Articles by frereubu
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Social media is no longer social (bsky.app)

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Atlassian, AI sell-off’s worst-hit company, grapples with ‘SaaSpocalypse’ (ft.com)

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Who's a Better Writer: A.I. Or Humans? Take Our Quiz (nytimes.com)

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Fifty years of sexing up tech: Apple's epic hits – and misses (theguardian.com)

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Police arresting 1k paedophile suspects a month across UK (theguardian.com)

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Robert Moreno and the use of ChatGPT that defined his time at Sochi (beinsports.com)

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Louis Gerstner, man credited with turning around IBM, dies aged 83 (theguardian.com)

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Cara Hunter on the deepfake video that nearly ended her political career (theguardian.com)

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Iberia tells customers it was hit by a major security breach (techradar.com)

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OpenAI Made a $12B Loss Last Quarter, Microsoft Results Indicate (wsj.com)

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Only way to move Space Shuttle is to chop it into pieces, White House told (theregister.com)

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Ask HN: How do you control internet access for your kids?

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Sen Genshitsu, grandmaster of the tea ceremony, 1923-2025 (ft.com)

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The Great Crime Paradox (ft.com)

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Figma seeks $16B value in test of US tech IPO market (ft.com)

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Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default (theverge.com)

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Makers of air fryers and smart speakers told to respect users' right to privacy (theguardian.com)

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Great horse manure crisis of 1894 (wikipedia.org)

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Segal Method – Designing Buildings (designingbuildings.co.uk)

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Cognitive Debt (smithery.com)

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Home microgrids: a blueprint for the future of sustainable household energy? (ft.com)

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Microsoft-backed Builder.ai collapsed after finding potentially bogus sales (ft.com)

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Starbucks says cutting shop staff in favour of automation has failed (theguardian.com)

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Goldman Sachs-backed startup buys UK sounds studio in bet on AI music making (ft.com)

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Inside the dirtiest race in Olympic history (theguardian.com)

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Secure 'quantum messages' sent over telecoms network in breakthrough (ft.com)

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Why Catullus continues to seduce us (newyorker.com)

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The Great Political Films: The Social Network [podcast] (ppfideas.com)

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Cheating scandal shocks ski jumping, topples Olympic champions (apnews.com)

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OpenAI's metafictional short story about grief is beautiful and moving (theguardian.com)

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Chief of Microsoft-backed UK tech unicorn Builder.ai steps down (ft.com)

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E-Prime (wikipedia.org)

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North Korea steals $1.5B as it pulls off biggest ever heist (aol.com)

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Portland's Poisonous Past – Poison Idea Are Hardcore's Greatest of All Time 2013 (portlandmercury.com)

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'Here lives the monster's brain' The man who exposed Switzerland's dirty secrets (theguardian.com)

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Progressives Froze the American Dream (theatlantic.com)

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House prices plunge as council acts on second homes (bbc.co.uk)

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Fresh Asteroid, Getcher Fresh Asteroid Here (science.org)

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The 'Pure' Finders (1851) (archive.org)

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Signature moves: are we losing the ability to write by hand? (theguardian.com)

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Apple suspends AI-generated news alert service after BBC complaint (theguardian.com)

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Alvin Lucier – I Am Sitting in a Room [video] (youtube.com)

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Ghostty GitHub – Why users cannot create Issues directly (github.com/ghostty-org)

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Is There Any Escape from the Spotify Syndrome? (newyorker.com)

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The birth of Jesus would probably have been forgotten if it wasn't for a plague (theguardian.com)

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I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps, and I can't stop (arstechnica.com)

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World Famous Permaculture Property Tour, Holmgren and Dennett's Melliodora [video] (youtube.com)

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Tim Cook Wants Apple to Save Your Life (wired.com)

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The phony comforts of AI skepticism (platformer.news)

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Russian criminals helped UK drug gangs launder lockdown cash (bbc.co.uk)

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The Machine – Paul Kingsnorth (paulkingsnorth.substack.com)

