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๐Ÿš€ Discover this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: const companySchema = z.array( z.object(๐Ÿ”ฅ), ); await webTasks.run(๐Ÿ”ฅ); // โœ“ created skill yc_companies_scraper // โœ“ wrote reusable helpers // โœ“ returned 247 companies ยท 6m 12s ยท $0.84 AI + 0.10 compute hrs await webTasks.run({ task: "Scrape YC companies. Return name, batch, description, and URL.", startUrl: "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies", parameters: ๐Ÿ”ฅ, outputSchema: companySchema, reuseKey: "yc_companies_scraper", }); // โœ“ reused skill yc_companies_scraper // โœ“ returned 208 companies ยท 58s ยท $0.12 AI + 0.02 compute hrsclass Company(BaseModel): name: str location: str await web_tasks.run( task="Scrape YC companies. Return name,…
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Horse arses, thumbs and data design of GnuCash โ€” HandsOnMoney Blog

๐Ÿš€ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: June 6, 2026 โ€ข Author: Vitalik TLDR: Spanish traders in the 1600s did not want to count their thumbs, which influenced GnuCash's database design choices in 1997. Much like a horse's arse set the standard for railways. How seemingly odd design turns out to be a genius solution that serves people pretty well. It's one of those nights. A cup of hot coffee is on the table. I'm implementing a commodities support in HandsOnMoney which looks absolutely trivial on the surface, but is quite…
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Config Files That Run Code: Supply Chain Security Blindspot

Config Files That Run Code: Supply Chain Security Blindspot

๐Ÿš€ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Cloning a repository and opening it in an editor can run an attackerโ€™s code before a developer reads a single line. The trigger is not a malicious dependency or a hidden install script. It is an ordinary-looking config file already sitting in the repo, the kind an IDE, an AI coding agent, or a package manager reads and acts on automatically.VS Code, Cursor, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, npm, Composer, and Bundler all support config files that can carry a shell command. Some run it when…
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Replies to comments on my “LLMs are eroding my career” post

Replies to comments on my “LLMs are eroding my career” post

โœจ Read this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: 07 Jun, 2026 So, my latest post went viral. And with virality, you get a ton of comments that you must reply to. I don't want to reply in HN/Reddit/Whatever to prevent endless thread depths that will consume my sanity. I'm going to cherry-pick some comments and leave answers here for those looking for them. Wut? I pilot LLMs all day but there's no way in hell I'd agree to be at the helm of a finance product. LLMs routinely fail at our business specifics:…
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The EU Open Source Strategy

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The EU Open Source Strategy aims to strengthen Europeโ€™s open digital ecosystems by supporting the development, scaling, deployment and long-term sustainability of open source technologies across both the public and private sectors. The strategy is embedded in the broader Communication on European Technological Sovereignty, part of the EU Digital Sovereignty Package, alongside initiatives such as the proposal for a Cloud and AI Development Act, the proposal for a Chips Act 2.0, and the Strategic Roadmap for Digitalisation and AI in Energy. Together, these initiatives…
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melastmohican/rust-rpico2-embassy-examples: rust-rpico2-embassy-examples Rust Embassy examples for Raspberry Pi Pico 2 ยท GitHub

melastmohican/rust-rpico2-embassy-examples: rust-rpico2-embassy-examples Rust Embassy examples for Raspberry Pi Pico 2 ยท GitHub

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: This repository contains examples for the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (RP2350) board, written in Rust using the Embassy async framework. cargo generate --git https://github.com/ImplFerris/pico2-template.git --name rust-rpico2-embassy-examples Board: Raspberry Pi Pico 2 MCU: RP2350 (Dual-core Arm Cortex-M33 and RISC-V cores) On-board peripherals: I2C pins: I2C0 SDA: GPIO4 I2C0 SCL: GPIO5 I2C1 SDA: GPIO2 I2C1 SCL: GPIO3 UART pins: UART0 TX: GPIO0, UART0 RX: GPIO1 UART1 TX: GPIO8, UART1 RX: GPIO9 Reads temperature and humidity from an HS3003 sensor using the Embassy async framework. cargo run --example…
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GitHub Status – Pull Requests and Issues unavailable for signed-out users

GitHub Status – Pull Requests and Issues unavailable for signed-out users

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Subscribe to updates for Pull Requests and Issues unavailable for signed-out users 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)…
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Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring

Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring Over 90% of U.S. employers rely on hiring algorithms to screen job applicants. Many different employers use algorithms from the same few vendors. We conduct the largest empirical study of algorithmic hiring with data for 3.4 million real job applicants submitting 4 million applications to 156 employers across 11 market sectors. Every application was assessed by algorithms from a single vendor: we test whether this algorithmic monoculture bottlenecks job opportunities. We are the first to demonstrate large-scale evidence of racial disparities…
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Dopamine Fracking | beware, the german!

Dopamine Fracking | beware, the german!

โœจ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: $ dict "Dopamine Fracking" | less The act of pumping immense, disproportionate resources โ€” money, crowdsourced math, analytics, optimization, min-maxing, popular opinion aggregation, etc. โ€” into a previously casual or complex, layered activity to forcefully extract and squeeze out the purest, most concentrated dopamine hit, with no regard for anything except dopamine. Origin# One late evening while chatting on Discord, I coined the term "dopamine fracking" to describe a phenomenon that has become increasingly prevalent in online culture โ€” a concept which I previously struggled…
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SDSU Adds 1,300 AI Cameras, 330 in Student Dorms

SDSU Adds 1,300 AI Cameras, 330 in Student Dorms

๐Ÿš€ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: San Diego State University spent more than $1.3 million turning its campus into one of the most heavily watched in the California State University system and the students who study and live there learned the full scope from their own newspaper rather than from the administration. University Police finished installing over 1,300 AI-enabled cameras in 2024, threading them through classroom buildings, bookstores, dining areas, parking structures, gyms and the residence halls where students sleep. The picture only came together after investigative journalism students at…
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