The Daily Index — Friday, October 2, 2026 · TLDR Index

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atlassian.com

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STARLINK 'COMMUNITY SITE' PROGRAM TEASES HOURLY, WEEKLY INTERNET PASSES

Starlink plans to offer hourly, daily, and weekly passes for its satellite internet service. The company is recruiting 'hosts' to sell passes to interested consumers. Pricing details have yet to be released. Starlink will take care of payments, user access, and connectivity while the hosts focus on setting up their sites and earning from connections.

pcmag.com · 2 min

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WHY MUSE MAY NEVER NEED ADS

Meta is one of the very few companies that can monetize a personal agent through advertising without ever showing an ad inside the agent itself. The company can keep ads out of the Muse app and still get paid for it on Facebook and Instagram. Every Muse errand can be an incremental signal. Meta can indirectly monetize Muse until enough demand has been aggregated for it to start with direct monetization.

mbi-deepdives.com · 13 min

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WITH PRIMA, NASA WILL TRY TO BUILD A BILLION-DOLLAR SPACE TELESCOPE IN RECORD TIME

NASA's Probe Explorers are a new line of observatories intended to do more science for less money. The project aims to seek a better balance between the smaller Explorer missions and multibillion-dollar flagships. NASA announced on Wednesday it was moving forward with the first of the Explorers, PRIMA (Probe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics). PRIMA will observe the universe in faint, far-infrared light in a range of wavelengths between 24 and 235 micrometers. NASA intends to launch the telescope in 2033.

arstechnica.com · 6 min

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ROR CREATOR SPARKS NEW “DEATH OF CODING BY HAND” DEBATE

David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails, recently announced that 37signals, a company known for its software craft, was done with writing code by hand. The maturation of AI tools has made it possible for the company to embrace a future where coding by hand is almost entirely absent. AI creates new business models and revenue streams and disrupts traditional software. Companies are now investing in innovation and are willing to pay top-of-market for software engineers who can help them build AI products or become AI-native.

blog.pragmaticengineer.com · 15 min

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PI DURABLE

Pi Durable is an experimental package built specifically for long-running, durable, and malleable agents that can run anywhere. It can run anywhere, can be reached from different surfaces, supports infinitely long conversations, survives catastrophic internal and external failures, and lets multiple humans steer the same agents. It is a framework for building any agentic application, including coding agents.

earendil.com · 33 min

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PRODUCT MANAGER, APPLIED AI AT TLDR ($225K BASE + $60K BONUS, FULLY REMOTE)

TLDR is hiring its first PM to help build the agent-first operating layer used across the company. We're looking for a builder who has shipped real products/systems with LLMs. Click here to learn more [13].

jobs.ashbyhq.com

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XBOX'S MILLENNIAL CEO ISN'T PLAYING AROUND

Asha Sharma, the 38-year-old chief executive of Microsoft's Xbox division, wants Xbox properties to entertain a billion people. This means opening untapped markets in Africa, Latin America, and South Asia by using cloud computing technology to run games on computers and smartphones. Another pillar of her strategy is to reinvest in Minecraft as a competitor to Roblox. Leaders at the company describe the future of its consoles as embodying that idea.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 13 min