🔥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: By Josh Moody — Published: Jun 23, 2026 🏺 AI disclaimer This post was written entirely by a flesh-and-blood human and therefore represents the pinnacle of artistic expression and human achievement. Too many slop grenades these days. LLMs are cool and all, but does every Slack message need to be a bulleted list where the first sentence of each item is bold? I recently read one too many blog posts with the phrase, “it’s not X, it’s Y” as a one-line paragraph and finally snapped.…
🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: We regret that this event has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. This London Climate Action Week event will open with the announcement of the inaugural Adeline Stuart-Watt Award winner and will be followed by a session focused on improving extreme heat governance and action around the world. Hosted in collaboration with the Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance. The Adeline Stuart-Watt Award celebrates the legacy of Adeline Stuart-Watt, a highly respected and very sadly missed friend and colleague…
đź’Ą Explore this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: BERLIN (AP) — A problem with a communications system forced Germany’s railway system to halt all trains late Tuesday, leaving passengers stranded across the country.Would-be travelers stood in long lines at some station information desks as they tried to figure out how to get to their destinations.The main national railway operator, Deutsche Bahn, said all trains were being held at stations because of a nationwide problem with the GSM-R digital communication system, which is used for internal communication on the railway network.Deutsche Bahn said in…
🚀 Read this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Today is a momentous day for the workers of Arena! After months of planning, waiting and organizing, our dream is finally a reality; the votes have been counted, and our union of UWOTC-CWA has been officially elected.From this day forward, we have a union!To the thousands who signed our petition letter, the journalists who let us tell our own story, every person who reached out with words of encouragement, our stewards at the CWA who helped guide us, we cannot thank you enough for your…
🚀 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Don't verify email addresses by sending spam to them 23.06.2026 Much have been said about futility of trying to validate email addresses. Generally accepted advice is that you should just send verification link and don’t care about trying to validate it beforehand. But what if you were really hell-bent on having validation step, and at the same time follow the advice? Apparently some people decided they could to it by… sending spam. Take this Pangram sign-up form. Filling email field here will perform this…
🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź“Ś **What You’ll Learn**: This policy was published on June 8, 2026 with an effective date of July 8, 2026.Anthropic is an AI safety and research company working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and process your personal data when you use our website, Claude.ai, or other Anthropic products and services (the “Services”). This Privacy Policy does not apply to content that we process on behalf of customers of our business offerings, such as our Enterprise accounts. Our…
🚀 Read this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź“Ś **What You’ll Learn**: Modal allows leading teams like Cognition, Decagon, Fathom, and DoorDash to own their inference without compromising on cost-performance or developer velocity.Now you can do the same with a single command:Introducing Modal Auto Endpoints: a smooth, self-serve on-ramp to production-grade LLM inference.Take it for a spin right now, or read on to learn more about how we built it and why.Built for the era of actually owning your inferenceProprietary model providers can silently degrade models or suddenly retract access. If you don't own your inference, you…
đź’Ą Read this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: I vividly remember most of my own journey into engineering management over the years. Throughout my career, I’ve also mentored several people taking the step from engineer to engineering manager. It’s a challenging and often lonely journey, and here are a few truths most new managers realize the hard way. (If you aren’t a manager yourself, you might just learn a bit about your manager’s situation.)The things no one tells you about being a manager:#You’ll bring work home with you more often than not. The…
🔥 Read this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: A collection of beautiful, high-resolution photolog scans reveals a colorful world of pastel-colored cars and whimsical signage.The very first post of this newsletter back in 2022 was about Connecticut’s highway photologs from the 1980s. Photologs were essentially an early, film-based version of Google Street View. Almost every state had one of these photolog programs with tricked-out vans logging every mile of road in their state, with some dating back to 1961. The Connecticut footage is a time capsule of the mid 80’s, but the frames…
🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź“Ś **What You’ll Learn**: A year ago in The Back Of The AI Envelope I pointed out that the AI platforms were running the drug-dealer's algorithm, "the first one's free". By massively subsidizing the use of their products, they were generating overwhelming demand for them. They used this demand to justify massive investments, in the hope that, by the time they had to show a return on these invetment, the users would be so addicted that they would pay the vastly higher prices needed to generate a return.…