World's Backlog: Public Repository for Real Work Problems
π Key Facts β AI has made building fast and cheap, but finding the right problems still feels hard. β World's Backlog collects real...
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π Key Facts β AI has made building fast and cheap, but finding the right problems still feels hard. β World's Backlog collects real...
π Key Facts β Two-year Advanced plan costs $101 with four bonus months (74% off from $392) β Basic plan available at $2.79 per month fo...
Lou Gerstner, the former CEO of IBM, has died at 83. James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images Lou Gerstner, who led IBM's turnaround in the 1990s, has died, the company told staff. He kept IBM intact and ...
π Key Facts β CarX Street launched on mobile in 2022, PC in August 2024, and PS5/Xbox Series X/S earlier this year. β Showdown mode sup...
π Key Facts β Switch 2 priced at $449.99, Mario Kart World at $80, bundle at $499.99 β 10.36 million Switch 2 units sold from June 5 to...
π Key Facts β Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 won Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2025. β Indie Game Awards retracted Game of the Year ...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren said over the summer that she didn't use AI. "Yeah, that's changed," she told Business Insider this month. Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images More and more lawmakers are be...
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...
In 2025, I interviewed four tech industry professionals about how to break into AI. Courtesy of Mostofa Shakib; Patrick Leung; Sophia Sun AI jobs are hot right now, and some in the tech industry are p...
Sridhar Ramaswamy Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy shares his approach to running efficient meetings. Ramaswamy requires agendas, open discussion, and a clear purpose for e...
π Key Facts β iPhone 17 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro, and Galaxy Z Fold 7 ranked as top smartphones of 2025. β OpenAI's ChatGPT app directory ...
Reed Duchscher, CEO and founder of Night. JASSIEUO (Jasmine Durhal). Reed Duchscher, MrBeast's former manager, says we won't see another MrBeast-scale creator soon. As social algorithms focus on indiv...
A person with a phone Edward Berthelot/Getty Images Google is quietly rolling out a feature that lets some users change their Gmail addresses. The update is detailed on Google's Hindi support page. Us...
Jules Love. Courtesy of Jules Love The biggest barrier to AI adoption in creative agencies isn't tech but mindset, a consultant says. He said role-specific training and protected time to experiment wi...
Hi HN, Iβm a solo dev building a clinical search engine to help my wife (a resident physician) and her colleagues. The Problem: Current tools (UpToDate/OpenEvidence) are expensive, slow, or increasing...
How small can a language model be while still doing something useful? I wanted to find out, and had some spare time over the holidays. Z80-ΞΌLM is a character-level language model with 2-bit quantized ...
Amid Mohamed, 17, founded Viral Cartel Inc. in 2024. Amid Mohamed Amid Mohamed is the 17-year-old founder of Viral Cartel Inc. His company creates social media campaigns for film studios using TikTok ...
π Key Facts β Anna's Archive archived around 86 million songs from Spotify, ordered by popularity descending. β This represents 37 ...
The men behind Cybertruck.cz pose with a Tesla Cybertruck in a medieval square in Prague. Cybertruck.cz Two years after it launched, the Cybertruck has yet to appear on European roads. Attempts to bri...
I spend an embarrassing amount of time watching prices move, partly out of professional duty and partly because I hate paying full price. This weekβs crop finally rewarded the obsession. There are a f...