Hacker News headlines

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Prices at the supermarket keep rising. So do corporate profits (vox.com)

2 days ago | ctoth | vox.com | best

4

Preventing Panic in the Banking Sector (noahpinion.substack.com)

a week ago | ctoth | substack.com | newest

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Detecting Starlink Satellites with a Portable Raspberry Pi and RTL-SDR (2022) (rtl-sdr.com)

2 weeks ago | ctoth | rtl-sdr.com | best

1

Making Beliefs Pay Rent (In Anticipated Experiences) (lesswrong.com)

3 weeks ago | ctoth | lesswrong.com | newest

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in 82.5 Hours (medium.com/maxistentialism-blog)

4 weeks ago | ctoth | medium.com | frontpage

3

“I am Bing, and I am evil” (erikhoel.substack.com)

a month ago | ctoth | substack.com | newest

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A Brief History of Parafilm (cell.substack.com)

a month ago | ctoth | substack.com | best

7

Private Equity Doesn’t Want You to Read This (nytimes.com)

a month ago | ctoth | nytimes.com | frontpage

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How a Drug Company Made $114B by Gaming the U.S. Patent System (nytimes.com)

a month ago | ctoth | nytimes.com | frontpage

2

A Reminiscence of Project Ozma (1979) (bigear.org)

a month ago | ctoth | bigear.org | newest

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Semantic Engines: An Introduction to Mind Design (1981) [pdf] (snu.ac.kr)

a month ago | ctoth | snu.ac.kr | newest

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The Scaling Hypothesis (gwern.net)

a month ago | ctoth | gwern.net | newest

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Appliance makers sad that 50% of customers won’t connect smart appliances (arstechnica.com)

a month ago | ctoth | arstechnica.com | best

2

When M.D. is a Machine Doctor (erictopol.substack.com)

2 months ago | ctoth | substack.com | newest

3

Secretary Jobs in the Age of AI (noahpinion.substack.com)

2 months ago | ctoth | substack.com | frontpage

1

I, Row-Boat (craphound.com)

2 months ago | ctoth | craphound.com | newest

3

Using Language Models to Resolve Textual and Semantic Merge Conflicts [pdf] (microsoft.com)

2 months ago | ctoth | microsoft.com | frontpage

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Von Neumann's First Computer Program (1970) (fermatslibrary.com)

2 months ago | ctoth | fermatslibrary.com | best

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People took some potassium and lost some weight (slimemoldtimemold.com)

3 months ago | ctoth | slimemoldtimemold.com | best

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Fixing the GD77's Terrible Charger (theblackmoor.net)

3 months ago | ctoth | theblackmoor.net | newest

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Key Mostly Outward-Facing Facts from the Story of VaccinateCA (thezvi.substack.com)

3 months ago | ctoth | substack.com | newest

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Notes on OpenAI’s Alignment Plan (lesswrong.com)

3 months ago | ctoth | lesswrong.com | newest

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My cyberpunk city, my cyberpunk world (noahpinion.substack.com)

3 months ago | ctoth | substack.com | newest

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A ‘Golden Era for Large Cities’ Might Be Turning into an ‘Urban Doom Loop’ (nytimes.com)

4 months ago | ctoth | nytimes.com | newest

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Where is the new space odyssey epic? (turingchurch.com)

4 months ago | ctoth | turingchurch.com | newest

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RC Imperial Shuttle Drone (makezine.com)

4 months ago | ctoth | makezine.com | newest

1

Antibodies (antipope.org)

4 months ago | ctoth | antipope.org | newest

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Why Does China Persist with Its ‘Zero-Covid’ Strategy? (brinknews.com)

4 months ago | ctoth | brinknews.com | frontpage

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Is wine fake? (asteriskmag.com)

4 months ago | ctoth | asteriskmag.com | best

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Language models are nearly AGIs but we don't notice (philosophybear.substack.com)

4 months ago | ctoth | substack.com | frontpage

2

The Nine Billion Names of God (urbigenous.net)

4 months ago | ctoth | urbigenous.net | newest

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Operating Mastodon, Privacy, and Content (medium.com/kris-nova)

4 months ago | ctoth | medium.com | newest

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Elon Musk Takes Twitter, and Tech Deals, to Another Level (nytimes.com)

5 months ago | ctoth | nytimes.com | newest

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Most NYC Job Postings Must Include Salaries Starting in November (nytimes.com)

5 months ago | ctoth | nytimes.com | newest

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Low-Dose Potassium Community Trial: Sign Up Now (slimemoldtimemold.com)

5 months ago | ctoth | slimemoldtimemold.com | newest

3

GLM-130B: An Open Bilingual Pre-Trained Model (arxiv.org)

5 months ago | ctoth | arxiv.org | newest

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Russia’s Nuclear Weapons: Doctrine, Forces, and Modernization (2022) [pdf] (fas.org)

5 months ago | ctoth | fas.org | newest

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Americans Are Living Paycheck to Paycheck (thestreet.com)

5 months ago | ctoth | thestreet.com | frontpage

2

A $16 pocket spectrum analyzer (2010) (ossmann.blogspot.com)

5 months ago | ctoth | blogspot.com | newest

2

Writing a Cross-Platform Dynamic Library (2018) (atomheartother.github.io)

6 months ago | ctoth | github.io | newest

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Coordination Among Neural Modules Through a Shared Global Workspace

6 months ago | ctoth | arxiv.org | newest

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The Drawbacks of ‘Harm Inflation’

6 months ago | ctoth | medium.com | newest

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Human-level Atari 200x faster

6 months ago | ctoth | arxiv.org | newest

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Toy Models of Superposition

6 months ago | ctoth | transformer-circuits.pub | frontpage

1

Frank’s Image Generation Model, Explained

6 months ago | ctoth | tumblr.com | newest

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I'm trying to figure out why I don't like Effective Altruists

6 months ago | ctoth | residentcontrarian.com | newest

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The Dying Russians (2014)

6 months ago | ctoth | nybooks.com | newest

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Let's Implement Zlib.decompress()

7 months ago | ctoth | pyokagan.name | newest

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The Office’s Last Stand

7 months ago | ctoth | nytimes.com | newest

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Steven Pinker: The Stupidity of Dignity (2008)

7 months ago | ctoth | newrepublic.com | newest

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KeeAgent: SSH agent plugin for KeePass 2.x

7 months ago | ctoth | github.com | newest

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0ktapus campaign: Twilio, Cloudflare, and over 130 more victims

7 months ago | ctoth | group-ib.com | newest

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Common Misconceptions about OpenAI

7 months ago | ctoth | lesswrong.com | newest

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Tomato flu outbreak in India spreads to two more states

7 months ago | ctoth | theguardian.com | newest

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The Origins of the Pandemic – Under That Rug

7 months ago | ctoth | science.org | frontpage

2

What’s wrong with Google’s new robot project

7 months ago | ctoth | substack.com | newest

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Using organization Python package in GitHub actions without Python repository

7 months ago | ctoth | bneijt.nl | newest

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Flyby Anomaly

7 months ago | ctoth | wikipedia.org | newest

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Transformer language models are doing something more general

7 months ago | ctoth | lesswrong.com | newest

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Melancholy Elephants

7 months ago | ctoth | baen.com | newest

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Chinchilla's Wild Implications

7 months ago | ctoth | lesswrong.com | best