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Kent Beck to junior engineers: nobody is counting your closed tasks
Kent Beck's advice to new engineers inverts the obvious assumption: the count of tasks you finish barely registers with the senior engineers around you. They co
Maker Plans to Drive a Two-Ton Motorized Banana Around the World
This is not a security or technology story in any conventional sense — it surfaced on Hacker News, but it's the personal project page of Steve, a hobbyist who b
Marketing Agency Clones an Author's Book, Then Outranks the Original Online
A San Francisco web design shop called Qontour (formerly Prompt Digital) built a polished site that republishes John Koenig's entire book, The Dictionary of Obs
New Outlook's WebView2 architecture makes notification clicks 10x slower than Classic
Microsoft's web-based "new Outlook" for Windows 11 takes roughly 10 seconds to surface a specific email after you click its notification banner, while the Win32
Norway bars under-13s from AI in school, swings funding back to books
Norway is effectively banning generative AI for its youngest students. Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre announced on June 19, 2026 that pupils in grades one thro
SMPTE Opens Its Standards Library, Making Specs Freely Accessible
SMPTE — the standards body behind much of the technical backbone of film, television, and streaming, from timecode to the ST 2110 IP-video suite — is opening it
SpaceX IPO Pulls Americans' Retirement Savings Into the AI Bubble They Didn't Choose
SpaceX's public debut at a $1.77tn valuation — which made Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire — is set to entangle ordinary Americans' retirement savings w
The 3-30-300 rule: a simple tree test most cities fail
Urban forester Cecil Konijnendijk's 3-30-300 rule has become a popular shorthand for measuring fair access to nature: every home, school, and workplace should h
UK weighs 'age-gating' VPNs as part of under-16 social media ban
The UK government is preparing new rules around VPN use tied to its planned ban on social media for under-16s, with a formal statement promised in July. Childre
Ultrasonic espresso: sound waves brew a full-strength shot cold, cutting energy 75%
Researchers have built an espresso brewer that swaps boiling water and high pressure for high-frequency sound. A transducer pressed against a standard espresso
VocabOwl: a web tool that estimates your English vocabulary against 170k words
This is a Hacker News submission pointing to VocabOwl, an interactive web app hosted on Google Cloud Run rather than a written article. The tool frames a single
Why AI export controls on Anthropic's Mythos echo decades of failed crypto crackdowns
The White House last week ordered Anthropic to block exports of its frontier models Fable and Mythos to anyone outside the U.S., including foreign nationals on