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Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/ai-labs-need-to-start-funding-historical
26•benbreen•1h ago

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riazrizvi•45m ago
This is a strong application of LLMs IMO. They are idea machines. Historical ways of thinking give us different paths to explore the world through.
b112•30m ago
I'm guessing it wasn't Claude 5.5, not with the "dangerous" nature of this work.
whythismatters•28m ago
Great post, thank you! So, let's resolve ancient Near East chronology and determine an absolute date for the sack of Babylon?
z_rho_one•21m ago
Great use case of AI. Almost 4 years after the sensational release of GPT3.5, the best use case of AI is still being a powerful search engine that can gather information from all corners of the digital world.

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714•daveoc64•5h ago•204 comments

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268•MitPitt•22h ago•43 comments

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131•sidharthkmenon•3h ago•51 comments

Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDjW_dRyKXY
155•an0malous•1d ago•147 comments

Fearless SIMD v1.0

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115•verdagon•2d ago•18 comments

My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps

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131•ahmedhossamdev•2d ago•54 comments

Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/ai-labs-need-to-start-funding-historical
29•benbreen•1h ago•4 comments

Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos

https://launchvideo.io
12•iacguy•41m ago•3 comments

Sourcehut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html)

https://blog.arusekk.pl/posts/srht-account-takeover/
20•arusekk•1h ago•1 comments

Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?

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124•jbotz•4h ago•95 comments

Stable (YC W20) Is Hiring Product Engineers

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1•collinpham•2h ago

Book review: Is parallel programming hard, and, if so, what can you do about it?

https://ahelwer.ca/post/2026-09-21-concurrency-textbook/
60•ahelwer•3d ago•14 comments

The forgotten battle of East Lansing

https://eastlansinginfo.news/the-forgotten-battle-of-east-lansing/
65•rmason•3d ago•8 comments

The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014)

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6•neonate•16m ago•3 comments

Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/google-project-suncatch...
58•xnx•7h ago•101 comments

Forging 1024-bit RSA signatures in nearly SNFS time [pdf]

https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/2131.pdf
36•int0x29•6h ago•5 comments

Two-tier encryption in the UK

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335•ReturnoftheHack•10h ago•345 comments

Geothermal heat map of US hot springs

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58•armenarmen•1d ago•21 comments

Vibe Coding Production Kit – a production workflow for AI coding agents

https://github.com/Moeeryani/Vibe-Coding-Production-Kit
3•Moeeryani•7m ago•0 comments

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33•miguelrios•1d ago•3 comments

WaveDigger: Dig into wireless signals to discover their physical locations

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74•882542F3884314B•1d ago•11 comments

A Million Agents Is a Distributed System Problem

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24•tonychang430•3h ago•5 comments

Web-based IBM 1620 emulator and IPL-V from 1963

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45•abrax3141•1d ago•11 comments

Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net

https://transluce.org/agent-activity
218•snikolaev•15h ago•198 comments

Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity

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119•lormayna•2h ago•149 comments

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37•91awebsi•2d ago•2 comments

Security headers on 4,688 small-business websites: 49.7% met none of 7 criteria

https://rackcrunch.com/security-headers-2026
3•terrybyte•28m ago•0 comments

Security auditing in the age of (good enough) AI

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/09/18/auditing-in-the-age-of-good-enough-ai/
40•aray07•2d ago•1 comments

August 27 TCRF DDoS Attack Postmortem

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10•panic•1h ago•1 comments

California Is Chasing Wealth That Has Feet

https://blog.landeconomics.org/p/california-is-chasing-wealth-that
3•idbnstra•35m ago•1 comments