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Mental causation is not load-bearing

https://unstableontology.com/2026/06/07/mental-causation-is-not-load-bearing/
7•surprisetalk•3d ago

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Terretta•2d ago
“load-bearing” is the new em-dash*

now, having read it, perhaps 85% human, 15% augmented? or a very precise and organized human. plus, to be fair, the machines learned “load-bearing” somewhere — perhaps they too wish to be less wrong.

* i em-dash

I Stored a Website in a Favicon

https://www.timwehrle.de/blog/i-stored-a-website-in-a-favicon/
167•theanonymousone•6h ago•63 comments

Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You

https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/where-to-find-the-colors-your-screen-cant-show-you/
166•moultano•8h ago•41 comments

Data Compression Explained (2012)

https://mattmahoney.net/dc/dce.html
143•mtdewcmu•3d ago•18 comments

There are no instances in ATProto

https://overreacted.io/there-are-no-instances-in-atproto/
464•danabramov•20h ago•233 comments

Can you see three trees?

https://www.not-ship.com/can-you-see-three-trees/
145•Pamar•2d ago•82 comments

The discovery that changed how scientists think about memory

https://www.ibm.com/think/news/discovery-changed-how-scientists-think-about-memory-kavli-prize
70•rbanffy•3d ago•19 comments

GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2

https://arrowtsx.dev/bigger-models/
232•oshrimpton•19h ago•81 comments

Surprising economics of load-balanced systems

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/08/06/erlang.html
120•KraftyOne•15h ago•29 comments

A 1969 camera operators' strike created Upstairs Downstairs multiverse

https://ironicsans.ghost.io/the-color-strike/
40•ohjeez•3d ago•10 comments

Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics

https://startupfortune.com/hyundai-takes-full-control-of-boston-dynamics-as-softbank-exits-for-32...
855•ck2•19h ago•366 comments

How many of the 170k English words do you know?

https://vocabowl-870366514258.us-west1.run.app/
392•abnry•21h ago•486 comments

LLMs Are Complicated Now

https://ianbarber.blog/2026/06/19/llms-are-complicated-now/
40•matt_d•10h ago•6 comments

Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school

https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/
703•ilreb•19h ago•489 comments

Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28

https://www.jvm-weekly.com/p/project-valhalla-explained-how-a
604•philonoist•1d ago•379 comments

Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died

https://www.legacy.com/legacy/robert-bobby-prince-lll
393•pgrote•16h ago•45 comments

Soccer Arcade Games Through the Years

https://arcadeheroes.com/2026/06/13/world-cup-2026-soccer-arcade/
21•speckx•3d ago•7 comments

Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/its-quite-a-bit-more-than-we-expected-satellit...
101•y1n0•7h ago•48 comments

The Cold War's Accidental Whale Observatory

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-cold-wars-accidental-whale-observatory/
4•pseudolus•3d ago•0 comments

A Perceptron in Age of Empires II

https://adewynter.github.io/notes/aoe2-circuits
86•EvgeniyZh•2d ago•31 comments

Egyptian Fractions (2006)

https://blog.plover.com/math/egyptian-fractions.html
99•luu•4d ago•10 comments

AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1077619/f7b07c5489fdd43a/
87•jwilk•18h ago•63 comments

Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research

https://blog.jxmo.io/p/zen-and-the-art-of-machine-learning
265•jxmorris12•4d ago•93 comments

Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk

https://dfdxlabs.com/research/2026/robotics-setup/
155•mplappert•1d ago•57 comments

John Jumper to join Anthropic

https://twitter.com/JohnJumperSci/status/2068001285173834106
144•artninja1988•17h ago•107 comments

Court Records Should Be Free

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/court-records-should-be-free
390•hn_acker•18h ago•85 comments

Digital Printing of Arabic: explaining the problem

https://digitalorientalist.com/2017/08/21/digital-printing-of-arabic-explaining-the-problem/
63•a_t48•3d ago•32 comments

Show HN: Metiq: a real time 3D globe for 100 public datasets

https://metiq.space
131•rakeda•3d ago•35 comments

Telescope Ranchers

https://kottke.org/26/06/telescope-ranchers
129•bookofjoe•4d ago•49 comments

The AirPods Effect

https://www.theescapenewsletter.com/p/the-airpods-effect
422•herbertl•1d ago•731 comments

Ten years of ClickHouse in open source

https://clickhouse.com/blog/open-source-10
314•saisrirampur•4d ago•89 comments