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The advertising cartel coming to your web browser

🔥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: When Meta, Google and Apple agree on a “privacy” feature, watch out. The three companies (along with Mozilla, which is on one of their “ad features in the browser” kicks again) are drawing up a built-in advertising measurement system, called Attribution Level 1, as a standard feature of web browsers. The system is intended to measure the effectiveness of advertising by enabling advertisers to correlate “impressions,” the occasions on which someone saw an ad, with “conversions,” when people bought something. Don’t look for a section…
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GitHub Copilot app · GitHub

GitHub Copilot app · GitHub

✨ Check out this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: What you get in the technical previewThe full dev lifecyclePick up an issue or PR from your inbox, put agents on it, review the diff, and merge. Or let an agent close the loop for you.Parallel agents, fully in viewRun multiple agent sessions across repos, each isolated and tracked in real time.Built to adapt to how you workAutomate recurring workflows and extend agents with MCP servers and your own custom skills.Tell us about yourself, and we’ll see if you’re a good fit for the…
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Announcing Intelligent Terminal 0.1 – Windows Command Line

Announcing Intelligent Terminal 0.1 – Windows Command Line

🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Today we’re announcing Intelligent Terminal version 0.1, an open-source experimental fork of Windows Terminal with native agent integration. Get started Install from the Microsoft Store: Intelligent Terminal on the Microsoft Store Install via WinGet: winget install Microsoft.IntelligentTerminal Visit our GitHub repository for documentation and to file issues. Here’s a look at what’s in this experimental stage. We will continue to iterate and listen to you, the community, as we improve the product, fix bugs, and add new features. The agent status bar at a glance…
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A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle

A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle

🚀 Read this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Note: this guide is a work in progress and may change at any time! We’ve done our best to cite our sources, but this page has not been professionally fact-checked. This workshop was first run as part of two pilot workshops with the Tech Equity Coalition, in partnership with the ACLU of Washington, in October 2019. A zine based on this work was included at the CtrlZ.AI zine fair and the HOT MESS digital exhibition in 2020. Introduction In this tour of downtown Seattle, we’ll…
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Prepping for Plasma’s Last X11-Supported Release – David Edmundson’s Web Log

Prepping for Plasma’s Last X11-Supported Release – David Edmundson’s Web Log

đź’Ą Check out this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: When we first announced the transition to Plasma Wayland, one of Martin's slides from stated, "It's done when it's done!" That talk was 15 years ago! Nothing in software is never truly "done", but as announced previously we are finally at a point where we're ready to retire the X11 and put all our focus on the future. As of today, the Plasma X11 session you can log into has been officially removed, and we will start a mass cleanup of X11-specific code soon.…
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AI Doesn’t Have ROI

AI Doesn’t Have ROI

🔥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of NVIDIA, Anthropic and OpenAI’s finances, and the AI bubble writ large. My Hater's Guides To the SaaSpocalypse, Private Credit and Private Equity are essential to understanding our current financial system, and my guide to how OpenAI Kills Oracle pairs nicely with my Hater's Guide…
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Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API · MITM LLC

Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API · MITM LLC

✨ Check out this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: I built WhisperPad because I needed it. In the fall of 2024 the joints in my fingers started to hurt when I typed. Maybe the bill came due for spending most of my life on a keyboard: a childhood of video games, then 10 years working in tech. It got worse throughout the winter, and by early 2025, I could not type for sustained stretches without triggering an unsustainable level of pain. It was a progressive injury, so there was no single dramatic moment;…
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AI Engineer Intern at Great Question

AI Engineer Intern at Great Question

🚀 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: About Great Question: Great Question is the all-in-one AI customer research platform for understanding your customers. Our platform enables teams to recruit participants, run research, and share insights – all in one place. Backed by world-class investors and trusted by industry-leading teams like Gusto, Experian, Canva, and Brex, we’re building the future of customer research. We believe AI is a multiplier for creativity, speed, and scale. Everyone on the team is encouraged to lean into AI, not just to be more efficient, but to push…
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The way we treat pigs is a sin – by Noah Smith

The way we treat pigs is a sin – by Noah Smith

🚀 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: I consider myself a pretty good and decent guy, overall. I don’t commit crimes. I’m nice to the people I meet. I help out my friends. I take good care of my pet rabbit, and I donate lots of money to other people who take care of abandoned and sick rabbits. My politics might not always be correct or wise, but I want things like the end of poverty, the end of war, and so on. And yet just down the highway from me,…
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‘Big Short’ Michael Burry: SpaceX, Anthropic Not Worth $1 Trillion

‘Big Short’ Michael Burry: SpaceX, Anthropic Not Worth $1 Trillion

🚀 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Michael Burry says he has major doubts about SpaceX and Anthropic's lofty valuations.In recent discussion threads on his Substack, the investor of "The Big Short" fame questioned the worth of Elon Musk's rocket, satellite, and AI company, and the maker of popular AI model Claude."Any move up will be on hype and technicals," Burry wrote about SpaceX stock in a subscriber chat he started on Saturday. "Nothing in that S-1 suggests it is worth $1 trillion let alone $2 trillion."SpaceX filed an IPO prospectus…
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