Articles by bhouston
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San Francisco's pro-billionaire march draws dozens (techcrunch.com)

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The missing metric: Spec Coverage (benhouston3d.com)

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GitHub Actions are unreliable again at 10:30ET (twitter.com/mitchelsellers)

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GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations (githubstatus.com)

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Google accused of aiding IDF aerial footage analysis (jpost.com)

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Google AI helped IDF drones with targeting in 2024 breaching its own policies (washingtonpost.com)

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Epstein letter to Bill Gates about coverup and STDs medications (reddit.com)

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Nobel Hacking Likely Leaked Peace Prize Winner Name, Probe Finds (bloomberg.com)

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TikTok users flock to UpScrolled in response to new U.S. owners (mashable.com)

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OpenAI's GPT-5.2 model cites Grokipedia (engadget.com)

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Major Canadian computer hardware online store compromised for months (reddit.com)

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I Don't Want Your Business Card (benhouston3d.com)

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I Stopped Creating Package.json Scripts (benhouston3d.com)

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Canada cut tariffs on Chinese EVs, China to cut Canadian farm tariffs (npr.org)

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ExoActive: Exoskeleton for trades people from Festool (2024) (festoolcanada.com)

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Rewiring My HVAC to Maximize My EcoBee's Control Capabilities (benhouston3d.com)

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Meta cutting ~1500 VR/AR positions to focus on AI (gizmodo.com)

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Louis Gerstner, former IBM CEO who revitalized 'Big Blue,' dies at 83 (reuters.com)

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Mark Zuckerberg's stops funding the pro-immigration group he founded (businessinsider.com)

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Investors seek protection (via credit default swaps) from risk of AI debt bust (ft.com)

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TikTok removing posts for violating the "joy of TikTok" (twitter.com/prem_thakker)

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AP: Israel takes over phones of Gaza residents to carry Netanyahu speech live (twitter.com/seungminkim)

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[dupe] US Secret Service disrupts telecom threat near UN GA with 100K SIM cards (bbc.com)

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Pro-Trump Billionaires Are Consolidating Media Control (jacobin.com)

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[flagged] As Ellison Buys Out TikTok, US Moves Toward One-Party Media (fair.org)

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Publishers Clearing House bankruptcy leaves lifetime winners without payments (kgw.com)

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Weaponizing Ads: How Google and Facebook Ads Are Used to Wage Propaganda Wars (medium.com/eslam.elsewedy)

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No place in children's hands: <16s in UK to be banned from buying energy drinks (theguardian.com)

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Nvidia and AMD hit with 15% US tariffs on *sales* to China (theregister.com)

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The 24-year-old Canadian software engineer who runs MAGA bots (ottawacitizen.com)

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The Metamorphosis of Shaun Maguire, a Prominent Sequoia VC (businessinsider.com)

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Uber drives join union in Victoria, BC (ufcw1518.com)

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Anthropic and DeepMind researchers more likely to reject Meta offers than OpenAI (theverge.com)

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Elon Musk's AI chatbot is suddenly posting antisemitic tropes (cnn.com)

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Trump returns early from G7 meet, convenes Situation Room re: Iran-Israel war (cnn.com)

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Elon Musk used cocktail of ketamine, ecstasy, shrooms, and Adderall while at WH (vanityfair.com)

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Three Hard-Won Lessons for Entrepreneurs: From VFX Tools to Enterprise SaaS (benhouston3d.com)

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Stack Overflow seeks rebrand as traffic continues to plummet (devclass.com)

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Microsoft conducts audit in Israeli use of Azure/AI, finds no harm to Gazans (theverge.com)

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WebGPU 3D artistic liquid simulation (holtsetio.com)

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Trump's sanctions on ICC's chief prosecutor have halted tribunal's work (pbs.org)

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ADL Pushes Google to Reject Review of Israeli Human Rights Abuses (gizmodo.com)

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Google worried it couldn't control how Israel used its cloud, files reveal (theintercept.com)

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Financial Times: The Weet Shameful Silence on Gasa's Starvation (ft.com)

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Israel plans to occupy and flatten all of Gaza (axios.com)

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Zuckerberg's new Meta AI app gets personal in a creepy way (washingtonpost.com)

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Skype shuts down today, marking the end of an internet era (androidauthority.com)

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Researchers ran an unauthorized AI persuasion experiment on Reddit users (404media.co)

