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As We May Think No More: From Bush's Memex to AI Alignment

https://memoryleak.substack.com/p/as-we-may-think-no-more
3•docmarionum1•1h ago

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docmarionum1•1h ago
An essay I wrote tracing the 80-year evolution from Vannevar Bush's 1945 vision of the memex to Geoffrey Hinton's contemporary warnings about artificial intelligence.

Shout out to the Advent of Computing podcast (https://adventofcomputing.com/) for finally getting me to read Bush's classic essay. As I read it, I was struck by the parallels in AI today.

Vector database that can index 1B vectors in 48M

https://www.vectroid.com/blog/why-and-how-we-built-Vectroid
1•mathewpregasen•47s ago•0 comments

QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system

https://github.com/EnBWAG/action.zeag-energie.ZEAG.QGIS
2•rcarmo•1m ago•0 comments

The second wave of MCP: Building for LLMs, not developers

https://vercel.com/blog/the-second-wave-of-mcp-building-for-llms-not-developers
1•emersonmacro•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built sendwish, birthday reminders and gift sending that doesn't suck

1•saintmalik•2m ago•0 comments

Reflections on the React Community

https://leerob.com/reflections
1•freddydumont•3m ago•0 comments

ReActionView: A New ActionView-Compatible ERB Engine

https://marcoroth.dev/posts/rails-world-2025-recap
2•mrinterweb•3m ago•0 comments

Scientific American 1993-2013 Article Index

http://www.davelo.net/sciam/regular-index.html
1•joebig•5m ago•0 comments

From 19k to 4.2M events/sec: story of a SQLite query optimisation

https://mnt.io/articles/from-19k-to-4-2m-events-per-sec-story-of-a-sqlite-query-optimisation/
1•Hywan•7m ago•0 comments

Steam Censorship of Adult Games Shows How Payment Processors Wield Immense Power

https://www.ign.com/articles/steam-censorship-of-adult-games-highlights-how-payment-processors-wi...
3•diggan•8m ago•0 comments

Opendoor board chair Rabois: company is 'bloated,' needs to cut 85% of workforce

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/12/opendoors-keith-rabois-company-needs-to-cut-85percent-of-its-work...
2•rntn•9m ago•1 comments

The Uneasy Future: Technology's Expanding Shadow Since 2020

https://comuniq.xyz/post?t=316
1•01-_-•9m ago•0 comments

Wearable microfluidic biosensor for profiling of stress hormones in sweat

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx6491
1•PaulHoule•10m ago•0 comments

Pgschema – Declarative schema migration for Postgres

https://www.pgschema.com/index
2•gajus•11m ago•0 comments

Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards [pdf]

https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2024/NIST.IR.8547.ipd.pdf
1•mooreds•11m ago•0 comments

Revealed: Apple is teaching its AI to adapt to the Trump era

https://www.politico.eu/article/apple-teaching-artificial-intelligence-adapt-to-trump-era/
5•CharlesW•11m ago•0 comments

Tether reveals USAT stablecoin, appoints Bo Hines, former White House advisor

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/12/tether-reveals-new-stablecoin-appoints-bo-hines-to-lead-us-busine...
2•jameslk•11m ago•0 comments

Don't panic about the global fertility crash

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/09/11/dont-panic-about-the-global-fertility-crash
3•xnx•16m ago•2 comments

Does Venture Care About Developers?

https://theoryvc.com/blog-posts/does-venture-care-about-developers
1•fzliu•21m ago•0 comments

The rise of AI cults and the false prophets of revelation

https://wisewolfmedia.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-ai-cults-truth-terminal
9•douchecoded•22m ago•0 comments

The Feel-Good Club has reached 11k members (it's a newsletter)

https://thefeelgoodclub.myflodesk.com/
1•Negary•22m ago•0 comments

Meilisearch

https://www.meilisearch.com/
2•oriettaxx•23m ago•1 comments

Get Excited About Postgres 18

https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/get-excited-about-postgres-18
4•craigkerstiens•23m ago•1 comments

Software Bill of Materials Requirements in DoD and Federal Guidance

https://eclypsium.com/blog/sbom-federal-requirements-guidelines/
4•cws•24m ago•0 comments

Microsoft swerves EU antitrust fine with price deal for unbundled Teams

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/microsoft-swerves-eu-antitrust-fi...
1•pqtyw•26m ago•0 comments

Taste

https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/taste/
1•brilee•26m ago•0 comments

Magic Mushroom Edibles Found to Contain Undisclosed Ingredients–No Psilocybin

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/magic-mushroom-edibles-found-to-contain-no-psilocybin/
5•Brajeshwar•26m ago•1 comments

Researchers find oldest written claim that the Shroud of Turin was faked

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/science/shroud-of-turin-oresme-philosopher
3•Brajeshwar•27m ago•0 comments

Man, 34, has tooth implanted in eye to restore his vision

https://www.today.com/health/men-s-health/tooth-in-eye-surgery-restores-vision-rcna230395
3•coloneltcb•29m ago•0 comments

Removing newlines in FASTA file increases ZSTD compression ratio by 10x

https://log.bede.im/2025/09/12/zstandard-long-range-genomes.html
2•bede•31m ago•0 comments

Making Discogs Data 13% Smaller with Parquet

https://harmonique.one/posts/making-discogs-data-13-smaller-with-parquet
2•futurecat•31m ago•0 comments