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Is Google Making Us Stupid? (2008)

https://hermiene.net/literature/essays/is-google-making-us-stupid
6•shubhamjain•11h ago

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Zambyte•11h ago
> "I can't read War and Peace anymore," he admitted. "I've lost the ability to do that. Even a blog post of more than three or four paragraphs is too much to absorb. I skim it."

This was the first thing I read, about a third of the way down the page. Oof.

flourish_dev•11h ago
I found that taking a few days off tech along with a bit of meditation and regular chores stopped becoming chores I had to get done before getting back to the devices, but they became enjoyable and not rushed.
silverFork•10h ago
Yup, even short articles need cliffNotes... LOL. Ai to rescue and summerize; instant cliffNotes.

Build Your Own Lightsaber

https://jonathannen.com/build-your-own-lightsaber/
1•speckx•1m ago•0 comments

Nvidia RTX Spark PCs Released

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-rtx-spark-pcs-available-today-a-new-beginning-for-windo...
1•armcat•1m ago•0 comments

Welcome Beam: a 501B open model you can own, customize, and scale

https://huggingface.co/blog/reflection-beam
2•lainsoykaf•2m ago•1 comments

Reflection AI Launches Beam, Now on Hugging Face

https://huggingface.co/reflection
1•gkapur•2m ago•1 comments

Meta confirms smart glasses were recording without being activated

https://mashable.com/tech/meta-confirms-smart-glasses-recording-without-being-activated
1•pavel_lishin•3m ago•0 comments

Tesla Roadster: It Flies, Flips, and Hits 0-60 in 0.81s

https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/4837/tesla-roadster-event-recap-it-flies-flips-and-hits-0-60-in...
1•Cabal•4m ago•0 comments

CUDA Matrix Multiplication Optimization: From Naive to Near-cuBLAS

https://www.abhik.ai/articles/cuda-matrix-multiplication-optimization
1•peter_d_sherman•4m ago•0 comments

Tesla unveils what it says is a flying car

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/15/business/tesla-unveils-what-it-says-is-a-flying-car
1•woliveirajr•5m ago•0 comments

How to Formalize All of Mathematics

https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/10/16/how-to-formalize-all-of-mathematics/
1•practal•6m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Flying Car Practical Tech

1•NarcisMirandes•6m ago•1 comments

Britain's batteries just had their best month. Where did the money come from?

https://a115.co.uk/britains-batteries-where-did-the-money-come-from/
1•a115ltd•6m ago•0 comments

PhD students who write dissertation with AI less likely to stay in academia

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03253-2
1•Brajeshwar•7m ago•0 comments

Ignore the naysayers. The new Firefox interface is awesome

https://www.newsonaut.com/articles/ignore-the-naysayers-the-new-firefox-interface-is-awesome
1•surprisetalk•7m ago•0 comments

Hackers hijacked 1,900 GitHub accounts. Then they went after 30k repos

https://thenewstack.io/hackers-hijacked-1900-github-accounts-then-they-went-after-30000-repos/
2•Brajeshwar•7m ago•0 comments

Flying Car Practical Tech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt5p-_tE8d0
1•NarcisMirandes•8m ago•0 comments

Linux on Snapdragon: Snapdragon X2 Series Officially Supports Linux [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UtdISbzkBo
1•cromka•8m ago•0 comments

Expedia Rigs Travel Markets and Raises Your Hotel Prices

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/how-expedia-rigs-travel-markets-and
1•PaulHoule•8m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Thoughts on hiring junior engineers in 2026?

2•abhishekbasu•8m ago•0 comments

Build LLM Playground (Python, FastAPI, Gemini, React)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73Knur3t4M0
1•yatharth_verma1•8m ago•0 comments

There's Nothing Mysterious or Unusual About the German Sexual Harassment Robot

https://www.404media.co/theres-nothing-mysterious-or-unusual-about-the-viral-german-sexual-harass...
1•neom•8m ago•0 comments

AI Research Tools – Literature Discovery, LaTeX and Reproducibility

https://github.com/mahmoudsajjadi/awesome-ai-research-tools
1•mahmoudsajjadi•11m ago•1 comments

Build your own CFB win streak definition

https://drewhoover.com/cfb-streak-king/
1•drewhoo•12m ago•0 comments

The bgfx shader compiler, 14 years of not being a compiler

https://bkaradzic.github.io/posts/shaderc-overview/
1•mariuz•12m ago•0 comments

PS5 hack delivers native PS2 disc support and 4K upscaling where Sony refused to

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/ps5-hack-delivers-native-ps2-disc-support-an...
1•hattar•12m ago•2 comments

A planner for seeing two West End or Broadway shows in one day

https://musicaltripplanner.com/
1•yuvalbeck•13m ago•0 comments

Netflix cuts about 6% of jobs in biggest layoff since 2022

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/netflix-cuts-about-6-jobs-wsj-reports-2026-10-14/
2•rvz•14m ago•0 comments

Web Accessibility Smoke Testing

https://racheleditullio.com/blog/2026/10/web-accessibility-smoke-testing/
1•speckx•15m ago•0 comments

Polymarket as Poetry

https://gjtorikian.online/will-did/
1•gjtorikian•15m ago•0 comments

Amazon introduces 2 new AI products from Bee: Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/amazon-personal-ai-bee-frontier-bee-eclipse
1•ployable7•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Monitoring my 'dumb' boiler with AI

https://ndroo.github.io/tapo-boiler-monitor/
1•verelo•16m ago•0 comments