Sunday, May 3, 2026
ArchivearticleGitHub
VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
Microsoft quietly added AI co-author credits to your git commits even when Copilot wasn't used. 1,394 HN points and 760 furious comments later, the PR is live.
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articleWall Street Journal
A profile of BlackBerry's QNX division, whose operating system controls safety features in 275M cars and accounts for half of BlackBerry's revenue
BlackBerry isn't dead. Its QNX division runs safety systems in 275 million cars and generates half the company's revenue. Nobody talks about it.
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podcastPlanet Money
How to make a BOOK into a bestseller
Planet Money tried to hack the NYT bestseller list and found a century of dirty tricks — mass hallucinations, legal exorcisms, and professional book launderers.
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articleFinancial Times
US Department of Justice loses a quarter of its lawyers
One in four DOJ lawyers are gone — quit or fired since Trump took office. The FT puts a hard number on institutional collapse.
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articleNew York Times
A Long, Strange Trip: How the G.O.P. Came to Embrace Psychedelic Drugs
For decades, conservatives were adamantly opposed to the use of drugs like psilocybin and LSD. Now, the Trump administration has made a sharp pivot.
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