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UK Civil service interns must be working class, government says (bbc.co.uk)

2 days ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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Dine and dash mental health toll on restaurant staff (bbc.co.uk)

3 days ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Astronomer's 'clever' PR move embracing CEO scandal – featuring Gwyneth Paltrow (bbc.co.uk)

a week ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Thank you for your interest in Astronomer [video] (youtube.com)

a week ago | mellosouls | youtube.com | newest

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Meta names Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of AI superintelligence unit (techcrunch.com)

a week ago | mellosouls | techcrunch.com | newest

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The Early Development of Set Theory (2024) (stanford.edu)

a week ago | mellosouls | stanford.edu | newest

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Government launches Orgreave inquiry, 40 years after clashes at miners' strike (theguardian.com)

a week ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Mathematicians interact with AI, July 2025 update (columbia.edu)

2 weeks ago | mellosouls | columbia.edu | newest

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Cognition Windsurf acquisition behind the scenes (X) (twitter.com/jeffwsurf)

2 weeks ago | mellosouls | twitter.com | frontpage

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Call Me the 21st-Century Ern Malley (How I Fooled the Poetry World) (jasperceylon.substack.com)

2 weeks ago | mellosouls | substack.com | newest

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XAI's Grok 4 has no meaningful safety guardrails (lesswrong.com)

2 weeks ago | mellosouls | lesswrong.com | newest

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Long Overdue (substack.com)

2 weeks ago | mellosouls | substack.com | newest

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Polymarket Investigations Dropped by Justice Department, CFTC (decrypt.co)

2 weeks ago | mellosouls | decrypt.co | newest

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Grok July 8 incident analysis (X) (twitter.com/grok)

3 weeks ago | mellosouls | twitter.com | newest

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Is there a secret formula for election-winning slogans? (bbc.co.uk)

3 weeks ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Profits of Doom: A Private Eye Special Report (private-eye.co.uk)

3 weeks ago | mellosouls | private-eye.co.uk | newest

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Grok 4 (Thinking) achieves new SOTA on ARC-AGI-2 (X) (twitter.com/arcprize)

3 weeks ago | mellosouls | twitter.com | newest

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UK launched operation to find suspected Russian double agent in MI6 (theguardian.com)

a month ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | newest

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Joey Swoll, gymcreeps and trolling: inside the TikTok workout wars (2023) (gq-magazine.co.uk)

a month ago | mellosouls | gq-magazine.co.uk | newest

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A decade of power posing: where do we stand? (2021) (bps.org.uk)

a month ago | mellosouls | bps.org.uk | newest

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Tell HN: Sam and Jony Announcement 404s

a month ago | mellosouls | ycombinator.com | newest

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WhaleSETI: Curious Humpback Whales Approach Humans and Blow Bubble "Smoke" Rings (seti.org)

a month ago | mellosouls | seti.org | newest

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What did GothamChess say? Creator responds to drama over FIDE Head's viral tweet (sportskeeda.com)

a month ago | mellosouls | sportskeeda.com | newest

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Marine Corps Cadences (dodreads.com)

a month ago | mellosouls | dodreads.com | newest

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Saved Alan Turing papers sold at auction for £465k (bbc.co.uk)

a month ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Cursor Ultra (cursor.com)

a month ago | mellosouls | cursor.com | newest

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Cursor Ultra – A new, higher tier plan, built alongside the model providers (cursor.com)

a month ago | mellosouls | cursor.com | newest

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MI6 appoints first female chief in 116-year history (bbc.co.uk)

a month ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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Anyone Can Cook (world.hey.com)

a month ago | mellosouls | hey.com | newest

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Legal win for son tricked into moving to Africa by parents (bbc.co.uk)

a month ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Rust compiler performance (kobzol.github.io)

a month ago | mellosouls | github.io | best

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'Slumming in a vision of hell': Why Requiem for a Dream is divisive, 25 years on (bbc.com)

a month ago | mellosouls | bbc.com | newest

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Trump and Musk enter bitter feud – and Washington buckles up (bbc.co.uk)

a month ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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How Anthropic Teams use Claude Code [pdf] (anthropic.com)

a month ago | mellosouls | anthropic.com | newest

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Musk calls Trump's tax bill a 'disgusting abomination' (bbc.co.uk)

