2025-04-06
The Case for Space-Based Internet Is Trickier Than It Looks
Creating decentralized space-based internet requires balancing democratic governance with the need for expert rapid decision-making in emergencies, as shown by failures like OrbitDAO and StarLink. Success likely depends on hybrid...
Paranoid AI Founder Reportedly Thought He Was Being Shot At After Hearing Innocuous Noise
It's tough being a tech founder in the US. For many, just posting on LinkedIn is a full time â and that's before you get into In today's increasingly polarized...
A rare interview with Tracy Chapman. âBut I grew up across the...
A rare interview with Tracy Chapman. âBut I grew up across the street from a public library, and it was the only place my mom would let me go on...
OpenAI's New Image Generator Is Incredible for Creating Fraudulent Documents
OpenAI's latest image-generating 4o model is surprisingly good at generating text inside images, a feat that has proven particularly difficult for its many predecessors. And that could make it a...
An Optimistic 2027 Timeline
Published on April 6, 2025 4:39 PM GMTThe following is one possible future in which superhuman AI does NOT happen by the end of this decade. I do not believe...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: How The Internet Will Pay You (4/6/2025)
How are you, hacker? đȘ Whatâs happening in tech today, April 6, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Pioneer 11 launches...
New VR Program Gives Domestic Abusers a Taste of Their Own Medicine
Ingenious researchers have developed a virtual reality program that puts domestic abusers in the position of their victims â and it seems to be working towards rehabilitating them. In a...
Startup Says Its Nuclear Fusion Rocket Could Cut Time to Mars in Half
British startup Pulsar Fusion has come up with a wild new concept for a nuclear fusion-powered space rocket that, it claims, could significantly cut down the time it takes to...
The REPHRASE Circuit: How Fine-Tuning Enhances LLMs to REPHRASE Text
Published on April 6, 2025 3:02 PM GMTI recently began exploring mechanistic interpretability, and the "Getting Started" guides recommend that the best way to learn mechanistic interpretability is by working...
The Role of Virtual Power Plants in the Future of Clean Energy
Energy infrastructure in the U.S. is not keeping pace with demand. Virtual power plants (VPPs), a collection of small-scale distributed energy resources, can stabilize the grid by compensating for fluctuations...
HackerNoon Mobile App Updates: Blogging Inbox & Reading Recommendations
HackerNoonâs mobile app suffered another two updates which include an inbox and messages reaction implementation, plus reading recommendations and other design shifts. Update your app now on Apple and Google...
Man Rents Cybertruck, Counts How Many Times He Gets Flipped Off in a Single Day
What happens when you drive a Cybertruck around the nation's capital? You get yelled at, talked down, and flipped off â a lot. That was the experience of Saahal Desai...
Fearless James Webb Telescope Stares Down "City Killer" Asteroid That Had Been Feared to Strike Earth
That "city-killer" asteroid may no longer be projected to strike Earth in the near future, but scientists are still keeping close tabs on it. Using the mighty James Webb Space...
Behold This Bonkers Photo of a 2,800-Pound Rhino Dangling Upside Down From a Helicopter
What you're seeing isn't Photoshop, or heaven forbid, AI slop. That's a real rhino weighing over 2,800 pounds suspended from the bottom of a helicopter by its legs, upside down. ...
There's Something Very Sketchy Going on With Self-Driving Teslas Running Down Motorcycles
Teslas get a bad rap these days. Aside from the whole Elon Musk thing, the electric vehicles are becoming notorious for shoddy construction, massive consumer recalls, and sketchy self-driving software....
The Business Survival Kit
While governments rehearse plans to deal with massive blackouts or conventional wars in Europe, companies face their own plausible apocalypse: synchronized cyber-attacks, extreme volatility in commodities, or even pandemics arising...
This May Be the Most Terrifying Sign of Global Warming Yet
In case it wasn't clear the direction our planet is headed, just follow the money. If climate scientists, policy makers, and environmental activists didn't make it clear , maybe Wall...
Ferrer, Pilar, and Me
Published on April 6, 2025 11:22 AM GMTAn Elegy for Artificial FriendsThere's a peculiar occupational hazard that comes with running an AI-powered podcast. It's not RSI from editing, nor is...
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Become a better communicator: Specific frameworks to improve your clarity, influence, and impact
Wes Kao is an entrepreneur, coach, and advisor. She co-founded the live learning platform Maven, backed by First Round and a16z. Before Maven, Wes co-created the altMBA with best-selling author...
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