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I told them forced consent was unlawful. Five years later it cost Elkjop €1.8 million — That Privacy Guy!

I told them forced consent was unlawful. Five years later it cost Elkjop €1.8 million — That Privacy Guy!

🚀 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Back in the summer of 2021 I was a member of the Elgiganten Kundklubb, the customer club the Elkjop group runs across the Nordics, and like a lot of members I was buried under marketing emails. So I did the obvious thing and went looking for a way to switch them off. What I found instead was the problem that has taken five years to put right - the only way to stop the marketing was to cancel my membership of the club altogether. I…
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Integer Quantization: Deep Dive 🤿

Integer Quantization: Deep Dive 🤿

💥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A lot has happened in transformer quantization over the past few years, from barely being able to quantize a 7B model in INT8 without destroying accuracy, to routinely fitting a 70B model in 4-bits on a single GPU. But existing guides on the topic are fragmented: either focused on a specific technique or on how to use a library. I’ve been working on integer quantization for fixed-point hardware for a while now and my goal with this series is to bridge that gap: building the…
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The AI Hate Progression

💥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I think I've spoken at length in other places about how I am a very staunch AI hater and everything I hate about how the tech is presented to us today. But I want to take a second to talk about how I became this way, because I wasn't always like this! Oh no, I thought the whole "I fed the Bee Movie script into a bot and had them make a sequel" thing that perpetuated the early era of generative AI was...amusing, but easily ignored…
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The Token Compression Illusion: Why I’m Skeptical of RTK

💥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: RTK's pitch sounds like an absolute developer cheat code: "Cut token usage, keep the same intelligence, pay 1/10 the price." With 60k GitHub stars and counting, the industry is clearly buying into the hype. But in the current dev tools gold rush, if something sounds too good to be true, it almost always is. While compressing terminal output for LLM agents sounds like a no-brainer, a closer look under the hood reveals critical structural flaws. Here is why I am highly skeptical of RTK's…
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Securing internal systems against increasingly capable and imperfectly aligned AI — Google DeepMind

✨ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: How we’re securing internal systems against increasingly capable and imperfectly aligned AIAI agents are transforming our relationship with technology. By autonomously executing complex tasks — from cyber defence to scientific discovery and product development — these systems are unlocking a new era of productivity. In the U.S alone, AI agents could create $2.9 trillion in economic value by 2030.As these agents become more capable, they also require more sophisticated safeguards. That’s why we developed our AI Control Roadmap: a framework for building and managing the…
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LLM Wiki — LLM-compiled knowledge bases for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode & any LLM agent

LLM Wiki — LLM-compiled knowledge bases for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode & any LLM agent

💥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The hub (~/wiki/) is just a registry. No content — only wikis.json, _index.md, and log.md. All content lives in topic sub-wikis. Topic wikis (~/wiki/topics//) are isolated research areas. Each has its own sources, articles, outputs, and Obsidian vault config. Isolation means researching quantum computing can't pollute your nutrition wiki. Raw sources (raw/) are immutable. Once a paper, article, or data file is ingested, it's never modified. This is the audit trail — every claim in every article traces back to a source. Wiki articles (wiki/)…
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Test your app with AI, catch bugs before users do

Test your app with AI, catch bugs before users do

💥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TesterArmy: Test your app with AI, catch bugs before users doTesterArmyBacked byCombinatorTesterArmy continuously monitors the key journeys across your website and mobile app and alerts your team when something breaks.working time24/7coverageweb/mobileinputplain textreportsmedia/logs[01] Skills & featuresBring your testing to another levelMake sure your product works, whether it's an app or a website.Mobile appsWeb apps[02] StackBuilt for modern web teams,whatever the stack[03] How it worksHow TesterArmy catches bugs before your users doExplore the key features that drive our partners growth, day after day.Create a projectPaste your staging…
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The Traditional 30% Rent Rule Is Officially Dead in Today’s Economy

The Traditional 30% Rent Rule Is Officially Dead in Today’s Economy

🚀 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The 30% rent rule has been a personal finance staple for decades. It stipulates spending no more than 30% of your gross income on housing, and you should have enough left over for everything else.But the problem with this rule is that everyday life is much more expensive than it used to be. Housing, groceries, gas, and other everyday essentials have all steadily increased at a faster pace than the average income. As for rent, the median asking price in the 50 largest metros registered…
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W Social, Public Institutions and the Theater of European Digital Sovereignty

W Social, Public Institutions and the Theater of European Digital Sovereignty

🚀 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: In the past few months I have unwittingly become an expert on all things W Social: the microblogging platform that is a fork of Bluesky and bills itself as Europe’s alternative to X, with identity verification “to fight bots and misinformation” and data hosted in Europe “to promote European digital sovereignty”. Why am I fascinated by this topic? I find the discrepancies between their public image and the reality behind the scenes truly striking.Over the course of the past few days I have received…
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Challenging the Narrative of European Decline: Revised, Free Repost

Challenging the Narrative of European Decline: Revised, Free Repost

✨ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A number of people have asked me to put some of my recent writing on European economic performance outside the paywall. Here is the central argument, revised to include data I think is slightly more informative.I’m still in Europe, where one of the luxuries I’m experiencing is not having to think about Donald Trump and the nightmarish state of U.S. politics 100% of the time — more like 90%, but still. And by way of luxuriating in the slight emotional distance, I’ll postpone my next…
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