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Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04118
1•nicholascarolan•23s ago•0 comments

Convergent Discovery of Critical Phenomena Mathematics Across Disciplines

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22389
1•energyscholar•37s ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Will GPU and RAM prices ever go down?

1•alentred•58s ago•0 comments

From hunger to luxury: The story behind the most expensive rice (2025)

https://www.cnn.com/travel/japan-expensive-rice-kinmemai-premium-intl-hnk-dst
1•mooreds•1m ago•0 comments

Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi...
3•mindracer•2m ago•0 comments

A New Crypto Winter Is Here and Even the Biggest Bulls Aren't Certain Why

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/a-new-crypto-winter-is-here-and-even-the-biggest-bulls-are...
1•thm•2m ago•0 comments

Moltbook was peak AI theater

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/
1•Brajeshwar•3m ago•0 comments

Why Claude Cowork is a math problem Indian IT can't solve

https://restofworld.org/2026/indian-it-ai-stock-crash-claude-cowork/
1•Brajeshwar•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Built an space travel calculator with vanilla JavaScript v2

https://www.cosmicodometer.space/
1•captainnemo729•3m ago•0 comments

Why a 175-Year-Old Glassmaker Is Suddenly an AI Superstar

https://www.wsj.com/tech/corning-fiber-optics-ai-e045ba3b
1•Brajeshwar•4m ago•0 comments

Micro-Front Ends in 2026: Architecture Win or Enterprise Tax?

https://iocombats.com/blogs/micro-frontends-in-2026
1•ghazikhan205•6m ago•0 comments

These White-Collar Workers Actually Made the Switch to a Trade

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/white-collar-mid-career-trades-caca4b5f
1•impish9208•6m ago•1 comments

The Wonder Drug That's Plaguing Sports

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/ostarine-olympics-doping.html
1•mooreds•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Which chef knife steels are good? Data from 540 Reddit tread

https://new.knife.day/blog/reddit-steel-sentiment-analysis
1•p-s-v•7m ago•0 comments

Federated Credential Management (FedCM)

https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/federated-credential-management-fedcm
1•mooreds•7m ago•0 comments

Token-to-Credit Conversion: Avoiding Floating-Point Errors in AI Billing Systems

https://app.writtte.com/read/kZ8Kj6R
1•lasgawe•7m ago•1 comments

The Story of Heroku (2022)

https://leerob.com/heroku
1•tosh•8m ago•0 comments

Obey the Testing Goat

https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/
1•mkl95•8m ago•0 comments

Claude Opus 4.6 extends LLM pareto frontier

https://michaelshi.me/pareto/
1•mikeshi42•9m ago•0 comments

Brute Force Colors (2022)

https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2022-12-30-amiga-ham/
1•erickhill•12m ago•0 comments

Google Translate apparently vulnerable to prompt injection

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tAh2keDNEEHMXvLvz/prompt-injection-in-google-translate-reveals-ba...
1•julkali•12m ago•0 comments

(Bsky thread) "This turns the maintainer into an unwitting vibe coder"

https://bsky.app/profile/fullmoon.id/post/3meadfaulhk2s
1•todsacerdoti•13m ago•0 comments

Software development is undergoing a Renaissance in front of our eyes

https://twitter.com/gdb/status/2019566641491963946
1•tosh•13m ago•0 comments

Can you beat ensloppification? I made a quiz for Wikipedia's Signs of AI Writing

https://tryward.app/aiquiz
1•bennydog224•14m ago•1 comments

Spec-Driven Design with Kiro: Lessons from Seddle

https://medium.com/@dustin_44710/spec-driven-design-with-kiro-lessons-from-seddle-9320ef18a61f
1•nslog•15m ago•0 comments

Agents need good developer experience too

https://modal.com/blog/agents-devex
1•birdculture•16m ago•0 comments

The Dark Factory

https://twitter.com/i/status/2020161285376082326
1•Ozzie_osman•16m ago•0 comments

Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS (2024)

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/free-data-transfer-out-to-internet-when-moving-out-of-aws/
1•tosh•17m ago•0 comments

Interop 2025: A Year of Convergence

https://webkit.org/blog/17808/interop-2025-review/
1•alwillis•18m ago•0 comments

Prejudice Against Leprosy

https://text.npr.org/g-s1-108321
1•hi41•19m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ted Cruz picks a fight with Wikipedia, accusing platform of left-wing bias

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/ted-cruz-picks-a-fight-with-wikipedia-accusing-platform-of-left-wing-bias/
4•rbanffy•4mo ago

Comments

PopGreene•4mo ago
This is like losing an election and accusing the voters of bias.
goku12•4mo ago
Look, I'm not aligned with any political movement and my political beliefs are nowhere near the right. But I have noticed on Wikipedia that some left-aligned claims are presented ignoring objections or without any supporting references, while right-aligned claims sometimes get stuck in endless arguments despite the availability of supporting references. I admit that this is just an anecdote. And since I don't read every Wiki article very critically[1], not a lot of them have caught my attention either. So my observations could be just statistical outliers. But this isn't the first time anyone has accused the Wiki of left-leaning bias. Meanwhile, I'm yet to see anyone accusing it of right-leaning biases, outside of organized vandalism campaigns. It is widely suspected that these biases come from the Wiki editors themselves[2].

Considering how much the information on Wikipedia influences politics and people's lives these days, it's important to not simply brush such concerns aside. It's a difficult task to address it, but may be well worth it. As a first step, someone will need to do a statistical study of a large sample of arguments and claims that lack supporting references. Only that measure will establish if the concern is real or just imaginary. Whatever comes after depends on that result.

Whatever be the truth about this accusation, there is something else very clear that prompted me to write this reply. Left ideology doesn't automatically equate to liberalism. I've noticed that a section (not everyone, but a sizable group) on the left is very inflexible in dealing with opposing views[3]. The left is the birth place of the cancel culture after all. They don't tolerate any challenges. However, that attitude is very detrimental to an information repository like Wikipedia in the medium to long term. The only real solution is to embrace the true progressive ideology - depend on evidences rather than conformance to popular narratives.

[1] I'm just looking for starter information most of the time. Critical analysis isn't the priority there.

[2] I'm not making an accusation. Everyone has biases. But it's important to address them in contexts like that of Wikipedia.

[3] The incident that made this very clear to me was when the fediverse almost defederated (cancelled) the fosstodon.org instance. It was over something that one of its right-leaning admins said somewhere else. That ultimately didn't happen because the said admin resigned and the instance moved to a more formalized administrative protocol. However, even that's a bit too far, because that admin had kept his job free of his personal political beliefs, and it never reflected on the instance. Besides, that instance is also home to a lot of individuals and FOSS projects, the majority of whom are left-leaning. The use of cancel culture as a weapon for stifling political speech was on full display there.

jfengel•4mo ago
I always thought "reality has a well-known left-wing bias" to be a joke in rather poor taste. It just smacks of self-congratulation. It might be funny when delivered in a self-deprecating way (by a left-winger), but I get queasy thinking of somebody taking it as real.

And yet here we are, with the right wing trying to make it a legitimate statement. They're making their own thought-terminating cliche: everybody who disagrees with me is not merely wrong, but is actively conspiring against me. They've created their own self-enclosed ecosystem, and any time reality contradicts them, they'll find support within that ecosystem. They'll claim that they're critiquing some orthodoxy, without giving anywhere near that kind of critique to their own sources.