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They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/01/16/civil-war-university-of-austin-bari-weiss-00729688
4•nicomeemes•1h ago

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nicomeemes•1h ago
Tip of an iceberg?
techblueberry•1h ago
Geez even Lex Fridman bounced.

But I think this was inevitable given how cynical and nihilistic the right has become. There’s no shared belief system anymore. Even Christopher Rufo predicted this.

Terr_•1h ago
> Indeed, the syllabus I reviewed for a class called “Intellectual Foundations of Science II” covered a range of topics unusual for a science class including “The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.”

> A student who’d taken the course shared a slide with me on “ensoulment” — the principally religious question of when a soul enters the human body — and said that the class had been told that IVF but not abortion could be consistent with the Catholic belief about ensoulment.

I'll give the author credit for going at least a little beyond the ridiculous "life [personhood] begins at conception" dogma, since they reference the issue of identical twins... But what about chimerism? HeLa cells?

bediger4000•31m ago
An article in The New York Times reported that a “a group of scholars and activists” had come together to build a new university “dedicated to free speech.”

Is UATX another "freedom of speech" rug pull, like Elon taking over Twitter, or Trump "bringing back freedom of speech"? I guess in general, I'm asking if we should be very wary of those using the language of free speech, but don't have a history of dealing honestly with the concept or the realities.

Auto start Next.js dev server when you open the project in VSCode

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bullptr.nextjs-code
1•bukharim96•44s ago•0 comments

Show HN: School/ಶಾಲೆ – Agentic Voice Tutor for Students

1•gaganyatri•7m ago•0 comments

Apache Arrow for the Database

https://dataengineeringcentral.substack.com/p/apache-arrow-for-the-database
1•tanelpoder•8m ago•0 comments

New fintech company claims Bitcoin will reach 100M by 2050

https://www.distributedledgertechnologies.com/
1•winnertakeall•9m ago•1 comments

Vibe Coding the Port – I gave up waiting for engine exports

https://benwiser.com/blog/Vibe-Coding-the-Port---I-gave-up-waiting-for-engine-exports.html
1•RupertWiser•13m ago•0 comments

The Computer Chronicles – Artificial Intelligence (1984) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S3m0V_ZF_Q
2•usernamed7•15m ago•0 comments

Light Mode InFFFFFFlation

https://willhbr.net/2025/10/20/light-mode-infffffflation/
3•Fudgel•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Pylot – Jobs API at 1/30th the cost of Coresignal

https://pylothq.com/
1•yadavrh•17m ago•2 comments

Chorex: Restartable, Language-Integrated Choreographies (2025)

https://programming-journal.org/2025/10/20/
1•mpweiher•17m ago•0 comments

Flux 2 Small, from BFL: AI image generation on consumer GPUs

https://the-decoder.com/flux-2-small-brings-ai-image-generation-and-editing-to-consumer-graphics-...
1•dreadsword•23m ago•1 comments

The Bitter Lesson of Agent Frameworks

https://twitter.com/i/status/2012052139384979773
2•pongogogo•26m ago•1 comments

Why Ukraine's Deadly Drone Operation Runs Like a 'McDonald's'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hzIMI2DLys
4•doener•29m ago•0 comments

Lord of War, Meet Lord of Tokens

https://singhkays.com/blog/lord-war-test-image-models/
1•gmays•29m ago•0 comments

Trump writes partisan plaques for predecessors, fronts gold [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-5ZsaPHv5o
2•stopbulying•29m ago•1 comments

NASA moves Artemis II rocket to launchpad ahead of mission to the moon

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/01/17/nasa-rocket-launchpad-moon/7931768668982/
1•bookmtn•33m ago•0 comments

Agentblame: Line-level AI attribution using Git notes

https://github.com/mesa-dot-dev/agentblame
1•remolacha•33m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Detection-first bot traffic analysis (proof before blocking)

1•redwine13•34m ago•2 comments

EmuDevz: A game about developing emulators

https://afska.github.io/emudevz/
1•ingve•38m ago•0 comments

Congress Wants to Hand Your Parenting to Big Tech

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/congress-wants-hand-your-parenting-big-tech
27•hn_acker•41m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Scratching an Itch with Gemini Code

1•satran•41m ago•0 comments

Baton Rouge Acquires a Straight-Up Military Surveillance Drone

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/baton-rouge-acquires-straight-military-surveillance-drone
7•hn_acker•43m ago•0 comments

University student vibe-codes an operating system from scratch

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/software/625405-university-student-vibe-codes-an-entire-operating-...
2•rmason•43m ago•0 comments

Just shipped an agent mode (ReAct) in my CLI for LLMs

https://github.com/kardolus/chatgpt-cli
1•kardolus•43m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Govctl – A CLI enforcing RFC-driven discipline on AI coding

https://github.com/govctl-org/govctl
1•gabriel_wu•44m ago•0 comments

CVE-2026-0915: GNU C Library Fixes a Security Issue Present Since 1996

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-Security-Fix-For-1996-Bug
4•i-con•50m ago•0 comments

SensorLM: Learning the Language of Wearable Sensors

https://research.google/blog/sensorlm-learning-the-language-of-wearable-sensors/
1•brandonb•52m ago•0 comments

Move over FAANG

https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/a62xes/move_over_faang_its_time_for_mangina/
2•krautburglar•52m ago•0 comments

If writing the code is the easy part, why would I want someone else to write it?

https://tldraw.dev/blog/stay-away-from-my-trash
4•todsacerdoti•55m ago•3 comments

Speed Miners – A tiny RTS resource mini-game

https://speedminers.fun/
3•nickponline•55m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Subtitle Insights – On-device AI translation for YouTube subtitles

https://mauriciopoppe.github.io/SubtitleInsights/
1•maurizzzio•55m ago•0 comments