The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,046 posts.
Make the Trump administration object. Make them defend the indefensible — in public. Make clear why the apps were removed from the app stores and force Musk — and Trump, if he chooses — to argue that those things are A-OK by them. In court.
A new study from researchers at the Brown University School of Public Health highlights a push from private equity investors into autism therapy centers across the nation.
Senior engineers are best positioned to benefit from AI. We're good enough to avoid slop, and there's so much we can accomplish. I wouldn't go back.
Caitlin Callenson’s courage in the face of insane danger is just remarkable.
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We need to have a hard look at the surveillance industry. It is a key enabler of vast and untold violations of human rights and civil liberties, and it continues to be used by aspiring autocrats to threaten our very democracy. As long as it exists, the surveillance industry, and the data it generates, will be an…
What the **** does that mean?
I sometimes resort to a rather common measuring technique that is neither fast, nor accurate, nor recommended by any standards body and yet it hasn't failed me whenever I have had to use it. I will describe it here, though calling it a technique might be overselling it. Please do not use it for installing kitchen…
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a tale about a young transgender intern
I've been asking this question to myself a few times now. When ...
Sentiment analysis of 32,000 Hacker News posts shows 65% skew negative and earn 27% more points. Six transformer and LLM models tested, full data included.
On December 28th, I delivered a speech entitled " A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet " for 39C3, the 39th Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, Germany. This is the transcript of that speech.
Ever since a spate of mergers in the 1990s, Westlaw and LexisNexis have dominated legal research. And that might be why searching legal cases is so costly, even in the age of AI.
When OpenAI released the first version of Sora, I was excited. For years, I'd had this short story sitting on my hard drive, something I'd written long ago and always dreamed of bringing to life as a
He worked with computers; she worked with trees, and the flowers that took hold on the sides of the Mountain.
I found a stranger texting my 12-year-old on a 'kid-safe' Gabb phone. Parental controls are broken.
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The Great Return: From Digital Abundance to Analog Meaning
Corgis, compute, Cold War; Ecclesiastes; ties; Stendhal; humor; Pascal's Wager; deep infrastructure; Germanic obedience; Texas State Fair
If childhood is half of our subjective life, how should that change how we live?
