Hung Lee

Curator, Recruiting Brainfood

[Hung Lee @HungLee]

Recruiting Brainfood - Issue 503
https://t.co/peEb8Oz3ba

Glen Cathey synthesises AI papers, 2026 Edelman Trust Barometer, State of AI Fluency 2026, the end of the technical interview? LinkedIn Do's and Don'ts and a GEO vs SEO...

[Hung Lee @HungLee]

A very sound bet 👇

[Dan Collins @DanCollins2011]

Expect some action to ban Deepseek and other Chinese LLM’s in the U.S.

With U.S models priced as high as $5 for 1m tokens and Deep Seek at $0.43/1m tokens that seems inevitable.

[james hawkins @james406]

friend just sent me this, it's wild how AI is changing companies:

"coworker sent a 20-page AI-generated planning doc for a huge meeting later today

i didn't want to lose my job, so i asked claude to write a 50-page required pre-reading for the meeting

not to be outdone, the coworker fed that into Claude and replied with a 1,000-page summary of the pre-reading

i finally won out with a 100,000,000 page document that broke our email system"

lesson? if you've made it this far, you're a true 10x AI-pilled vibe coder. you don't need to learn anything more. you've done it. congrats

[Angelica 🌐⚛️🇹🇼🇨🇳🇺🇸 @AngelicaOung]

I was talking to my sister, who has been shocked by all the insane amounts of hate I’ve been getting from my former supposed friends from when I used to be a pan-green boba-lib.

“How are you NOT upset?”

“I mean, I was just as judgmental when I was a liberal so…”

“Oh yeah good point…”

Anyhow…they can block me if like but if they don’t they’ll have to put up with me gently, respectfully putting some inconvenient stuff in their narratives.

[Reuters @Reuters]

CORRECTION: Israel plans major settlement push across occupied West Bank https://t.co/1MGC3gNXdo

We will delete a post that referenced Israel’s latest settlement push as being seen by many as illegal; Israel’s settlements in the occupied West Bank are deemed illegal under international law

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The mosquito biting you in your backyard hatched within a few hundred feet of where you're sitting.

A mosquito's flight range is tiny. Adult mosquitoes stay within 300 to 400 feet of where they hatched. The mosquito biting you on the patio came from your yard or the next yard over. There's almost no exception to this.

The fix is unglamorous and effective: Walk your yard once a week and tip out anything holding water. Empty saucers under potted plants. Drain the kiddie pool when not in use. Turn over wheelbarrows, buckets, watering cans. Clean clogged gutters.

For water features you want to keep, drop in a Bti mosquito dunk. Bti is a bacterial larvicide that kills only mosquito and fly larvae, leaves bees and butterflies alone, and lasts about 30 days per dunk.

Your yard is the problem, but it's also the solution.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

One man in California has spent 57 years recording the sounds of natural places. Much of what he's recorded no longer exists.

His name is Bernie Krause. He started as a folk musician and an early pioneer of the Moog synthesizer. In 1968, he began carrying recording equipment into rainforests, deserts, coral reefs, African savannas, and research sites associated with scientists like Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey.

The Wild Sanctuary archive now contains more than 5,000 hours of recordings and over 15,000 identified species. Krause coined the term "biophony" to describe the collective sound of living organisms in a habitat and helped establish the field of soundscape ecology.

Through thousands of recordings, he observed that healthy ecosystems often partition acoustic space, with different species occupying different frequencies and times of day. On a spectrogram, an intact habitat can resemble a densely layered musical score.

When Krause revisited many of the places he had recorded decades earlier, he found that over half had become silent, severely degraded, or so altered by human activity that their original biophonies could no longer be heard. His archive preserves sounds from ecosystems that have been transformed or lost.

[Nick Ames @NickAmes82]

Here is our comprehensive guide to all 1,248 World Cup players – feast on it, and don't let it out of your sight from next Thursday: https://t.co/iKuOB8q8Jn

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

We can confirm Andoni Iraola has agreed a deal to become the club’s new head coach ahead of the 2026-27 season 🤝

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Palantir has signed a multimillion-pound deal with all police forces in England and Wales to run the national firearms database

[@billcurtis0]

[Tera Allas CBE | @teraallas.bsky.social @TeraPauliina]

New UK job-ad data suggests the labour market for young graduates is weakening significantly. But the story is more complicated than “AI is replacing graduates”.

AI exposure appears to be part of the story — especially in some associate professional roles — but the pattern is nuanced and far from uniform.

