2025-05-05
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How Soderbergh Elevates an Ordinary Scene in Black Bag
In this episode of Nerdwriter, Evan Puschak takes a look at a simple scene from one of my favorite recent films and shows how director Steven Soderbergh makes it sing....
The Army’s New M10 Booker ‘Light Tank’ Needed To Be Scrapped
Key Points: The US Army’s cancellation of the M10 Booker light tank program reflects a shift towards strategic clarity under the Trump administration and Defense Secretary Hegseth, prioritizing combat relevance...
The Trump Administration Switched to a Sketchy Signal Clone and It Got Hacked, Leaking Messages
The clone of the messaging app Signal, which was being used by since-ousted national security advisor Mike Waltz during a recent cabinet meeting, has been hacked. As 404 Media reports,...
Centralized vs. Decentralized Crypto Exchanges: A Builder’s Perspective
Deciding whether to build a crypto exchange is one of the most complex undertakings in the blockchain space. Centralized exchanges (CEXs) are traditional in structure but technically intensive. decentralized exchanges...
Community Feedback Request: AI Safety Intro for General Public
Published on May 5, 2025 4:38 PM GMTTL;DR: The AISafety.info team wrote two intros to AI safety for busy laypeople: a short version and a longer version. We expect them...
Tim Friede has been bitten by 200 poisonous snakes and his antibodies...
Tim Friede has been bitten by 200 poisonous snakes and his antibodies are being used to create a broad antivenom. “He’s willingly been bit some 200 times by all manner...
Meet mParticle: HackerNoon Company of the Week
Meet mParticle—a company at the forefront of data-driven marketing and customer experience, and the force behind HackerNoon’s Growth Marketing Writing Contest!
Why Does Canada Have to Buy the F-35? Hint: Its Air Force Fighters are Ancient
The CF-18, a Canadian version of the F/A-18 Hornet, has been Canada’s fighter of choice since the 1980s. As a variant of the F/A-18, it is a versatile multi-role fighter...
ChatGPT Users Are Developing Bizarre Delusions
OpenAIs' ChatGPT may be driving countless of its users into a dangerous state of "ChatGPT-induced psychosis." As Rolling Stone reports, users on Reddit are recalling how AI i leading their...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Trump as Pope; AI Is Not to Blame (5/5/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, May 5, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Japanese balloon bomb...
The Courts Must Stop Presuming Donald Trump is a Regular President. “Much...
The Courts Must Stop Presuming Donald Trump is a Regular President. “Much of our law […] depends on the courts thinking that they can trust the president to comply with...
An Update on Rust's March Project Goals: What's the Progress So Far?
This post provides selected updates on the progress towards these goals (or, in some cases, lack thereof).
GPT-4o Sycophancy Post Mortem
Published on May 5, 2025 4:00 PM GMTLast week I covered that GPT-4o was briefly an (even more than usually) absurd sycophant, and how OpenAI responded to that. Their explanation...
World War III Vibes: Would Ukraine Attack Putin’s World War II Victory Parade?
Key Points and Summary: Vladimir Putin’s proposed May 8-10 ceasefire in Ukraine is viewed by critics and Ukrainian officials as a self-serving maneuver, not a genuine humanitarian effort. -The timing...
Spotlighting Tech's Rising Star: Dealita, Winner of Startups of The Year 2024 in Riga, Latvia
The Latvian startup Dealita.ai uses artificial intelligence to automate one of the most time-consuming stages of the investment process – data collection and processing. This AI solution automates the handling...
Monty Python and the Holy Grail Turns 50. Watch It Free on YouTube.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail premiered in theaters on April 3, 1975. 50 years on, it remains one of the finest comedy movies ever (though it is definitely not...
Russia Is Freaked: The T-90M Tank Is Getting Smashed in Ukraine
Open-source intelligence analysis firm Oryx studied the T-90M’s performance on the battlefield in 2024. The results were disappointing for the Russians. “One hundred of them have either been destroyed, damaged,...
VC Funding is Shifting from Gen-AI Apps to Deep Infrastructure
The past two years were dominated by “ChatGPT-for-X’ pitches and billion-dollar application rounds. Investors began to realise that the defensible margins in AI sit far below the prompt window. Seed...
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