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Nebula Awards Yelled at Until They Ban Use of AI by Nominees

https://gizmodo.com/nebula-awards-yelled-at-until-they-completely-ban-use-of-ai-by-nominees-20007...
3•gnabgib•4m ago•0 comments

Why Chinese Energy Projects Are Facing a Backlash in the Balkans

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Why-Chinese-Energy-Projects-Are-Facing-a-Backlash-in-t...
1•PaulHoule•4m ago•0 comments

An amateur codebreaker may have just solved the Black Dahlia and Zodiac killings

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-23/black-dahlia-zodiac-killings-connected-one-ki...
1•davweb•4m ago•0 comments

Kimwolf Exposed: The Android Botnet with 1.8M Infected Devices

https://blog.xlab.qianxin.com/kimwolf-botnet-en/
1•_____k•4m ago•0 comments

Oral History of Jeffrey Ullman [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wROQBhBuq1w
1•matt_d•5m ago•0 comments

Energy Predictions 2025

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/energy-predictions-2025/
1•simonebrunozzi•6m ago•0 comments

We Become What We Behold

https://ncase.itch.io/wbwwb
1•gmays•7m ago•0 comments

Farewell, Bandhub. I will miss you (2019)

https://garybadger.com/2019/03/03/farewell-bandhub-i-will-miss-you/
1•Aldipower•9m ago•0 comments

Old-school rotary phone dials into online meetings

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/24/rotary_phone_online_meetings/
2•ohjeez•10m ago•0 comments

Microsoft bets on AI to modernize Windows

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/my-goal-is-to-eliminate-every-line-of-c-and-c...
1•sanqui•10m ago•2 comments

Puzzle Designers Search for That 'Satisfying Click'

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/science/games-puzzle-design.html
1•robinhouston•12m ago•0 comments

Context is all you need

https://fakepixels.substack.com/p/context-is-all-you-need
2•walterbell•14m ago•0 comments

Top MCP tools for software architects

https://icepanel.io/blog/2025-11-05-top-mcp-tools-for-software-architects
1•shehabas•15m ago•0 comments

Nature Programming Language

https://nature-lang.org/
1•birdculture•16m ago•0 comments

Exposing Honey's Evil Business Model Part 2 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwB3FmbcC88
3•busymom0•18m ago•1 comments

LLVM AI Policy and Automatic Bazel Fixes

https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-AI-Tool-Policy-RFC
1•boomanaiden154•21m ago•0 comments

Smokejumping

https://heidiwaterhouse.com/smokejumping/
1•mooreds•21m ago•0 comments

The Null Pointer Identity: Debugging the Architecture of the Chinese Self

https://suggger.substack.com/p/the-null-pointer-identity-debugging
1•Suggger•25m ago•1 comments

Progress on the Digital Euro

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/html/index.en.html
2•janandonly•26m ago•1 comments

On the rural Colorado plains, cancer patients rely on this traveling oncologist

https://coloradosun.com/2025/12/21/rural-colorado-plains-cancer-patients-traveling-oncologist/
2•mooreds•27m ago•0 comments

Fuck You, I Won't Use Tailwind

https://fuckyouiwontusetailwind.com
30•csspurist•28m ago•18 comments

Illicit economies, organized crime worsen Amazon deforestation in 2025

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/12/23/latam-amazon-crime-illegal-logging-mining/1761...
1•Bondi_Blue•28m ago•0 comments

Writing Good Definitions Comes Down to One Basic Rule

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/writing-good-definitions-comes-down-to-one-basic-rule/
1•vinipolicena•29m ago•0 comments

Searching for Soul in Roblox

https://meghanboilard.substack.com/p/searching-for-soul-in-roblox
1•bookofjoe•30m ago•0 comments

Jason Furman on the new economic data

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/opinion/gdp-numbers-economy-job-numbers.html
1•paulpauper•31m ago•0 comments

The Debunking of Oliver Sacks

https://www.thefp.com/p/the-debunking-of-oliver-sacks
2•paulpauper•31m ago•0 comments

My Art of Accomplishment Retreat

https://eriktorenberg.substack.com/p/my-art-of-accomplishment-retreat
1•paulpauper•32m ago•0 comments

Bari Weiss's Audience of One

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/12/cbs-news-bari-weiss-trump-media-influence/685381/
4•breve•36m ago•2 comments

Show HN: VibecodePrompts – Reduce prompt friction for vibe-coding

https://vibecodeprompts.cloud
1•rubenhellman•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: TypeScript template for building ChatGPT Apps

https://github.com/pomerium/chatgpt-app-typescript-template
3•nickytonline•39m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Lie-to-Children

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie-to-children
8•thunderbong•2h ago

Comments

rationalist•1h ago
Why did you post this Wikipedia entry?

Do you use AI or something to submit random stuff? Do you have other accounts or bots to upvote your submissions?

Is this an account to just submit fluff to fill in the gaps, like how reddit was bootstrapped?

rootusrootus•1h ago
We lie to adults all the time for the same reason.
jauntywundrkind•47m ago
I wish we could do more lie-to-children with computers. Just the idea of having be comprehensive explanatory models to give people, even if they are wrong, feels so so much better than each app having its own facade, a surface gloss that the user rarely has so much as opportunity to peer behind.

Watching promises & async arise so strongly in the broader programmer-sphere has been incredible (#ErlangWasThere all along but anyhow). I still consider it a bit of a mistake that the definition of a promise is regarded as a future value, when to me it so clearly first class entity, is an ongoing process which will eventually have a return value. But we still manage and juggle processes and work in incredible ways, that (Erlang aside) were so unimaginable. If we could show that off more, if we could expand observability from an operator concern to a readily available co-partner, I think there's such interesting hopeful ways that we could let people in to computing. Some lies and fudging to let people feel a little better about what has largely been black boxes would go a long way.

Especially now with AI, where it's so unclear to all what we are really getting. Where's the systems of the world haven't even the pretense of being well reasoned, perhaps, but merely regurgitations by the blind eye, fakeness, suffusing and invading all reality about us: more than ever it's important that we make the technosystems of the world elaborate themselves, with some truth, and ideally with some higher level lies that wrap deeper machinations. Like nature, a glory of being able to ever zoom in, or blast off & look down.