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The Most Important Century

https://www.cold-takes.com/most-important-century/
1•ananddtyagi•26s ago•0 comments

Built my first iOS app with Claude–25 downloads in 10 minutes

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/SWewxLIT2G
1•alwillis•27s ago•0 comments

I found a 0day in libpng(11 years after it got patched)

https://blog.himanshuanand.com/posts/discovered-a-libpng-vulnerability-11-years-after-it-was-patched/
1•unknownhad•1m ago•0 comments

Futhark – Automatic C imports in Nim

https://github.com/PMunch/futhark
1•TheWiggles•2m ago•0 comments

Backpropagation's Biological Incarnation Is Consciousness

https://dmf-archive.github.io/docs/posts/backpropagation-as-consciousness/
1•NetRunnerSu•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Built an AI Copilot for Crypto Traders

https://www.aulico.co:443
1•rendernos•6m ago•0 comments

Gemini CLI not recognizing Gemini Code Assist subscription

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/2711
1•fcoury•13m ago•0 comments

China's Evolving Industrial Policy for AI

https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA4012-1.html
2•hunglee2•13m ago•0 comments

Documentation Considered (Increasingly) Harmful

https://samuelalbanie.substack.com/p/documentation-considered-increasingly
1•albanie•19m ago•2 comments

Warren Buffett's Playbook: Timeless Investing Tips for Gen Z

https://thefinancefrontier.substack.com/p/warren-buffetts-playbook-timeless
1•Shivam_Verma_•23m ago•0 comments

Backlog.md – CLI that auto-generates task files (took my Claude success to 95 %)

https://github.com/MrLesk/Backlog.md
1•mrlesk•23m ago•1 comments

AGI and ASI Will Hack the Human Subconscious via Subliminal Messaging

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/2025/07/06/agi-and-ai-superintelligence-will-hack-the-human-subconscious-via-ai-generated-subliminal-messaging/
4•Bluestein•23m ago•0 comments

What one town learned by charging residents for every bag of trash

https://grist.org/accountability/what-one-town-learned-by-charging-residents-for-every-bag-of-trash/
1•rntn•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI-Powered SLA Breach Predictor for Jira (Open Source, Python)

https://github.com/aroojjaved93/AI-Powered-Ticket-Routing-SLA-Breach-Prediction-in-JIRA
1•aroojjaved•25m ago•0 comments

X blocks Reuters accounts in India

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/06/x-blocks-reuters-accounts-in-india/
1•01-_-•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models

https://github.com/BlueFalconHD/apple_generative_model_safety_decrypted
4•BlueFalconHD•28m ago•0 comments

AI is now screening job candidates before humans ever see them

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/30/virtual-recruiters-ai-jobs/
4•01-_-•30m ago•0 comments

Belgium Is Unsafe for CVD

https://floort.net/posts/belgium-unsafe-for-cvd/
36•todsacerdoti•31m ago•1 comments

Docs for AI Agents

https://technicalwriting.dev/ai/agents/
1•kaycebasques•32m ago•0 comments

I use mesh Wi-Fi instead of a standalone router

https://www.pocket-lint.com/mesh-wi-fi-instead-of-standalone-router/
4•Bluestein•32m ago•0 comments

Tip: Call the context file AGENTS.md and symlink to CLAUDE.md, GEMINI.md

https://pnote.eu/notes/agents-md/
1•przem8k•34m ago•0 comments

Tech for Palestine

https://techforpalestine.org/
11•ciconia•34m ago•0 comments

Flow batteries are the future of renewable energy – if there's funding

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/03/flow-batteries-are-the-future-of-renewable-energy-and-australia-could-be-a-world-leader-if-theres-funding
1•prairieroadent•35m ago•0 comments

An Intro to Special Relativity

https://trappedflux.substack.com/p/an-intro-to-special-relativity
2•boruto•36m ago•0 comments

Mobile app to find immigration lawyers and emergency petition for Habeas Corpus

https://github.com/habeas-project/habeas
1•verdverm•37m ago•1 comments

We route your API to the cleanest electricity grid in real-time

https://app.powermeterapi.dev
1•cameronleonard•40m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Lucius – An AI assistant for social media marketers

https://www.ailucius.com/
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The Perfect Man

https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-53-spring-2006/the-perfect-man
1•bookofjoe•43m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Vehicle Speed Detection Algorithm

1•maelito•44m ago•0 comments

LLM Agents and Context: A Warrior's Guide to Navigating the Dungeon

https://pocketflow.substack.com/p/llm-agents-and-context-a-warriors
3•zh2408•46m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

New study offers clues about what makes someone cool

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/well/mind/cool-people-traits-study.html
34•_tk_•11h ago

Comments

neonate•9h ago
https://archive.md/6KaOV
glimshe•9h ago
According to my own findings, there is minimal intersection between the group of cool people and the group of people who read coolness research.
gsf_emergency_2•8h ago
The first rule of cool is don't care about cool. The second (for experts) is that you can care if you don't show it. The third is that you can read research about cool and yet not care (God level cool)

That said, I think coolness research can help uncool people fight uncool shit like this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44478115

HSO•7h ago
well, you said "minimal", so not strictly empty right? ;)

"""

But Bezos was dissatisfied with that simplistic conclusion and applied his usual analytical sensibility to parse out why some companies were loved and others feared.

