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Vol. 2026 · No. 172
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Sun · Jun 21 · 2026
The stack 4 picks · curated
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Hacker News 154 c · 373 pts

Loupe — an iOS app that shows what native apps can see

A free iOS app that surfaces, in plain language, the device data any installed native app is able to read — sensors, identifiers, network details, and more — much of it without a permission prompt.

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Hacker News 33 c · 123 pts

Building reliable agentic AI systems

A Bayer engineering writeup, on Martin Fowler's site, on what it actually took to make an LLM agent dependable in production: tight tool scoping, deterministic guardrails around the model, evaluation harnesses, and treating the agent as one component in a system rather than the system.

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The Information paywalled

The law professor behind Bernie's AI sovereign wealth fund idea

A profile of Sarah Polcz, the UC Davis law professor whose work underpins Sen. Sanders' proposal for a $7 trillion sovereign wealth fund giving the public a 50% stake in the top AI companies. It traces how an academic argument about AI-era ownership became live legislation.