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As someone who has been in the messaging industry for more than a decade, it sounds naive to think that the litmus test for whether Apple will ban you is whether your traffic quali…

Hi HN! I'm a former Facebook engineer who has struggled with smartphone / social media usage (ironic) for many years. The accountability of a personal trainer really worked for me …

I hear Kyle Rittenhouse is also coming on board as a junior associate.

Brilliant move. The transition of the major social networks over the last 10-15 years -- from being a space for friends to interact to being a space to consume content produced by …

Zabit | Staff or Principal Mobile Engineer | REMOTE (Europe preferred) | Full-time We're a small behavioral health + AI startup looking for a seasoned mobile engineer with specific…

Nice work! Can you export for multichannel playback or is it binaural / stereo?

Keep in mind this is just the lobbying that requires disclosure, which is a tiny sliver of the overall policy effort. There's a whole constellation of consultants, think tanks, ind…

For me outright deletion just led to other issues like missing out on events / family photos / chats with people I otherwise wasn’t connected to. The target for most people is prob…

Zabit | Staff or Principal Mobile Engineer | REMOTE (Europe preferred) | Full-time We're a small behavioral health + AI startup looking for a seasoned mobile engineer with specific…

As someone who's worked in the wireless messaging / telecom industry, the "Salt Typhoon" news came as absolutely no surprise. The major U.S. carriers don't have the capacity or tal…

My team is using tools like Copilot, Phind and Coderabbit, but these seem mostly useful for code suggestions and feedback related to individual files. Is anyone successfully using …

Zabit | Staff software engineer | Full-time | Remote (Hungary or California) Zabit is a small startup building messaging applications that pair human workers with AI to enable affo…

Mike Masnick is funded by Google via his Copia institute, so any time Mike rails against a proposed regulation of Google / YouTube you should probably just dismiss it.

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Fun fact: Theo Baker, the student journalist for the Stanford Daily who broke (and continues to break) major portions of this Marc Tessier-Lavigne scandal, is the son of Peter Bake…

Contrarian prediction: OpenAI will be just fine. The board will bring in an adult CEO who can balance the nonprofit charter with Microsoft and the commercial business, and who does…

On the AI policy side: https://aipoliticalpulse.substack.com/

"The Biden administration’s chip export controls, which restricted China’s access to the most advanced GPU chips, were an initial attempt to ensure U.S. AI supremacy and reduce the…

Credit where credit is due: there was a ton of cynicism about whether the government had the expertise to come up with sensible regulations. Whatever your specific qualms are with …

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