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Does Georgism work? Five years later

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georgism-work-five-years-later
126•silveraxe93•1d ago•65 comments

DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22978
162•shenli3514•7h ago•43 comments

PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock

https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe
319•Qision•1d ago•170 comments

Go Concurrency Distilled

https://antonz.org/go-concurrency-distilled/
42•chmaynard•11h ago•9 comments

Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things

https://github.com/reladraw/reladraw
185•jpwalsh234•8h ago•53 comments

A searchable library of forgotten public-domain film clips from 1915 onward

https://www.movingimagearchive.com/
115•momentmaker•2d ago•25 comments

Evolving programming languages in the AI era

https://dashbit.co/blog/evolving-ai-era
31•pjm331•1d ago•11 comments

Turning GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like decision model

https://www.privatemode.ai/blog/system-one-from-glm-flash
25•flxflx•10h ago•9 comments

Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas

https://tangled.org/yanndegat.tngl.sh/drawgent
110•parasitid•10h ago•32 comments

Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC

https://www.righto.com/2026/09/8087-tangent-cordic.html
28•pwg•8h ago•5 comments

Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/welcome-to-the-medical-clinic-at-the-interplanetary-re...
45•bucket2015•5h ago•8 comments

Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story

https://lexontech.org/fifteen-years-later-the-apple-cards-origin-story
345•ksec•16h ago•88 comments

Promising discoveries about the potential for life on one of Saturn’s icy moons

https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/informationen/fup/2026/fup_26_116-enceladus-cassini-mikroben-s...
20•geox•22h ago•11 comments

Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike

https://www.quantamagazine.org/biology-might-not-be-quantum-but-its-math-is-quantumlike-20260923/
14•pseudolus•1d ago•4 comments

LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators on Earth

https://basin.la/articles/ninety-feet-a-minute.html
79•big_toast•2d ago•59 comments

ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/asml-says-its-sells-absolutely-nothing-...
156•MC995•1d ago•417 comments

Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers

https://castle-engine.io/modern_pascal
147•birdculture•2d ago•59 comments

The Evolution of Vending Machines

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/09/from-holy-water-to-frozen-meals-the-evolution-of-vend...
14•ohjeez•8h ago•3 comments

How one Twitch chat message became code execution on a streamer’s PC

https://blog.scrt.ch/2026/09/22/how-one-twitch-chat-message-became-code-execution-on-a-streamers-pc/
26•tau255•1d ago•11 comments

The Lost Atomic Update on Loongson CPU

https://jia.je/hardware/2026/09/24/loongson-cpu-erratum-en/
111•jiegec•2d ago•6 comments

How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments

https://thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com/p/how-i-changed-teaching-after-ai-managed
137•azhenley•2d ago•137 comments

Generate fonts where every LLM token is the same width

https://ampdot.mesh.host/token-space-fonts.html
25•z-mach9•1d ago•7 comments

HomeBody: A humanoid that explores, remembers, and acts on its own

https://tml.stanford.edu/homebody/
16•famouswaffles•7h ago•2 comments

How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-to-keep-enjoying-programming-in-a-world-of-llms/14705
158•signa11•16h ago•213 comments

Sousveillance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance
9•xeonmc•1h ago•0 comments

Dutch designer made DE9: Closer to the Edit into a playable web-based instrument

https://www.creativeboom.com/work/why-merijn-straathof-turned-a-landmark-techno-album-into-a-play...
8•ChrisArchitect•2d ago•1 comments

Analyzing Frontier Model Progress with My Favourite Game: Prince of Persia

https://blog.priyan.in/2026/09/analyzing-frontier-model-progress-with.html
59•msephton•1d ago•39 comments

Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry

https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/09/readings-bayeux-tapestry.html
13•zeristor•15h ago•1 comments

Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free

https://gultsch.de/posts/breaking-up-with-google-play/
639•ezst•15h ago•253 comments

The Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bizarre-murky-history-of-soviet-born-tetris/
105•EA-3167•2d ago•34 comments
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Palantir's Co-Founder Wants Us Less Judgmental About Deadly Iran School Strike

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/palantirs-co-founder-thinks-we-should-be-less-judgmental-about-that-deadly-iran-school-strike/
39•cdrnsf•3h ago

Comments

BLKNSLVR•1h ago
The more public statements come from these tech bosses the more they all seem like they live in this shared psychosis where, literally, the rest of the world is acceptable collateral damage on the path to their inscrutable personal goals.

