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Peter Thiel in Aspen: The pope is 'working for the Chinese Communists'

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/02/us/peter-thiel-aspen-pope-china-ai-cec
12•bhouston•1h ago

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bhouston•1h ago
Disclaimer: I didn’t post this out of support for Thiel but more just because it is weird a tech titan is making such claims.
yawpitch•1h ago
If you’d ever seen the bubble of sycophants that insulate this particular Dr. Evil wannabe from reality, you’d know it’s not that weird.
Eaglo•56m ago
Dr. Evil!! That's hysterical (and amazingly fitting)
Jtsummers•49m ago
It's hard to take anyone who would write this article very seriously:

https://firstthings.com/voyages-to-the-end-of-the-world/

King-Aaron•24m ago
All of these "tech titans" are psychiatric cases, and all seem to be heavy drug addicts. In any other industry they'd be fired and probably put behind bars for their behaivour.

But for some reason these guys are literally trying to rewrite society at a fundamental level and everyone is cool with it.

AmazingEveryDay•1h ago
Hey, Why not? If the "everything is Nazi" produced some sort of backlash, the "everything is Communist" might do the same.
Eaglo•57m ago
I'm glad the Pope doesn't get shaken by these sorts of claims. The Pope is the single least corruptible person on earth. Every politician has a price, but the Pope already has a kingdom and anything he could ask for. If the Chinese "win" the artificial intelligence race, will it make a difference if they've sacrificed their humanity?
WarOnPrivacy•4m ago
This seems on-brand for Thiel. His lack of scruples were on bright display, back when he bankrolled the demise of Gizmodo (as an act of revenge for outing him).

They were on display when he firehosed cash in trade for access to US's most sensitive data.

And the thing about unethical actors is they tend to see evil everywhere, except what is inside themselves. In 2025, Thiel declared the Pope is the Anticrist. https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/peter-thiel-antichrist-remarks-pop...

Open letter to Anthropic: keep Claude Fable 5 in existing paid plans

https://keepfable.org
1•SpitSalute•1m ago•0 comments

FlickerScope – are your LEDs giving you a headache? stop guessing

https://github.com/snokamedia/flickerscope
1•snoka•5m ago•0 comments

Wikipedia Is Up (2001)

https://web.archive.org/web/20010506042824/www.nupedia.com/pipermail/nupedia-l/2001-January/00068...
2•downbad_•7m ago•0 comments

A few thought about snarky answers on StackOverflow (2019)

https://www.cargocultcode.com/solving-the-zalgo-regex/
1•downbad_•7m ago•0 comments

Tradeoffs in Complexity, Abstraction, and Generality

https://www.lesswrong.com/s/EL2YvcrPNHrGgzPnZ/p/HNJwteaxpRYfLaQt7
1•parksb•8m ago•0 comments

Google's exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat

https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/googles-exponential-path-to-climate-wrecking-digital-bloat/
1•colinprince•10m ago•0 comments

Why AI Is Collapsing: How China Is Winning. [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXJf7vL8k94
1•Bender•11m ago•0 comments

Thanks but No Thanks

https://twitter.com/xopzuey/status/2072838561275969717
1•znort_•13m ago•1 comments

How Many People Have Ever Lived in the United States?

https://danielfetz.io/p/how-many-people-have-ever-lived-in-the-united-states
1•paulpauper•17m ago•0 comments

AI is 'not smart' so what's next in artificial intelligence?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6gr0xkyr3o
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•19m ago•0 comments

Core dump epidemiology: fixing an 18-year-old bug

https://openai.com/index/core-dump-epidemiology-data-infrastructure-bug/
2•stopachka•20m ago•0 comments

I vibe coded a programming language, but I'd rather learn C the old way

1•alonsovm44•22m ago•0 comments

Some Basic LLM Etiquette

https://steenbok.space/blog/ai-etiquette/
1•sporkl_l•22m ago•0 comments

How AI Became More Expensive Than the Workers It Replaced [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfaZZPjA3g0
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The Safari MCP server for web developers

https://webkit.org/blog/18136/introducing-the-safari-mcp-server-for-web-developers/
1•coloneltcb•25m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Best Local LLM Setup for a 128GB M4 Max Mac Studio?

1•linzhangrun•25m ago•0 comments

Seeing and Being Seen

https://www.sambish.com/essays/seeing/
2•sambishop•25m ago•0 comments

Honorary Police

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorary_Police
1•petethomas•27m ago•0 comments

What we learned when a user tried to load a 1 GB GML file in a browser

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2•twainyoung•34m ago•0 comments

The V Programming Language: A Revolutionary Approach to Modern Development

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Open Source LLM Statistics and Trends (2026)

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1•sherlockxu•38m ago•0 comments

Microsoft's 90s Weapon That Made Windows Fast [video]

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Is tech ruining the World Cup?

https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/m002yq16
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Epistemic Heat Death and the Signal-to-Noise Ratio of the Global Web

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2•lioeters•41m ago•0 comments

Tesla's Electric Semi Has Its First Fatal Crash

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3•cdrnsf•42m ago•1 comments

Creating Joy in the User Experience

https://daveon.design/creating-joy-in-the-user-experience.html
3•thunderbong•43m ago•0 comments

TurboQuant can reduce vector index size by 10x at 100M Row Scale

https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector/pull/989
1•mxfeinberg•44m ago•0 comments

Google must pay record €4.1B (£3.5B) fine over antitrust issues

https://news.sky.com/story/google-must-pay-record-4-1bn-fine-over-antitrust-issues-13559819
3•geoffbp•49m ago•0 comments

North Korea patents soybean-based chocolate to bypass cocoa and sanctions

https://biz.chosun.com/en/en-society/2026/06/22/KBDUJI6IFJAIJODLXUAHV5IH3I/
5•mushstory•51m ago•0 comments

Giving admins more visibility and control over Claude spend

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3•geoffbp•56m ago•0 comments