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Google President: 'We should be able to cure cancer in our lifetime' with AI

https://www.byteseu.com/1485326/
1•speckx•2h ago

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dekhn•2h ago
I helped Google's genomics/health projects get started many years ago and literally the top item of my docs was "do not claim you are going to cure cancer, because the medical establishment knows that's not an achievable goal and will not take you seriously".

But then, Ruth has absolutely zero qualification to say something like this, so it's easy to just dismiss it outright.

What I learned porting Mastro from Deno to Node.js

https://mastrojs.github.io/blog/2025-10-27-what-learned-porting-from-deno-to-node-js/
1•mb2100•1m ago•1 comments

The Art and Science of Counting Pixels: The Math of Figment

https://fredbenenson.com/blog/2025/10/27/the-art-and-science-of-counting-pixels-behind-the-math-o...
1•mecredis•1m ago•0 comments

Breaking the Creepy AI in Police Cameras [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ
1•EPendragon•5m ago•0 comments

You were asleep but swear you weren't: what is paradoxical insomnia?

https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2025/oct/27/paradoxical-insomnia-sleep
2•joshcartme•10m ago•0 comments

Epoch Capabilities Index aggregates AI benchmark scores into one metric

https://epoch.ai/benchmarks/eci
2•finder83•12m ago•0 comments

Amazon targets as many as 30k corporate job cuts: Reuters, citing sources

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/27/amazon-to-announce-sweeping-corporate-job-cuts-starting-tuesday.html
7•blindriver•13m ago•0 comments

We Are the Slop

https://www.afterbabel.com/p/we-are-the-slop
2•fortran77•13m ago•1 comments

I Built the Same App 10 Times

https://www.lorenstew.art/blog/10-kanban-boards/
3•rixed•14m ago•1 comments

The Shockingly Relevant History of the Barcode (2024)

https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/barcode-history-technology-controversy.html
1•thunderbong•16m ago•0 comments

A Look at the Black Ghost Dodge Challenger and the Man Behind the Wheel

https://www.dodgegarage.com/news/article/owners-clubs/2022/12/a-look-at-the-black-ghost-dodge-cha...
1•ChadNauseam•16m ago•1 comments

SearcherO 2.0 – A New UI

https://searchero.org
1•jacktheprogram•17m ago•0 comments

Am I wrong to feel cynical about most college students?

https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/p9itwo/am_i_wrong_to_feel_cynical_about_most_col...
1•ChadNauseam•19m ago•1 comments

YAML Tutorial: A Complete Language Guide with Examples

https://spacelift.io/blog/yaml
1•Ruhanyat•22m ago•0 comments

Amazon reportedly set to lay off up to 30k corporate employees in workforce cut

https://www.geekwire.com/2025/amazon-reportedly-set-to-lay-off-30000-corporate-employees-in-massi...
7•JaakkoP•23m ago•1 comments

Trump Asks Supreme Court to Let Him Fire the Top Copyright Official

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/us/politics/trump-supreme-court-copyright-official.html
5•donohoe•24m ago•0 comments

An intro to the Tensor Economics blog

https://splittinginfinity.substack.com/p/an-intro-to-the-tensor-economics
1•paulpauper•24m ago•0 comments

What Neuroscience Teaches Us About Reducing Phone Use

https://calnewport.com/what-neuroscience-teaches-us-about-reducing-phone-use/
1•skadamat•24m ago•0 comments

Intellia pauses phase 3 CRISPR trials after patient is hospitalized

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/intellia-pauses-phase-3-crispr-trials-after-patient-hospita...
1•randycupertino•24m ago•1 comments

AllPub – Cross-Publish from Notion to Dev.to, Hashnode, Medium

https://www.allpub.co
1•pbopps•25m ago•1 comments

Strategy's Shrinking Bitcoin Purchases

https://www.ft.com/content/88f974b7-197a-4be8-90b6-36ab3aaafeea
1•paulpauper•25m ago•0 comments

Action Engine: A Flexibility-First API/Agent Buildkit by Google DeepMind

https://actionengine.dev/
2•helenapankov•25m ago•1 comments

Agustín Etchebarne on Milei and the Election

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/10/agustin-etchebarne-on-milei-and-the-ele...
1•paulpauper•25m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What's the hardest thing you've done?

2•mezod•26m ago•1 comments

Amazon plans to cut 30,000 corporate jobs

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/27/amazon-corporate-jobs-cuts
9•jimnotgym•26m ago•1 comments

How Open Source License Scanners Work

https://fossa.com/blog/how-open-source-license-scanners-work/
2•Bogdanp•27m ago•0 comments

Erowid: The 30-year-old drug website that transformed psychedelic research

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251020-the-1990s-drug-website-that-changed-the-world
2•pantalaimon•29m ago•0 comments

Silicon Valleys AI agents can't schedule meetings but promise to replace workers

https://nearlyright.com/silicon-valleys-ai-agents-cant-schedule-meetings-but-promise-to-replace-w...
3•dualogy•29m ago•0 comments

Making the Clang AST Leaner and Faster

https://cppalliance.org/mizvekov,/clang/2025/10/20/Making-Clang-AST-Leaner-Faster.html
2•matt_d•32m ago•0 comments

Neural Networks for Chess

https://github.com/asdfjkl/neural_network_chess
2•QueensGambit•36m ago•0 comments

People are having fewer kids. Their choice is transforming the economy

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5576355
2•mooreds•40m ago•1 comments