Public companies in America are required by law to publish one number: the ratio between what it pays its CEO and what it pays its median worker. The rule has been in force since 2017. The number sits in every proxy statement on...
There’s a version of career advice that often gets handed down: Find your passion early, specialize fast, build your personal brand. It’s tidy, and looks good on paper, but it bears almost no resemblance to how most successful...
The attempt by Australia’s Securities Exchange (ASX) to replace its core trading platform with a blockchain-based system has ended with an A$20.5 million fine ($14.2 million/£10.6 million), further humiliation after the project...
A government customer of NSO Group used the company’s Pegasus spyware to hack into the phone of a European politician, who at the time was serving on an EU committee tasked with investigating the spyware industry.
After the Nintendo 3DS saw various Nintendo 64-era titles like Super Mario 64, Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask ported to it, there was a lot of speculation that the GameCube/Wii title of Twilight Princess might soon make its...
Article URL: https://stefan.schueller.net/posts/the-free-market-lie/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48770647 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Amazon Web Services will stop accepting new customers for its Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing service, and not even AI can save it. Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourcing marketplace that allows users to post gigs, and workers to bid...
Article URL: https://cjohnson.io/history Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48770226 Points: 5 # Comments: 2
Researchers [Charles Ye], [Jasmine Cui], and [Dylan Hadfield-Menell] have shown that AI Large Language Models (LLMs) can fail to correctly distinguish between different instruction sources because they prioritize writing style...
Article URL: https://www.caseyliss.com/2026/7/2/carplay-is-additive-you-dolts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48769397 Points: 11 # Comments: 2
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During a 48-hour period from June 7 to 8, developer Charles Jones’s Google Cloud account registered $11,089.77 in charges – most related to the use of Gemini image-generation models. Yet Jones, a solo developer who...
