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Cherenkov Radiation - traveling faster than light

http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/what-is-cherenkov-radiation
40•andsoitis•1h ago•28 comments

Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin

https://shopify.engineering/back-to-native
1074•fnthawar2•19h ago•749 comments

Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/hands-off-my-cables/
534•Brajeshwar•18h ago•347 comments

Working with Git Worktrees in Magit

https://emacsredux.com/blog/2026/09/02/working-with-git-worktrees-in-magit/
48•srijan4•3d ago•17 comments

OpenAI Agents API

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/agents-api/overview
267•aquir•14h ago•146 comments

The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac

https://auberon.xyz/blog/posts/deathray/
193•auberonedu•14h ago•120 comments

Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images (2025)

https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Manipulating_Satellite_Photos_Now_Reveals_Ancient_Images
339•gumby•18h ago•55 comments

The Gemini app is now available for Windows

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/gemini-app-now-on-windows/
48•quysala12•5h ago•36 comments

Nine coding harnesses vs. your laptop

https://nasutton.notion.site/Nine-coding-harnesses-vs-your-laptop-3d139990182b80d59fa3cf500f0450b...
100•nasutton12•11h ago•28 comments

Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds

https://www.upsocl.com/en/16-year-old-mexican-student-creates-an-acoustic-fire-extinguisher-that-...
212•rguiscard•9h ago•78 comments

Neijuan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neijuan
26•vermilingua•1h ago•9 comments

GPT‑Live‑1 in the API

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-live-1-in-the-api/
18•arittr•4h ago•9 comments

So you want to use OpenRouter?

https://mmoustafa.com/blog/so-you-want-to-use-openrouter/
79•player85•2d ago•6 comments

Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra

https://cognition.com/blog/swe-2
418•seelos•18h ago•174 comments

NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami

https://www.ntsb.gov:443/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20260909.aspx
104•mckn1ght•12h ago•182 comments

More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math

https://mathstodon.xyz/@andreasthom/117240535270608201
809•pred_•1d ago•742 comments

Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom

https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/MusicTheory.html
227•aanet•16h ago•97 comments

Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE

https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/src/branch/forgejo/release-notes-published/16.0.4.md
187•weierstass•18h ago•68 comments

Neki – Sharded Postgres

https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-neki
244•simon_weber•18h ago•131 comments

Proof of Capture: Apple Reference Image, but open source and using steganography

https://merybenavente.me/blog/proof-of-capture
109•merybenavente•14h ago•58 comments

An interactive tour of the spanning tree protocol

https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-spanning-tree
6•zdw•2d ago•0 comments

Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft

https://rustfoundation.org/media/guest-post-rust-is-tier-1-language-at-microsoft/
677•mmastrac•20h ago•424 comments

Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory

https://system76.com/workstations/thelio-mira-ai
105•jonifico•10h ago•87 comments

CSS Curiosities of the Past

https://vale.rocks/posts/css-relics
3•robin_reala•2h ago•0 comments

Testing race conditions with mem access tracing and stack-based delay injection

https://projectzero.google/2026/09/maccconc-race-condition.html
8•mfrw•2d ago•0 comments

Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026

https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026
134•garo-pro•16h ago•200 comments

Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8m7lFQ3njk
182•tosh•4d ago•79 comments

Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/9/7/astra-why/
328•manojbajaj95•3h ago•242 comments

Exercise intensity is associated with cardiometabolic health

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(26)00405-2
101•qclibre22•6h ago•47 comments

Recursion into madness

https://blog.coredump.cx/p/recursion-into-madness
71•surprisetalk•3d ago•17 comments
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Neijuan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neijuan
26•vermilingua•1h ago

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JumpCrisscross•1h ago
Has it been measured? Or is this more of a qualitative critique?
hirako2000•36m ago
It isn't pointing at particular system to blame.

But if you feel like it's raining, it probably is.

netmare•26m ago
There's a Greek proverb disputing the latter: they are spitting on him and he thinks it's raining.
JumpCrisscross•21m ago
> It isn't pointing at particular system to blame

It's hypothesising a phenomenon. I'm looking for a measure. The phenomenon is intuitively correct, but also suspiciously attractive. Sort of like the bullshit-job (or corrupt-bureaucrat) hypotheses, where every job or public official one doesn't like can be conveniently terms bullshit absent any rigour.

lensecat•27m ago
In western thought, this is mostly related to the concept of involution.

The most famous study is on Javanese farming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_Involution

In terms of software development, here's a blogpost from 2025, by a professor at Sussex Uni: https://stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/07/involution-and-artifici...

There are also some studies in China on the concept but I'm less familiar with that literature.

JumpCrisscross•22m ago
Thank you for the Berry post. Has anyone tried to test his hypothesis? My gut feeling is it will check out, particularly for AI chats. Input measure is easy–you have time and text quantity. But output value is more difficult...I'm wondering if there is a good case where this could be observed.
lensecat•17m ago
I'm doing a PhD in sociology of work (I have a background in software development) and want to do such a study on software development with AI, but as you say it's quite hard to find a good setting, because it's hard to operationalise quality.

I have been thinking of measuring it along these lines perhaps... https://www.gitclear.com/the_ai_code_quality_maintainability...

But they have a closed sourced software so I would have to find or create an open one in that case.

Happy to hear if you have any ideas on study design!

JumpCrisscross•11m ago
anovikov•24m ago
"1920s style crisis of overproduction with Chinese characteristics"
What if you looked at scheduling? Like, an assistant or agent scheduling a calendar something?

It's atomic, and one can't usually add value beyond a low threshold. If we're seeing more words–or tokens–used over time for a task which one cannot reasonably argue has gotten more complicated in that time, it would be direct evidence of involution. If you can relate that to competition for VC dollars or customers, that takes you over to Neijuan.