2026-04-01
The X-43A Flew at Mach 9.6 and 110,000 Feet — No Air-Breathing Aircraft Has Gone Faster in the 22 Years Since
The X-43A Hit Mach 9.6, But NASA Canceled the Program: Why? NASA’s X-43A was a small, unmanned experimental hypersonic aircraft. It was part of the Hyper X program that set...
A Novel 555 Circuit In 2026
The humble NE555 has been around for over five decades now, and while during that time we’ve seen a succession of better and faster versions of the original, the circuits...
PixelSmile Solves the Ambiguity Problem in AI Emotion Editing
PixelSmile tackles AI emotion ambiguity with continuous labels, symmetric training, and precise facial expression control.
The Case Against Text Prompts for AI Sound Generation
AC-Foley shows why text prompts limit video-to-audio generation and how reference audio enables finer control, timbre transfer, and zero-shot synthesis.
Claude Code source leak reveals how much info Anthropic can hoover up about you and your system
If you loved the data retention of Microsoft Recall, you'll be thrilled with Claude Code Anthropic's Claude Code lacks the persistent kernel access of a rootkit. But an analysis of...
Interactive Data Chart Generator (Pure JavaScript Canvas Tool)
Charts had become a normal part of our lives, visual elements of our work. Why not create a chart-building webpage where you enter the data and it creates the webpage?...
Slackbot
Team up with your AI teammate in the all-new Slack Discussion | Link
Giving up on EA after 13 years
Donating my shares to Lightcone Infrastructure, the Good Food Institute, and the Long-Term Future Fund, because EA refuses to make Mirror's Edge 3.Leaning into EA disillusionment: Why I no longer...
Why Human.tech Just Killed the Crypto Wallet (And What It Built Instead)
Human.tech launched Agentic WaaP at WalletCon 2026, a protocol that lets AI agents trade and manage blockchain assets autonomously within user-defined limits, enforced by split-key cryptography. Actions above the user's...
Apple Quietly Built a New AI Stack and It Runs on Your Device
Apple introduces two foundation language models behind Apple Intelligence: a ~3B on-device model optimized for Apple silicon and a scalable server model using a new Parallel-Track Mixture-of-Experts architecture. Together they...
AI Model Develops Object Recognition Without Human Guidance
This paper shows that when Vision Transformers are trained without labels using self-supervision, they develop surprising abilities. Their attention maps reveal object boundaries, their features work exceptionally well with simple...
Structural Coercion and the AI Workplace
Why Huxley aged better than Orwell on this question, and what the adoption curve is actually measuring. This article follows that architecture through two hundred years of industrial history, into...
[New Research] You need Slack to be an effective agent
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Purchasesforce Superintelligence is excited to announce some new research. While we do not generally share research on LessWrong, this work was particularly influenced by prior work on LessWrong, so we...
Ditch
App cleaner that lives in your MacBook’s notch Discussion | Link
I Spent a Week Analyzing Playtime, The App That Pays You to Play Mobile Games
The business model is smarter than it looks.Illustration by authorMy phone is already on all day.I’m already playing games on it.So when someone told me there’s an app that pays...
Running a Game on a PC with no System RAM
As a clear sign of how desperate these RAMpocalypse times are becoming, we have [PortalRunner] over on YouTube contemplating how to run modern-day software on a PC that has no...
The Evolution of Mobile Networks from 5G to 6G
6G is set to redefine connectivity with speeds up to 1Tbps, sub-millisecond latency, and AI-native networks powered by terahertz spectrum. It will unlock advanced IoT, smart cities, and real-time applications...
Review of Kawabata's "Palm of the Hand" stories and their translation into English
Perhaps this is a somewhat unusual subject for LessWrong, but hopefully it's of some interest, if only as a case study of what we lose through translation. "Palm of the...
Nitro by Rocketlane
AI agents for modern service delivery Discussion | Link
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