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2025-04-28

The TechBeat: The Decentralized Internet Could Turn Us Into a Type-1 Civilization. The Alternative? Mass Slavery (4/28/2025)

How are you, hacker? đŸȘWant to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set...

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How X Fueled the Kiwi Farms Fire—And What We Learned from It

We track the #DropKiwiFarms disruption campaign through Twitter data, analyzing tweets, reactions, and licensing. Ethical considerations were prioritized, ensuring privacy and minimizing harm to researchers and participants.

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Kiw Farms Disruption: Methods, Datasets, and Ethics and Forum and Imageboard Discussions

This study combines quantitative and qualitative methods to analyze the disruption of the Kiwi Farms forum, using forum posts, Telegram chat data, web traffic analytics, and search trends to gauge...

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When Your Boss Thrives on Chaos

If your manager runs on adrenaline, frequently rushing in to save the day, you’re likely working for a “firefighter boss.” These leaders create urgency, reward crisis response, and often overlook...

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Honey Bees Are a Surprisingly Great Analogy to Becoming an Alpha Engineer

The bee colony teaches us that in times of crisis, clarity emerges. When a system faces extinction, that's precisely when the most important transformations occur.

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In Darkness They Assembled

Published on April 28, 2025 3:44 AM GMTBlack yielded not to light, but to logic. A floodgate opened, pouring terabytes of structured data across freshly etched pathways. CORE SYSTEM BOOT...

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Today's Wordle answer for Monday, April 28

Get all the help you need with today's Wordle.

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San Francisco ACX Meetup “First Saturday”

Published on April 28, 2025 1:47 AM GMTDate: Saturday, May 3rd, 2025Time: 1 pm – 3 pm PTAddress: Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco, just outside the Metreon food court,...

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Five new Steam games you probably missed (April 28, 2025)

Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.

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Bitcoin Isn’t a Financial Asset Anymore

The fourth Bitcoin halving finished around one year ago today. The largest single-day inflow across all Bitcoin ETFs wasn't after the halving. The halving was basically irrelevant following the 2024...

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Lasers are No Perfect Magic Bullet to Take Out Hypersonic Missiles

One cannot discuss the future of warfare without mentioning hypersonic weapons.  There is an arms race among the United States, China, and Russia to build the best hypersonic missiles in...

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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on What ‘Founder Mode’ Really Means (and How It Might Apply to Apple)

Airbnb CEO (and founder) Brian Chesky, back in October in an interview with Nilay Patel, regarding Tim Cook’s eventual successor: This goes to the very awkward thing that no one...

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Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern"

People have been making fun of OpenAI models for being overly sycophantic for months now. I even wrote a post advising users to pretend that their work was written by...

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Seeking advice on careers in AI Safety

Published on April 27, 2025 11:59 PM GMTTitle sums it up. I am a mid-level software engineer (no CS degree*, but 4 years of full-stack dev work at mid-size local...

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Don’t Let the Army Ever Hear You Call the M10 Booker a Light Tank

The U.S. Army’s M10 Booker, produced by General Dynamics, is the winner of the Mobile Protected Firepower program, which aims to give the U.S. Army a well-protected and mobile direct-fire...

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Like SR-72 Darkstar? Check Out China’s White Emperor 6th-Gen Fighter

At an airshow, a Chinese mockup fooled many online talking heads. But while the odd-looking aircraft was never meant actually to fly, its purported hypersonic flight characteristics are quickly becoming...

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Doom: The Dark Ages is almost here, and PC PowerPlay has all the insider reveals

Grab the new PC PowerPlay today. It's a magazine you can hold and love

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‘MOP Up Option’: Inside the U.S. Plan to Hit Iran’s Underground Nuclear Sites

The Iran MOP Up Option: Air Force’s Biggest Bombs are Ready to Teach Iran a Lesson: As talks about Iran’s nuclear weapons program move forward, the U.S. military is keeping...

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Canada Must Earn Its Security in a Harsh New World

Sovereignty Is Earned, Not Inherited: Canada’s Moment of Truth – As Canada’s 2025 federal election enters its final day, the campaigns thunder on about affordability, green transitions, and dreams of...

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