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If Trump gets elected, get your tech buying done ASAP (theregister.com)

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'I'm suing the council for £495M because they won't give me back my bin bag' (walesonline.co.uk)

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Scam of the day: the fake "company-registry" preying on new companies (taxpolicy.org.uk)

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Bronowski Beat (davidhendy.substack.com)

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The next new film camera could come from Lego (dpreview.com)

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Underground cave found on moon could be ideal base for explorers (theguardian.com)

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Europe on high alert after suspected Moscow-linked arson and sabotage (theguardian.com)

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Yorkshire apostrophe fans demand road signs with nowt taken out (theguardian.com)

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Facebook Is Filled with AI-Generated Garbage–and Older Adults Are Being Tricked (thedailybeast.com)

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Failed American Startups: The Pony Express and Pets.com (3quarksdaily.com)

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Why Birds Are Smart (sciencedirect.com)

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Ørsted chief vows to fight 'with everything I've got' to revive fortunes (ft.com)

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Software as Hardware: Apollo's Rope Memory (2017) (ieee.org)

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Party in a Shared Google Doc (2020) (onezero.medium.com)

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Russia hacked ex-MI6 chief's emails, they reveal more Dad's Army than deep state (computerweekly.com)

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Discovery of loose bolts threatens wider 737 Max crisis for Boeing (ft.com)

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Alaska Airlines grounds 737 Max 9 planes after window blows out mid-air (bbc.co.uk)

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AI machine cannot be called an inventor, rules UK court (ft.com)

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China's ban on Apple's iPhone accelerates (reuters.com)

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Tesla loses Swedish court case, Finnish union joins port blockade (cnbc.com)

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We pulled off an SEO heist that stole 3.6M total traffic from a competitor (twitter.com/jakezward)

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Google and prominent telecom groups call on Brussels to act over Apple iMessage (ft.com)

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Time to get serious about the dangers of quantum computing (ft.com)

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The Man in Seat 61 – The train travel guide (seat61.com)

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China’s battery plant rush raises fears of global squeeze (ft.com)

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Sam Bankman-Fried planned to build apocalypse bunker on Nauru – lawsuit (theguardian.com)

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Knepp Rewilding Project (knepp.co.uk)

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SEC sues Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao for ‘mishandling billions of dollars’ (theguardian.com)

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Ask HN: Intellectually stimulating gaming sites for children

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OpenCore Legacy Patcher – Use new macOS versions on old hardware (dortania.github.io)

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AI could disrupt video-gaming (economist.com)

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Under 30-year sentences: why so many of Forbes’ young heroes face jail (theguardian.com)

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Don't panic about social media and your child's mental health – evidence is weak (inews.co.uk)

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UK to invest £900M in supercomputer in bid to build own ‘BritGPT’ (theguardian.com)

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Taking the Tesla to Truro? Warnings over lack of electric charging points (theguardian.com)

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It's Not a Dead Cat (samf.substack.com)

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‘They get the big picture’: the Swedish tech startup helping cities go green (theguardian.com)

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ChatGPT Ghostwriting and Publishing – SMS Novel (smsnovel.com)

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The Audit – What I got right and wrong in 2022 – Sam Freedman (samf.substack.com)

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Britain’s winter of discontent is the inevitable result of austerity (ft.com)

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Bitcoin has rallied. What are crypto’s true believers still smoking? (theguardian.com)

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Becoming a chatbot: my life as a real estate AI’s human backup (theguardian.com)

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Tell HN: Hover are having DNS issues

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We are maybe only weeks away from AI replacing the need for any of us on Twitter (twitter.com/psythor)

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Amazon makes a new push into health care (economist.com)

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UK chip designer Arm delays London listing until later in 2023 (theguardian.com)

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Elon Musk’s brutally honest management style (theatlantic.com)

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Landmark trial involving Tesla autopilot weighs if ‘man or machine’ at fault (theguardian.com)

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Spanish civil servant skips work for years without anyone noticing (2016) (theguardian.com)