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18

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

22 hours ago | frereubu | ft.com | frontpage

5

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

3 weeks ago | frereubu | theguardian.com | newest

2

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

3 weeks ago | frereubu | ft.com | newest

1

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

3 weeks ago | frereubu | theguardian.com | frontpage

2

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

4 weeks ago | frereubu | ft.com | newest

36

Why Catullus continues to seduce us (newyorker.com)

a month ago | frereubu | newyorker.com | frontpage

1

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

2 months ago | frereubu | ppfideas.com | newest

11

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

2 months ago | frereubu | apnews.com | frontpage

1

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

2 months ago | frereubu | theguardian.com | newest

3

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

2 months ago | frereubu | ft.com | newest

2

E-Prime (wikipedia.org)

2 months ago | frereubu | wikipedia.org | newest

4

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

3 months ago | frereubu | aol.com | frontpage

1

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

3 months ago | frereubu | portlandmercury.com | frontpage

9

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

3 months ago | frereubu | theguardian.com | frontpage

1

Progressives Froze the American Dream (theatlantic.com)

3 months ago | frereubu | theatlantic.com | newest

2

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

3 months ago | frereubu | bbc.co.uk | newest

2

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

3 months ago | frereubu | science.org | newest

1

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

4 months ago | frereubu | archive.org | newest

2

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

4 months ago | frereubu | theguardian.com | newest

3

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

4 months ago | frereubu | theguardian.com | frontpage

2

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

4 months ago | frereubu | youtube.com | newest

1

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

4 months ago | frereubu | github.com | newest

2

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

5 months ago | frereubu | newyorker.com | newest

3

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

5 months ago | frereubu | theguardian.com | newest

3

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

5 months ago | frereubu | arstechnica.com | newest

2

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

5 months ago | frereubu | youtube.com | newest

1

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

5 months ago | frereubu | wired.com | newest

4

The phony comforts of AI skepticism (platformer.news)

5 months ago | frereubu | platformer.news | frontpage

3

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

5 months ago | frereubu | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

1

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

6 months ago | frereubu | substack.com | newest

16

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

6 months ago | frereubu | theregister.com | frontpage

3

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

7 months ago | frereubu | walesonline.co.uk | newest

3

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

8 months ago | frereubu | taxpolicy.org.uk | newest

2

Bronowski Beat (davidhendy.substack.com)

9 months ago | frereubu | substack.com | newest

2

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

9 months ago | frereubu | dpreview.com | newest

2

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

10 months ago | frereubu | theguardian.com | newest

3

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

12 months ago | frereubu | theguardian.com | newest

5

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

a year ago | frereubu | theguardian.com | frontpage

24

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

a year ago | frereubu | thedailybeast.com | frontpage

1

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

a year ago | frereubu | 3quarksdaily.com | newest

1

Why Birds Are Smart (sciencedirect.com)

a year ago | frereubu | sciencedirect.com | newest

4

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

a year ago | frereubu | ft.com | newest

1

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

a year ago | frereubu | ieee.org | newest

3

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

a year ago | frereubu | medium.com | newest

1

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

a year ago | frereubu | computerweekly.com | newest

12

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

a year ago | frereubu | ft.com | best

3

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

a year ago | frereubu | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

2

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

a year ago | frereubu | ft.com | frontpage

6

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

a year ago | frereubu | reuters.com | frontpage

9

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

a year ago | frereubu | cnbc.com | frontpage

4

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

a year ago | frereubu | twitter.com | newest

6

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

a year ago | frereubu | ft.com | newest

5

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

a year ago | frereubu | ft.com | newest

3

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

a year ago | frereubu | seat61.com | newest

1

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

a year ago | frereubu | ft.com | newest

3

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

a year ago | frereubu | theguardian.com | newest

1

Knepp Rewilding Project (knepp.co.uk)

a year ago | frereubu | knepp.co.uk | newest

2

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

a year ago | frereubu | theguardian.com | frontpage

2

Ask HN: Intellectually stimulating gaming sites for children

2 years ago | frereubu | ycombinator.com | newest

28

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

2 years ago | frereubu | github.io | best

2

AI could disrupt video-gaming (economist.com)

2 years ago | frereubu | economist.com | newest

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

2 years ago | frereubu | theguardian.com | best

2

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

2 years ago | frereubu | inews.co.uk | newest

1

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

2 years ago | frereubu | theguardian.com | newest

3

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

2 years ago | frereubu | theguardian.com | newest

1

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

2 years ago | frereubu | substack.com | newest

1

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

2 years ago | frereubu | theguardian.com | newest

1

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

2 years ago | frereubu | smsnovel.com | newest

1

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

2 years ago | frereubu | substack.com | newest

3

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

2 years ago | frereubu | ft.com | newest

4

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

2 years ago | frereubu | theguardian.com | frontpage

8

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

2 years ago | frereubu | theguardian.com | frontpage

4

Tell HN: Hover are having DNS issues

2 years ago | frereubu | ycombinator.com | frontpage

11

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

2 years ago | frereubu | twitter.com | frontpage

5

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

2 years ago | frereubu | economist.com | newest

2

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

2 years ago | frereubu | theguardian.com | newest

7

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

2 years ago | frereubu | theatlantic.com | frontpage

2

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

2 years ago | frereubu | theguardian.com | frontpage

5

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

2 years ago | frereubu | theguardian.com | frontpage

2

Elon Musk to proceed with $44B buyout of Twitter after U-turn (theguardian.com)

2 years ago | frereubu | theguardian.com | newest

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Ask HN: 91-year-old's Hotmail account hacked, only automated support responses

2 years ago | frereubu | ycombinator.com | frontpage