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AI hype is excessive, but its productivity gains are real

https://www.pcloadletter.dev/blog/ai-hype-and-productivity/
4•ronbenton•2h ago

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necovek•8m ago
It's great that thr article really demonstrates what are the presumed productivity gains and how big they are.

Oh wait, it doesn't. How does one know it's a gain without comparing it to a baseline?

Landscapes may soon be 'devoid of wild animals': nature photographer

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/18/worlds-landscapes-may-soon-be-devoid-of-wild-...
1•marshfram•2m ago•0 comments

Example skills that demonstrate what's possible with Claude's skills system

https://github.com/anthropics/skills
2•jinqueeny•9m ago•0 comments

When it comes to MCPs, everything we know about API design is wrong

https://blog.fsck.com/2025/10/19/mcps-are-not-like-other-apis/
2•todsacerdoti•13m ago•0 comments

Entire Linux Network stack diagram (2024)

https://zenodo.org/records/14179366
2•hhutw•16m ago•0 comments

What Debts Make Decay?

https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/what-debts-make-decay
1•paulpauper•18m ago•0 comments

American Diary

https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/american-diary
1•paulpauper•18m ago•0 comments

Louvre closes after thieves steal 'priceless' jewels in daytime heist

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2025/10/19/louvre-closed-for-the-day-after-a-robbery-acc...
1•divbzero•19m ago•1 comments

You Are Not Your Values

https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/you-are-not-your-values
1•paulpauper•19m ago•0 comments

Research results are cultural artifacts, not public goods

https://lemire.me/blog/2025/10/17/research-results-are-cultural-artifacts-not-public-goods/
1•ibobev•20m ago•0 comments

Gymnasium: An API standard for reinforcement learning

https://gymnasium.farama.org/index.html
1•pykello•20m ago•0 comments

Ode to Fisher's Transform

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/10/18/fishers-transform/
1•ibobev•20m ago•0 comments

Revealing the mechanisms of non-thermal plasma-enabled iron oxide reduction

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62639-4
1•akshatjiwan•23m ago•0 comments

The Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) Technical Design Report

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05260
1•P_qRs•24m ago•0 comments

The Fall of the Crypto-Oligarchs

https://unherd.com/2025/10/the-fall-of-the-crypto-oligarchs/
1•binning•29m ago•0 comments

Meltdown Version Pi

https://github.com/Merkoba/Meltdown/tags
1•Toby1VC•30m ago•1 comments

Stapler knows when you need it

https://hcii.cmu.edu/news/stapler-knows-when-you-need-it
2•rammy1234•32m ago•0 comments

Understanding Relationships

https://www.jerry.wtf/posts/understanding-relationships/
1•personjerry•34m ago•0 comments

Torsion Field (Pseudoscience)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsion_field_(pseudoscience)
1•peter_d_sherman•34m ago•1 comments

The Privacy Theater of Hashed PII

https://matthodges.com/posts/2025-10-19-privacy-theater-pii-phone-numbers/
2•jeromechoo•42m ago•0 comments

China Can't Win

https://www.campbellramble.ai/p/china-cant-win
10•imastrategist•46m ago•8 comments

Functional freedom and Penrose's critiques of string theory

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21515
1•ibobev•49m ago•0 comments

Introduction to reverse-engineering vintage synth firmware

https://ajxs.me/blog/Introduction_to_Reverse-Engineering_Vintage_Synth_Firmware.html
9•jmillikin•53m ago•0 comments

Prester John

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prester_John
1•nice_byte•55m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Font Generator with Real-Time Font Comparison

https://fontgenerator.cc/compare-fonts
2•coolwebtoolsguy•56m ago•0 comments

Building a TMS 9900 Homebrew

https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/building-a-tms-9900-homebrew/2425
1•SoftTalker•58m ago•0 comments

Making Time Safer in Go

https://www.matthewhalpern.com/posts/golang-type-safe-timezones/
2•whockey•1h ago•0 comments

Introduction to OCaml Extension Points

https://citizen428.net/blog/introduction-ocaml-extension-points/
2•gsky•1h ago•0 comments

Building Systems with a Stroke of a Pen

https://alyx.substack.com/p/building-systems-with-a-stroke-of
2•larakerns•1h ago•0 comments

Some sales teams are killing their company

1•Lopsii•1h ago•0 comments

Federal agency overseeing US nuclear stockpile will furlough most of workforce

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/19/politics/national-nuclear-security-administration-furloughs-shutdown
3•rawgabbit•1h ago•0 comments