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Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine Think A.I. Is Good for Music(nytimes.com)
7 points by frb 23d ago|0 comments
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by frb 2mo ago
Old bank notes are not in circulation forever. They are accounted for by serial numbers. Banks and ATMs can process the serials and designs and report them. Eventually bank notes get pulled out of circulation. So an old bank note is by defa
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by frb 2mo ago
> I wonder why do we need new notes... Every redesign introduces new (secret) watermarks, patterns that are hard to copy, so it's also a "tech" update. Eventually more and more of the details become public. By now the curr
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by frb 2mo ago
By now I’m more and more starting to wonder how this graph looks for Google itself
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by frb 2mo ago
I wanted to try it today. Had to request access on huggingface, which was still not answered after a day. Given all the Inkling and Kimi announcements, this atm just feels like too little too late to be taken seriously. That said, it’s thei
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by frb 2mo ago
I don’t understand Merz’s obsession with this sick leave topic, like this is going solve the economic crisis in Germany and calling people lazy will score points with voters? Fun fact: research shows it’s probably not better or worse than b
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by frb 3mo ago
But why would you still test for IE in 2026? Honest question. I’s < .5% market share and retired since 2023.
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by frb 3mo ago
All this felt heavy to me. Full browser, debug protocol, DOM dump on every read. MCP vs CLI is the smaller question, what sits underneath matters more. So I built a small Rust binary that drives the system webview directly and returns state
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by frb 3mo ago
Had the same experience with Claude, just somehow the entire thing felt (token) expensive.
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Palantir: Our thoughts on the importance of AI sovereignty(twitter.com)
1 points by frb 3mo ago|0 comments
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by frb 3mo ago
Put a maid's uniform on it and looks almost like Rosey for the Jetsons (1962): https://thejetsons.fandom.com/wiki/Rosey Now honest question: How is all of that Daily Reset and Laundry stuff going to work if you ha
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by frb 3mo ago
...the influx of contributions authored or submitted by AI is sapping the projects' maintainers of their willingness to confront the "already tedious" work of reviewing pull requests.... To me this seems a core issue:
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Zombie unicorns are haunting Silicon Valley(economist.com)
3 points by frb 3mo ago|0 comments
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400B Parameter Model: Consortium "Europa" Wins AI Competition(heise.de)
3 points by frb 3mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Vibesurfer – a token-efficient browser for AI agents, no Chromium/CDP(github.com)
3 points by frb 3mo ago|0 comments
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Dear A.I. Companies: The Doom Trolling Needs to Stop(nytimes.com)
8 points by frb 3mo ago|2 comments
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JPMorgan Chase cuts off Anthropic access for its Hong Kong staff(ft.com)
6 points by frb 3mo ago|0 comments
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by frb 3mo ago
It looks like an updated HomePod mini
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Anthropic's latest feud with the Trump admin may help it, sales data suggests(techcrunch.com)
2 points by frb 3mo ago|0 comments
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Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel's Secretive 'Dialog' Society(wired.com)
181 points by frb 3mo ago|35 comments
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ChatGPT's market share slips below 50% for first time(techcrunch.com)
5 points by frb 3mo ago|0 comments
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SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO(techcrunch.com)
28 points by frb 3mo ago|3 comments
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The 5% freakout: Inside tech elites' war against the California billionaire tax(sfstandard.com)
7 points by frb 3mo ago|0 comments
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by frb 3mo ago
I’m working on tools optimized for agents, not humans, as the main users. Token efficiency, state, and loops matter more here than traditional UX. - vibesurfer ( https://github.com/frane/vibesurfer ): a web browser for a
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Anthropic makes Fable 5's invisible safeguards visible after backlash(xcancel.com)
2 points by frb 3mo ago|0 comments
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by frb 3mo ago
In my recent quest to build agent-as-primary-user tools I've built grpvn ( https://github.com/frane/grpvn ), a small Go/SQLite application that lets skill- and mcp-capable agents talk to each other. Biggest iss
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Claude Opus 4.8 Max responding to an empty message(xcancel.com)
27 points by frb 4mo ago|4 comments
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Dutch govt. blocks US company from acquisition, citing 'risk to public interest'(techcrunch.com)
2 points by frb 4mo ago|0 comments
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by frb 4mo ago
I feel the same and don’t get the extreme AI is inherently evil vs. AI is the best thing ever invented discussions. For me it’s all just emacs vs vi or tabs vs spaces kind of discussions. It’s a tool and the good old sh* in sh* out principl
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by frb 4mo ago
Was thinking the same recently. It feels like an arms race on who’s gonna become the Microsoft of the 90s, trying to own and provide everything. I think it will play out in the same way

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