There's a war going on on the Internet. AI companies with billions to burn are hard at work destroying the websites of libraries, archives, ...

The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News

Harnessing moisture from air, Northwestern University chemists have developed a simple new method for breaking down plastic waste.

AI bots hungry for data are taking down FOSS sites by accident, but humans are fighting back.

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March 17, 2025 – “Reading Frost requires a kind of modesty and curiosity. Coming to this modesty has been a big part of my own experience with him. At first, I was reading a lot of the poems and thinking, This is dumb.”

Berlin checking if US immigration policy has changed after Fabian Schmidt becomes third German to be detained

Despite years of official criticism of encrypted messaging, CIA Director John Ratcliffe revealed that Signal comes installed on agency computers.

Section 230 provides limited protection for all platforms, though the biggest beneficiaries are small platforms and users. Why else would some of the biggest platforms be willing to endorse a bill

Results seen in mice within weeks.

Stand-up comedy about having a homelab.

A major challenge in training large-scale machine learning models is configuring the training process to maximize model performance, i.e., finding the best training setup from a vast design space....

A case study of how Elixir is being used at Cyanview.

'Watch the Skies' -- released in its native country as UFO Sweden -- was shot in Swedish but will look like it was made in English.

[Updated on 2020-09-03: Updated the algorithm of SARSA and Q-learning so that the difference is more pronounced.

[Updated on 2021-09-19: Thanks to 爱吃猫的鱼, we have this post in Chinese].