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List of Fallacies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies
1•basilikum•1h ago

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ggm•1h ago
The informal fallacies list include things we do a LOT. The problem is, that some of them like "appeal to authority" has contextual need. I can't argue about QC properly because I am not trained in either VLSI, or quantum physics, or maths. So, I necessarily fall back on appeals to authority (Shor's Algorithm) making statements. The outcome is that either I have to learn QC, or I have to not particpate in QC related discussions or, WITH SOME DEGREE OF NUANCE qualify what I say.

It's the lack of qualification of things like an appeal to authority which mostly I think we (ok, I) trip over. But, appeals to authority are both common and useful. It depends.

A similar example might be how people feel about Helen Caldecott, and theories like "radiation hormesis" because you can't both have "no safe limit" and "maybe we've developed biologically in radioactivity, forever since the first eukaryotes emerged" at the same time. One necessarily excludes the other, taken literally. taken figuratively, Sure: we don't know what a safe limit is, except statistically and even that has qualifications.

I particularly like "no true scotsman" because if you follow the reddit /r/scotland you will know the initial propositional question "what is a true scotsman" is pretty vague. We know it excludes a lot of North American ancestry tracers, who are obsessed with lineage, but are most definitely not a true scotsman. But the idea of it being defined as Harry Lauder is a bit .. unacceptable. (of course the test of the true scotsman is how they make porridge)

There's a particular scotsman, the one in full army formal band kilt, playing the bagpipes, who before photoshop appeared in a massive selection of scots scenic postcards, artfully added into the photo of a castle, a hilltop, the lakeside. I think he probably IS a true scotsman.

Surviving the Streaming Dungeon with Kafka Queues

https://rion.io/2026/02/02/surviving-the-streaming-dungeon-with-kafka-queues/
1•rionmonster•16s ago•1 comments

Toronto, Rendered in Minecraft [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZPRIkpeGi4
1•peteforde•28s ago•0 comments

Trump urges Republicans to 'take over' and 'nationalize' voting

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-urges-republicans-nationalize-voting/story?id=129793658
3•belter•3m ago•0 comments

The New Mexico cave expanding our search for alien life

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1•AareyBaba•4m ago•0 comments

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2•soeckly•5m ago•0 comments

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1•rguiscard•5m ago•0 comments

Adobe Animate is shutting down next month

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1•bandrami•6m ago•0 comments

Supabase Misconfiguration Exposed Moltbook's API Keys; Two SQL Statements Could

https://www.telos-ai.org/blog/moltbook-security-nightmare
1•birdculture•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Private LLM UI (no account, no tracking)

https://wraith.sh
1•harbinger-sec•9m ago•0 comments

Chainguard admitted Factory 1.0 was "brittle."

https://thenewstack.io/chainguard-admitted-factory-1-0-was-brittle-heres-how-2-0-fixes-it/
1•CrankyBear•9m ago•0 comments

Notepad++ ss Chinese government hackers hijacked its software updates

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1•Cutlets•12m ago•0 comments

After 20 years in IT, I haul junk

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1•RomanPushkin•13m ago•1 comments

The Age of Earnware

https://forgonetokens.substack.com/p/the-age-of-earnware
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Selfish AI

https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/selfish-ai
1•cdrnsf•18m ago•0 comments

Future leakage in block-quantized attention

https://matx.com/research/leaky_quantization
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Using LaTeX is a great hack for generating PDFs with Claude Code

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Ask HN: Where have all the humans gone?

2•adrianwaj•24m ago•0 comments

Axiomeer – An open marketplace for AI agents

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Bjarne's Last Stand: How the Father of C++ Is Fighting a Losing War Against Rust

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Al is killing programming and the Python community

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Kevin Kelly – The Singularity Is Always Near

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I Hate Fish

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1•gukov•38m ago•0 comments

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OpenClaw users, what is your token spend?

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21•salkahfi•41m ago•6 comments

Understanding the Consequences of VTuber Reincarnation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08972
2•PaulHoule•41m ago•0 comments