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How Uber Protects Against Retry Storms

Article URL: https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/protecting-against-retry-storms/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746628 Points: 20 # Comments: 9
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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse

Article URL: https://www.iankduncan.com/personal/2026-09-16-sex-ai-and-the-apocalypse/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746654 Points: 103 # Comments: 76
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How to Write with an LLM

Article URL: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/17/how-to-write-with-an-llm/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49747070 Points: 47 # Comments: 33
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Xbox’s clever disc-to-digital feature was 15 years in the making

When Xbox announced a new feature last month that lets you digitize existing physical game collections, I immediately thought of the Xbox One. Disc-to-digital seems like a clever new feature for Xbox, perfectly timed as a response to Sony killing PlayStation discs. But the reality is that it has been 15 years in the making […]
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Save $30 or more on a refurbished Apple TV 4K

Most hardware prices have soared in 2026, and that includes a variety of Apple laptops, tablets, and smart devices. Thankfully, you can offset some of the increased costs on an Apple TV 4K by buying one refurbished through the company. The 64GB model is selling for $169, $30 lower than the new retail price. The […]
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Claude Code relaunches Projects to manage multiple AI agents in the cloud

The revamped projects feature in Claude Code allows users to run multiple agents under the same roof, with a shared memory, goals, and library of files and artifacts. Similar to Grok Bot and other tools that manage groups of AI agents, each project has "threads" running different tasks in parallel, with a "coordinator" directing everything: […]
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The AI Superintelligence Slowdown

Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the way of AI too. But after a summer where rogue AI agents became reality, and researchers warned that AI could kill us all, a number of leading US AI companies are publicly suggesting it’s time […]
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Apple will let EU apps use less-alarming tracking-consent screens

Apple is changing its App Tracking Transparency prompts in parts of Europe after competition regulators said the system favored Apple over third-party apps, giving developers more flexibility over how they ask users for tracking consent.