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Weekly Update 512: IoT Lockout Fail

Troy Hunt · 2026-07-15 Cached

Troy Hunt shares a personal anecdote about being locked out of his house due to dead batteries in an IoT door lock, highlighting the dangers of relying on smart home technology without manual backup.

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@Xudong07452910: My girlfriend and I now share a ChatGPT account, and it has become a strange bond in our long-distance relationship. Before, I used ChatGPT mainly for research, work, and daily life problems, and I would also ask very personal, emotional questions. After sharing the account, I've stopped asking those kinds of questions. It's not that I have anything to hide…

X AI KOLs Timeline · 2026-07-11 Cached

A user shares their experience of sharing a ChatGPT account with their girlfriend, noting how AI unexpectedly became a bridge for mutual understanding and communication in their long-distance relationship.

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i'm 16 and was drowning in junior year. vibecoding is the only reason i got a real app onto the app store

Reddit r/artificial · 2026-07-11

A 16-year-old shares how using vibecoding (AI-assisted coding) helped them overcome struggles in junior year and successfully publish their first app on the App Store.

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@PandaTalk8: A few years ago, I met an extraordinary humanities student. He asked me what object-oriented programming is. I said it's a kind of abstraction and gave him a long explanation about classes, inheritance, polymorphism, etc. Finally, he said thoughtfully, 'So what you're talking about is really just classification.' His reply shocked me—turns out I was the one who never understood. Indeed, it really is just classification...

X AI KOLs Timeline · 2026-07-04 Cached

A tweet shares a personal anecdote about explaining object-oriented programming to a humanities student, who insightfully summarized it as 'classification', leading the author to discover applied category theory and a related course.

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My Story of 3D Realms / Apogee Part I (2020)

Hacker News Top · 2026-07-02 Cached

Joe Siegler, a former employee, shares a detailed personal history of Apogee Software (later 3D Realms), from its founding to his time there, reflecting on the company's legacy and his role as archivist.

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The fittest founder in the room got cancer. Here’s how he used AI to fight back.

TechCrunch AI · 2026-06-27 Cached

Conno Christou, a data-driven founder, was diagnosed with a rare aggressive lymphoma after a chance discovery. He used his quantitative approach—including AI-powered health tracking—to gather multiple medical opinions and choose the most effective treatment, treating his chemotherapy like a startup marathon.

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@FinanceYF5: A Decade of AI in One Person's Story 1/ Expelled from high school, dropped out twice, worked over 30 jobs before age 22. Later, he participated in ChatGPT from zero to one, witnessed the months when hundreds of millions of users flooded in. Now he's thinking about what to do in the next decade. A personal account worth reading.

X AI KOLs Following · 2026-06-23 Cached

A person who participated in building ChatGPT from zero to one shares his decade-long journey in AI, including being expelled from high school, dropping out multiple times, working over 30 jobs, and witnessing the explosive growth of ChatGPT users. Now he's considering his direction for the next decade.

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Vibe coding my way to a healthy family: Introducing Gamow Labs

Hacker News Top · 2026-06-10 Cached

The author recounts the tragic loss of his son Owen to a rare lung disease and introduces Gamow Labs, a platform built with AI-assisted coding aimed at helping families with similar genetic diagnoses.

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Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony

Hacker News Top · 2026-06-07 Cached

A personal account of overcoming addiction, incarceration, and a felony record to rebuild life through software development and open source contributions.

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The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go

Hacker News Top · 2026-06-05 Cached

A personal blog post detailing a software developer's experience with their company's increasing focus on AI at the expense of employee well-being, leading to layoffs, burnout, and a loss of humanity.

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@dongxi_nlp: A friend of mine is an Iranian immigrant. He supports his family with a small one-man plumbing company. They are warm and hospitable, often inviting me for kebabs and doogh. I said, let me make you a website and do some GEO to bring in more customers. So on a Sunday night, I, a northerner from China, listening to Beyond, used Codex to build a Swedish plumber website for an Iranian.

X AI KOLs Following · 2026-05-31 Cached

The author uses Codex to create a Swedish plumber website for an Iranian immigrant friend, illustrating how technology breaks language barriers.

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What it's like to have your insulin pump die while you're on vacation

Hacker News Top · 2026-05-28 Cached

A personal account of dealing with a failing insulin pump while on vacation, highlighting the frustrations and dependence on medical technology.

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Shipping a Laptop to a Refugee Camp in Uganda

Hacker News Top · 2026-05-22 Cached

The author recounts the difficulties of shipping a laptop to a refugee student in Uganda, including a failed attempt via Australia Post due to lithium battery restrictions, and the ongoing process with a freight service.

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