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💥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: In 2022, I wrote about the damning fall of events tech company Pollen. The short of it:Pollen seemed to have pulled off the improbable feat of building a business in the notoriously low margin industry of events, surviving Covid-19, and building a solid software engineering organization. In April this year, the company announced it had raised another $150M in fresh funding.But just three weeks later, Pollen laid off about 200 people, a third of staff. Leadership assured employees all was well. However, from that point on,…

🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The real issue is whether publishers of scientific journals should retroactively apply contemporary standards regarding duplicate publication or self-plagiarism to historical papers. The journal publishing norms in the early 20th century were substantially different. The emphasis was on achieving the widest dissemination of knowledge across a fragmented scientific community separated by language and geographical distance, publishing in many different journals. As a result, the boundaries were heavily blurred between lectures, conference proceedings, booklets, collected essays, published journal articles and so forth. The scientific enterprise has…

🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Today, the US grid is serving most datacenter load in the US, but we’re reaching a tipping point. As the insatiable demand for power of AI Labs and hyperscalers keeps accelerating, the grid simply can’t add capacity fast enough. That leaves Behind-The-Meter as the only way for the largest players to secure the power they need. Nearly a year ago, our Onsite Gas deep dive was the first to predict the fast rise of new entrants in the BTM gas equipment market. Since then, companies…

🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: This open-source ATS by HackerRank has been blowing up recently: https://github.com/interviewstreet/hiring-agentIt’s popped up on LinkedIn and Reddit with hundreds, sometimes thousands, of likes. A coworker mentioned it to me in passing a few days ago.I’ve decided to test it out.First working run: 90/100. Felt pretty good!I had some debug prints scattered around from troubleshooting the setup, so I cleaned those up and ran it again.74/100.Same resume. Same command. The only thing I changed was deleting print statements.I disabled DEVELOPMENT_MODE and put it in a…

💥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Quickstart · How it compares · How it works · Docs · CLI · Changelog Give your coding agent the decisions your team already made — so it stops re-doing things you ruled out. Lore keeps your team's recorded knowledge — requirements, decisions, designs, roadmaps, and prompts — as typed Markdown in your repo and serves it read-only to Claude Code, Cursor, and Claude Desktop over MCP, so the agent cites your decisions instead of violating them. No RAG, no embeddings, no model call to…