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“Computers enable fantasies” – the continued relevance of Weizenbaum’s warnings
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LibrarianShipwreck
“Computers enable fantasies” – On the continued relevance of Weizenbaum’s warnings
“The computer has long been a solution looking for problems—the ultimate technological fix which insulates us from having to look at problems.” – Joseph Weizenbaum (1983) Trying to kee…
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ChatGPT and the Enshittening of Knowledge
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ChatGPT and the Enshittening of Knowledge
Daragh O Brien poses some thoughts on ChatGPT, AI Text Generation, and the Enshittening of Knowledge and what we can learn from Plato.
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Urgent public health warning issued over lost radioactive capsule
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www.abc.net.au
Urgent search underway for tiny capsule that emits 10 X-rays' worth of radiation every hour
WA authorities are desperate to find a tiny, silver capsule emitting dangerous amounts of radiation which was lost while being transferred from a mine site.
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Passenger Uses AirTags, Discovers Airline Donated Their Bags to Charity
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Ontario couple tracking lost baggage shocked that Air Canada gave it to charity
After months of tracking their lost luggage with an AirTag and trying to retrieve their belongings, one couple was stunned to learn that Air Canada h…
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Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
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Just know stuff. (Or, how to achieve success in a machine learning PhD)
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Patrick Kidger
Personal Website. Math, SciML, scuba diving!
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“They wanted my Instagram handle, and somehow they've now got it.”
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Mastodon
Alex Stevenson-Price (@alexjsp@mastodon.social)
So I've been secretly in a cold war with some weird crypto bros for like 6 months now, and worryingly in the last couple days it's looking like they've won. They wanted my Instagram handle, and somehow they've now got it. Without my consent. And it's kinda…
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Why is Java so weird?
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Uncharted Territories
Why is Java So Weird?!
Java has a larger population than Russia. It's smaller than Japan but has a bigger population. It's nearly 8x denser than neighboring Sumatra. Why? Is it volcanoes? Trade? Immigration? colonization?
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Foliate – A simple and modern eBook viewer for Linux desktops
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The Hostile Forces of Beijing
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The Scholar's Stage
On China’s Enemies Within
On January 16th the friends of Cao Zhixin, a 27 year old book editor residing in Beijing, posted a video of Cao onto Youtube. The video spread quickly spread across Chinese language Twitter, and fr…
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Show HN: YouTube Summaries Using GPT
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eightify.app
Eightify - AI YouTube Video Summarizer
Eightify is the top AI-powered video summarizer for YouTube. Our advanced AI generates concise video summaries, extracting key ideas instantly and saving time.
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SirTunnel, a Personal Ngrok Alternative
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eighty-twenty.org
SirTunnel, a personal ngrok alternative (eighty-twenty news)
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AWS Purity Test
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AWS Purity Test
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PagerDuty CEO Quotes Martin Luther King Jr. In Worst Layoff Email Ever
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Gizmodo
PagerDuty CEO Quotes Martin Luther King Jr. in Worst Layoff Email Ever
Jennifer Tejada referred to the job cuts as "refinements" and then proceeded to congratulate folks she promoted.
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Natural language is the lazy user interface
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Austinhenley
Natural language is the lazy user interface
A chatbot is the lazy user interface. It puts all the burden on the user to articulate good questions.
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Show HN: Interact with the terminal in plain English using GPT-3
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GitHub
GitHub - dylanjcastillo/shell-genie: Your wishes are my commands
Your wishes are my commands. Contribute to dylanjcastillo/shell-genie development by creating an account on GitHub.
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The Science of Sword-Swallowing
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Cocktail Party Physics
by the sword
We're back! All tanned, rested, and ready to tackle whatever life chooses to hurl our way. It was tough to drag ourselves away from the palm trees, sandy beaches, fruity tropical drinks by the pool, haute cuisine, and luxurious on-site...
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The ER has become a sanctuary for society’s unmet needs
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The Seattle Times
The ER has become a sanctuary for society’s unmet needs
The emergency department at your local hospital is so much more than a place for acute illness or injury.
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Godot 4.0 beta 16: Initial .NET 7 support
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Godot Engine
Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 16
We're now just days away from the Release Candidate, working at full capacity on finalizing as many of the remaining high priority issues as we can. This beta includes .NET 7 support, better RichTextLabel minimum size calculation, and a lot of general quality…
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$6.96B was raised by private longevity companies in 2022
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Spannr
Spannr 2022 Longevity Funding Report
As a growing body of research shows that aging might not be as inevitable as we assumed, billions of dollars are beginning to pour into longevity startups. We’ve compiled all the fundraising data for longevity-related companies in 2022.
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Forking Chrome to render in a terminal
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