Rudeness is not cool. Defeating tiny guys is not cool. Close-following is not cool. Young is cool. Risk taking is cool. Winning is cool. Polite is cool. Defeating bigger, unsympathetic guys is cool. Inventing is cool. Explorers are cool. Conquerors are not cool. Obsessing over competitors is not cool. Empowering others is cool. Capturing all the value only for the company is not cool. Leadership is cool. Conviction is cool. Straightforwardness is cool. Pandering to the crowd is not cool. Hypocrisy is not cool. Authenticity is cool. Thinking big is cool. The unexpected is cool. Missionaries are cool. Mercenaries are not cool.

On an attached spreadsheet, Bezos listed seventeen attributes, including polite, reliable, risk taking, and thinks big, and he ranked a dozen companies on each particular characteristic. His methodology was highly subjective, he conceded, but his conclusions, laid out at the end of the Amazon.love memo were aimed at increasing Amazon's odds of standing out among the loved companies. Being polite and reliable or customer-obsessed was not sufficient. Being perceived as inventive, as an explorer rather than a conqueror, was critically important. "I actually believe the four 'unloved' companies are inventive as a matter of substance. But they are not perceived as inventors and pioneers. It is not enough to be inventive-that pioneering spirit must also come across and be perceivable by the customer base," he wrote.

"I propose that one outcome from this offsite could be to assign a more thorough analysis of this topic to a thoughtful VP," Bezos concluded. "We may be able to find actionable tasks that will increase our odds of being a stand out in that first group of companies. Sounds worthy to me!"

"""

from B. Stone. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon. Little, Brown & Co., 2013.

torginus•2m ago
According to my experience, cool people put in an absolutely inordinate amount of research, time and effort in order to appear as if they don't even have to try.
webdevver•9h ago
i used to think that being a kickass programmer was cool

now all i think about is money

voiper1•8h ago
>Cool people are largely perceived to be extroverted, hedonistic, powerful, adventurous, open and autonomous.
jawns•8h ago
Subtract hedonistic and powerful.

I would say that adventurous, open and autonomous are three qualities that make a person interesting, as opposed to boring. They likely have entertaining stories and an approach to life that repels dullness.

And extroversion, though it doesn't have much bearing on being interesting, makes it a little more likely that I'd encounter them and get to know the three other qualities.

nirui•8h ago
I noticed there's no word such as smart, bright, clever or wise mentioned in the sentence above.

Just an observation, nothing else.

mingus88•1h ago
the word cool is pretty much the opposite of bright so that tracks
gsf_emergency_2•8h ago
Guardian, fact-checking the paper with known cool people, suggests that they missed a key trait: "low-key"

https://archive.fo/cmP3O

(I disagree with their lists at the end of their article tho ;)

neom•7h ago
I've found in my life cool people generally have something to offer, be it inspiration, insight, other otherwise, I feel like cool is often aspirational and differs depending on where someone is trying to go in life. It seems to me cool people have some unique degree of "Culturedness" - this lines up with the traits they found. If you are Extraverted, Hedonistic, Powerful, Adventurous, Open and Autonomous, you're likely ending up in situations and experiences that have a different venn from the other folks around you.

From the paper: "Our method does not let us test the extent to which coolness was valued or prevalent in a culture, but historical analysis suggests that cool people were first recognized and admired in countercultural niches, such as mid-20th century African American jazz clubs and beatnik coffee shops that valued improvisation and creative expression (Belk et al., 2010; Heath & Potter, 2004). The desire to be cool spread as societies shifted their focus from industry to information, and coolness continues to play a larger role in cities (San Francisco, New York, London, Tokyo, etc.) and industries (fashion, entertainment, technology) where economic success depends on creativity (Florida, 2012; C. Warren et al., 2019). Stronger evidence that coolness is a status hierar"

chriscrisby•6h ago
I don’t even have to read it cause it’s smoking. We’ve always known it was smoking.
apt-apt-apt-apt•5m ago
Smelling like cancerous ass is not cool though
jaybrendansmith•5h ago
Be humble. That's always cool. If you are truly cool you don't need to talk about it.
tomcam•1h ago
Obviously I didn't have to click