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Addiction Markets: Abolish Corporate-Run Gambling

Addiction Markets: Abolish Corporate-Run Gambling

🚀 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ Category: âś… Main takeaway: Earlier this year, Maryland state Senator Joanne C. Benson did something remarkable. She introduced Senate bill 1033, written for the “purpose of repealing online sports wagering” in the state. Now, I wouldn’t normally say a random state legislator introducing a proposal is a big deal. Except in this case, it’s the start of a counter-attack on the proliferation of corporate-run gambling across America, a trend that has largely gone un-rebutted since the 1970s. And Benson is not alone; lawmakers in Vermont and New York are…
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How to build silos and decrease collaboration (on purpose)

How to build silos and decrease collaboration (on purpose)

✨ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ Category: âś… Here’s what you’ll learn: “We need to break down silos between departments and get people to collaborate better” — almost every leader everywhere. Most leaders reflexively think of silos as BAD and collaboration as GOOD. This manifesto defends silos and challenges the value of collaboration. Increasing collaboration can do harm In general, you should aim to maximize collaboration within teams, and minimize collaboration between teams. Why maximize collaboration within teams? A collaborative team works together on one or two goals. Why? This maximizes shared state — everyone has…
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sandpile.org — x86 architecture — 1 byte opcodes

sandpile.org — x86 architecture — 1 byte opcodes

🔥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ Category: 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: x86 architecture1 byte opcodes xxh  x0h  x1h x2h x3h x4h x5h x6h x7h  0xh  ADDEb,Gb ADDEv,Gv ADDGb,Eb ADDGv,Ev ADDAL,Ib ADDrAX,Iz PUSHI64ES POPI64ES  1xh  ADCEb,Gb ADCEv,Gv ADCGb,Eb ADCGv,Ev ADCAL,Ib ADCrAX,Iz PUSHI64SS POPI64SS  2xh  ANDEb,Gb ANDEv,Gv ANDGb,Eb ANDGv,Ev ANDAL,Ib ANDrAx,Iz ES: DAAI64  3xh  XOREb,Gb XOREv,Gv XORGb,Eb XORGv,Ev XORAL,Ib XORrAX,Iz SS: AAAI64  4xh !REX2  INCI64 eAX  INCI64 eCX INCI64 eDX INCI64 eBX INCI64 eSP …
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Fire TV: Amazon to block piracy apps in the future

Fire TV: Amazon to block piracy apps in the future

🚀 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ Category: âś… Here’s what you’ll learn: Anyone who has installed an app on their Fire TV device or player that allows illegal access to copyrighted content must expect to no longer be able to use it in the future. The background is that Amazon will actively take action against such piracy apps starting today, Friday. To achieve this, the manufacturer will compare the applications installed on the devices with a blacklist maintained by the anti-piracy coalition ACE (Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment). This includes numerous media and streaming companies, including…
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Ubuntu introduces architecture variants [LWN.net]

✨ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ Category: 📌 Main takeaway: [Posted October 31, 2025 by jzb] Michael Hudson-Doyle, a member of Ubuntu's Foundations team, has announced the introduction of an "architecture variant" for Ubuntu 25.10: By making changes to dpkg, apt and Launchpad, we are able to build multiple versions of a package, each for a different level of the x86-64 architecture, meaning we can have packages that specifically target x86-64-v3, for example. As a result, we're very excited to share that in Ubuntu 25.10, some packages are available, on an opt-in basis, in their…
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Nix derivation madness | Farid Zakaria’s Blog

Nix derivation madness | Farid Zakaria’s Blog

đź’Ą Read this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ Category: đź’ˇ Key idea: I’ve written a bit about Nix and I still face moments where foundational aspects of the package system confounds and surprises me. Recently I hit an issue that stumped me as it break some basic comprehension I had on how Nix works. I wanted to produce the build and runtime graph for the Ruby interpreter. > nix-shell -p ruby > which ruby /nix/store/mp4rpz283gw3abvxyb4lbh4vp9pmayp2-ruby-3.3.9/bin/ruby > nix-store --query --include-outputs --graph \ $(nix-store --query --deriver $(which ruby)) error: path '/nix/store/24v9wpp393ib1gllip7ic13aycbi704g-ruby-3.3.9.drv' is not valid > ls /nix/store/24v9wpp393ib1gllip7ic13aycbi704g-ruby-3.3.9.drv ls: cannot access…
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This is your brain without sleep | MIT News

This is your brain without sleep | MIT News

🔥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ Category: âś… Here’s what you’ll learn: Nearly everyone has experienced it: After a night of poor sleep, you don’t feel as alert as you should. Your brain might seem foggy, and your mind drifts off when you should be paying attention.A new study from MIT reveals what happens inside the brain as these momentary failures of attention occur. The scientists found that during these lapses, a wave of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flows out of the brain — a process that typically occurs during sleep and helps to wash away waste…
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Canva’s Affinity Strategy: Normies Over Power Users

Canva’s Affinity Strategy: Normies Over Power Users

đź’Ą Explore this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ Category: âś… Here’s what you’ll learn: When I was 20, I remember the huge rub with design software: The stuff you needed to survive as a professional often costs more than a month of rent.Today, with a reset of its Affinity suite into a free product, Canva appears ready to upend that model entirely.But let’s take a second to remember just how bad things used to be for entry-level designers. Around the time I graduated from college, a magazine review of the original Adobe Creative Suite put the price of…
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GitHub – fulcrumresearch/quibbler

đź’Ą Discover this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ Category: 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: Quibbler is a critic for your coding agent. It runs in the background and critiques your coding agent's actions, either via hooks or an MCP. When your coding agent is once again failing in the same ways, or ignoring your spec, instead of having to prompt it, the Quibbler agent will automatically observe and correct it. It will also learn rules from your usage, and then enforce them so you don't have to. demo.mp4 We've found Quibbler useful in automatically preventing agents from: Fabricating…
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Claude Status – Elevated errors on claude.ai

Claude Status – Elevated errors on claude.ai

đź’Ą Check out this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ Category: 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: Subscribe to updates for Elevated errors on claude.ai via email and/or text message. You'll receive email notifications when incidents are updated, and text message notifications whenever Claude 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) Benin (+229) Bermuda…
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