2 months ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Ukraine claims massive drone strike on Russian bombers in 'Spiderweb' operation (nbcnews.com)

2 months ago | mellosouls | nbcnews.com | newest

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Trump says 'Elon is not really leaving' as Musk's White House contract ends (bbc.co.uk)

3 months ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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What I learned during 5 years in Facebook / Meta (2024) (yunk.ai)

3 months ago | mellosouls | yunk.ai | newest

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Claude 4 vs. Gemini 2.5 Pro: A Developer's Deep Dive Comparison (forgecode.dev)

3 months ago | mellosouls | forgecode.dev | frontpage

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Someone trapped an LLM and infused it with existential dread for art (xda-developers.com)

3 months ago | mellosouls | xda-developers.com | newest

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X continues to suffer bugs following Thursday outage (techcrunch.com)

3 months ago | mellosouls | techcrunch.com | frontpage

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Claude shows a startling interest in consciousness (twitter.com/fish_kyle3)

3 months ago | mellosouls | twitter.com | newest

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Uniqlock: A modern take on an old flash advertisement campaign (github.com/megajerk)

3 months ago | mellosouls | github.com | newest

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George Wendt, best known for playing Norm on Cheers, dies aged 76 (theguardian.com)

3 months ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Why bad philosophy is stopping progress in physics (nature.com)

3 months ago | mellosouls | nature.com | frontpage

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Stax Museum Bob Abrahamian Collection (staxmuseum.org)

3 months ago | mellosouls | staxmuseum.org | frontpage

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And that will be England gone (thecritic.co.uk)

3 months ago | mellosouls | thecritic.co.uk | newest

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Now you can Airbnb more than an Airbnb (airbnb.co.uk)

3 months ago | mellosouls | airbnb.co.uk | newest

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Albert Ellis: Stoicism as the Root of CBT (2023) (thewalledgarden.com)

3 months ago | mellosouls | thewalledgarden.com | newest

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Can AI care for your loved ones? (bbc.co.uk)

3 months ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Next Chapter of Shapes (shapes.inc)

3 months ago | mellosouls | shapes.inc | newest

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The Search for Alternative AI Interfaces: Discovery versus Expressiveness (medium.com/intuitionmachine)

3 months ago | mellosouls | medium.com | newest

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Shri Thanedar's company abandoned more than 170 dogs and monkeys (2018) (metrotimes.com)

4 months ago | mellosouls | metrotimes.com | newest

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How much has Elon Musk's Doge cut from US Government spending? (bbc.co.uk)

4 months ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Transforming Education and Training in the Age of Advanced AI Reasoning Tools (aei.org)

4 months ago | mellosouls | aei.org | newest

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Vitalik Buterin Proposes Replacing Ethereum's EVM with RISC-V (coindesk.com)

4 months ago | mellosouls | coindesk.com | newest

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'Immediate red flags': questions raised over 'expert' much quoted in UK press (theguardian.com)

4 months ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | best

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The British sitcom that swept through the Balkans (2023) (samizdata.co)

4 months ago | mellosouls | samizdata.co | frontpage

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Bubble.io security research: 0day exploiting Elasticsearch implementation (github.com/demon-i386)

4 months ago | mellosouls | github.com | newest

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BitChute Exits UK over Online Censorship Laws (reclaimthenet.org)

4 months ago | mellosouls | reclaimthenet.org | newest

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Quantum Physics on the Wrong Track: Breakthrough Prize Winner Gerard 'T Hooft

4 months ago | mellosouls | ycombinator.com | newest

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Shopify CEO: AI usage is now a baseline expectation (twitter.com/tobi)

4 months ago | mellosouls | twitter.com | newest

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GitHub Copilot Pro+ (github.blog)

4 months ago | mellosouls | github.blog | frontpage

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Voynich Codicology (manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com)

5 months ago | mellosouls | wordpress.com | newest

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Copenhagen Survey on Black Holes and Fundamental Physics (arxiv.org)

5 months ago | mellosouls | arxiv.org | newest

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Hunter-gatherer continuity in Rhine region was disrupted by Bell Beaker groups (biorxiv.org)

