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Big Tech Wants to Harvest Your Thoughts

https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-the-vanishing-earth-james-crawford-brain-mining/
4•signa11•39m ago

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ColdStream•37m ago
Obligatory Future dream commercial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElkVRgeAzYs
Dfol•30m ago
Of course they do. They've already mined the web, books, media. The brain is the last frontier and the most lucrative.
patentlyze•26m ago
But think of all the ad revenue they could make!

But in all seriousness, i hope this tech is used for more things like Neuralink that actually improves peoples lives.

US Justice Department shifts focus to government programme fraud

https://www.ft.com/content/145f1b61-0a68-45b4-afb8-62fc74381ce4
1•petethomas•4m ago•0 comments

Web Scraper was translated into 50 languages with AI

https://webscraper.io/blog/how-web-scraper-was-translated-into-50-languages-with-ai
1•martinsbalodis•5m ago•1 comments

Smart pet feeders stopped feeding pets during a cloud outage

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1•BlueBerry2001•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vqrotate – Drop-in rotation trick for VQ-VAEs

https://github.com/develepo/vqrotate
1•develepo•9m ago•0 comments

Samsung used AI to cut a chip-verification loop 15–30×

https://www.echohive.ai/ai-engineering-acceleration
1•echohive42•13m ago•1 comments

The 221-year-old company that reinvented itself – 4 times – Big Think

https://bigthink.com/the-long-game/the-221-year-old-company-that-reinvented-itself-4-times/
1•janandonly•15m ago•1 comments

SPAR – Fall 2026 AI Safety Research Projects

https://sparai.org/projects/f26/
1•agucova•18m ago•0 comments

AI translates 5k-year-old cuneiform tablets instantly – Big Think

https://bigthink.com/the-future/ai-translates-cuneiform/
1•janandonly•22m ago•0 comments

My AI agents shipped 128 releases of a product no one ever used

https://bramo.ai/blog/01-post-mortem
1•guschiriboga•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Write Something Meant to Disappear

https://flashpaper.xyz/
1•madospace•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Harness – a modern coding harness for today's coding models

https://harness.selimsandal.com/
1•selims•25m ago•0 comments

What Is Analog Electronic Music and Why Does It Sound So Different?

https://caughtinjoy.com/blogs/studio-notes/analog-electronic-music-a-timeless-sound-that-still-in...
1•chillax•25m ago•0 comments

/show-me

https://x.com/dexhorthy/article/2087569590268391897
1•doppp•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: My PM kept asking "is this shipped yet?" so I automated release notes

https://www.changelogfa.st
2•sulot3212•30m ago•1 comments

The Measure of Intelligence

https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547
1•andsoitis•30m ago•0 comments

How no-computer hydrofoil works

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1•punnerud•31m ago•0 comments

Orbit co-founders are running a 50k fellowship for "cool applications"

https://basisfellowship.org/
1•jjleads•32m ago•0 comments

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https://github.com/unrealumanga/lumadisk
1•unrealumanga•32m ago•0 comments

Linux desktop use surged to 22% on one workday, Cloudflare data shows

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1•signa11•34m ago•0 comments

Zhu Rongji, China's chief engineer of economic reform and former premier, dies

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1•nsoonhui•36m ago•0 comments

Critical Sizes of Satellite Constellations

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1•geox•39m ago•0 comments

Big Tech Wants to Harvest Your Thoughts

https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-the-vanishing-earth-james-crawford-brain-mining/
4•signa11•39m ago•3 comments

Over 70% of Americans oppose AI data centers; US protests intensify

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1•vrganj•39m ago•0 comments

Roborev – Continuous code review for coding agents

https://www.roborev.io/
1•dockerd•40m ago•0 comments

Digitizing super 8 film yourself

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1•JNRowe•42m ago•0 comments

For coding agents, optimize cost per successful task, not cost per token

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1•AnneWodell•48m ago•0 comments

Chinese censorship is leaking into answers from American AI

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chinese-censorship-is-leaking-into-answers-from-american-ai-62abeca5
2•dash2•49m ago•0 comments

Drug Discovery Has No Magic Wands

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1•ogundipeore•49m ago•0 comments

A digestion of the proof of Sendov's conjecture

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/a-digestion-of-the-proof-of-sendovs-conjecture/
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Can Students Sue Cambridge? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6qREgFluLs
1•nomilk•53m ago•0 comments