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The Coasean Singularity in Patents

https://www.symmetrybroken.com/coasean-patents/
2•riemannzeta•3h ago

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riemannzeta•3h ago
Patent rights exist to solve a fundamental economic problem: Inventors need incentives to innovate, but after revealing an invention, others can copy freely. The patent system grants limited monopolies to inventors in exchange for public disclosure. This is the patent system as God intended. But the patent system has struggled mightily with a second problem, a problem that Ronald Coase identified decades ago: transaction costs. A "transaction cost" for Coase isn't just a brokerage fee; it's anything that can prevent a transaction from occurring. I submit that today, AI agents stand poised to solve many of the problems with transaction costs that have faced the patent system, creating what has been called a "Coasean Singularity" in patent law — a transformation that will reshape how inventors create, patent owners monetize, and lawyers practice.

AgentML: HTML for Agents

https://www.agentml.dev/
1•ehsania•17s ago•0 comments

Nvidia DGX Spark: When Benchmark Numbers Meet Production Reality

https://publish.obsidian.md/aixplore/Practical+Applications/dgx-lab-benchmarks-vs-reality-day-4
1•RyeCatcher•27s ago•0 comments

Pelican on a Bicycle – Raytracer Edition

https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/Oct/pelican-on-a-bike-raytracer-edition/
1•BeetleB•4m ago•0 comments

Point Shaving: Corruption in NCAA Basketball [pdf]

https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Papers/PointShaving.pdf
1•paulpauper•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CVE Daily – fast, vendor-neutral CVE briefs for triage

https://cvedaily.com
1•TopSecretHacker•5m ago•0 comments

Average Obamacare premiums are set to rise 30 percent, documents show

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/10/24/obamacare-premiums-rise-30-percent/
1•paulpauper•5m ago•0 comments

My exit from Google: we don't say goodbye, we say good journey

https://timothyjordan.com/blog/2025/10/25/good-journey.html
1•janpio•6m ago•0 comments

Are new data centers boosting electricity prices?

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/10/are-new-data-centers-boosting-electrici...
1•paulpauper•6m ago•0 comments

AI is changing our understanding of earthquakes – Knowable Magazine

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/physical-world/2025/ai-is-changing-understanding-of-...
1•rbanffy•7m ago•0 comments

Phosphorus Prepared Earth for Complex Life and Could Be a Valuable Biosignature

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/phosphorus-prepared-earth-for-complex-life-and-could-be-a-...
1•rbanffy•7m ago•0 comments

Setting Up Anti Hot Linking Protections for ChatGPT

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/general/blocking-chatgpt-from-hotlinking-to-my-media.html
1•ColinWright•8m ago•0 comments

Investigating the accuracy of Apple Watch VO2 max measurements

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12080799/
1•voisin•11m ago•0 comments

Alzheimer's disrupts circadian rhythms of plaque-clearing brain cells

https://medicine.washu.edu/news/alzheimers-disrupts-circadian-rhythms-of-plaque-clearing-brain-ce...
2•gmays•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a tool to track when AI engines cite your website

2•legitcoders•15m ago•0 comments

Boring Is What We Wanted

https://512pixels.net/2025/10/boring-is-what-we-wanted/
1•tosh•17m ago•0 comments

Vibe Coding in Google AI Studio

https://twitter.com/GoogleAIStudio/status/1982496122527440968
1•janpio•20m ago•0 comments

Stress-testing model specs reveals character differences among language models

https://alignment.anthropic.com/2025/stress-testing-model-specs/
1•diwank•21m ago•0 comments

Amazon's Smart Glasses for Delivery Drivers Offer a Amazon Glimpse of the Future

https://gizmodo.com/amazons-smart-glasses-for-delivery-drivers-offer-a-very-amazon-glimpse-of-the...
2•rbanffy•24m ago•0 comments

Citizen Science at NASA Science

https://science.nasa.gov/citizen-science/
1•mmooss•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made a brutalist closer-to-retro directory for new product launches

https://launchy.iridesk.com/
1•drex91on•25m ago•1 comments

Classical theories of gravity produce entanglement

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09595-7
4•westurner•27m ago•4 comments

Bacteria attached to charcoal could keep a 'forever chemical' out of waterways

https://theconversation.com/bacteria-attached-to-charcoal-could-help-keep-an-infamous-forever-che...
3•PaulHoule•28m ago•0 comments

Solve NYT Pips with Constraints

https://www.righto.com/2025/10/solve-nyt-pips-with-constraints.html
2•georgehm•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: The Dead Sea Scrolls Visualized

https://www.deadseainsights.com/charts.html
1•dandeto•29m ago•0 comments

Bible Contradictions interactive infographic

https://philb61.github.io/
6•CharlesW•30m ago•0 comments

Bringing CGI Back from the Dead

https://intertwingly.net/blog/2025/10/26/Bringing-CGI-Back-from-the-Dead.html
2•ingve•31m ago•0 comments

Inside the fragile system holding the modern world together

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/26/internet-infrastructure-fragile-system-holding...
2•ohmyblock•33m ago•0 comments

Glyph: Scaling Context Windows via Visual-Text Compression

https://github.com/thu-coai/Glyph
1•foruhar•35m ago•0 comments

As Israel Bombed Gaza, Amazon Did Business with Its Bomb-Makers

https://theintercept.com/2025/10/24/amazon-weapons-gaza-israel-rafael-iai/
4•cramsession•36m ago•1 comments

'I am melting, help me': The 30yo website that transformed psychedelic research

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251020-the-1990s-drug-website-that-changed-the-world
3•gnabgib•39m ago•1 comments