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www.reuters.com 2d ago

The head of the US AI safety agency has resigned

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news.ycombinator.com 9d ago

Ask HN: What is the one YouTube channel you recommend I subscribe to?

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www.cnn.com 20d ago

OpenAI in talks to give Trump administration a 5% stake in the company

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www.msn.com 23d ago

Comcast plans to spin off NBCUniversal in strategy reversal

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www.mercor.com 26d ago

Update on Mercor Security Incident

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news.ycombinator.com 1mo ago

Ask HN: Why can we compare Python to Go, but we can't compare apples to oranges?

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blog.jcoglan.com 2mo ago

The Myers Diff Algorithm

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www.washingtonpost.com 2mo ago

Medicare portal database exposed health providers' Social Security numbers

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www.reuters.com 2mo ago

Meta poised to surpass Google in digital ad revenue for first time

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newrepublic.com 2mo ago

The AI industry is discovering that the public hates it

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www.nytimes.com 3mo ago

Chromebook Remorse: Tech Backlash at Schools Extends Beyond Phones

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www.nytimes.com 3mo ago

US – Iran negotiations end with no deal reached

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www.youtube.com 3mo ago

"MongoDB is web scale" (Throwback 2010 XtraNormal clip) [video]

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news.ycombinator.com 3mo ago

Ask HN: Why have we not stepped back on the moon again?

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www.usatoday.com 3mo ago

YouTube Premium price is going up $2 to $15.99/mo

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share.jotbird.com 3mo ago

Full Anatomy of Mercor's Data Breach

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animalclock.org 3mo ago

Realtime monitor of count of animals slaughtered in the US this year

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news.ycombinator.com 3mo ago

Ask HN: Why doesn't Chrome have a "Close tabs to the left" option?

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twitter.com 3mo ago

Mercor Data Breach

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www.theguardian.com 4mo ago

Leonid Radvinsky, owner of OnlyFans, dies aged 43

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finance.yahoo.com 4mo ago

OpenAl offering private-equity firms a guaranteed return of 17.5%

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www.nytimes.com 4mo ago

TikTok Investors Set to Pay $10B Fee to Trump Administration

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www.youtube.com 4mo ago

Silicon Valley's new miracle drug [video]

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news.ycombinator.com 4mo ago

Ask HN: Anthropic has stood its ground. What excuse is left for other companies?

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fortune.com 5mo ago

US Gov borrowed $43.5B per week in Q1 2026

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storage.courtlistener.com 5mo ago

Data breach: DOGE 'accidentally' leaked the whole Social Security database [pdf]

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news.ycombinator.com 5mo ago

Ask HN: What's so special about Sam Altman?

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news.ycombinator.com 6mo ago

Ask HN: How to Teach Kids AI?

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arstechnica.com 7mo ago

Power outage paralyzes Waymo robotaxis when traffic lights go out

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Not true. Visa and Mastercard don't make the bulk of the commission. When a merchant pays a standard 2.9% + $0.30 fee on a credit card transaction the issuing bank gets roughly 1.5-2.5% for interchange, which is the bulk. The processor or acquirer gets anywhere from 0.2-0.5% and the card network gets only about 0.1-0.15.

Also, PayPal does not lower a vendor's commission. If they pay with a PayPal cash balance, PayPal still charges the merchant a premium flat rate (often 3.49%) and simply pockets the entire spread. They don't pass the savings down. And consumer's don't have a Stripe account to pay from, Stripe is probably aiming for PayPal wallets via this move.

That would be quite a play. Stripe, PayPal, Venmo, Braintree, Xoom all under one umbrella. The Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) for online card-not-present (CNP) checkout on that is going to be absurdly high and this will take a lot of convincing to beat antitrust. They will probably have to unwind Venmo and Braintree.

As a 'software engineer' myself, I fully understand your position, but please qualify the statement about the software you work on. Either add 'efficiently' or 'at scale', because all that infrastructure you mentioned could definitely be built without your software. It was possible before your software and it sure would be possible without it, it just would not be as easy.

I am sure someone is going to dwell on that if not fixed.

No. They have it right. Brain drain, by definition, is emigration of educated and skilled labor out of country or region in search of greener pastures.

America losing foreigners in education institutions is not 'brain drain' in the classical sense. There is no emigration (the drain) involved. America receiving all those students and skilled labor over the years was brain drain.

Their isolation approach is totally different from Mythos approach though. Mythos had to evaluate whole code bases rather than isolated sections. It's like saying one dog walked into the Amazon jungle and found a tennis ball and then another team isolated a 1 square kilometer radius that they knew the ball was definitely in and found the same ball.

Do you have any numbers to support your claim that Azure is imploding? Or that they gave up on AI goals?

Both Azure and Intelligent Cloud continue to beat expectations in revenue and adoption.

Don't just make stuff up because you don't like the product or company.

what the hell do you mean meaningless platitude? Do you understand the difference between civic duty and corporate duty?

If a company proactively evades taxes for profit, do you give the government the same pass? Companies skate and fight all this through litigation and interpretation. The government's duty is to the people and to uphold the law, not fight it. They are held to a higher standard of law, accountability and practice in all undertakings. What exactly are you refuting here?

It's the government, the US government. By far the largest employer and spender in the world. So yes, they are held to a higher standard. Businesses intentionally throttle customer service lines for profit reasons. The government should not. How is this difficult to understand?