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Cross-class friendships are strong predictors of upward mobility

https://www.ft.com/content/ce3139ac-e88e-4c0d-ab92-b36e79052836
1•marojejian•3m ago•0 comments

Should We Have Kept the American Empire?

https://www.maximum-progress.com/p/should-we-have-kept-the-american
1•vinnyglennon•3m ago•0 comments

Ancient 'Who owns Linux?' case now has one foot deep in the grave

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/08/24/ancient-who-owns-linux-case-now-has-one-foot-very...
1•Tomte•5m ago•0 comments

Monetizing the Golden Age of Short Selling

https://www.alphanume-research.com/p/monetizing-the-golden-age-of-short
1•alphanume•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Flint – A C/C++ build system and package manager written in pure C

https://github.com/mainak55512/flint
1•mbhatt99•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tinysandbox-JS-Runtime - JS in WASM in v8

https://github.com/danthegoodman1/tinysandbox/tree/main/tinysandbox-js-runtime
1•dangoodmanUT•15m ago•0 comments

Seattle light rail became first floating passenger train

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/how-seattle-light-rail-became-worlds-fir...
1•k-ian•16m ago•0 comments

Coyote vs. Acme (also, for free, my take on The Odyssey)

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/30/coyote-vs-acme-also-for-free-my-take-on-the-ody...
1•Tomte•17m ago•0 comments

The baffling science of SSRIs: how do they work?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02570-w
1•cwwc•19m ago•0 comments

Who Are We Now?

https://jessitron.com/2026/08/30/who-are-we-now/
1•ingve•19m ago•0 comments

Reward Guided Speculative Decoding

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04118
1•E-Reverance•20m ago•0 comments

'They shot all their weapons; they trashed their ships; they ran out of money'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/27/trump-iran-war-navy-budget
4•cwwc•21m ago•0 comments

Revise, a zero code, desktop ML platform, revolutionizing ML model creation

https://www.revise.live/
2•Aadi_Ajmire•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AbracadaNames – a multilingual, data-driven wall of first names

https://abracadanames.com/
1•PopFlamingo•23m ago•0 comments

Superhuman AI coding still makes software worse

https://www.williamangel.net/blog/2026/08/29/superhuman-AI-coding-still-makes-software-worse.html
1•datadrivenangel•25m ago•1 comments

Anubis' Design

https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/design/how-anubis-works
2•gurjeet•25m ago•0 comments

Debian: Retiring from the Project (Vv221)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2026/08/msg00041.html
4•tosh•33m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Text Logo – create text logos and wordmarks in the browser

https://textlogo.app
1•paidx•33m ago•0 comments

Rotating Boxes

https://openprocessing.org/@3ur3k4/2847445
2•bookofjoe•34m ago•0 comments

Markets do not punish firms for maintaining DEI [pdf]

https://democracypolicylab.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/folsz_grumbach_dei.pdf
2•anigbrowl•34m ago•0 comments

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die: Sam Rockwell Lifts an Absurdist AI Sci-Fi Satire

https://apnews.com/article/good-luck-have-fun-dont-die-review-8c9e0815b189a2395bedf58c704cc239
3•walterbell•37m ago•0 comments

Being kicked out of the tech industry

https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2026/kicked-out/
5•signa11•38m ago•1 comments

Google's Obedience to Trump's "Lake America" Order Follows a Depressing Pattern

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/google-lake-ontario-america-maps-rename-capitulation/
18•cdrnsf•42m ago•6 comments

'You'll Never Catch Him '

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/08/30/youll-never-catch-him-coyote-vs-acme-road-runner/
2•johntfella•43m ago•0 comments

Build a Reasoning Model Scratch 1: Motivation and Code Setup [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh9mqTzjuEQ
1•pretext•44m ago•0 comments

The State of Django 2026: Boring is so back

https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2026/08/the-state-of-django-2026-boring-is-so-back/
3•ferryth•46m ago•1 comments

Article will now be used to start Phase2 of "shut down open source"

https://twitter.com/chamath/status/2094098122637214107
2•bilsbie•47m ago•0 comments

Pure-Rust Headless Browser: 5× Faster, 80% Less Memory Compared to Chromium

https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/1w2mzsu/i_built_a_headless_browser_for_ai_agents_entir...
2•syumei•47m ago•0 comments

Cheap GPS Jammers Are Filling the World with Navigation Dead Zones

https://www.wsj.com/tech/gps-jammers-dead-zones-e76f3261
7•vinnyglennon•48m ago•2 comments

Semantic invariance testing for AI (Contradish)

https://contradish.com/
1•michelejoseph•49m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

The LLM is not Intelligence

https://www.vivekv.info/posts/llm-is-not-intelligent
2•vivekv•1h ago

Comments

vivekv•1h ago
We often talk about LLMs as if they are doing something remarkably close to human intelligence. My take is that it is the conversation with the human that creates intelligence and meaning
dimitarbogdanov•36m ago
I think it's like expanding your worldview by talking to intelligent people. Both persons in such an interaction enrich themselves this way, imo