained a lot of weight. I slept with my phone next to…
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Build your own vulnerability harness

Build your own vulnerability harness

🔥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A few weeks ago, we published our initial findings from Project Glasswing, looking at what happens when you point frontier security models at an enterprise codebase. We also explored how our defensive structures adapt to protect our infrastructure and customers from threats posed by frontier AI. Since then, the AI ecosystem has continued to shift rapidly — developers who've built tightly around a single model have already experienced what happens when that model is no longer available or gets superseded by a more capable one.…
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Teaching a child in

Teaching a child in

💥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The safety check that nobody hears.Most AI products build guardrails in serial with a model call or agent turn. A user won't notice when the token stream goes through a content filter and a developer is willing to wait for a CLI tool call to be auto-reviewed.There's nowhere to hide in a real-time conversation with a five-year-old. Nor is there an undo: a child can't unhear what the tutor said. The safety system has to gate any action, on every turn.Our safety classifier is an…
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Interview With Mitchell Hashimoto

🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Interview With Mitchell HashimotoJul 2026 - Alex AlejandreMitchell Hashimoto was behind Vagrant, Packer, Consul, Terraform, Vault, Nomad, Waypoint and now builds Ghostty and Vouch.In this interview, we talk about terminals, Zig and open source.You’ve been interviewed a lot. Why do people like to interview you?In interviews, everyone comes from a different angle. Many people want to know how the software engineering to business founder mindset transition went. Then others are interested in product stuff, the work I did at Hashicorp or Ghostty now. What’s different…
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Why American ambulance rides are so expensive

Why American ambulance rides are so expensive

💥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: In July 2023, a 25-year-old man named Jagdish Whitten was out for a run in San Francisco. As he crossed a busy street, a car hit him; he did, in his words, “a little flip” over the vehicle, landed in the road, and dragged himself to the curb. Those who had seen the accident called an ambulance for him. But Whitten waved them off and called a friend, who drove him to a nearby hospital instead: “I knew that ambulances were expensive,” he said,…
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How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner

How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner

💥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: GitHub has over 14,000 repositories across our primary internal GitHub organization. As of early 2025, there were over 11,000 non-archived repositories, the vast majority of which with no clear owner. For repositories attached to production services, we have historically had robust durable ownership, but for repositories with no associated service, there was no reliable way to tell who the owner is. That gap became a recurring problem during our secret scanning remediation effort: while we could technically rotate a secret, doing so without knowing…
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Founding Engineer at Wildcard | Y Combinator

Founding Engineer at Wildcard | Y Combinator

💥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: About Wildcard Wildcard is the agentic commerce optimization platform for ecommerce and retail brands. We help brands understand, improve, and monetize how their products show up across AI shopping agents. We’re building the mission control for agentic commerce: visibility (AEO & GEO), recommendations, execution, attribution, and automation in one platform. As shopping shifts from traditional search to AI agents, brands need to know where they appear, why competitors are winning, what to change, and whether those changes drive real business outcomes. We’re growing 50% month…
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