2025-04-14
Does America Need a $1,000,000,000,000 Defense Budget?
President Donald Trump is set to raise the Pentagon’s budget despite promises to slash government spending during his presidential campaign drastically. Can the US afford this, and where will the...
M. Gessen: “This is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities,...
M. Gessen: “This is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and [bring] education...
The Navy’s F/A-XX Needs to Be More Than Just a New 6th-Generation Fighter
The U.S. Navy is reportedly on the verge of naming a winner for its F/A-XX program – the stealthy, long-range, sixth-generation jet slated to replace the F/A-18 Super Hornet. And...
How to evaluate control measures for LLM agents? A trajectory from today to superintelligence
Published on April 14, 2025 4:45 PM GMTThis is a linkpost accompanying a new paper by UK AI Security Institute, Apollo Research and Redwood Research. Please see the full paper ...
Why Blockchain Systems Use Checkpoints for Recovery and Finality
This section discusses the use of checkpoints in blockchain systems, explaining their role in reducing entry costs, providing recovery mechanisms from catastrophic failures, and addressing long-range attacks. It contrasts checkpoint...
Making Sense of Blockchain Execution and Transaction Order
This section introduces core blockchain concepts—append-only logs, virtual machine state, and curried transaction functions—to explain how smart contract systems model, track, and secure state changes. It highlights differences in finality...
How Blockchain Defines ‘Truth’
This section explores how blockchain systems define and compute "ground truth"—the current state—using transaction order finality. It contrasts how different systems (e.g., Bitcoin, Ethereum, rollups) handle state representation, emphasizing the...
What Happens After You Hit ‘Send’ on Blockchain
This paper breaks down how blockchain systems achieve different levels of finality—from simple transaction logging to full irreversibility—using virtual machines, consensus rules, and governance mechanisms to handle security and failure...
Giving ADHD Drugs to Kids Has a Long-Term Side Effect That Might Change Their Minds About Taking It
As American parents give their kids growth hormones to make them taller, some research suggests that taking medications for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may be having the opposite effect....
Don't delete that mysterious 'inetpub' Windows folder, says Microsoft, as it's supposedly important for system security
Now sit down and eat your dinner, and stop touching things.
If you thought USB naming was nonsense, allow this professional furry engineer to explain the total nightmare that is the underlying hardware complexity of USB-C
Oh, and it's all Apple's fault. Well, possibly...
“I Got Laid Off. Here’s What Happened Next.”
Dr. Bart Jaworski was laid off as a PM at Microsoft. But he bounced back with a job just weeks later. And now he has 125K followers on LinkedIn. This...
Warner Bros suits confirm A Minecraft Movie will be getting a sequel: 'The ink might not be dry… but imminently'
"It was a complete win for everyone involved."
The U.S. Marines Now Have a New Drone Attack Team
U.S. Marine Corps Stands Up First-Ever Drone Attack Team: The team hopes to apply lessons learned from the war in Ukraine to hone their drone abilities by entering into inter-service...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: This Detective Game Helps Beginners Master SQL and Database Logic (4/14/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, April 14, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Human Genome Project...
Unequal Rights
Heather Cox Richardson on where we are right now in terms of what type of government we currently have: Here’s the thing: Once you give up the idea that we...
Seth Godin on How to Win an Argument With a Toddler
Seth Godin: You can’t. That’s because toddlers don’t understand what an argument is and aren’t interesting in having one. Toddlers (which includes defensive bureaucrats, bullies, flat earthers, folks committed to...
Inside the System That Optimizes Cross-Border Digital Currency Trading
This section details a multi-layer blockchain system where a Layer-2 rollup manages CBDC integration and routing, while Layer-3s run competing AMMs. The architecture uses EVM, ensures compliance with KYC and...
This Study Breaks Down the True Costs of CBDC Exchange
This study shows that a multi-AMM setup on Layer-2 blockchains reduces total costs of CBDC swaps—fees and price impact—compared to Project Mariana’s single-AMM model.
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