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Post #232583 2.54K Sep 21, 2026, 04:57 UTC

Winning the Visa Lottery
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www.aeaweb.org Winning the visa lottery Evidence from a US government lottery shows that restricting foreign low-skill workers shrinks businesses without creating jobs for Americans.

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Post #232582 4.51K Sep 21, 2026, 02:25 UTC

Can I Let My AI Agent Run on Shabbat?
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Chabad.org Can I Let My AI Agent Run on Shabbat? AI “agents” are advanced software systems that can operate autonomously for extended periods. They can write and deploy code, respond to customer inquiries, process financial transactions, manage social media accounts, and handle many other tasks without…

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Post #232581 2.52K Sep 21, 2026, 01:26 UTC

I stopped drinking the AI Kool-Aid
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Joshtronic I stopped drinking the AI Kool-Aid - Joshtronic

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Post #232580 2.59K Sep 21, 2026, 00:20 UTC

Amiga Unix, Again
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Post #232579 2.65K Sep 20, 2026, 23:06 UTC

Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices
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Truthout Warren Introduces Bill to Ban Private Equity From Owning Medical Practices More than 80 percent of doctors are employed by corporate entities — a massive increase from 62 percent seven years ago.

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Post #232578 2.46K Sep 20, 2026, 23:01 UTC

What Happened to the Snowden Archive
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Post #232577 2.46K Sep 20, 2026, 22:57 UTC

Custom home server built from spare parts
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Carlos Asmat Carlos Asmat - I went banaNAS Google nagged me into this, along with every other enshittified cloud ~~provider~~ dealer. For about a year, my phone warned me that the account was nearly…

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Post #232576 2.42K Sep 20, 2026, 22:46 UTC

Google's Open Agentic Orchestrator
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agentexecutor.io AX Declare an agentic task in YAML. AX sandboxes it, wires up its workspace, fences its network, and helps running it at scale.

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Post #232575 2.41K Sep 20, 2026, 22:10 UTC

Trying the Software Factory Pattern
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Lethain Trying the Software factory pattern. One of the interesting challenges of the AI ecosystem in 2026 is that new, effective patterns emerge faster than I can adopt them. I’ll find a handful, get back to work, and realize a month later that I’d missed four or five more. The adoption cycle for Imprint…

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Post #232574 2.37K Sep 20, 2026, 22:10 UTC

Nipple tattooist 'frustrated' by online censorship
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Bbc Nipple tattooist 'frustrated' by online censorship Lauren Carter says her tattoos on post-mastectomy patients are flagged as nudity and banned.

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Post #232573 2.35K Sep 20, 2026, 21:22 UTC

Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to
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seldo.com Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to. The first time I thought it would be a good idea to write a blog post about the economics of open source was 2013, so this post has been in the works a while. The closest I got before today was 2022, when I wrote a stream-of-consciousness rant into my iOS…

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Post #232572 2.5K Sep 20, 2026, 21:17 UTC

Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington
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Substack Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington Selling snake oil to the United States Congress is an ancient American craft, and the frontier artificial intelligence industry is currently attempting the most audacious hustle in modern corporate history.

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Post #232571 2.43K Sep 20, 2026, 20:46 UTC

Software Sandboxing: The Basics
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Post #232570 2.6K Sep 20, 2026, 20:18 UTC

The Hierarchy of Money
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Gregorygundersen The Hierarchy of Money

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Post #232569 2.66K Sep 20, 2026, 20:00 UTC

Why MCP Was Always a Bad Idea
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Maharshi Patel Why MCP Was Always a Bad Idea Why MCP was always a bad idea and I'm tired of pretending it's not.

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Post #232568 2.55K Sep 20, 2026, 19:20 UTC

US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution
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Post #232567 2.51K Sep 20, 2026, 18:31 UTC

I Am Often Wrong
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Boris Cherny’s Blog I am often wrong [I shared this note with my team earlier this week, and am posting it here as well. I hope it is interesting or helpful for others working on building product in the age of AI.]

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Post #232566 2.62K Sep 20, 2026, 18:21 UTC

Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++
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GitHub GitHub - adonis-singh/re4: Resident Evil 4 (GameCube, G4BE08 debug build) — complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++ Resident Evil 4 (GameCube, G4BE08 debug build) — complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++ - adonis-singh/re4

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Post #232565 2.47K Sep 20, 2026, 18:13 UTC

People hate Flock so much its employees are now demoralized and quitting
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Neowin People hate Flock so much its employees are now demoralized and thinking of quitting If you've been criticizing Flock online, your comments may be hitting harder than you think. Some employees say the backlash is affecting morale, and some are now considering quitting.

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Post #232564 2.25K Sep 20, 2026, 18:05 UTC

Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM
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Seoul Economic Daily Samsung to Double HBM4 Output Next Year, Sources Say Samsung Electronics is set to more than double HBM4 and HBM4E output next year, lifting glass carrier demand 2.5-fold, industry sources said.

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