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Product Manager – Discretionary Technology

https://apply.deshaw.com/ValidateUrl.html?url=Ads/YC/PMDTechAug25&entity=DESCO
1•deshaw•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Transcription Service for Legal and Court TRM Files

https://speechtext.ai/legal-transcription
1•robgehring•8m ago•0 comments

Russia's Most Wanted Hackers [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhfI0EboPU0
1•danielmorozoff•15m ago•0 comments

A proof of concept to put a better Emacs UI on top of Gnuplot

http://yummymelon.com/devnull/a-proof-of-concept-to-put-a-better-emacs-ui-on-top-of-gnuplot.html
1•kickingvegas•21m ago•0 comments

AI Companion Conditions

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-companion-conditions
1•paulpauper•23m ago•0 comments

My Playbook for full-stack MVP with Claude Code

https://nocodo.com/playbook/
1•brainless•23m ago•1 comments

Redesigning the Intrinsic Perspective

https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/redesigning-the-intrinsic-perspective
1•paulpauper•24m ago•0 comments

Dumbphone Finder

https://josebriones.org/dumbphone-finder
1•thunderbong•26m ago•0 comments

My Brainrot Demands Slop: Infinite Jest and GenAI

https://mattwie.se/infinite-jest-genai-slop
1•mattwiese•35m ago•0 comments

The Gypsy document editor from Xerox PARC: celebrating 50 years

https://digitalseams.com/blog/the-gypsy-document-editor-celebrating-50-years
1•bobbiechen•39m ago•0 comments

Java will get Haskell's type classes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz7Or9C0TpM
1•sharno•39m ago•1 comments

Private equity fundraising slides as sector's downturn deepens

https://www.ft.com/content/f7387912-1079-43d4-a9a2-2308989400d4
1•petethomas•42m ago•1 comments

Real-world gen AI use cases with technical blueprints

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/real-world-gen-ai-use-cases-with-techn...
1•tanelpoder•42m ago•0 comments

Altruistic Alignment in Governance, Industry, and Individuals

https://andytrattner.com/alignment/
1•andytratt•43m ago•1 comments

Engineering Earth. Building a prosperous future demands bold ideas [video]

https://aeon.co/videos/building-a-prosperous-future-demands-bold-ideas-these-are-some-of-the-boldest
1•hkhn•52m ago•0 comments

What Tailscale isn't: an anonymity service

https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-privacy-anonymity
3•akyuu•53m ago•0 comments

Step Right Up (Song)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Step_Right_Up_(song)
1•aspenmayer•56m ago•1 comments

The Unix-HATERS handbook (1994) [pdf]

https://simson.net/ref/ugh.pdf
2•oliverkwebb•1h ago•0 comments

How to generate uniformly random points on n-spheres and in n-balls

https://extremelearning.com.au/how-to-generate-uniformly-random-points-on-n-spheres-and-n-balls/
1•tzs•1h ago•0 comments

AI will take a bite out of software valuations

https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/ai-will-take-bite-out-software-valuations-2025-0...
1•petethomas•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Peroxide – P2P Multiplayer Pong on GitHub Pages (WebRTC and Rust/WASM)

https://sueszli.github.io/peroxide/
1•sueszli•1h ago•0 comments

The Platform for Building Agents

https://agents.cloudflare.com/
2•mooreds•1h ago•0 comments

Are we creating intelligence, or discovering it?

https://medium.com/@ivanmworozi_52873/the-intelligence-recipe-a-worm-a-transformer-and-the-future...
1•hadrianhu•1h ago•0 comments

The Cowboy of Generic Drugs

https://www.alexkesin.com/p/the-cowboy-of-generic-drugs
1•quadrin•1h ago•0 comments

Gamers Nexus: Our Channel Could Be Deleted [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUnRWh4xOCY
3•maxnevermind•1h ago•0 comments

I'm fighting for my freedom using outdated technology

https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2025/08/19/prisons-outdated-technology-hurts-our-chances-at-f...
18•danso•1h ago•1 comments

HTTP/3

https://httpwg.org/specs/rfc9114.html
1•TheFreim•1h ago•0 comments

Warming the atmosphere: Clear waters emit more methane than turbid waters

https://phys.org/news/2025-08-atmosphere-emit-methane-turbid.html
1•PaulHoule•1h ago•0 comments

The Unusual Nonprofit That Helps ICE Spy on Wire Transfers

https://theintercept.com/2025/04/14/ice-surveillance-wire-western-union-arizona-trac/
5•nxobject•1h ago•0 comments

Prompt engineering is collapsing – GPT-5 just proved it

6•yuer2025•1h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Nick Clegg: If the people who ran FB were monsters, I wouldn't have worked there

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/23/facebook-nick-clegg-tech-bros-trump-leaving-silicon-valley
7•donsupreme•2h ago

Comments

biglyburrito•2h ago
Keep in mind that this guy was a Brexit advocate. He was also "hired [by Facebook] as a lobbyist and public relations officer". So yeah, this is exactly something I'd expect a paid hack to say.
orionblastar•2h ago
You mean this is not grass roots but astroturf?
techpineapple•1h ago
“I got paid 100 million dollars to launder the reputation of monsters, and I’d do it again” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
pinewurst•1h ago
"If Satan was such a bad guy, I would've never sold my soul to him!"
digianarchist•1h ago
Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg author of "How To Stop Brexit (And Make Britain Great Again)" was a Brexit advocate?
blibble•1h ago
he directly supported an in-out referendum, at the point he thought it would get him into power

https://www.libdemvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Clegg...

(the leaflet is complete gold, he even criticises the tories for not offering a proper one)

there was also this amazing speech by him: https://youtu.be/cDcR_6x7GgI?t=812

which is exactly what he then did after he lost the referendum, just like his japanese soldiers

the man is a total hypocrite of the highest order

digianarchist•1h ago
Supporting a referendum on EU membership and advocating for Brexit are not the same thing.
polka_haunts_us•1h ago
The whole point of the Lib Dems supporting an in-out referendum was that in the event they were actually elected to power and therefore able to enact their platform, the UK would be in a state where they would obviously support "in" because the only people who would ever vote for the Lib Dems were people who were EU maximalists.
blibble•1h ago
that strategy worked great for the Tories
polka_haunts_us•53m ago
The Tories were notably not a EU maximalist party and the only reason they added support for an in-out referendum was due to pressure from the side of the party who wanted "out".

The Tories are in fact not the same party as the Lib Dems, whose leader at the time, Nick Clegg, this thread is about. I'm not really sure why you're bringing them up.

blibble•39m ago
> The Tories were notably not a EU maximalist party

funny, I distinctly remember the party spending a vast amount of money trying to get the British to vote Remain

> The Tories are in fact not the same party as the Lib Dems, whose leader at the time, Nick Clegg, this thread is about.

you're... the one responding to my sub-thread, where I mentioned them in my first post

the tory connection is obviously relevant to Clegg's political career, where his main accomplishment was working with them, destroying his own party in the process

blibble•1h ago
I am convinced facebook didn't realise that Clegg was only part of a minor third party

he ended up as "deputy PM" (itself a made up job), due to a 1 in 100 election quirk of the system

they thought they were getting the Obama's administration's Biden

but no, he was the Jill Stein

digianarchist•1h ago
Hung parliaments are not a "1 in 100 electoral quirk" they've happened multiple times in the last 100 years.
treetalker•1h ago
I don't work for monsters.

I worked for the people who ran Facebook.

Therefore the people who ran Facebook weren't monsters.

QED!