2026-07-06
Counterfactual mugging is a limiting case of Psy-kosh's non-anthropic problem
Counterfactual mugging is the typical problem used to motivate updateless decision theory: Omega flips a coin. If Heads, it asks you for $1. If Tails, it offers you $5 only...
House of the Dragon stars explain why their season 3 reunion is so nerve-wracking to watch
As a prisoner in the Red Keep, Alicent Hightower has to find a new way to work with her old best friend.
The Coolest Hat At The Hacker Camp
People in hotter parts of the world may permit themselves a grin at this, but Europeans have recently been suffering under an unseasonal June heatwave. Most of us have been...
Steam Week in Review: Steam just got its first 'dopamine site', so you can fatten a fake backlog without spending a cent
All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending July 5.
EY sacks staff for allegedly accessing Australian Prime Minister’s bank account
PLUS: India attacks Uber; South Korea warned AI boom is dangerous; Scuba-diving cyborg cockroach; and more!
RAG vs. Fine-Tuning vs. Retraining: Choosing the Right AI Customization Strategy
Enterprise teams should choose between RAG, fine-tuning, and re-training based on what needs to change in the AI system. RAG improves access to current enterprise knowledge, fine-tuning improves response consistency,...
GOAI Monthly Conference Monitor — Current and Upcoming Agenda
AI conferences are now key geopolitical "control surfaces" influencing compute disclosure.
China Now Fields a Missile That Reaches Past 350 Kilometers. Europe’s Meteor ‘No Escape’ Missile Might Finally Have A Rival
For a decade, every long-range air-to-air missile in the world has been measured against Europe's Meteor. Now its Chinese rival has done the one thing the Meteor never has, the...
China’s J-36 Is Credited With the Range to Reach Taiwan From 1,500 Miles Out. America’s New F-47 — Its Longest-Legged Fighter Ever — Cannot
For the first time, the Air Force published official performance figures for its next fighter, and the numbers set a record. Measured against the Pacific, they also come up short....
At 70,000 Feet, Olympus Mons on Mars Stands Two and a Half Times Taller Than Mount Everest. It Is the Largest Volcano in the Solar System, and It May Not Be Extinct
A person standing on the largest volcano in the solar system would never know it. Olympus Mons rises 70,000 feet over Mars on slopes too gentle to notice, and its...
Rick and Morty spinoff President Curtis premieres in 3 weeks — what you need to know
Here's everything we know about the show where the President of the United States faces occult and alien threats.
C2PA only works if everything is signed
The European Union AI Act is Europe’s attempt to comprehensively regulate AI usage. A big part of that is the requirement that AI-generated content be identifiable: either tagged with a...
Improve MySQL Master Failover Monitoring Using Replica Consensus
Imagine you want to monitor whether your MySQL master is down so that you can do a failover and promote a replica.
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Screen recordings that edit themselves Discussion | Link
Getting an Oura ring improved my sleep and exercise
I've been wearing an Oura ring 4 for about a month now, and I love it! It tracks several statistics related to sleep, activity, and overall health. Simply looking at...
Fealty to Fidelity 👰
The excellent review of the Book of Abraham that will soon be a guest post on Astral Codex Ten is far from the first time that one or another of...
Auriko
Trading desk for LLM calls Discussion | Link
Hackaday Links: July 5, 2026
Happy belated July 4th to all the readers from the United States — hopefully you aren’t reading this from a hospital bed after losing a hand or burning off your...
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