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Decisions in the past have long running repercussions

https://www.distributedthoughts.org/2026-05-07-roman-bridge-still-determines-your-commute/
1•prosaic-hacker•14s ago•1 comments

A Professor in Every Pocket – A New Framework for Higher Education

https://lagomor.ph/2026/01/a-professor-in-every-pocket/
1•ChilledTonic•8m ago•0 comments

Isaac Newton on Laputa

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/great-debates/isaac-newton-laputa
1•hhs•15m ago•0 comments

mimalloc: A new, high-performance, scalable memory allocator for the modern era

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/mimalloc-a-high-performance-scalable-memory-allocat...
2•matt_d•15m ago•0 comments

A scientist made a clone of a clone of a clone of a clone

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/scientists-reclone-mice+
1•mrtedbear•16m ago•0 comments

Learn Python the Hard Way Was Right About One Thing

https://fagnerbrack.com/learn-python-the-hard-way-was-right-about-one-thing-9b6ab0b67526
1•birdculture•22m ago•0 comments

AI to infest eight in ten premium phones within two years

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/05/14/ai-to-infest-eight-in-ten-premium-phones-wit...
1•Bender•23m ago•0 comments

Cisco to fire 4k staff and generously give them free training – on Cisco

https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/05/14/cisco-to-fire-4000-staff-and-generously-give-them...
3•Bender•24m ago•0 comments

To gain root access at this company, all an intruder had to do was ask nicely

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/14/to-gain-root-access-intruder-just-had-to-ask/5239853
1•Bender•24m ago•0 comments

Encountering the roots of mathematics

https://www.ias.edu/ideas/encountering-roots-mathematics
1•hhs•25m ago•0 comments

AI Poop Analysis App Offered to Sell Me Database of Its Users' Poops

https://www.404media.co/ai-poop-analysis-app-offered-to-sell-me-access-to-its-users-poops/
2•Cider9986•28m ago•0 comments

ICLR 2026 – Institutional Affiliations Dataset and Analysis

https://github.com/DmytroLopushanskyy/iclr2026-affiliations
2•stared•28m ago•0 comments

Do deep learning models recognize 3D shapes in the same way humans do?

https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/do-deep-learning-models-recognize-3d-shapes-in-the-same-...
1•hhs•31m ago•0 comments

Mirror Life's Doomsday Potential

https://www.noemamag.com/the-doomsday-organism/
1•littlexsparkee•31m ago•0 comments

The Cost of Free Doughnuts

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/08/794592539/episode-386-the-cost-of-free-doughnuts
1•compiler-guy•32m ago•0 comments

AI #168: Not Leading the Future

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-168-not-leading-the-future
2•paulpauper•33m ago•0 comments

Too Much Is Happening Too Fast

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/too-much-happening-too-fast/687177/
2•paulpauper•34m ago•0 comments

Sensational Books to Read This Summer

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/05/summer-reading-2026/686880/
1•paulpauper•34m ago•1 comments

'Millions' of pounds saved by replacing Palantir tech in refugee system

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2l2j1lxdk5o
13•cdrnsf•35m ago•3 comments

Fields of the World: A Global Field Boundary Ecosystem

https://fieldsofthe.world/
1•tokai•36m ago•0 comments

Everyone's a thought leader. Almost no one is thinking

https://bernste.in/writings/everyones-a-thought-leader-almost-no-one-is-thinking/
1•mbernstein•37m ago•0 comments

We Now Know How Many People the CDC Is Monitoring for Hantavirus

https://www.wired.com/story/how-many-people-cdc-is-monitoring-for-hantavirus/
2•ent101•37m ago•0 comments

Automated red teaming with RL: attacker-defender co-training

https://castform.com/blog/red-team-rl/
3•ClassifexRL•37m ago•1 comments

More than half of U.S. faces worst drought in decades

https://news.vt.edu/articles/2026/05/drought-united-states-la-nina-expert.html
8•littlexsparkee•41m ago•0 comments

Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts

https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/14/ontario-auditors-find-doctors-ai-note-takers-routine...
16•sohkamyung•42m ago•0 comments

We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled

https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations
3•gmcabrita•44m ago•0 comments

Roman Letters

https://romanletters.org/
4•diodorus•45m ago•0 comments

Indie dev says Steam's blocking their game for infringement of the dev's own IP

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/indie-dev-says-steams-blocking-their-game-for-ip-infring...
5•hn_acker•48m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Parse LLM Markdown streams incrementally on the server or client

https://github.com/nimeshnayaju/markdown-parser
2•nayajunimesh•48m ago•1 comments

Colossus: The Forbin Project

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project
2•doener•49m ago•0 comments
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Perplexity now requires adding a phone number to your account

https://piunikaweb.com/2026/04/29/perplexity-demands-phone-numbers-pro-subscribers/
3•cromka•1h ago

Comments

cromka•1h ago
Perplexity requires providing a phone number to continue to work, even if you're on Pro subscription and have 2FA enabled. They claim it's for security, in order to allow to recover the account if credentials get lost...