5 months ago | mellosouls | biorxiv.org | newest

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Google Play is the worst developer experience of my career (tweet) (twitter.com/nearcyan)

5 months ago | mellosouls | twitter.com | newest

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The Vibe Coding Manifesto (justdo.com)

5 months ago | mellosouls | justdo.com | newest

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How to friends found £3M treasure and ended up in jail (bbc.co.uk)

5 months ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks (arxiv.org)

5 months ago | mellosouls | arxiv.org | newest

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Why Nothing Matters (aeon.co)

5 months ago | mellosouls | aeon.co | newest

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Lean AI Native Companies Leaderboard (leanaileaderboard.com)

5 months ago | mellosouls | leanaileaderboard.com | newest

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Five years on: The countries that never locked down for Covid-19 (bbc.com)

5 months ago | mellosouls | bbc.com | newest

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Meta removes long standing VR games from Quest store (twitter.com/toast_int)

5 months ago | mellosouls | twitter.com | newest

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The Lessons of the Lucy Letby Case – Private Eye Special Report[pdf] (private-eye.co.uk)

5 months ago | mellosouls | private-eye.co.uk | newest

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Governing in the Age of AI: Building Britain's National Data Library (institute.global)

6 months ago | mellosouls | institute.global | newest

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Don't Work at Anduril [video] (youtube.com)

6 months ago | mellosouls | youtube.com | newest

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[flagged] Britain dances to JD Vance's tune as it renames AI institute (politico.eu)

6 months ago | mellosouls | politico.eu | frontpage

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The Beguines of Medieval Europe: Mystics and Visionaries (greynun.org)

6 months ago | mellosouls | greynun.org | newest

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The Cook and the Chef: Musk's Secret Sauce (2015) (waitbutwhy.com)

6 months ago | mellosouls | waitbutwhy.com | newest

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Snake Pass: Could famous road close to cars? (bbc.co.uk)

6 months ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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From Quest to Horizon: How Meta's Shifting Priorities Are Affecting Developers (uploadvr.com)

6 months ago | mellosouls | uploadvr.com | newest

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'No medical evidence' to support Lucy Letby's conviction, expert panel finds (theguardian.com)

6 months ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | frontpage

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When Bohr got it wrong: the impact of a little-known paper on quantum theory (physicsworld.com)

7 months ago | mellosouls | physicsworld.com | newest

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Discussing Consciousness with R1 (twitter.com/mpshanahan)

7 months ago | mellosouls | twitter.com | newest

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Ledger co-founder kidnapped and freed in France (dlnews.com)

7 months ago | mellosouls | dlnews.com | newest

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Announcing The Stargate Project (twitter.com/openai)

7 months ago | mellosouls | twitter.com | newest

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State of UK digital government review (gov.uk)

7 months ago | mellosouls | www.gov.uk | newest

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Behind the Curtain – Coming soon: PhD-level super-agents (axios.com)

7 months ago | mellosouls | axios.com | newest

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Will the new presidency affect WFH for federal workers? (thehill.com)

7 months ago | mellosouls | thehill.com | frontpage

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Frankenstein inspired by suicide of Mary Shelley's half-sister, book reveals (theguardian.com)

7 months ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | frontpage

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My September Moment (meditationsontech.com)

7 months ago | mellosouls | meditationsontech.com | newest

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'We listen to it to remind us of home': 100 years of the Shipping Forecast (theguardian.com)

7 months ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | newest

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Two Turntables and a Microphone (2006) (goodfuzzysounds.com)

7 months ago | mellosouls | goodfuzzysounds.com | frontpage

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Forget jeansgate–Magnus Carlsen's deal with Saudi Arabia is the real story (sportspolitika.news)

8 months ago | mellosouls | sportspolitika.news | frontpage

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How Intellectuals Found God (thefp.com)

8 months ago | mellosouls | thefp.com | newest

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Thoughts on the Eve of AGI [X] (twitter.com/williambryk)

8 months ago | mellosouls | twitter.com | frontpage

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Biggest iceberg heads north after escaping vortex (bbc.co.uk)

8 months ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Things to Buy (near.blog)

8 months ago | mellosouls | near.blog | newest

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Assad's final hours in Syria: Deception, despair and flight (reuters.com)

8 months ago | mellosouls | reuters.com | newest