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AGI Is Still 30 Years Away – Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu

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Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu have 2045+ timelines, think the whole "alignment" framing is wrong, don't...
Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu have 2045+ timelines, think the whole "alignment" framing is wrong, don't think an intelligence explosion is plausible, but are convinced we'll see explosive economic growth.This discussion offers a totally different scenario than my recent interview with Scott and Daniel.Ege and Tamay ...
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Our quantum assembly parser got updated to the QASM 3.0 spec

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Show HN: HN Watercooler – listen to HN threads as an audio conversation

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Gemini 2.5 Flash

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Show HN: Image2video.app – Transform Ghibli-style images into videos using AI

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Show HN: Zuni (YC S24) – AI Copilot for the Browser

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An experiment that turned back biological time

substack.com

While most articles about science focus on the impacts of breakthroughs or ground-breaking experiments, this essay...
While most articles about science focus on the impacts of breakthroughs or ground-breaking experiments, this essay aims to offer something different. My goal is to provide a genuine glimpse into the scientific process through the eyes of the scientists themselves. If you're not a researcher or haven't spent much tim...
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There Are Two Types of Dishwasher People

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Milwaukee M18 Battery Reverse Engineering

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Coming soon... Milwaukee M18 Battery Dissection and Reverse Engineering... 2023-01-01: This project has been ongoing for...
Coming soon... Milwaukee M18 Battery Dissection and Reverse Engineering... 2023-01-01: This project has been ongoing for a while... now its time to post some of this info and see what comes of it. I have access to several junk Milwaukee M18 batteries. Age varies a little. I thought it would be 'fun' to reverse engin...
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Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale

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Source: ShutterstockOn October 1, 2024, investigative journalist Jeff Horwitz reported a startling statistic from an internal...
Source: ShutterstockOn October 1, 2024, investigative journalist Jeff Horwitz reported a startling statistic from an internal Snap Inc. email quoted in a court case against Snap Inc., the company which owns Snapchat. The email noted that the company receives around 10,000 reports of sextortion each month—and that fi...
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Marching Events: What does iCalendar have to do with ray marching?

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N-Params vs. Single Param

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OpenAI looked at buying Cursor creator before turning to Windsurf

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman looks on during an event at the startup campus Station F, on...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman looks on during an event at the startup campus Station F, on the sidelines of the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit, in Paris on Feb. 11, 2025.Aurelien Morissard | AFP | Getty ImagesBefore entering into talks to acquire artificial intelligence code-writing startup Windsurf, OpenAI looked at...

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Show HN: Serverless MCP – Debug AWS serverless resources in your IDE

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ChatGPT models are surprisingly good at Geoguessing

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There’s a somewhat concerning new trend going viral: People are using ChatGPT to figure out the...
There’s a somewhat concerning new trend going viral: People are using ChatGPT to figure out the location shown in pictures. This week, OpenAI released its newest AI models, o3 and o4-mini, both of which can uniquely “reason” through uploaded images. In practice, the models can crop, rotate, and zoom in on photos — e...
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SQLite Transactions and Virtual Tables

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A cute proof that makes e natural

poshenloh.com

For the full article covering many properties of, including history and comparison with existing methods of...
For the full article covering many properties of, including history and comparison with existing methods of teaching: PDF from arXiv. A video explanation will be posted here shortly.This webpage pulls out the part of the article which uses Pre-Calculus language to explain what is so natural about, while intuitively ...
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EasyPost (YC S13) Is Hiring

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On Jane Jacobs (2017)

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The legend of Jane Jacobs centers on the writer who revolutionized our thinking about cities with...
The legend of Jane Jacobs centers on the writer who revolutionized our thinking about cities with her now-classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and the fearless activist who stood up to planning czar Robert Moses’s rampaging road construction, thereby saving Gotham. A recent, rather cartoonish film on...

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Show HN: AgentAPI – HTTP API for Claude Code, Goose, Aider, and Codex

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Ultrafast Optical Detector

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Top OpenAI Catastrophic Risk Official Steps Down Abruptly

substack.com

OpenAI's top safety staffer responsible for mitigating catastrophic risks quietly stepped down from the role weeks...
OpenAI's top safety staffer responsible for mitigating catastrophic risks quietly stepped down from the role weeks ago, according to a LinkedIn announcement posted yesterday.Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, who took over OpenAI's Preparedness team in July, announced on LinkedIn that he has taken on a new role at the compa...
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The New Moat: Memory

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“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that....
“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.”― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me GoOpenAI's memory upgrades signals the start of what may become the most transformative shift since GPT-3’s debut.Until now, AI h...
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HDR‑Infused Emoji

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