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AI is for Midwits

3•d00mB0t•8h ago
AI is impressive, but the only people that believe it can think are midwits who love the latest trend. Tech oligarchs are hyping it because the hype is worth a lot of money.

Comments

tra3•7h ago
Trolling? "thinking" is a useful proxy for a complex process that the vast majority of people don't understand.

The competition behind AlphaFold is at risk of shutting down

https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-famed-protein-structure-competition-nears-end-nih-grant-money-runs-out
1•elektor•1m ago•0 comments

Full Disclosure of Security Vulnerabilities a 'Damned Good Idea' (2007)

https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2007/01/schneier_full_disclo.html
2•greyface-•13m ago•0 comments

Uncontrolled File Write/Arbitrary File Creation

https://hackerone.com/reports/3250117
2•smartberry9•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Autopilot for Cursor IDE

https://github.com/hmldns/nautex
1•Homo__Ludens•15m ago•0 comments

Corkami/pics: File format dissections and more

https://github.com/corkami/pics
1•chubot•16m ago•0 comments

Large study squashes anti-vaccine talking points about aluminum

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/07/large-study-squashes-anti-vaccine-talking-points-about-aluminum/
2•pseudolus•18m ago•1 comments

GPUHammer

https://gpuhammer.com/
2•jonbaer•20m ago•0 comments

Nvidia chips become the first GPUs to fall to Rowhammer bit-flip attacks

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/nvidia-chips-become-the-first-gpus-to-fall-to-rowhammer-bit-flip-attacks/
5•jonbaer•20m ago•1 comments

Creating a Colorscheme

https://robinroses.xyz/blog/creating-a-colorscheme/
2•comfysage•27m ago•0 comments

What Were the Earliest Laws Like?

https://worldhistory.substack.com/p/what-were-the-earliest-laws-really
2•crescit_eundo•30m ago•0 comments

Claude is kicking ChatGPT's butt (in one thing)

https://ben-mini.com/2025/claude-is-kicking-chatgpts-butt
4•bewal416•35m ago•1 comments

Google WiFi Pro: Glitching from Root to EL3: Part 1 – Characterization

https://raelize.com/blog/google-wifi-pro-glitching-from-root-to-el3-part-1-characterization/
3•timschumi•36m ago•1 comments

GitHub: Social login with Google is now generally available

https://github.blog/changelog/2025-07-15-social-login-with-google-is-now-generally-available/
1•tech234a•39m ago•0 comments

Trade Signal

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/trade-signal.asp
1•ibobev•47m ago•0 comments

Introduction to Random Graphs [pdf]

https://www.math.cmu.edu/~af1p/BOOK.pdf
3•ibobev•47m ago•1 comments

Open Problems in Geometry of Curves and Surfaces [pdf]

https://ghomi.math.gatech.edu/Papers/op.pdf
2•ibobev•48m ago•0 comments

The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out

https://www.wired.com/story/the-fbis-jeffrey-epstein-prison-video-had-nearly-3-minutes-cut-out/
9•slantedview•50m ago•1 comments

Formal Security & Verification of Cryptographic Protocol Implementations in Rust

https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/980
1•matt_d•55m ago•0 comments

Drew Saur on the Commodore 64

https://theprogressivecio.com/the-commodore-64-made-a-difference/
1•Bogdanp•55m ago•0 comments

OpenAI Vulnerability: 48 Days, No Response

https://requilence.any.org/open-ai-vulnerability-responsible-disclosure
128•requilence•56m ago•16 comments

How bad are search results? Let's compare

https://danluu.com/seo-spam/
3•warrenm•56m ago•0 comments

Chatbot, the Evolution of Conversational Software

https://www.interlogica.it/en/insight-en/chatbot-history/
1•Bluestein•56m ago•0 comments

DeepMind AI staff tied to "aggressive" noncompete – Offering year-long PTO

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/work-productivity/deepmind-noncompete-clause-rival-labs
2•Bluestein•57m ago•1 comments

Billionaires Convince Themselves Chatbots Close to Making Scientific Discoveries

https://gizmodo.com/billionaires-convince-themselves-ai-is-close-to-making-new-scientific-discoveries-2000629060
6•maartenscholl•1h ago•3 comments

I Tried Grok's Built-In Anime Companion and It Called Me a Twat

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-xai-ai-companion-ani/
2•coloneltcb•1h ago•1 comments

Mistral Releases Voxtral: Open Source Speech Understanding Models (3B and 24B)

https://huggingface.co/mistralai
2•yanng404•1h ago•0 comments

Behind the Streams: Three Years of Live at Netflix

https://netflixtechblog.com/behind-the-streams-live-at-netflix-part-1-d23f917c2f40?source=social.linkedin&_nonce=QaDyAeai
1•mfiguiere•1h ago•0 comments

Gauging Light Pollution: The Bortle Dark-Sky Scale

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-resources/light-pollution-and-astronomy-the-bortle-dark-sky-scale/
2•dskhatri•1h ago•0 comments

Implantable device could save diabetes patients from dangerously low blood sugar

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-implantable-device-diabetes-patients-dangerously.html
2•PaulHoule•1h ago•0 comments

Americans' new tax rates depend on who they are and what they do

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-tax-report/americans-new-tax-rates-depend-on-who-they-are-and-what-they-do
1•hhs•1h ago•0 comments