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Kill the Middleman, Hack the Tower

3•ricecat•6h ago
The cyberpunk genre has always been about friction—between man and machine, between freedom and control, between the street and the tower. But beneath its neon-soaked aesthetics and chrome implants lies a consistent economic tension: centralized systems that no longer serve the many, and decentralized workarounds that barely keep the underclass alive. In many ways, the rise of crypto and Web3 today doesn’t just echo cyberpunk themes—it realizes them.

https://www.gizvault.com/archives/kill-the-middle-man-hack-the-power

Most Americans Opposed the Moon Landing

https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/most-americans-opposed-the-moon-landing
1•zdw•1m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is there demand for general purpose GUIs for AI APIs?

1•codingclaws•1m ago•0 comments

Agentic Coding Is a Fundamental Shift

https://saewitz.com/agentic-coding-is-a-fundamental-shift
1•switz•2m ago•0 comments

19th-century land program linked to sharp rise in Native American mortality

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-links-19th-century-sharp-native.html
1•bikenaga•4m ago•0 comments

The Selling of AI

https://blog.dshr.org/2025/07/the-selling-of-ai.html
1•zdw•4m ago•0 comments

Why Don't You Just Use GPT or Claude?

https://blog.czero.cc/blog/why-dont-you-just-use-gpt-or-claude/
1•bling1•6m ago•0 comments

Ununderstanding – Intellectual Work in the Age of AI

https://considerthebulldog.com/ununderstanding/
1•alivetoad•7m ago•0 comments

Three Decades of OpenWindows (2024)

https://vcojot.blogspot.com/2024/01/3-decades-of-openwindows.html
1•hualapais•7m ago•0 comments

Meta, X and LinkedIn appeal unprecedented VAT claim by Italy

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/meta-x-linkedin-appeal-unprecedented-vat-claim-by-italy-2025-07-21/
1•zdw•8m ago•0 comments

Firing Colbert

https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2025/07/17/firing-colbert/
2•herbertl•8m ago•1 comments

Sledgehammer – Breaking the WASM/JS communication performance barrier

https://github.com/ealmloff/sledgehammer_bindgen
1•weinzierl•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a task manager for people that plan their tasks weekly

https://apps.apple.com/id/app/to-do-list-calendar-zesfy/id6479947874
1•zesfy•9m ago•0 comments

Daniel Kahneman: Algorithms Make Better Decisions Than You [the Knowledge

https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast/daniel-kahneman-2/
1•feross•11m ago•0 comments

Pg_mooncake: Columnstore Mirror of Postgres Tables

https://github.com/Mooncake-Labs/pg_mooncake/releases/tag/v0.1.2
1•moonikakiss•12m ago•0 comments

Logistic Regression Applied to Baseball Data

https://runningonnumbers.com/posts/logistic-regression/
1•oliverc1622•12m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: If AI can get gold in the IMO, why hasn't it invented a better chess?

1•amichail•12m ago•0 comments

DNS embedded malware used to create hacker-inspired version of Mad Libs word gam

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/dns-mad-libs-is-a-hacker-inspired-version-of-the-popular-word-game-built-on-networking-infrastructure-to-provide-distributed-version
1•DocFeind•13m ago•0 comments

Was the proposal of a nuclear consortium in Kazakhstan just a sham?

https://globalvoices.org/2025/07/05/was-the-proposal-of-a-nuclear-consortium-in-kazakhstan-just-a-sham/
2•PaulHoule•13m ago•0 comments

Apple almost open-sourced its AI models, here's why it didn't: report

https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/22/apple-almost-open-sourced-its-ai-models-heres-why-it-didnt-report/
1•thm•14m ago•0 comments

Framework 12 Durability Tests [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7CXIi4pO94
1•bwoah•16m ago•0 comments

'Google Solves Its Pixel 10 Leaks by Just Showing Us the Phone'

https://www.theverge.com/news/711033/google-pixel-10-design-tease-reveal
2•Bogdanp•16m ago•0 comments

A Chapter on Usenet and FidoNet from The Backbone: A History of the Internet

https://technicshistory.com/2020/06/25/the-era-of-fragmentation-part-4-the-anarchists/
1•beeburrt•16m ago•0 comments

Compression culture is making you stupid and uninteresting

https://maalvika.substack.com/p/compression-culture-is-making-you
8•kjhughes•17m ago•0 comments

Sapling Version Control System

https://sapling-scm.com/
1•xrayarx•19m ago•0 comments

Encryption Backdoors and the Fourth Amendment

https://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/mulr/vol108/iss2/5/
1•gnabgib•21m ago•0 comments

Elixir background jobs: choosing the right tool for the job

https://www.honeybadger.io/blog/elixir-background-jobs/
2•xrayarx•24m ago•0 comments

Many Lung Cancers Are Now in Nonsmokers. Scientists Want to Know Why

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/well/lung-cancer-nonsmokers.html
9•alexcos•24m ago•1 comments

What Doesn't Change

https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/07/14/what-doesnt-change/
1•remi•24m ago•0 comments

Casual Cruelty

https://seths.blog/2025/07/casual-cruelty/
3•herbertl•25m ago•0 comments

We let agents use APIs to find out if they can actually...do things?

https://superglue.ai/api-ranking/
4•adinagoerres•25m ago•1 comments