Hacker News headlines

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OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets (arstechnica.com)

5 hours ago | furcyd | arstechnica.com | best

3

Why Crypto's Slide Is Rattling Wall Street (nytimes.com)

a week ago | furcyd | nytimes.com | frontpage

2

Politicians Need to Understand This Computer Science Concept Better (2016) (nautil.us)

a week ago | furcyd | nautil.us | newest

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Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike (arstechnica.com)

a week ago | furcyd | arstechnica.com | frontpage

2

Anthropic Says Chinese Hackers Used Its A.I. In Online Attack (nytimes.com)

2 weeks ago | furcyd | nytimes.com | newest

2

Why imperfection could be key to Turing patterns in nature (arstechnica.com)

a month ago | furcyd | arstechnica.com | frontpage

3

Creating a database of motivated proofs (gowers.wordpress.com)

a month ago | furcyd | wordpress.com | frontpage

3

Creating a database of motivated proofs – Gowers's Weblog (gowers.wordpress.com)

3 months ago | furcyd | wordpress.com | frontpage

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The US is now the largest investor in commercial spyware (arstechnica.com)

3 months ago | furcyd | arstechnica.com | frontpage

4

Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises (arstechnica.com)

4 months ago | furcyd | arstechnica.com | frontpage

3

Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes (arstechnica.com)

5 months ago | furcyd | arstechnica.com | newest

2

Hackers exploit a blind spot by hiding malware inside DNS records (arstechnica.com)

5 months ago | furcyd | arstechnica.com | newest

1

How Do You Teach Computer Science in the A.I. Era? (nytimes.com)

6 months ago | furcyd | nytimes.com | newest

1

OpenAI's Plan to Embed ChatGPT into College Students' Lives (nytimes.com)

6 months ago | furcyd | nytimes.com | newest

3

Vlastimil Hort, a Memorably Selfless Chess Grandmaster, Dies at 81 (nytimes.com)

7 months ago | furcyd | nytimes.com | newest

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The AI that sparked tech panic and scared world leaders heads to retirement (arstechnica.com)

8 months ago | furcyd | arstechnica.com | newest

4

Study shows why simulated reasoning AI models don't yet live up to their billing (arstechnica.com)

8 months ago | furcyd | arstechnica.com | newest

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Netflix introduces a new kind of subtitles for the non-hearing impaired (arstechnica.com)

8 months ago | furcyd | arstechnica.com | frontpage

6

Teen coder shuts down open source Mac app Whisky, citing harm to paid apps (arstechnica.com)

8 months ago | furcyd | arstechnica.com | newest

1

The Future of AI in Knowledge Work: Tools for Thought at Chi 2025 (microsoft.com)

8 months ago | furcyd | microsoft.com | newest

4

Researchers claim breakthrough in fight against AI's frustrating security hole (arstechnica.com)

8 months ago | furcyd | arstechnica.com | frontpage

11

Irony alert: Anthropic says applicants shouldn't use LLMs (arstechnica.com)

10 months ago | furcyd | arstechnica.com | frontpage

2

Hallucinatory A.I. Helps Science Dream Up Big Breakthroughs (nytimes.com)

12 months ago | furcyd | nytimes.com | newest

1

Intel's CEO hasn't turned the company around, and now he's no longer CEO (arstechnica.com)

12 months ago | furcyd | arstechnica.com | newest

1

AI Scaling Hits Wall, Rumours Say. How Serious Is It? [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | furcyd | youtube.com | newest

1

Kim Deal Is Ready to Go Solo. It Just Took 4 Decades (nytimes.com)

a year ago | furcyd | nytimes.com | newest

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Google CEO says over 25% of new Google code is generated by AI (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | furcyd | arstechnica.com | newest

2

[dupe] In Nobel win, AI researchers Hopfield and Hinton take 2024 Physics Prize (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | furcyd | arstechnica.com | newest

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Meta pays the price for storing passwords in plaintext (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | furcyd | arstechnica.com | frontpage

1

When Computers Go Dark (nytimes.com)

a year ago | furcyd | nytimes.com | newest

1

At 5, She Picked Up Chess as a Pandemic Hobby. At 9, She's a Prodigy (nytimes.com)

a year ago | furcyd | nytimes.com | newest

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[flagged] Nvidia Becomes Most Valuable Public Company, Topping Microsoft and Apple (nytimes.com)

a year ago | furcyd | nytimes.com | frontpage

2

Can a technology called RAG keep AI models from making stuff up? (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | furcyd | arstechnica.com | frontpage

