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The Rise of the Meritocracy (1958)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy
6•theanonymousone•51m ago

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verdverm•10m ago
Going to the book store today to see if they can find me a copy. Hoping they have Michael Sandel's book The Tyranny of Meritocracy in stock.

This book introduced the term "meritocracy" and warned of its troubling implications, like the hubris it would create in the most successful and their subsequent looking down on others, in part to justify to themselves that they earned and deserve their good fortunes.

Michael mentions this book in his lecture, which I have an ai bot cleaning up the transcript so I can memorize and re-give it (I know I'm weird, but maybe you will too and then it won't be weird, memorizing important speeches)

https://youtu.be/Vp5qsEuUOWo

Show HN: Scalable source control in Rust, inspired by Anthropic's Scion

https://github.com/adrianchifor/scn
1•adrianchifor•33s ago•0 comments

Ad-tech company was a delivery system for "mercenary spyware"

https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/17/mercenary-spyware/#discover-tech
7•samizdis•5m ago•0 comments

He Wants AI Benchmarking to Be a Science, Not a Dark Art

https://www.quantamagazine.org/he-wants-ai-benchmarking-to-be-a-science-not-a-dark-art-20261016/
1•sonabinu•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Plinth – free open-source desktop video downloader

https://plinth.fabwaseem.com
1•fabwaseem•9m ago•0 comments

Priestly coders are more annoying than vibe coders [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDNuf4Zhk5I
1•yogthos•10m ago•0 comments

Periodic Weak Spots: Phase Sensitivity from Chunked KV-Cache Compression

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.36322
1•wondersky•11m ago•0 comments

Pressy is back from the dead (on the Mac, at least)

https://github.com/gufertum/pressy-resurrected
1•gufertum•12m ago•0 comments

Perceptors AI – turning clinical expertise into reviewed courses

https://www.perceptors.ai/
1•fadyhs•14m ago•0 comments

Don't be one of them (Use your release notes)

https://sjg.io/writing/dont-be-one-of-them/
1•simonjgreen•14m ago•0 comments

Apps, Agents, and Aggregation

https://stratechery.com/2026/apps-agents-and-aggregation/
1•gumby•15m ago•0 comments

Tagging and Parsing English Sentences

https://stochastic.blog/tagging-and-parsing-english-sentences/
1•Anon84•17m ago•0 comments

The Spy Inside the Box: How Tampered Ledger Wallets Leaked Seed Phrases over LTE

https://security.lankinen.xyz/posts/the-spy-inside-the-box-how-tampered-ledger-wallets-leaked-see...
1•lankinen•18m ago•0 comments

A death, a plagiarism scandal and a quest for revenge: the tale of Otto Z

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/08/a-death-a-plagiarism-scandal-and-a-qu...
2•Hooke•20m ago•0 comments

fishdraw

https://github.com/LingDong-/fishdraw
1•bookofjoe•20m ago•0 comments

Lexica Ultralegible is a new font for low-vision readers

https://coywolf.com/news/web-development/lexica-ultralegible-is-a-new-font-for-low-vision-readers...
2•twapi•23m ago•0 comments

MonkShift – reduces visual distractions, one application can take the foreground

https://github.com/gslava/MonkShift
2•itic1gm•23m ago•0 comments

Copy-Paste Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.19247
1•azhenley•25m ago•0 comments

Automattic Also Wants .php

https://kgolubic.com/posts/automattic-also-wants-php/
1•taubek•25m ago•0 comments

Google Wave

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Wave
2•tosh•25m ago•0 comments

Apple's HomeView is just the latest threat to online recipe writers

https://www.theverge.com/tech/1012820/apple-homeview-recipe-formatting
1•desolate_muffin•27m ago•0 comments

Decompilations, AI, and the Chase for Clout

https://jpeisach.github.io/blog/ai/legoisland/decompilation/porting/reverse-engineering/2026/10/1...
2•aizk•29m ago•0 comments

Proactive AI for Superintelligent Agents

https://research.google/pubs/proactive-ai-for-superintelligent-agents/
2•theanonymousone•37m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: What happened to Anti-Virus suites?

1•scanny•38m ago•1 comments

The McGurk effect: what you see changes what you hear

https://www.transitivebullsh.it/projects/the-mcgurk-effect
1•transitivebs•38m ago•1 comments

Meta Opens Muse Spark's Weights with Strings Attached

https://ailately.com/articles/meta-muse-spark-open-weights
1•ryanedennis•39m ago•0 comments

Comparison of Browser Engines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_browser_engines
1•andsoitis•40m ago•0 comments

Open Source Without the Open Door

https://abbykearns.substack.com/p/open-source-without-the-open-door
1•gpi•42m ago•0 comments

We found a Tencent agent fleet

https://swarmcha.se/posts/chinese-agent-fleet-full-report
2•rurban•43m ago•1 comments

Show HN: SpeakoFlow – Free, open-source voice typing for Windows, Mac and Linux

https://www.speakoflow.com/
1•AbhishekBarali•43m ago•0 comments

ConvyCanvas – AI Tutor for Euclid's Elements

https://convycanvas.com/elements/reader/#euclid_i/prop_001
1•atomicnature•45m ago•0 comments