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Your Phone is an Entire Computer

Your Phone is an Entire Computer

💥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Your iPhone (or any other smartphone) is a computer capable of running a complete desktop operating system, and has been so for quite some time. A week ago, Apple asked us to say hello to MacBook Neo. It's a very reasonably priced entrant to the Mac laptop line, just $599. It's perfect for students, priced at just $499 with an education discount. I have no arguments against this device's existence. But I couldn't help but also notice it comes equipped with an A18 Pro…
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Blocked

🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Blocked Your request has been blocked due to a network policy. Try logging in or creating an account here to get back to browsing. If you're running a script or application, please register or sign in with your developer credentials here. Additionally make sure your User-Agent is not empty and is something unique and descriptive and try again. if you're supplying an alternate User-Agent string, try changing back to default as that can sometimes result in a block. You can read Reddit's Terms of…
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Optimizing Content for Agents

Optimizing Content for Agents

🚀 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Just as useless of an idea as LLMs.txt was It’s all dumb abstractions that AI doesn’t need because AIs are as smart as humans so they can just use what was already there, which is APIs LLMs.txt is indeed useless, but that’s the only thing correct in this statement. I’m here once again being rage baited to address more brainless takes on social media. This one is about content optimization. Short and to the point: you should be optimizing content for agents, just as you…
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An investigation of the forces behind the age-verification bills [LWN.net]

🔥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: [Posted March 13, 2026 by corbet] Reddit user "Ok_Lingonberry3296" has posted the results of an extensive investigation into the companies that are pushing US state legislatures to enact age-verification bills. I've been pulling public records on the wave of "age verification" bills moving through US state legislatures. IRS 990 filings, Senate lobbying disclosures, state ethics databases, campaign finance records, corporate registries, WHOIS lookups, Wayback Machine archives. What started as curiosity about who was pushing these bills turned into documenting a coordinated influence operation that, from…
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Our Experience with i-Ready – Ryan Moulton’s Articles

Our Experience with i-Ready – Ryan Moulton’s Articles

🚀 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: When my son was in first grade, he came home from school in tears saying that he hated math. My wife and I are both engineers, so this was the sort of all-hands-on-deck shock that demanded our immediate attention. Before this my son had loved math. He would demand that we challenge him with math problems to do in his head in the car and over dinner. He loved doing flashcards. He played math games on his tablet unsupervised for hours. Even now, years later…
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I beg you to follow Crocker’s Rules, even if you will be rude to me

💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: spoiler: you probably won't!There is a concept called Crocker's Rules, and if you have never heard of it, the short version is this: you give people around you explicit permission to be maximally direct with you, to skip social cushioning. The person invoking Crocker's Rules is saying, in effect, "your feelings about how I might receive this are your problem to manage, not mine, just give me the information."So a person receiving a message bears responsibility for their own emotional reaction to its content. If…
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I Found 39 Algolia Admin Keys Exposed Across Open Source Documentation Sites

I Found 39 Algolia Admin Keys Exposed Across Open Source Documentation Sites

💥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Last October I reported an exposed Algolia admin API key on vuejs.org. The key had full permissions: addObject, deleteObject, deleteIndex, editSettings, the works. Vue acknowledged it, added me to their Security Hall of Fame, and rotated the key. That should have been the end of it. But it got me thinking: if Vue.js had this problem, how many other DocSearch sites do too? Turns out, a lot. How Algolia DocSearch works Algolia's DocSearch is a free search service for open source docs. They crawl your…
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TomBadash/MouseControl: A lightweight, open-source alternative to Logitech Options+ for remapping buttons on the Logitech MX Master 3S mouse · GitHub

TomBadash/MouseControl: A lightweight, open-source alternative to Logitech Options+ for remapping buttons on the Logitech MX Master 3S mouse · GitHub

✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A lightweight, open-source, fully local alternative to Logitech Options+ for remapping every programmable button on the Logitech MX Master 3S mouse. No telemetry. No cloud. No Logitech account required. macOS support — full macOS compatibility added thanks to andrew-sz, using CGEventTap for mouse hooking, Quartz CGEvent for key simulation, and NSWorkspace for app detection. See macOS Setup Guide for details. Remap all 6 programmable buttons — middle click, gesture button, back, forward, horizontal scroll left/right Per-application profiles — automatically switch button mappings when you switch…
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Digg – People. Places. Things.

🔥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Building on the internet in 2026 is different. We learned that the hard way. Today we're sharing difficult news: we've made the decision to significantly downsize the Digg team. This wasn't a decision made lightly, and it's important to say clearly: this is one of the strongest groups of people we've ever had the privilege of working with. This is not a reflection of their talent, their effort, or their belief in what we were building. It's a reflection of the brutal reality of finding…
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How do you capture WHY engineering decisions were made, not just what?

🚀 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: We onboarded a senior engineer recently strong, 8 years experience. He spent 3 weeks playing code archaeologist just to understand WHY our codebase looks the way it does.Not what the code does. That was fast. But the reasoning behind decisions:- Why Redis over in-memory cache? - Why GraphQL for this one service but REST everywhere else? - Why that strange exception in the auth flow for enterprise users?Answers were buried in closed PRs with no descriptions, 18-month-old Slack threads, and the heads of two…
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