2025-05-25
Letting Someone Go When You Work Remotely
Firing someone remotely is tough. Here’s a short, personal guide to doing it respectfully, securely, and without making it worse than it has to be.
Rant: the extreme wastefulness of high rent prices
Published on May 25, 2025 5:04 PM GMT09:46: Everyone wants to be close to everyone else to do good business effectively. Like Silicon Valley for example, smart people want to...
Superbug That Can Feed on Plastic Is Spreading in Hospitals
A nasty bacterial superbug that kills hundreds of thousands of people per year is spreading through hospitals — and scientists have found what it feeds on. Researchers from the Brunel...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Help, My Prompt is Not Working! (5/25/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, May 25, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The Oprah Winfrey...
AI Is Replacing Women's Jobs Specifically
With under three years of mass-market artificial intelligence available to consumers, businesses in nearly every industry have flocked to the tech like antivaxxers to a multi-level marketing scheme. By 2024,...
Scientists Intrigued by Strange Behavior of Distant Planet
A team of astronomers observed a confused exoplanet orbiting its two parent stars in a highly unusual way. As New Scientist reports, the planet, which was first discovered in 2004,...
Scientists Just Witnessed Two Lightning Bolts Collide and Unleash a Blast of Radiation
What happens right before two bolts of lightning smash into each other? An invisible blast of radiation a million times more energetic than a lightning discharge is unleashed in the...
New Device Mounts to Your Toilet to Analyze Your Turds Using the Power of AI
Unless you've been living under a rock, you've probably noticed that AI's being crammed everywhere. From Taco Bell drivethrus to eye glasses to schools, the AI boom is forcing the...
Forget Mach 6: SR-72 Darkstar Could End Up in the Danger Zone
Lockheed Martin’s super-secretive Skunk Works is actively working on a super-secretive aircraft, the SR-72 Darkstar. And despite going over budget by just a smidgen ($335 million), the Darkstar seems ever...
USS Pennsylvania (BB-38): The Battleship That Survived Pearl Harbor and Atomic Bombs
Key Points – The USS Pennsylvania (BB-38), lead ship of its class of super-dreadnought battleships, was commissioned in 1916. -Though missing combat in World War I, it served as a...
Scientists Find Jupiter Used to Be More Than Twice Its Current Size
You don't need us to tell you that Jupiter, which has more than twice the mass of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, is the biggest game...
Everything that I like, dislike, and plan to change in my tech stack.
This tech stack has been really fun to learn, but it certainly hasn't been without it's challenges, and having built a full application with it now, I know what I...
Alignment Proposal: Adversarially Robust Augmentation and Distillation
Published on May 25, 2025 12:58 PM GMTEpistemic Status: Over years of reading alignment plans and studying agent foundations, this is my first serious attempt to formulate an alignment research...
An open job application to AI labs
Published on May 25, 2025 12:57 PM GMTAI labs are universally terrible at naming things. For example, OpenAI has three different Codex services that do entirely different things. Anthropic has...
Canada Has A Big F-35 Fighter Problem. But Golden Dome Is Far Worse
Key Points – Ottawa can’t decide on the F-35 fighter, but a bigger challenge is brewing. Canada’s formal discussions to join President Trump’s “Golden Dome” continental missile defense initiative, a...
US Navy Freaked: ‘Nuclear Breakthrough’ Means China’s SSBN Nuclear Submarines are Dangerous
China’s nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines are more regional than strategic, but the SSBNs still pack a punch. These boomers are important for China’s nuclear triad, project power, and the promotion...
‘New’ F-55 Fighter Might Not Be Real
President Trump speaks to the media almost daily and is known for bluster, exaggerations, and tall tales (opponents call these lies). But you have to give him credit for candor...
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