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GhostBSD: From Usability to Struggle and Renewal

https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/downstreams/ghostbsd-from-usability-to-struggle-and-renewal
1•ecliptik•55s ago•0 comments

Embeddings: Decoder-Only Transformers are SoTA Encoders (with some fine-tuning)

https://miguel-martin.com/blog/decoder-only-transformers-are-encoders
1•miguel_martin•3m ago•0 comments

Google bug blocked Miniforge on GitHub

https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge/issues/667
1•bguberfain•3m ago•0 comments

Asset-Backed Crypto Token Wasn't

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-05-21/asset-backed-crypto-token-wasn-t
1•feross•3m ago•0 comments

Revamp your new tab to supercharge your daily productivity

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/todays-task/ghmmlbbhellogdiejchbppddlfmfdepj
1•ngninja•4m ago•0 comments

Hatchet

https://hatchet.run/
1•handfuloflight•6m ago•0 comments

Bloomberg Outage Hits Traders, Disrupts Government-Bond Auctions

https://www.wsj.com/finance/bloomberg-terminal-hit-by-outage-3a414ebe
1•impish9208•6m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Would matrix support in BASIC have reduced VisiCalc's popularity?

1•amichail•6m ago•0 comments

Proof that we are information

2•zombiej5•7m ago•0 comments

I made a Michael Seibel tribute video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYRYF8KL1SE
2•gjarrosson•9m ago•0 comments

Teens Almost Got Away with Murder. Then Police Found Their Google Searches

https://www.wired.com/story/find-my-iphone-arson-case/
1•01-_-•10m ago•0 comments

Alan Turing papers saved from shredder could fetch £150k

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/21/alan-turing-papers-saved-from-shredder-could-fetch-150000
3•bookofjoe•10m ago•0 comments

Is Polymarket Legal? How Shayne Coplan's Bet Is Paying Off

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/is-polymarket-legal-politics-betting-shayne-coplan.html
1•myroon5•11m ago•0 comments

An upgraded dev experience in Google AI Studio

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-ai-studio-native-code-generation-agentic-tools-upgrade/
1•meetpateltech•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a platform to solve the "YC cofounder matching" problems

https://www.launchwith.co/
2•Jun_•14m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is Hackers and Painters still relevant today?

1•grandimam•16m ago•0 comments

The Mouse Language, Running on Arduino

https://hackaday.com/2025/05/20/the-mouse-language-running-on-arduino/
2•MarcoDewey•18m ago•0 comments

Ace your professional tech certification

https://passquest.pro
12•PassQuest•21m ago•0 comments

Some AutoHotKey Tips (2022)

https://xcancel.com/hillelogram/status/1528590214750515200
2•Tomte•21m ago•0 comments

How Difficult Public Micromobility Is in Suburbia: Case Study of OC Flex Demise

https://www.collegetowns.org/p/rip-oc-flex-or-how-difficult-public
3•dueltmp_yufsy•21m ago•0 comments

Cursynth is a polyphonic music synthesizer that runs inside your terminal

https://www.gnu.org/software/cursynth/
2•Tomte•21m ago•0 comments

Could black holes be growing inside stars–silently and forever?

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-black-holes-stars-silently.html
2•rbanffy•21m ago•0 comments

What Makes Reconciliation in Banking-as-a-Service Unique?

https://synctera.com/post/what-makes-reconciliation-in-banking-as-a-service-unique
2•thatdrew•22m ago•0 comments

Emerging Properties in Unified Multimodal Pretraining

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14683
1•buildbot•23m ago•1 comments

The Future of Newspapers Is Lies, I Guess

https://aphyr.com/posts/386-the-future-of-newspapers-is-lies-i-guess
4•todsacerdoti•23m ago•1 comments

Gilded Fish: Illustrations of Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine c.1780

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/chinese-fishes/
4•crescit_eundo•25m ago•0 comments

Don't Let Vibe Coding Become Vibe Shipping

https://blog.growthbook.io/vibe-shipping/
4•jdorn•25m ago•0 comments

Building (Open Source) Custom Dashboards Is Harder Than You Think

https://langfuse.com/blog/2025-05-21-customizable-dashboards
4•clemo_ra•25m ago•0 comments

High RISC, High Reward: RISC-V at 15

https://riscv.org/riscv-news/2025/05/risc-v-15-years/
1•RetroTechie•26m ago•0 comments

Forget vibe coding. Vibe Business Intelligence is here

https://google.smh.re/4wVZ
1•vladkol•26m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Merito-Democracy: An AI-Driven Vision for Meritocratic Governance

https://www.meritodemocracy.org/
1•vysakh0•4h ago

Comments

hbartab•4h ago
> Rather than relying on backroom deals or dynastic succession, the party's internal promotions and candidate selections are governed by an AI-driven merit evaluation system.

Because an AI cannot be gamed? Or because the company behind it does not have its own agenda? Thanks, but no thanks.

Most governments are already opaque enough in their decisions, adding a black-box AI is not going to anything to improve that. And it'll just hand power to those who are behind the AI. So instead of a government for the people by the people (through representation), you end up with a government run by corporations.

And at the very end:

> Authors: Vysakh, ChatGPT(o3)

JohnFen•3h ago
Indeed. This proposal sounds to me like fast track to tyranny.