2025-04-28
Code Smell 297 - Syntactic Noise
Cryptic code packed with symbols creates readability and maintenance issues. Use clear naming, simplify expressions, and refactor for human-friendly code.
The Dead Internet Theory: Will Crypto Kill or Save the Internet?
A new conspiracy theory says the Internet will be dead in 2024. The theory is based on the idea that non-human systems like Artificial Intelligence (AI) models are taking over...
Therapist in the Weights: Risks of Hyper-Introspection in Future AI Systems
Published on April 28, 2025 6:42 AM GMTEpistemic Status: Speculative, but grounded in current trends in interpretability and self-supervised learning. This was initially written as an outline at some point...
The TechBeat: The Decentralized Internet Could Turn Us Into a Type-1 Civilization. The Alternative? Mass Slavery (4/28/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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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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,...
Five new Steam games you probably missed (April 28, 2025)
Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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