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Circles or rectangles? And does the answer depend on where you grew up?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/05/optical-illusions-see-world-perception
9•Bluestein•5h ago

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austin-cheney•4h ago
This is supremely interesting because all the evidence indicates people default to susceptibility to these Ponzo and Müller-Lyer illusions irrespective of cultural and socioeconomic status. I remember falling victim to these illusions as a child myself.

What makes this interesting is the inverse. What about the commonalities of people who are blind to the bias imposed by these illusions? Now I am blind to the illusions. I am trying to see the visual bias I remember experiencing as a child but I cannot see it in any examples. I have searched online for more examples and to no avail.

I suspect that when I did fall for the illusions the contextual interference of additional information biased my thinking towards false conclusions. Why is that not so now? The change is not a casual shift of perception but a complete and absolute non cognitive hard difference. Does that illusion blindness influence other perceptions/conclusions and does it do so uniformly in ways not applicable to persons without such illusion blindness?

Bluestein•3h ago
This is an obvious question but ... could not also our neurons get "rewired" over time, to where you can no longer see it?

Man describes falling victim to AI job interview scam

https://www.nbcboston.com/investigations/consumer/ai-job-interview-scam/3757510/
1•ilamont•3m ago•0 comments

Fairphone 6 Teardown

https://www.ifixit.com/News/111613/fairphone-6-teardown-proof-phones-dont-have-to-be-disposable
2•Garbage•6m ago•0 comments

Ascent AeroSystems: Big Value, Small Package

https://evtol.news/news/ascent-aerosystems-big-value-small-package
2•stareatgoats•7m ago•0 comments

Xkcd: Global Ranking

https://xkcd.com/3110/
3•Garbage•9m ago•0 comments

100 years ago they predicted we'd live to 1000 years old. Average ifespan was 58

https://www.popsci.com/health/humans-living-to-1000-years-old/
5•Bluestein•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sb-Kit, Drop-In Auth Layer for Next.js and Supabase

https://github.com/bytaesu/sb-kit
1•bytaesu•10m ago•0 comments

Can AI Replace Copilots on Passenger Jets?

https://cacm.acm.org/news/can-ai-replace-copilots-on-passenger-jets/
1•pseudolus•12m ago•0 comments

China is building an entire empire on data

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/07/03/china-is-building-an-entire-empire-on-data
2•bookofjoe•15m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Chatbot for OpenGov Data, NLP Bert Fine-Tuning, Faiss, Docker, Drupal

https://github.com/TFerhan/Chatbot-for-Open-Moroccan-Data-Portail
1•pirimi•19m ago•0 comments

Arc Virtual Cell Challenge: A Primer

https://fleetwood.dev/posts/virtual-cell-challenge
1•FL33TW00D•21m ago•0 comments

Potemkin Understanding in LLMs: New Study Reveals Flaws in AI Benchmarks

https://socket.dev/blog/potemkins-llms-illusion-of-understanding
2•akyuu•23m ago•0 comments

Path Tracing Done Right? A Deep Dive into Bolt Graphics [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rMCeusWM8M
1•rbanffy•25m ago•0 comments

'Vibe Coding' Signals the End of Software Programmers

https://www.seriousanimals.com/vibe-coding-signals-the-end-of-software-programmers-2/
2•Anon84•28m ago•2 comments

Berry Script: lightweight embedded scripting language for microcontrollers

https://berry-lang.github.io/
2•hasheddan•36m ago•0 comments

How I hacked hackers at LeHack 2025

https://7h30th3r0n3.fr/how-i-hacked-hackers-at-lehack-2025/
1•cmsefton•39m ago•0 comments

Cursor for Prompts Extension

https://promptdc.com/
2•pvisilias•45m ago•1 comments

The U.S. Is Switching Sides

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/07/putin-trump-russia-ukraine/683414/
9•exceptione•59m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: Can't Figure Out Where to Go Next Career Wise

2•OulaX•1h ago•0 comments

AI for Citizens

https://mistral.ai/news/ai-for-citizens
3•doener•1h ago•0 comments

Personal Soundtracks Two decades of mix-and-match music (1999)

https://reason.com/1999/10/01/personal-soundtracks/
5•Bluestein•1h ago•0 comments

Outage of fanfiction site Archive of Our Own was caused by integer exhaustion

https://old.reddit.com/r/AO3/comments/1lr7buc/comment/n18r8f1/
2•todsacerdoti•1h ago•0 comments

Apple just released a weirdly interesting coding language model

https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/04/apple-just-released-a-weirdly-interesting-coding-language-model/
2•ksec•1h ago•0 comments

1945 TV Console Showed Two Programs at Once

https://spectrum.ieee.org/dumont-duoscopic-tv-set
3•pseudolus•1h ago•2 comments

'Never seen this before': Mysterious orb of light filmed in Alberta

https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/article/never-seen-this-before-mysterious-orb-of-light-filmed-in-alberta/
2•mosura•1h ago•0 comments

Using otel to emit and view debug traces from Golang command-line tools

https://github.com/jonjohnsonjr/til/blob/main/post/otel.md
1•fanf2•1h ago•0 comments

NYC 'showtime' dancers adapt to modern subway trains

https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-showtime-dancers-adapt-to-mtas-modern-subway-trains
1•raldi•1h ago•0 comments

Potential 'interstellar object' in our solar system

https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/solar-system-interstellar-object-a11pl3z-b2781374.html
5•Bluestein•1h ago•0 comments

On The Meaning of Ritual

https://alicemaz.substack.com/p/on-the-meaning-of-ritual
1•jger15•1h ago•0 comments

Large Language Models Are Improving Exponentially

https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-language-model-performance
28•pseudolus•1h ago•13 comments

The Forgotten War on the Walkman

https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/the-forgotten-war-on-the-walkman
2•pseudolus•1h ago•0 comments