Gen Z can’t control the future, so they’re paying witches and tarot readers to make it feel more manageable
A fragmented $2.3 billion industry is turning tarot, astrology, and spell work into personalized guidance for an…
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I place the world’s top software engineers and interviewed over 10,000 job seekers. The difference on paper and in person is wider than ever
AI has made hiring noisier, but the basics of standing out have not changed.
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Mormon leader decries explosion of gambling and blasts prediction market wagers — ‘Or even, if you can imagine, the timing of the Second Coming’
“For us as Latter-day Saints, overarching all other concerns is the fact that gambling is morally wrong. Gambling is…
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Trump teases more inflationary money for voters ahead of midterm elections, now promising $90 payments after touting $500 and $5,000 checks
That pledge — which would require approval from Congress — would likely cost more than $1 trillion, adding to the…
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Iran’s currency is getting obliterated as the regime is about to run out of oil to sell and can’t even get its money from customers
“We can’t even get our own money out of a country to which we’ve supplied goods, let alone using those funds to pay…
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Zohran Mamdani says ‘you have to luck out in some big way’ to achieve the American Dream now—and many people see better odds of winning the lottery
"People think that they have better odds playing the lottery than making it in their own life. What does that say about…
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LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents
https://archive.ph/TyDPf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946228 Points: 409 # Comments: 811
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U.S. debt is increasingly at the mercy of the market as interest costs surge while elections add more risk to the debt ceiling, ratings agency warns
"This trajectory points to an unsustainable medium-term fiscal path and leaves the sovereign increasingly exposed to…
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‘Really wealthy Americans will be embarrassed’ not to have an Argentine passport, program designer predicts
Nuri Katz helped create the citizenship-by-investment program, but he sees it as the first to combine a safe haven with…
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FlyDubai co-pilot used cockpit’s crash axe to try seizing control of flight and was barred from flying by Oman due to concerns over extremist views
The co-pilot has been identified as Hamam al-Hammami.
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Dolly Parton’s book program reaches 1 in 7 U.S. kids under 5. How much longer?
Funding challenges have arisen in at least four states, and Parton's foundation now carries the program.
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Meet the air traffic controller who flies to work via powered paragliding and has to call the control tower to let his colleagues know he’s coming
“I’m very small and I don’t show up on radar,” Hutzler said, “so they’ll want to kind of keep track of my location and…
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Private capital is transforming sports, challenging the press box to upskill into financial forensics
ESPN owns the NFL's network and a Red Sox owner controls the Boston Globe. The Clippers case, broken by a podcast,…
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Nearly 1,400 laid off at Ohio factory days before Trump rally. Now a former supporter will help elect Democrats: ‘Something has to change politically’
The layoffs were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio, area.
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Customs and Border Protection tapped 80,000 Flock cameras last year — police weren’t kept in the loop
Danville, Illinois, logged more than 4,000 federal searches, though ICE had no Flock contract. Flock says customers…
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The HOA state: what Florida can teach the rest of America about life under the tyranny of a condo association
About 78 million Americans live under 373,000 associations that can levy fines and even foreclose. Some are barred from…
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Judge temporarily blocks Trump’s border wall in Big Bend region of Texas, citing likelihood of ‘irreparable harm’ and ‘public interest’
The court's decision comes just weeks after the administration erected the first border wall panels in the Big Bend…
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The GPT Oracle: 1 in 10 Americans are reviving the pagan practice of prophecy
Anthropic has reported Claude 4 drifting into mystical themes unprompted, a pattern its own engineers did not train for…
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After threatening to ban U.S. exports of diesel fuel, Trump admits ‘we were never going to do it’
The Group of Seven wealthy democracies said Friday that they plan to release 100 million barrels of oil and fuel…
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Apple’s Steve Wozniak says he cofounded the tech giant after 5 rejections from HP—not to ‘make money.’ For years, his paycheck was just $50
While he could’ve been a trillionaire today, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak sold his stake early: “I didn’t want to be…
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Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth…
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Gen Alpha won’t write emails when they join the workforce in 2030—research reveals they’ll sent voice notes to their boss instead
LSE researchers say Gen Alpha will talk, not type at work—they predict that voice notes will make keyboard practically…
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Sports betting is America’s new pastime—and it’s bigger than movies, music, and museums together as Americans wage a whopping $166 billion on bets
Americans wagered $166 billion on sports last year, more than Hollywood, the music industry, books, and museums…
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I’m an obesity expert and can’t wait for the compounding craze to stop
If you can't name the medical reason your patient needs a knockoff GLP-1, you don't have one.
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Meta is building one of the world’s biggest undersea cable networks. It’s just one piece of a growing seafloor empire spanning 6 continents
Meta’s Petal cable is the latest of more than 20 subsea projects the company has bet on as its AI push demands ever…
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Nitin Nohria: Why it’s so hard for CEOs to stay grounded
Do you apologize when you're late? The perks and deference that make a CEOs job easier risk disconnecting them from…
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MacKenzie Scott’s first novel in 13 years is being called ‘baffling’—and critics are left asking what message she’s trying to send
The billionaire philanthropist who’s donated $26 billion gave away “Last Days in Two Nations” for free on Substack,…
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What the bond market reveals about Congress, the national debt and the middle class—and where America goes from here
The only real solution is to put fiscal policy on a sustainable trajectory, but on the tax side, it’s important to…
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Where Americans are moving by generation, according to U-Haul: Boomers pick the Carolinas, Gen Z picks Texas and California
Gen Z is still moving to California even as boomers head south, new U-Haul data shows.
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Tony Elumelu: Africa’s young entrepreneurs have great ideas. What they need is capital and business support
According to the World Bank, 10 to 12 million young Africans enter the labor market each year, but only about 3 million…
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‘We need to trust our employees’: This billionaire CEO went from counting cars in the parking lot past 6pm to embracing hybrid work
Jim Kavanaugh once believed employees needed to be in the office to get the job done. Now, he says leaders need to…
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How to be tough, not a jerk — and why most people get toughness wrong
By moving past the false choice between being "nice" and being "ruthless," you can drive extraordinary performance…
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McKinsey: AI will create more jobs than it kills — after destroying 11 million
Only one in seven displaced workers has a direct path to a growing job, and most new work in healthcare and…
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We need a Department of AI, or we risk pushing the U.S. economy over the brink
I helped steer Kazakhstan out of the 2008 financial crisis. An AI czar is not enough. America needs a Department of AI…
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Mark Ruffalo says Paramount’s $111 billion Warner Bros. deal ‘Will stifle creativity, weaken free speech, and cost people their jobs’
A federal judge cleared the final legal hurdle for the megamerger on Wednesday. The deal is expected to close Oct. 6.
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‘We can’t trust them completely’: AI research fellows warn that labs are running models with the safeguards off behind closed doors
Alan Chan and Sam Manning, co-authors with OpenAI's and Anthropic's top researchers, say that many times, "internal…
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