3

Steve Albini, Influential Producer of '90s Rock and Beyond, Dies at 61 (nytimes.com)

a year ago | furcyd | nytimes.com | frontpage

1

GenAI is to data visibility what absolute zero is to a hot summer day (computerworld.com)

a year ago | furcyd | computerworld.com | newest

0

Author granted copyright over book with AI-generated text–with a twist (wired.com)

a year ago | furcyd | wired.com | newest

3

Review of 'Is College Worth It?' (insidehighered.com)

a year ago | furcyd | insidehighered.com | newest

2

USB-C explained: How to get the most from it (and why it keeps getting better) (computerworld.com)

a year ago | furcyd | computerworld.com | newest

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Europe's A.I. 'Champion' Sets Sights on Tech Giants in U.S. (nytimes.com)

a year ago | furcyd | nytimes.com | newest

1

Computer Theorist Wins $1M Turing Award (nytimes.com)

a year ago | furcyd | nytimes.com | newest

5

Is AI driving tech layoffs? (computerworld.com)

a year ago | furcyd | computerworld.com | newest

1

An A.I. Researcher Takes on Election Deepfakes (nytimes.com)

a year ago | furcyd | nytimes.com | newest

0

McDonald's serves up a master class in how not to explain a system outage (computerworld.com)

a year ago | furcyd | computerworld.com | newest

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AI garbage is already polluting the internet (nytimes.com)

a year ago | furcyd | nytimes.com | frontpage

1

Quantum computing progress: Higher temps, better error correction (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | furcyd | arstechnica.com | newest

1

From Error to Entry: Cracking the Code of Password-Spraying Tools (trustedsec.com)

a year ago | furcyd | trustedsec.com | newest

3

Tabletop Games Based on Math Problems –| Math ∩ Programming (jeremykun.com)

a year ago | furcyd | jeremykun.com | frontpage

1

Why should Apple trust Epic Games? (computerworld.com)

a year ago | furcyd | computerworld.com | newest

2

The AI wars heat up with Claude 3, claimed to have "near-human" abilities (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | furcyd | arstechnica.com | newest

2

A.I. Frenzy Complicates Efforts to Keep Power-Hungry Data Sites Green (nytimes.com)

a year ago | furcyd | nytimes.com | frontpage

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A daddy-longlegs possesses six eyes, including two vestigial pairs (nytimes.com)

a year ago | furcyd | nytimes.com | best

1

How would an AI turn out if you raised it like a child? (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | furcyd | arstechnica.com | newest

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Why are amplitudes complex numbers? (2018) (scottaaronson.blog)

a year ago | furcyd | scottaaronson.blog | best

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David L. Mills, Who Kept the Internet Running on Time, Dies at 85 (nytimes.com)

a year ago | furcyd | nytimes.com | newest

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Florida Eliminates Sociology as a Core Course at Its Universities (nytimes.com)

a year ago | furcyd | nytimes.com | newest

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Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85 (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | furcyd | arstechnica.com | newest

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Quantum computing startup says it will beat IBM to error correction (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | furcyd | arstechnica.com | newest

1

A Sudoku Secret to Blow Your Mind [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | furcyd | youtube.com | newest

1

Homograph Homophone Venn Diagram (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | furcyd | wikipedia.org | newest

1

Engineers Straightened the Leaning Tower of Pisa [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | furcyd | youtube.com | newest

1

The Race to Dominate A.I (nytimes.com)

a year ago | furcyd | nytimes.com | newest

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Where do non-primitive recursive functions come up naturally? (computationalcomplexity.org)

a year ago | furcyd | computationalcomplexity.org | best

2

The Engineer and the Computer Scientist (computationalcomplexity.org)

2 years ago | furcyd | computationalcomplexity.org | newest

4

Kurt Gödel in the Movies (rjlipton.wpcomstaging.com)

2 years ago | furcyd | wpcomstaging.com | newest

1

Math: Large Numbers [video] (youtube.com)

2 years ago | furcyd | youtube.com | newest

2

MadMath: The Iron Law of Stack Exchange (madmath.com)

