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D-squared Digest — FOR bigger pies and shorter hours and AGAINST more or less everything else

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✨ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A subtle change has been made to the comments links, so they no longer pop up. Does this in any way help with the problem about comments not appearing on permalinked posts, readers? Update, September 2008. Hullo there Paul Krugman readers. Yes, I did say "Good ideas do not need lots of lies told about them in order to gain public acceptance", and as a general maxim I wholeheartedly recommend it. I don't necessarily, however, either endorse or whatever-the-opposite-of-endorse the specific use…

Castlery promo code: Save up to 15% April 2026

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💥 Read this trending post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Deals,Coupons 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Since launching as a direct-to-consumer furniture brand in 2013, Castlery has built a reputation for forward-designed products that look good and work better. Castlery's aesthetic leans toward mid-century modern, favoring earthy tones, rounded edges, and natural wood finishes that are more timeless than fleeting trends. But this is the job that WIRED won. Think: hidden storage compartments, modular layouts, multi-functional pieces, and performance fabrics that can withstand daily use. We also care about sustainability, and Castlery furniture is made to last. Many products…

Meet the new Cursor · Cursor

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🚀 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Software development is changing, and so is Cursor. In the last year, we moved from manually editing files to working with agents that write most of our code. How we create software will continue to evolve as we enter the third era of software development, where fleets of agents work autonomously to ship improvements. We're building toward this future, but there is a lot of work left to make it happen. Engineers are still micromanaging individual agents, trying to keep track of different conversations, and…

Cash App launches Pay Later feature for P2P transfers

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✨ Discover this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Fintech,bnpl,Cash App 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Cash App, the peer-to-peer fintech app owned by Jack Dorsey's Block, has launched a new deferred payment feature "Pay Over Time" that allows eligible users to pay for their daily transfers over an extended period of time. Businesses increasingly offered deferred payments for everyday and relatively mundane purchases. About a year ago, DoorDash partnered with Klarna — allowing users to “microfinance” their food orders (the partnership notably inspired a wave of online jokes about “burrito debt” and late capitalism). Cash App's new feature clearly…

The open web isn’t dying. We’re killing it

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🚀 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: I just read Anil Dash’s recent piece, Endgame for the Open Web, and I think it is important. He is right to point out that the open web is under pressure from powerful companies which have grown rich by extracting value from open systems and are now increasingly hostile to the norms that made those systems possible in the first place. That said, I think it is important to be careful not to turn this into a story where AI is the problem, or…

Commonwealth Fusion Systems is counting on magnets for near-term revenue

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✨ Read this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Startups,Climate,Commonwealth Fusion Systems,fusion power,magnets,nuclear fusion,Realta Fusion ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Commonwealth Fusion Systems said Thursday it will sell high-temperature superconducting magnets to Realta Fusion, the second in a series of deals that signal the company will rely heavily on its magnet technology in the coming years to generate much-needed revenue. “It is the largest deal of this type to date for CFS,” Rick Needham, the company’s chief commercial officer, told reporters by phone. Commonwealth Fusion Systems, or CFS, previously sold magnets to the WHAM experiment at the University of Wisconsin,…

US-Israeli bombing destroys oldest medical research center in Iran, official says

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🚀 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: US-Israeli strikes hit one of the leading health research institutions in Iran, a government official said Thursday, as relief agencies warned against mass attacks on medical facilities in the region. The Pasteur Institute of Iran, one of the “century-old pillars” of global health in the region, was struck in a “direct assault on international health security,” Hossein Kermanpour, head of the information center at the Iranian Ministry of Health, posted on X. Established in 1920, the institute is the first and oldest public health…

Tesla’s cheaper cars aren’t helping its sales decline

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🚀 Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Transportation,electric vehicles,Elon Musk,EVs,Tesla 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Tesla spent more than a year touting the appearance of "affordable" cars on the way, and they finally arrived last October, with stripped-down versions of the Model Y and Model 3 starting at $39,990 and $36,990, respectively. But new vehicles don't move the needle much for Tesla's overall sales, first-quarter numbers show. Tesla said Thursday it delivered 358,023 electric vehicles globally in the first three months of the year, lower than analysts' expectations of about 368,000. The company also produced much more than…

A Few Good Magazines from the 70s and 80s

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✨ Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Youngsters may find it hard to imagine, and us oldsters may find it hard to remember, but in the late 1970s through most of the 1980s, there were several very good magazines being published. This is a personal remembrance of periodicals I knew and loved. Not all of them are explicitly "tech" magazines, but each of them expressed an optimism for technology and the future. It's not all tech in this list, but we're definitely starting with tech. BYTE was by far my favorite. It…

ICE says it purchased Paragon’s spyware for use in drug trafficking cases

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🚀 Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,cybersecurity,DHS,Homeland Security Investigations,HSI,ICE,paragon,Paragon Solutions,Spyware,u.s. immigration and customs enforcement 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The acting head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told lawmakers that he purchased and used spyware made by Paragon Solutions in drug trafficking cases, according to a letter seen by TechCrunch. Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons wrote in the letter to three members of Congress that he approved the agency's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) criminal investigation unit using "sophisticated technological tools" to counter foreign terrorist organizations' "burgeoning exploitation of encrypted communications platforms," referring to spyware. Law…