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A Hacker News essay making the rounds is striking a nerve with developers and creators alike. The argument is straightforward: if you want someone's genuine attention, you need to demonstrate genuine effort. In an era of AI-generated everything, the piece suggests that human readers are quietly developing a filter for work that feels effortless to produce, and they're tuning it out.
That conversation about AI's reach takes on a darker tone with reports that Iran-backed hackers are claiming responsibility for breaching California water systems infrastructure. The timing, coming amid broader geopolitical tensions, raises uncomfortable questions about how vulnerable civilian utilities remain to state-affiliated cyber actors, and how little public attention those risks typically receive until something goes wrong.
And on the enterprise front, Palantir's Alex Karp made some characteristically blunt remarks, telling CNBC that frontier AI labs simply don't understand what business customers actually need. Karp's view is that this disconnect is precisely what's been driving Palantir's own growth, positioning the company as a practical alternative to labs he says are more focused on their own valuations than on solving real problems.
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