#dataisbeautiful

https://t.co/UnkiwaYMNj

[Hung Lee @HungLee]

@esaagar It might be as simple as buy when it’s cheap, don’t buy when it’s expensive. Sometimes it’s not a nefarious plan, just rational decision making

[Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum]

May 2026 set a new all-time record for British solar generation.

According to the latest NESO data, solar generated 2.8 TWh, beating the previous record set in a very sunny May 2025.

Solar is now regularly meeting over a quarter of Britain's midday electricity needs.

[Shef @AlexShefrin]

Prediction: Companies that laid off people in the last two months to "focus on AI" are about to get their first real invoice from Anthropic.

[Hung Lee @HungLee]

All hail China overcapacity!

[Hung Lee @HungLee]

It’s all on Brian Brobbey

[Transfer News Live @DeadlineDayLive]

🚨 Joachim Klement, the mathematician who successfully predicted the last three World Cup winners, believes the Netherlands will be crowned champions in 2026. 🇳🇱🏆

His model factors in everything from population size and GDP to FIFA rankings and football culture and it forecasts an all-European semi-final line-up, with Portugal beating England and the Netherlands overcoming Spain in the semi-final setting up a Netherlands vs Portugal final. 👀

The prediction also includes several major surprises, including Japan eliminating Brazil in the Round of 16 and Portugal knocking out Argentina on their route to the final. 🤯

(Source: @DiarioOle)

[Wise @trikcode]

You basically need to be unemployed to keep up with all this AI stuff.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

India has sent 96 people to America who started billion dollar companies. No one else is even close.

There's only about 5 million Indians in America. Almost one in 50,000 of them is a unicorn founder!

What a holy, special, beautiful people.

I will always fight for them.

[Rory Johnston @Rory_Johnston]

Chinese seaborne crude imports now down ~50% from pre-war levels, according to latest Kpler tracking.

Beijing doing more to balance the Hormuz-starved oil market than the rest of the world combined and no one knows exactly how long they can—or are willing to—keep it up.

[Tifosy @tifosy]

Brazil retains its position as the world’s leading exporter of men’s footballers, currently contributing nearly 1,500 players to international markets. Across the top 25 exporting nations, the total number of expatriated players has increased 33% versus 2021, highlighting a notable increase in international migration at the top of the market, with growth in the next 25 nations reported at 16%. The top three markets collectively account for nearly one third of all exports from the group, with France reporting the largest absolute increase. Significant growth was also recorded in Spain, Nigeria and Portugal, whilst only one country confirmed a decline in the number of players exported.

[Kseniia Baziian @KseniiaBaziian]

I’ve spent 3 weeks across 2 trips in Hong Kong 🇭🇰

- Very convenient transport system. There are only a couple of places around the world where I take public transport. Hong Kong is very high on my list - public transport is really cool, cheap and convenient here. Bonus points for double decker buses and trams, and ferry from Kowloon to Hong Kong Island.
- Crazy mix between modern and traditional, European and Chinese cultures. You see a world-class bank next to the place under bridge where auntie will curse your enemies for $5. Btw, the place is real - there are lots of people in the line.
- Everything opens very late - 10/11 am, some paces even at 12. Though it’s very hot and busy during the day. Haven’t seen such late starts in a megapolis, I think.
- Lifts going to certain floors - only even or only odd numbers, only up or only down. Also smth new.
- Outlet & factory store culture. Hong Kong has no VAT, so it’s a huge shopping hub. As I’m getting ready to my Tibet hike my shopping was very different this time.
- Stark contrast between the luxury and how people live. Famous Moster Building that you see on signature HK photos is not unique - most houses look like people live in horrible conditions of caged homes, while hotel rooms are 40 sq m+ with top views.
- HK looks pretty homogeneous. I’ve stayed on Kowloon and HK island, and except for a couple of spots, streets look the same. Kowloon waterfront and financial district stand out architecturally. All the rest is tall narrow old skyscrapers.
- People are rushing all the time, practically running on the streets with their heads down and mostly in the phones. Looks like anti-utopian movies about the future.
- Mid-levels escalators - the largest outdoor escalator system. Hong Kong is mostly up the hill so having a system like this taking you through the city is a life-saviours.
- Best bakeries ever! Seriously delicious and with unique flavours. Pastries with mochi inside - to die for.
- Bamboo construction rails. Haven’t seen this anywhere else. Looks pretty epic.
- Awesome art museums. First thing I do in any city. HK gets bonus points for incredible museums’ view decks.