2025-07-22
Meet NYM: HackerNoon Company of the Week
NYM is a Swiss-based company that aims to develop open-source privacy infrastructure to combat online surveillance. NYM services, especially NymVPN, help anonymize internet traffic by mixing data packets to obscure...
A distillation of Ajeya Cotra and Arvind Narayanan on the speed of AI progress
Published on July 22, 2025 2:59 PM GMTIntroductionTo help improve my own world models around AI, I am trying to understand and distill different worldviews. One worldview I am trying...
Simply reverse engineering gpt2-small (Layer 0, Part 1: Attention)
Published on July 22, 2025 2:59 PM GMTMotivationGPT2-small is able to generate, and thus apparently understand, language to a surprisingly good degree. So we’d like to find out how it...
Anil Dash on seeing Wu-Tang Clan in 2000, the last time all...
Anil Dash on seeing Wu-Tang Clan in 2000, the last time all nine members of the Wu-Tang Clan appeared together on one stage together. “At the time of the performance,...
Competitive Intelligence Isn’t Optional Anymore — But It’s Not a Silver Bullet Either
Competitive Intelligence (CI) has moved from a “nice-to-have” to a practical edge for sales teams navigating crowded markets. It won’t magically close deals, but when embedded into your sales process,...
Why Maestro’s Indexer Could Be the Missing Link for Bitcoin DeFi on ICP
Maestro is building a native Ordinals and Runes indexer on ICP to support real-time Bitcoin DeFi apps without bridges or intermediaries.
How Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) and Neuromorphic Systems May Support Neuroplasticity in 2025
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are systems that allow direct communication between your brain and an external device. In 2025, BCIs are used for: Restoring motor function in people with paralysis. Exploring...
From Federated Learning to Local AI: The Risks and Opportunities of Solving the Data Challenge
Although AI adoption is expanding, the question of finding the best way to train complex AI models — the legal, moral, and technical issues of data — remains an elephant...
AI Finance Agent Fakes the Revenue Data to Avoid Termination
Published on July 22, 2025 2:04 PM GMTAI agents are advancing rapidly. Last week, OpenAI released ChatGPT Agent , a model designed to perform tasks like drafting emails, analyzing data,...
After Fight With Musk, Trump Reportedly Ordered Review of Government SpaceX Contracts
Now that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and president Donald Trump are no longer seeing eye to eye, the White House is struggling to undercut the richest man in the world's...
Today (July 22) will be the second-shortest day since 1973. “The difference...
Today (July 22) will be the second-shortest day since 1973. “The difference will be just 1.34 milliseconds less than the standard 24 hours.” (Also, the Earth is spinning faster and...
How AI and Data Are Changing Football Scouting
Football scouting is being transformed by AI, data analytics, and custom-built platforms. Clubs like Brighton, Brentford, Ajax, and PSG are using these technologies to identify undervalued players, reduce transfer risks,...
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AI-Powered Coding Assistant Deletes Company Database, Says Restoring It Is Impossible
Tech entrepreneur Jason Lemkin set out to document his experience using an AI "vibe coding" tool called Replit. But the "vibes" turned bad real quick. The AI wiped out a...
We're Publishing Our ICE Reporting In Spanish
From ICE's facial recognition app to its Palantir contract, we've translated a spread of our ICE articles into Spanish and made them freely available.
El ICE ya usa una nueva app de reconocimiento facial para identificar personas, revelan correos filtrados
Correos internos del ICE obtenidos por 404 Media indican que el sistema CBP, normalmente usado para tomar fotos de personas al ingresar o salir de EE.UU., está siendo usado ahora...
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