World's Backlog: Public Repository for Real Work Problems
📋 Key Facts ✓ AI has made building fast and cheap, but finding the right problems still feels hard. ✓ World's Backlog collects real...
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📋 Key Facts ✓ AI has made building fast and cheap, but finding the right problems still feels hard. ✓ World's Backlog collects real...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Dell's sales teams were mandated to return to the office five days a week starting September 2024. ✓ Jackie Miller...
📋 Key Facts ✓ A document has emerged contradicting Post Office claims about bugs in the Horizon IT system. ✓ The claims were made durin...
Paramount Skydance, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Netflix have very different approaches to remote work. John Lamparski/Getty Images; Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images; Beata Zawrzel/Nu...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Institutions are gobbling up Solana for their balance sheets. ✓ These holdings represent top publicly traded treasuries. ...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Anna's Archive scraped metadata for 256 million tracks and 86 million songs from Spotify, totaling under 300TB. ✓ The...
China’s private rocket makers are stepping up their dash for public funding, with Beijing-based LandSpace becoming the first commercial launch provider to clear a key regulatory “tutoring” milestone a...
📋 Key Facts ✓ DAC stands for digital-to-analog converter, converting digital music to audible analog sound. ✓ Apple Music uses ALAC enc...
Germany, the land of tech pioneers, still relies on fax and paper for basic public services. Why is digital government stuck in the slow lane while Denmark and India race ahead?...
OpenAI lost at least 11 scientists and executives in 2025, including more than half a dozen researchers to Meta in the summer. REUTERS/Shelby Tauber/Pool OpenAI lost more than half a dozen researchers...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Power outage affected 130,000 Pacific Gas & Electric customers in San Francisco on Saturday ✓ Waymo robotaxis stalled...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Eira Tansey announced her divorce on Instagram. ✓ An AI impersonated her following the announcement. ✓ ...
Tech leaders like Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk led a workforce efficiency crusade in 2025. Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images; Steve Granitz/FilmMagic The "efficiency" m...
Getty Images; BI Have you ever wondered who Slacks the most at your work? Sadly, there is no Slack wrapped. But if you follow these simple steps, you can find out who sent the most messages this year....
Hi, I'm the author of The Program audio series, a fairly successful fiction podcast that launched on HackerNews in 2018. Seven years later, this little sci-fi anthology is still ongoing, having releas...
Netflix began hosting NFL games on Christmas in 2024. Brooke Sutton/Getty Images NFL Christmas games have moved to Netflix and Amazon as sports start to shift to streaming. Amazon and YouTube TV lead ...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Strava released its annual Year in Sport wrap-up earlier this month. ✓ The feature is now available only to users with $8...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Governor Kathy Hochul signed the RAISE Act on Friday to hold large AI developers accountable. ✓ The act requires publishi...
An OpenAI engineer explains how OpenAI hired her in a week. Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images An OpenAI engineer breaks down OpenAI's fast, "no-nonsense" hiring process. Jerene Yang sai...
Crijn Bouman, CEO of Rocsys, said robotaxi companies will need automated charges if they want to scale. Rocsys Humans are responsible for plugging robotaxis into charging stations and maintenance. Roc...