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Oh wow, this is perfect reading for me. One of my first college career fair questions was "Tell me how you would program an elevator". Forgot what sad attempt at an answer I gave, …

Yes, the high ranking employee at the center of the accusations is not Ive, but Tang Tan, former VP of product design https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8w379e091o

I don't know about just the past 6 months, but past 10-20 years, sure? I think software today has to handle much more varied and complicated I/O at a much bigger scale than it did …

How often do companies issue a $25B bond the same month that they IPO?

Deck: Backyard Baseball, a favorite game for 1990s kids, had been off the market for years. But Lindsay Barnett was determined. Non-paywall: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/styl…

First part of the very long tweet: Bad news #1: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself. Bad news #2: 2–5% of people have this, too. Likely more, because it hides…

What a life. Survived the Vietnam War, tried to become a lawyer, became a music composer. And he got married to his soulmate at the age of 60, one year after receiving a lifetime a…

Being reminded of this anecdote from NYMag's recent cover story (which had previously been reported in a WSJ story[0]) about a Disney engineer who downloaded an AI-gen tool from Gi…

At the surface level, this sounds very similar to Theranos's mission: create a non-invasive testing method that replace traditionally invasive/costly testing methods so successfull…

I was using Fable to review my codebase and came back from the gym an hour later to find that I had suddenly used up my entire Max plan quota for the next 5 hours (I have never had…

Back when image-gen was made widely available (2023ish, feels like eons ago), there were people who took genuine satisfaction with their art prompting skills. It did come off as a …

The article says they looked at CS 10 and 61A, which IIRC are the intro classes at Berkeley. Why do you think that amounts to “cherry picking” versus being a reasonable starting po…

How do you imagine justice functioning in a system that lacks a statute of limitations?

Has Mir in the past ever implemented any kind of bans or restrictions for specific vendors or use cases?

Sounds like a ransom was paid: > With that responsibility in mind, Instructure reached an agreement with the unauthorized actor involved in this incident. As part of that agreement…

Non-paywall link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/world/asia/japan-care-wor...