2025-06-28
Fluent
AI writing assistant for macOS Discussion | Link
Microloan Apps May Be Poised to Destroy the Economy
We love microlending. Unlike credit cards, with their days-long approval processes and prior credit minimums, buy-now, pay-later (BNPL) apps offer hard-up customers instant financing options to buy the junk they...
Paleontologists Find Skeleton That Weirdly Looks Exactly Like Barney the Purple Dinosaur
Funky Dino More on dinosaurs: Project Says It's Recreating Dinosaur Skin to Make T-Rex Leather, But Is It Really?
A Depressed Shrink Tries Shrooms
Published on June 28, 2025 5:16 PM GMTThis is a first-person account from a psychiatry resident (me) enrolling in a clinical trial of psilocybin. Somewhere between a trip report, an...
James Webb Discovers First-Ever Exoplanet by Taking a Picture of It
Out of this World Exploration of our mysterious universe took a giant leap forward after scientists harnessing NASA's James Webb Space Telescope found a new planet that resembles the gas...
Leavoo
Time-off made simple, fast & Slack-native Discussion | Link
The HackerNoon Newsletter: How to Find Unreachable Functions With Deadcode (6/28/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, June 28, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Mike Tyson Bit...
Families Get Unpleasant Surprise After Trying to Shoot Their Loved Ones' Ashes Into Space
Hundreds of families shelled out to pay an out-of-this-world tribute to their lost loved ones, but those remains ended up floating in the Pacific thanks to an error with the...
Key Press Viewer for macOS
Minimal key stroke viewer Discussion | Link
Scientists Intrigued by Comet With Jets Blasting From Its Interior
Vomit Comet “These measurements give us a look at how this enormous, icy world works,” said lead author Nathan Roth of American University and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. “We’re...
Sniffnet
Your internet traffic, under your control Discussion | Link
The next wave of model improvements will be due to data quality
Published on June 28, 2025 2:34 PM GMTWhen talking about why the models improve, people frequently focus on algorithmic improvements and on hardware improvements. This leaves out improvements in data...
The Economy Is So Off the Rails That They’re Trying to Figure Out How to Make Ads Specifically Targeted at AI Bots
As artificial intelligence ruins the economy and takes over the world, Google is quietly working to change the advertising game in favor of AI. As Semafor reports, AI has so...
How to Find Unreachable Functions With Deadcode
Functions that are part of your project’s source code but can never be reached in any execution are called “dead code”, and they exert a drag on codebase maintenance efforts.
Introducing MS MARCO Web Search: A New Era for LLM and IR Data
Witness the arrival of MS MARCO Web Search, the first colossal, authentic, and information-rich web dataset with millions of clicked query-document labels—igniting breakthroughs for LLMs and information retrieval.
Dying Light continues celebrating its 10th anniversary with a big graphical facelift, but don't you dare call it a remaster
The Retouched update is "about squeezing out even more from the Dying Light you already love."
Amazon Is Building a Gigantic Computing Facility to Match the Human Brain
Field of Data Boom and Bust More on Amazon:
Why New Datasets are Needed for Deep Learning-Enhanced IR
This section critiques existing information retrieval benchmarks, noting their lack of web-scale data, highly-skewed multilingual queries, and rich multi-modal information for advanced AI research.
People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"
As we reported earlier this month, many ChatGPT users are developing all-consuming obsessions with the chatbot, spiraling into severe mental health crises characterized by paranoia, delusions, and breaks with reality....
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