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The Sound of Inevitability

https://www.panoptica.com/the-sound-of-inevitability/
6•WaitWaitWha•5h ago

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bediger4000•4h ago
What a magnificent post! A metaphor mix for the ages - football, sailing, math, economics, physics - plus trader slang and Linkinfluencer styling. Do people read this every day and learn from it?
popalchemist•1h ago
Gag inducing on multiple levels. Not only the self-indulgent and incoherent writing, but the very notion that an author or authors would call their undertaking Panoptica. A panopticon is the ultimate and most inhumane prison. Idiots.
analog8374•31m ago
Being watched all the time seems nowhere near as bad as being kept in a cell or forced labor.
Terr_•58m ago
I hope that this is satire of LLMs, or satire of day-traders on drugs, but I fear it is neither.
thatmf•28m ago
Derivatives trading is a net negative upon society and this florid prose is just one more ghastly effluvium from the sarcophagus

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92•bookofjoe•1h ago•46 comments

Gwern reties from fulltime writing to launch Guardian Angel Inc

https://twitter.com/status/2084739205071343837
64•mattsterett•2h ago•23 comments

libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months

https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/libexpat-city-of-munich-open-source-sabbatical/
12•spyc•17m ago•0 comments

Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation

https://mistral.ai/news/shieldstral/
278•riadsila•6h ago•69 comments

DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023)

https://techascent.com/blog/just-ducking-around.html
19•sourdecor•1h ago•0 comments

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https://toneyalexander.github.io/inclusive-color-space/
443•automatoney•8h ago•87 comments

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745•jdcampolargo•4h ago•43 comments

We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars

https://seg6.space/posts/center-div/
15•seg6•1h ago•8 comments

Waymo in Dallas

https://waymo.com/blog/shorts/dallas-open-to-all/
224•xnx•5h ago•272 comments

Video2NAND – Abusing video codecs for great computational power

https://sharedobject.blog/posts/vp8-combinatorial-logic/
18•firer•2d ago•2 comments

Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models

https://openai.com/index/third-party-cyber-evaluations-involving-openai-models/
25•glub•2h ago•2 comments

DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X

https://github.com/ryanzhou/deepseek-v4-flash-mi300x
361•zhoutong•13h ago•87 comments

Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)

https://www.troyhunt.com/thanks-fedex-this-is-why-we-keep-getting-phished/
182•stymaar•2h ago•44 comments

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https://deepgrove.ai/maple-preview
22•edwardbzhang•3h ago•6 comments

Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1795071/000179507126000002/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml
147•depr•3h ago•60 comments

Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game

https://hop.earth/?server=lkhr7&route=fQ5nuu9R
74•faebi•5h ago•37 comments

Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage

https://earendil.com/posts/pi-autoresearch-and-databricks/
5•luispa•1h ago•0 comments

Most tech revolutions made work worse for employees

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83•jreynar•8h ago•46 comments

Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/truemetrics/jobs/bIQQ7tP-founding-gtm-lead
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Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed

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41•sbulaev•4d ago•9 comments

Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack

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226•cimi_•12h ago•114 comments

When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16763
71•doppp•7h ago•78 comments

Why some people mow a lawn better than others

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160•carlos-menezes•5h ago•142 comments

The physics of Docker build caching

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13•piobio•4d ago•2 comments

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https://edotenv.com/
26•Mzzzzz•4h ago•20 comments

Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc

https://birchtree.me/blog/xbox-goes-down-you-cant-play-games-you-own-on-disc/
563•surprisetalk•11h ago•607 comments

Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/apple-says-more-ex-employees-may-have-taken-confidential-data-t...
322•thewebguyd•7h ago•243 comments

There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]

https://users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/BradburyStories(1).pdf
339•pmg101•1d ago•374 comments

Harness engineering for self-improvement

https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2026-07-04-harness/
296•tosh•17h ago•68 comments

The Warp Agent CLI

https://www.warp.dev/blog/introducing-the-warp-agent-cli-coding-agent
92•emschwartz•6h ago•55 comments