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"AI polls" are fake polls (natesilver.net)

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Ambiguity Aversion: Why Unknown Probabilities Create Mispricing (philippdubach.com)

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Mythos Quest (thezvi.substack.com)

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Antarctica, and the Extreme Logistics of Human Exploration (a16z.news)

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Nate Silver: Iran is Trump's biggest political mistake (natesilver.net)

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Three Kinds of Not-Knowing (philippdubach.com)

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Visions of Mythos (thezvi.substack.com)

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Apple Says No iPhone in Lockdown Mode Has Ever Been Hacked (macrumors.com)

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Are Strings Still Our Best Hope for a Theory of Everything? (quantamagazine.org)

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The Energy Situation, Explained for Tech People (a16z.news)

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On-Device AI Models Might Be the Next Reason to Upgrade Your iPhone (philippdubach.com)

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The EU Parliament has voted against (full) Chat Control (twitter.com/martinsonneborn)

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There are only two paths left for software (a16z.news)

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The Federal AI Policy Framework: An Improvement (thezvi.substack.com)

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The internet ruined customer service. AI could save it (a16z.news)

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Catastrophe and Corporate Bonds: A Unified Approach to Pricing Disaster Risks (ssrn.com)

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Why Are We Still Doing This? (wheresyoured.at)

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Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit over Its AI 'Expert Review' Feature (wired.com)

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MCP vs. A2A (philippdubach.com)

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Why the World Still Runs on SAP (a16z.news)

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JPEG Compression (sophielwang.com)

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Why Do Humanoid Robots Still Struggle with the Small Stuff? (quantamagazine.org)

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See You in Court (thezvi.substack.com)

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Institutional AI vs. Individual AI (a16z.news)

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What founders get wrong about selling to enterprises (a16zcrypto.substack.com)

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AI Commoditization: Open-Source Parity Is a Pricing Problem (philippdubach.com)

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Investigation complete – Unable to diagnose with current information (lapcatsoftware.com)

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AI Capex 2026: The $690B Arms Race and FCF Collapse (philippdubach.com)

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Top Gen AI Consumer Apps: March 2026 (a16z.news)

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TypeScript surpassed Python, JavaScript to become most-used language on GitHub (github.blog)

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Agentic commerce won't kill cards, but it will open a gap (a16zcrypto.substack.com)

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The Evolving Foundations of Math (quantamagazine.org)

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When AI Labs Become Defense Contractors (philippdubach.com)

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Don't rely on GitHub Actions cron: jobs may be delayed or just dropped (docs.github.com)

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Netflix Declines to Raise Offer for Warner Bros (netflix.net)

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Nvidia and Analyslop (wheresyoured.at)

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OpenAI's Kevin Weil on the Future of Scientific Discovery (speedrun.substack.com)

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NOVO Was Europe's Most Valuable Company (philippdubach.com)

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Apple Plans to Manufacture Mac Mini in Houston (wsj.com)

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GLP-1 Second-Order Effects

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Passive investing and Big Tech: an ill-fated match (risk.net)

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From Energy Use to Air Quality, the Many Ways Data Centers Affect US Communities (wri.org)

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How Standards Proliferate (xkcd.com)

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Charts of the Week: Open Weight Models Are (Very) Close (a16z.news)

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The Prisoner's Dilemma of Super Bowl Ad Economics (philippdubach.com)

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Hierarchies of Storage from Electrons to Bits (syncretica.substack.com)

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Jack Altman's 5 Lessons on Finding Product-Market Fit [video] (youtube.com)

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A Primer on Factory Economics for Startups (a16z.news)

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The Impossible Backhand (philippdubach.com)

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Dwarkesh Patel's 2026 Podcast with Dario Amodei (thezvi.substack.com)

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Which AI coding tools are you using? (Monthly Agentic Coding Index Survey) (actiindex.org)

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Tinder Hasn't Worked, So I'm Putting Myself on Zillow (mcsweeneys.net)