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Trump DOJ goon threatens Wikipedia (theverge.com)

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Trump executive action targets ActBlue, the main Democratic fundraising platform (nbcnews.com)

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Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries (cnbc.com)

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China's central bank asks state lenders to reduce USD purchases (reuters.com)

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China responses to Trump's 105% taffies with its own 84% tariffs on US goods (bbc.com)

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After pro-Palestinian students, now foreign students being targeted by Trump (theintercept.com)

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Understanding TanStack/Router's beforeLoad and loader behavior (benhouston3d.com)

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Elon Musk sets the stage for Tesla to bail out Twitter/xAI (electrek.co)

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Economic Decoupling and the Threat of Foreign LLMs (benhouston3d.com)

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My Home 10G Network Setup – What Worked and Lessons Learned (benhouston3d.com)

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The Rise of "Test Theater": Empowered by AI Coding Assistants (benhouston3d.com)

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Building 3D Web Apps That Work Everywhere: A Data-Driven Approach (benhouston3d.com)

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What Is the Most Minimal Agentic Coder You Can Write? (benhouston3d.com)

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Building an Agentic Coder from Scratch (benhouston3d.com)

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Hundreds killed as Israel unleashes mass strikes on Gaza (telegraph.co.uk)

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Israel resumes fighting in Gaza with airstrikes that kill at least 44 people (apnews.com)

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The Ephemeral Nature of Software in the Age of AI (benhouston3d.com)

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Agentic Coders with GitHub Comments and Actions: Automating Real Development (benhouston3d.com)

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"GitHub Mode" Is a Game Changer for Agentic Coding (benhouston3d.com)

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Lean into Your Agentic Coder's Mistakes (benhouston3d.com)

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Stop Writing Code for Humans: Agentic Coding Best Practices (benhouston3d.com)

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Stop Writing Code for Humans – The Future Belongs to AI Agents (benhouston3d.com)

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Show HN: MyCoder, an open source Claude-Code alternative (github.com/drivecore)

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I've started using TanStack/Start and I like it a lot (benhouston3d.com)

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As Wall Street has chases Profits, Fire Depts have paid the Price (nytimes.com)

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Arm recruits from customers as it plans to sell its own chips (reuters.com)

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ARM to start selling its own chips (euronews.com)

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US CISA staffers offered deferred resignations with just hours to decide (npr.org)

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'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook (thenerdreich.com)

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Ford 'ripping up' Ontario's $100M contract with Elon Musk's Starlink (cbc.ca)

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Trump plans "100 percent tax" on foreign (inc. Taiwan) semiconductors (datacenterdynamics.com)

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Google worked directly with Israel's military on AI tools in Gaza war (theverge.com)

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Google Cloud employees directly assisting Israeli military officials (jpost.com)

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Politics Vivek Ramaswamy to depart DOGE, leaving Musk in control (cbsnews.com)

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Doge: Dangerous Oligarchs Grab Everything, a.k.a. the Tech-Industrial Complex (donmoynihan.substack.com)

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Musk examines how to oust Starmer as prime minister before next UK election (irishtimes.com)

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ARM considers acquisition of Ampere Computing to expand data center footprint (tomshardware.com)

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Nvidia CEO says company has plans for desktop chip designed with MediaTek (reuters.com)

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Trump will not rule out force to take Panama Canal, Greenland (reuters.com)

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What to know about Trump's calls to make Canada the '51st state' (thehill.com)

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[flagged] Sam Altman's sister files lawsuits against Sam alleging sexual abuse (cnbc.com)

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AMD releases new Ryzen AI Max 16 core CPUs for laptops (amd.com)

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UFC's Dana White is joining Meta's board of directors (theverge.com)

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Getty Images explores merger with Shutterstock (reuters.com)

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The Plot to Poison Children's Minds (paulkrugman.substack.com)

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The Netflix's tech struggled to stream the Tyson-Paul boxing match (wsj.com)

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The Container Store files for bankruptcy (npr.org)

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'We Can Bury Anyone': Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine (nytimes.com)

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Human Rights Watch Accuses Israel of Genocide in Gaza (cnn.com)

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US may ban TP-Link routers/switches over links to Chinese government (theverge.com)

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The Origins of the Krakatoa Point Renderer: A VFX Rendering Journey (benhouston3d.com)

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Finding Product Market Fit in a VFX Studio, and Almost Winning an Oscar (benhouston3d.com)