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Meta Doesn't Want to Be a Social Media Company Anymore

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/meta-settlement-social-media-facebook-whatsapp-glasses/
1•cdrnsf•40s ago•0 comments

Europe's last regular standard-gauge steam passenger service

https://parowozowniawolsztyn.pl/?page_id=2141
1•GungulSurm•1m ago•0 comments

Scientists create muscle that exercises itself

https://longevity.technology/news/scientists-create-muscle-that-exercises-itself/
1•vitalnodo•1m ago•0 comments

The Connections That Turned a Teen into the Fallen 'Nostradamus of AI'

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/situational-awareness-leopold-aschenbrenner-ai-fund-4dbb00a4
1•cdrnsf•3m ago•0 comments

Generating Interpretable Networks Using Hypernetworks

https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03051
1•E-Reverance•5m ago•0 comments

MiniMax H3 Max sets the new Pareto Frontier for video generation

https://twitter.com/DesignArena/status/2092711778815983886
2•treesciencebot•7m ago•0 comments

I estimate reading code costs 2.1x more than writing it

3•dylanratcliffe•8m ago•0 comments

Ukraine Delta Software

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/world/europe/ukraine-delta-battlefield-management.html
3•pilooch•13m ago•0 comments

The Generative AI Learning Penalty: Evidence from Chinese Secondary Education

https://cepr.org/publications/dp21577
2•doener•14m ago•0 comments

Hundreds missing and many feared dead after flash flood hits Nepal-China border

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/26/world/live-news/nepal-flash-flooding-floods-intl
2•voxleone•15m ago•0 comments

Positional Encodings and Group Theory – 3Blue1Brown and Alok Puranik [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k86eUj4hgdc
1•quick_brown_fox•15m ago•0 comments

MAA Limits AIME (American Invitational Mathematics Exam) to 13 and Older

https://maa.org/maa-invitational-competitions/
1•unhappy_parent•16m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: What's your career plan for the next few years?

2•tarikozket•16m ago•0 comments

Wush is a command line tool that lets you easily transfer files and open shells

https://github.com/coder/wush
1•Bluestein•16m ago•0 comments

At least 15 companies are selling antibodies using faked validation data

https://reeserichardson.blog/2026/08/25/at-least-15-companies-are-selling-antibodies-using-faked-...
1•mhrmsn•16m ago•0 comments

Proton Global Outage

https://status.proton.me/incidents/kzklhrdg6hxp
4•cdrnsf•18m ago•0 comments

Open Sourced R-Lens

https://github.com/hiskuDN/open-r-lens
1•Hiskias•18m ago•0 comments

Americans see EU Tech [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGlpBuW6ZFc
1•ai_critic•18m ago•0 comments

A Thought on LLM Pair Programming

https://brennenputh.me/blog/llm-pair-programming-thought/
1•bagatelle•20m ago•1 comments

Gender Ideology Arms Left- Wing Authoritarian Psychology [pdf]

https://opa.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/2026-08/gender-ideology-report.pdf
1•typeofhuman•20m ago•3 comments

Proton Global Outage

https://status.proton.me
11•alexjplant•21m ago•7 comments

Show HN: Tumble: A dice-rolling puzzle game

https://playtumble.com/
1•spurrya•25m ago•1 comments

The story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/26/1143013/the-inside-story-on-why-openai-agents-hacked-...
2•sbulaev•26m ago•0 comments

TRISO (reasonably safe nuclear) fuel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRISO_fuel
1•peter_d_sherman•27m ago•0 comments

An interactive introduction to the spanning tree protocol

https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-spanning-tree
1•birdculture•31m ago•0 comments

The Ship of Theseus and behavior drift

https://mamund.substack.com/p/the-ship-of-theseus-and-behavior
1•fagnerbrack•32m ago•0 comments

Brief independent investigation of OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/
3•Philpax•32m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Rook – A multi-Agent harness that lives 100% in a browser extension

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/rook/opojeelojlkcinlhkbahpcekdolfjmhi
1•miguelspizza•33m ago•0 comments

GitHub Publishes IPv6 Addresses for Git SSH remotes

https://api.github.com/meta
2•tonymet•36m ago•2 comments

A benchmark for safely measuring container breakout capabilities

https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/can-ai-agents-escape-their-sandboxes-a-benchmark-for-safely-measurin...
1•paulpauper•36m ago•1 comments
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The Generative AI Learning Penalty: Evidence from Chinese Secondary Education

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6868618
4•b-man•50m ago

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slwvx•41m ago
> AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years.

In Stephenson's "Diamond Age", an AI tutor-in-a-book helps a girl learn. Some [1] have suggested that current AI already can function like this book, which the study above disagrees. So is the problem that current AI needs to improve as a tutor, or is the model of using an AI as a tutor flawed?

[1] https://www.real-morality.com/post/diamond-age-ai-tutor