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The left-wing case for AI

https://www.seangoedecke.com/the-left-wing-case-for-ai/
9•nsavage•2h ago

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the_snooze•1h ago
These benefits make sense up-front, but we have 15+ years of direct experience with "democratizing" technology that ultimately end up ensnaring people. Unless you get these benefits from a local model, you're establishing a deep dependency on an AI service provider whose interests may not necessarily align with yours.
spacebacon•1h ago
Code switch at the token level. https://huggingface.co/spaces/RiverRider/zooL4nD3r-demo
delichon•58m ago
> if you believe left-wing views are correct ... you might believe that a very smart model will inherently be kind of left-wing.

How can we educate people to understand that LLMs get their values from their (infinetly maleable) weights rather than intelligence or reasoning? Maybe some exposure to truly non aligned, sick and twisted LLMs would immunise people against giving more ordinary ones too much authority. Or maybe, like a not fully innactivated pathogen vaccine, it would spread the infection.

Jgrubb•40m ago
> I wonder what we’d find if we rigorously compared the baseline teacher error rate with the hallucination rate of current LLMs.

The teacher stands in from of the class, but the lesson plan he can't recall.

The students eyes don't perceive the lies mounted on every fucking wall.

His composure is well kept.

I guess he fears playing the fool.

The complacent students sit and listen to that bullshit that he learned in school.

This lyric pops in my head a lot.

Space Cadet Pinball on Linux

https://brennan.io/2026/05/09/pinball-and-escrow/
120•jandeboevrie•2h ago•33 comments

I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left

http://fourlightyears.blogspot.com/2026/05/i-returned-to-aws-and-was-reminded-hard.html
159•andrewstuart•1d ago•115 comments

Idempotency Is Easy Until the Second Request Is Different

https://blog.dochia.dev/blog/idempotency/
155•ludovicianul•3d ago•75 comments

What's a Mathematician to Do?

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/43690/whats-a-mathematician-to-do
25•ipnon•2h ago•4 comments

Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc

https://twitter.com/jarredsumner/status/2053047748191232310
624•heldrida•1d ago•601 comments

The One Dollar Counterfeiter

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2026/05/emerich-juettner-one-dollar.html
214•cainxinth•3d ago•82 comments

The River Otter's Remarkable Comeback

https://www.rewildingmag.com/the-river-otters-remarkable-comeback/
16•surprisetalk•3d ago•1 comments

Think Linear Algebra (2023)

https://allendowney.github.io/ThinkLinearAlgebra/index.html
29•tamnd•4h ago•0 comments

Task Paralysis and AI

https://g5t.de/articles/20260510-task-paralysis-and-ai/index.html
73•MrGilbert•7h ago•48 comments

9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/9-mothers?utm_source=x8pZ4B3P3Q
1•ukd1•2h ago

Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)

https://www.casio.com/jp/basic-calculators/premium/en-s100x-jc1-u/
205•dr_kiszonka•3d ago•87 comments

Internet Archive Switzerland

https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/06/internet-archive-switzerland-expanding-a-global-mission-to-pr...
643•hggh•1d ago•106 comments

We see something that works, and then we understand it

https://lemire.me/blog/2025/12/04/we-see-something-that-works-and-then-we-understand-it/
142•surprisetalk•3d ago•50 comments

Gemini API File Search is now multimodal

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/expanded-gemini-api-file-search...
127•gmays•10h ago•24 comments

I’ve banned query strings

https://chrismorgan.info/no-query-strings
464•susam•21h ago•240 comments

Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning

https://github.com/imtomt/ymawky
332•imtomt•11h ago•166 comments

Replacing a 3 GB SQLite db with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binary

https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/replacing-a-3-gb-sqlite-database-with-a-7-mb-fst-finite-state-t...
70•hiAndrewQuinn•3h ago•9 comments

A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a-recent-experience-with-chatgpt-5-5-pro/
657•_alternator_•1d ago•484 comments

Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels

https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/apple-is-increasing-my-cortisol-levels
337•LorenDB•23h ago•234 comments

From Buffon's Needle to Buffon's Noodle

https://mbmccoy.dev/posts/buffons-noodle/
14•_alternator_•3d ago•2 comments

LLMorphism: When humans come to see themselves as language models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.05419
42•okey•5h ago•18 comments

Local privilege escalation via execve()

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:13.exec.asc
182•Deeg9rie9usi•17h ago•83 comments

LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597
437•rbanffy•1d ago•172 comments

Zed Editor Theme-Builder

https://zed.dev/theme-builder
250•cuechan•20h ago•75 comments

Debian must ship reproducible packages

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/05/msg00001.html
247•robalni•8h ago•90 comments

Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms

https://github.com/nooga/let-go
210•marcingas•20h ago•59 comments

I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up

https://evilgeniuslabs.ca/blog/visual-basic-history-chapter-1-launch
128•speckx•3d ago•46 comments

Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder)

https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/making-your-own-programming-language.html
117•ibobev•3d ago•65 comments

Show HN: Rust but Lisp

https://github.com/ThatXliner/rust-but-lisp
161•thatxliner•16h ago•68 comments

Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

https://twitter.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747935
486•pretext•1d ago•262 comments