2 years ago | furcyd | madmath.com | newest

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Amid Sextortion’s Rise, Computer Scientists Tap A.I. To Identify Risky Apps (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | furcyd | nytimes.com | newest

2

When is a computer proof a proof? (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)

2 years ago | furcyd | github.io | newest

2

Active Introduction to Discrete Mathematics and Algorithms [pdf] (hope.edu)

2 years ago | furcyd | hope.edu | newest

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Ian Hacking has died (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | furcyd | nytimes.com | best

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Morris Tanenbaum, inventor of the silicon transistor, has died (ieee.org)

2 years ago | furcyd | ieee.org | best

2

What Makes Mathematicians Believe Unproved Mathematical Statements? [pdf] (mxphi.com)

2 years ago | furcyd | mxphi.com | newest

3

Remembering Data Compression Pioneer Jacob Ziv (ieee.org)

2 years ago | furcyd | ieee.org | newest

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Gordon E. Moore, the Intel Co-Founder Behind Moore’s Law, Dies at 94 (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | furcyd | nytimes.com | newest

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William A. Wulf, Pioneering Computer Scientist, Dies at 83 (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | furcyd | nytimes.com | newest

3

Making Deepfakes Gets Cheaper and Easier Thanks to A.I (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | furcyd | nytimes.com | newest

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IT’s lovefest with GPT-3 needs to meet reality now (computerworld.com)

2 years ago | furcyd | computerworld.com | newest

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Mathematics (2022) [pdf] (pitt.edu)

2 years ago | furcyd | pitt.edu | frontpage

5

The Imminent Danger of A.I. Is One We’re Not Talking About (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | furcyd | nytimes.com | newest

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Why do A.I. chatbots tell lies and act weird? Look in the mirror (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | furcyd | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Does mathematics need a philosophy? (logicmatters.net)

2 years ago | furcyd | logicmatters.net | best

1

Novel Proofs of the Infinitude of Primes (rjlipton.wpcomstaging.com)

2 years ago | furcyd | wpcomstaging.com | newest

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Duolingo’s AI learns what you need to learn (ieee.org)

2 years ago | furcyd | ieee.org | best

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Artificial intelligence just lost a leader (rjlipton.wpcomstaging.com)

2 years ago | furcyd | wpcomstaging.com | best

2

Newly Discovered Asteroid to Pass Close to Earth Tonight (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | furcyd | nytimes.com | newest

2

Why Study Logic? (wpcomstaging.com)

2 years ago | furcyd | wpcomstaging.com | newest

1

ChatGPT tried to write an obit for Martin Davis. What it got right, wrong (computationalcomplexity.org)

2 years ago | furcyd | computationalcomplexity.org | newest

1

ChatGPT for Educators (docs.google.com)

2 years ago | furcyd | google.com | newest

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Memories: Artificial Intelligence at Stanford in the 70s (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)

2 years ago | furcyd | github.io | best

2

Last year marked the end of an era in spaceflight–here’s what we’re watching (arstechnica.com)

2 years ago | furcyd | arstechnica.com | newest

2

Martin Davis Passed Away on Jan 1, 2023 (computationalcomplexity.org)

2 years ago | furcyd | computationalcomplexity.org | newest

1

What's Next for Quantum Computing (technologyreview.com)

2 years ago | furcyd | technologyreview.com | newest

4

Cargo Cult Quantum Factoring (scottaaronson.blog)

2 years ago | furcyd | scottaaronson.blog | frontpage

1

Video Game Workers Get a Union Foothold at Microsoft (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | furcyd | nytimes.com | newest

3

A.I. Will Change Education. Don’t Let It Worsen Inequality (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | furcyd | nytimes.com | newest

2

A pattern for responsive canvas illustrations (jgibson.id.au)

2 years ago | furcyd | jgibson.id.au | newest

1

Quantum Circuits in the New York Times (wpcomstaging.com)

2 years ago | furcyd | wpcomstaging.com | newest

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Memories: First exposure to computers (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)

2 years ago | furcyd | github.io | best

3

How Do Computers Work? Part 1: Basics (goodmath.org)

2 years ago | furcyd | goodmath.org | newest

1

Hans Niemann Is the Bad Boy of Chess. But Did He Cheat? (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | furcyd | nytimes.com | newest