And the longer they don't have any consequences for their actions, the worse they will get.

I'm starting to think that the further they look into the future for their utopian dreams, the less care they have for the present, and the less care they have for the present the more girls schools will be bombed and companies hacked and other predictable and unpredictable collateral damage.

> He also argued that Iran might have deliberately lured the US military into the AI-assisted targeting of two Tomahawk missiles at an elementary school on the first day of the the Trump administration’s war in Iran.

I'm not sure if there's any way back to objective reality for someone saying this sort of thing publicly.

Grimblewald•1h ago
i'd like to see more folks at the hague over the same. Less judgment isnt forthcoming over child murder and those who align with child killers. There is no justice, no rule of law, while those responsible walk with their head firmly attached to their shoulders.

Deliberatly luring AI into bombing kids? Anything other than admit AI should never play judge jury and executioner eh? Fucking rats.

pylua•1h ago
I wish this weren’t the case but autonomous ai warfare is the future. We should accept that fact. Likely attribution for war crimes will be hard to pin down responsibility for.
cbeach•1h ago
Our opponents are countries like Iran, who think nothing of butchering tens of thousands of their own citizens for protesting against the Islamic regime.

Iran and its terrorist proxies (Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis etc) will get access to autonomous AI one day. It's only a matter of time.

When that day comes, might we regret kneecapping AI in the Free World because of a single accidental tragedy?

netsharc•1h ago
Ah yeah, the 'Free World" is more civilized than those barbarians, because when we bomb schools, we...?

It's pathetic that plenty of people think the answer to barbarism is to be as barbaric (but with justification). For example responding to a day of terror with years of genocide. I suppose it's "fine" to do that, but only if you stop pretending you're more civilized than your opponents.

Jon Stewart's response to 9/11 was something along the lines of "I want revenge, I think we should bomb them to pieces.. that's why I shouldn't be the one in charge of our response".

papua_is_being_•50m ago
> Our opponents are countries like Iran, who think nothing of butchering tens of thousands of their own citizens for protesting against the Islamic regime.

Freeport McMoran is supporting the butchering of 500,000 indigenous West Papuans so that they can extract gold, copper, etc from the Grasberg mine. Cargill and Monsanto are helping the ecocidal clearing of millions of hectares of virgin West Papuan rainforest. The flag all of them fly is red, white, and blue.

They gleefully help butcher millions of people so that they can get the resources for a few dimes less. I can assure you that is no "accidental tragedy". You have a word for it already. You call us collateral damage.

tobadzistsini•1h ago
Everything about Palantir and Joe Lonsdale are just so gleefully evil that one can not help but laugh at their ignorance.
wahnfrieden•41m ago
Lonsdale was also accused of rape and is quoted as saying that women need to be raped to learn to respect men.
2OEH8eoCRo0•36m ago
I think the world and even Americans are getting real tired of these techies and they're going to pay for it.
KoftaBob•30m ago
It's an insult to all of our intelligence that guys like Joe Lonsdale + Alex Karp think we won't make the connection that they say just happen to be Zionists and then say horseshit like this. We know they value the lives of their in-group at 1000x more than everyone else, they don't even try to hide it anymore.
yummypaint•58m ago
There was a time when it appeared nuclear war was the future of warfare. Thank goodness we refused accept that as fact.
Grimblewald•6m ago
It likely is the future, same as bombs once were, that doesnt mean we allow people to go about clusterbombing residential neighbourhoods you know? If you cannot predict the inpact, if you cannot minimize collateral damage reliably, then it isnt tech that is ready for the front lines. There's a reason we ban biological warefar, even though its even more effective than AI driven weapons. So, what the fuck? Why are we deciding this isn't worth regulating?

The more of this shit i see, the gross incompetence, the total lack of reverence for human life, the more I see a butlerian jihad as the only viable option.

A tool is a tool, and abuse of a tool, intentional or by gross incompetance should not earn a free pass because the tech is new.

We need to hold people accountable for their action/inaction.