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Honest Abe: Anti-BS Epistemology

https://austinross.xyz/blog/2025/honest-abe/
1•dairyfiend•5h ago

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dairyfiend•5h ago
This is my universal BS detector, inspired by Harry Frankfurt's essay "On Bullshit."

Here's how it works: If a claim undermines its terms, evades its implications, or yields no discoveries, it is BS.

The write up on my blog is still missing citations, but should be rigorous and readable. There's a plain English explanation, syllogisms, a Kantian-style transcendental argument, Q&A with edge cases, and summary with Socratic demonstration at the end.

I'm grateful for any feedback you offer. My goal with this project is to promote shared reality and save everyone's time debunking nonsense. Please enjoy.

Pictures from Paper Reflections and a Single Pixel

https://hackaday.com/2025/06/29/pictures-from-paper-reflections-and-a-single-pixel/
1•PaulHoule•1m ago•0 comments

Port of Oakland container volume declines in June

https://www.portofoakland.com/port-of-oakland-container-volume-declines-in-june
1•littlexsparkee•1m ago•0 comments

Rerun 0.24 – Light Mode, Streaming Video, Tagged Components

https://rerun.io/blog/release-0.24
1•Tycho87•2m ago•1 comments

An example of drifting away in dev

https://mohas.bearblog.dev/an-example-of-drifting-away-in-dev/
1•mohas•3m ago•0 comments

The Daily Life of a Medieval King

https://www.medievalists.net/2025/07/medieval-king-daily-life/
1•diodorus•4m ago•0 comments

It's Not Just the Room That We're Escaping

https://substack.com/home/post/p-168330673
1•klep•5m ago•1 comments

OpenAI investor suspected to fall into ChatGTP-induced psychosis

https://twitter.com/GeoffLewisOrg/status/1945864963374887401
2•d_silin•8m ago•0 comments

How to Use Model Context Protocol

https://www.seangoedecke.com/how-to-actually-use-mcp/
1•greymalik•12m ago•0 comments

Against Single-File Codebases

https://www.rugu.dev/en/blog/against-single-file-codebases/
1•aiono•12m ago•1 comments

Bollinger Shipyards converting barge into landing platform for returning rockets

https://www.nola.com/news/business/innovation/bollinger-space-rockets-floating-platforms-spacex-blue-origin/article_92251df9-0312-423e-a3fc-43c4936d6f44.html
1•Bluestein•13m ago•0 comments

A local website was hijacked and filled with AI-generated 'coherent gibberish'

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/567221/how-a-local-website-was-hijacked-and-filled-with-ai-generated-coherent-gibberish
4•billybuckwheat•14m ago•0 comments

The Ghost in the Ice Cream Machine (2020)

https://gizmodo.com/the-ghost-in-the-ice-cream-machine-1844339832
2•lapetitejort•16m ago•0 comments

The design of forms in government departments

https://design-of-forms.online/
1•fanf2•16m ago•0 comments

Running TypeScript Natively in Node.js

https://nodejs.org/en/learn/typescript/run-natively
6•jauco•17m ago•0 comments

Why AI Dev Tools Need Different Growth

https://www.nibzard.com/anti-playbook-ai-dev-tools-growth-strategy/
1•nkko•17m ago•0 comments

How Did Elon Musk Turn Grok into MechaHitler?

https://prospect.org/power/2025-07-17-how-did-elon-musk-turn-grok-into-mechahitler/
2•azernik•18m ago•0 comments

Bringing granular updates to React, the Clojure way

https://romanliutikov.com/blog/bringing-granular-updates-to-react-the-clojure-way
2•yladiz•22m ago•0 comments

Garry Taubes is wrong: low-carb is not superior for weight loss

https://greyenlightenment.com/2025/07/17/garry-taubes-is-wrong-low-carb-is-not-superior-for-weight-loss/
1•paulpauper•22m ago•0 comments

Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records; a Home Computer, Abacus, and a Dog

https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237
1•ChuckMcM•23m ago•1 comments

Maybe writing speed is a bottleneck for programming

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/maybe-writing-speed-actually-is-a-bottleneck-for/
1•BerislavLopac•23m ago•0 comments

Grafana and LLMs

https://opeonikute.dev/posts/grafana-and-llms
1•opeonikute•23m ago•0 comments

Inside a lab making the advanced fuel to power growing US nuclear ambitions

https://www.aol.com/look-inside-lab-making-advanced-130227902.html
2•Bluestein•24m ago•0 comments

Breaking to Build: Fuzzing the Kotlin Compiler

https://blog.jetbrains.com/research/2025/07/fuzzing-the-kotlin-compiler/
2•ingve•24m ago•0 comments

Double and Nothing: Understanding and Detecting Cryptocurrency Giveaway Scams [pdf]

https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/ndss2023_f584_paper.pdf
2•paulpauper•24m ago•1 comments

Writing the Perfect Question (2010)

https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2010/08/29/writing-the-perfect-question/
1•paulpauper•25m ago•0 comments

Japanese Scientists May Have Found a Way to Eradicate Down

https://mymodernmet.com/down-syndrome-gene-editing-mie-university-study/
1•Bluestein•26m ago•1 comments

Ship like a team of 5 with Claude Code

https://every.to/source-code/how-i-use-claude-code-to-ship-like-a-team-of-five
1•rexpository•26m ago•0 comments

How vibe coding is changing the economics of software

https://georgian.io/how-vibe-coding-is-changing-the-economics-of-software-development/
1•nahimn•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: 1.5B LLM routing model that aligns to preferences, not leaderboards

https://huggingface.co/katanemo/Arch-Router-1.5B
1•honorable_coder•29m ago•0 comments

Terrashroom Last Company Update

https://terrashroom.io/blogs/company-updates/terrashroom-last-company-update-june-24th-2025
1•lxm•29m ago•0 comments