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The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making "lazy" look productive

I've been reflecting on how LLMs are changing our learning habits as engineers, and realized something worrying. AI can now quickly help search and research information, distilling the core of a paper into a concise summary. It lets you pick up a ter

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ICAO issued new power bank restriction on flight

Article URL: https://www.icao.int/news/new-power-bank-restrictions-will-safeguard-international-aviation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47554948 Points: 11 # Comments: 2

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AI chatbots are "Yes-Men" that reinforce bad relationship decisions, study finds

Article URL: https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/03/ai-advice-sycophantic-models-research Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47554773 Points: 200 # Comments: 153

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Going Founder Mode on Cancer

Article URL: https://centuryofbio.com/p/sid Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47550016 Points: 7 # Comments: 1

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Anthropic’s Claude popularity with paying consumers is skyrocketing

Estimates for total Claude consumer users are all over the map (we've seen figures ranging from 18 million to 30 million). Anthropic hasn't disclosed this data, but a spokesperson did tell TechCrunch that Claude paid subscriptions have more than doub

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What will power the grid in 2035? The race is wide open

Fusion, fission, and even natural gas are appeared tied in the race to deliver new power to the grid in the early 2030s.

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Let’s take a look at the retro tech making a comeback

Boomboxes, instant cameras, and even landlines are making a comeback. Here are the coolest retro-inspired devices available.

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Explanation for why we don't see two-foot-long dragonflies anymore fails

Breathing capacity could have compensated for lower atmospheric oxygen.

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Causality optional? Testing the "indefinite causal order" superposition

A quantum experiment shows that we can formally test if the order of events matters.

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You Do Not, in Fact, Have to Hand It to Them

Article URL: https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/you-do-not-in-fact-have-to-hand-it-to-them/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47554412 Points: 30 # Comments: 13

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How to implement the Outbox pattern in Go and Postgres

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ4S-5MirvU Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47554344 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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Byte Interviews Chuck Peddle, Father of the MOS 6502 and Commodore PET (1982)

Article URL: https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/byte-interviews-chuck-peddle-father Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553957 Points: 17 # Comments: 1

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Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables

Article URL: https://grid.iamkate.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553484 Points: 158 # Comments: 99

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From Moon hotels to cattle herding: 8 startups investors chased at YC Demo Day

We polled nearly a dozen VCs to find out which W26 startups are the sought after in the batch.

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Getting formal about quantum mechanics' lack of causality

A quantum experiment shows that we can formally test if the order of events matters.