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Why Managers Sabotage Top Talent: Harvard Study on Incentive Design and Status (philippdubach.com)

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February 2026 Software Sell-Off: The SaaSpocalypse Is a Pricing Error (philippdubach.com)

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Fed on Reams of Cell Data, AI Maps New Neighborhoods in the Brain (quantamagazine.org)

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Substack CEO Chris Best: 'You can't define success as 'no one is ever mad at us' (speedrun.substack.com)

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Show HN: I built a Chrome extension for instant back-of-envelope DCF models (chromewebstore.google.com)

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Claude Opus 4.6 Escalates Things Quickly (thezvi.substack.com)

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Drupal's AI Roadmap for 2026 (dri.es)

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Don't Go Monolithic; the Enterprise Agent Stack Is Stratifying (philippdubach.com)

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The Case for Scaling Venture (a16z.news)

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Notes to myself: 65 principles distilled from 10k posts (seths.blog)

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State of Mobile 2026: Apps Beat Games for First Time (philippdubach.com)

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Of course they're putting ads in AI (a16z.news)

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Ask HN: My 2nd ever Quant Finance and ML Newsletter. Help me improve (philippdubach.com)

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Agentic Vision in Gemini 3 Flash (blog.google)

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PaperBanana: Automating Academic Illustration for AI Scientists (huggingface.co)

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Death of Software. Nah (a16z.news)

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Here we go Claude Opus 4.6 with 1M token context window and 128K output (twitter.com/philippdubach)

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Show HN: CloudCounter – Serverless GoatCounter on Cloudflare Pages and D1 (github.com/philippdubach)

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Who's in Charge? Disempowerment Patterns in Real-World LLM Usage (arxiv.org)

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What makes an engineer when everyone can vibe code (twitter.com/rohit4verse)

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Against All Odds: The Mathematics of 'Provably Fair' Casino Games (philippdubach.com)

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Self-Improving AI Skills (dri.es)

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Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard? (quantamagazine.org)

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AI creates asymmetric pressure on Open Source (dri.es)

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In Defence of Bad Weather (thinkingrock.substack.com)

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Britain's Strategic Limbo (philippdubach.com)

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Online Gambling Paradox: Cryptographic Verification and Behavioral Harm (ssrn.com)

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Help us benchmark Agentic AI adoption patterns (Last day for Jan survey) (actiindex.org)

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Technology in 1776 (a16z.news)

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LLM Ad Blockers are coming (idiallo.com)

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Hidden Preference to Auto-Resize Columns in the Finder on macOS (realmacsoftware.com)

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Claude's Constitutional Structure (thezvi.substack.com)

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Claude skill that researches any topic across Reddit and X from the last 30 days (github.com/mvanhorn)

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Securely run operating systems on your Mac (getutm.app)

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Survey: Building a "TIOBE Index" for AI Coding Agents (160 more answers needed) (agentic-coding-survey.pages.dev)

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Proving You Know a Product (johndcook.com)

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Show HN: RSS Swipr - Find Blogs Like You Find Your Dates (philippdubach.com)

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Most enterprise AI strategy is backwards (philippdubach.com)

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How to Meditate (Without an Om in Sight) (wired.com)

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TJ Maxx Could Be a Dependable AI Bubble Hedge (finimize.substack.com)

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Negotiating Relationships with ChatGPT (arxiv.org)

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Why Submit to AI in Production: Speaking as a Tool for Better Work (r-bloggers.com)

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Ozempic Is Reshaping the Fast Food Industry (philippdubach.com)

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Ask HN: Are you “addicted” to coding with AI?

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You Only Have 47 Seconds (thinkingrock.substack.com)

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Gary Marcus on the Problems Facing AI and LLM Scaling [video] (youtube.com)

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The Copyrightability of Fonts Revisited (matthewbutterick.com)

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If you want to understand any society, look at what it creates (philippdubach.com)