2025-07-07
Gigaton Run: Space Technology vs Climate Change
This fiery manifesto blends science, satire, and startup thinking to argue that satellites—and a bioeconomy built on carbon tokens—may be Earth’s last hope. With only 25 years left, it’s time...
AI Safety Advocate Linked to Multiple Murders
Ziz LaLasota, a formerly-fringe AI extremist, exploded into national press earlier this year when her adherents allegedly killed a Border Patrol agent. Now, As the New York Times reports, leveler...
What If Your Next Passive Income Stream Came From Space?
A “crazy” DIY idea reveals a very real possibility: setting up a tiny, decentralized satellite ground station in your backyard. With just a Raspberry Pi, a software-defined radio, and some...
Secure Off-Chain Execution for Bitcoin Smart Contracts: A Failsafe Protocol
A protocol moves Bitcoin contracts off-chain using signed state updates, slashing fees. Timelocks ensure an honest user can always enforce the contract on-chain.
I'm fed up tightening screws with my wrists like some sort of commoner, so I'm thinking of buying this Worx electric screwdriver set for $30
You spin me right round, baby right round.
Building Trust on Bitcoin: A Look at How Pre-Signed Transaction Trees Secure Contracts
On-chain Bitcoin contracts are executed as pre-signed transaction trees, where implicit signatures from all parties guarantee fair play and prevent stalling.
Here’s what Tom Holland’s lip-sync of Umbrella can teach us about stormwater...
Here’s what Tom Holland’s lip-sync of Umbrella can teach us about stormwater management. “So set designers must have accounted for the flow to go somewhere, but not all residential or...
A New Blueprint for Bitcoin Contracts: Off-Chain Efficiency, On-Chain Guarantees
A new protocol moves Bitcoin smart contracts off-chain to save fees, with an on-chain failsafe to guarantee correct execution against adversaries.
I'm ashamed to say that this Razer mouse has made me actually take a shine to RGB, and now you can be persuaded too for almost 50% off
Yes, a snake (Basilisk) got me to try the forbidden fruit of RGB.
Serverless Social: Building a Twitter Clone on Browser-Only P2P
In this guide, we'll set up a Vite project that's ready for React and TypeScript. We'll also add P2P signaling, WebRTC channels, and the serverless Twitter clone.
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Junior Cybersecurity Roles Are Vanishing—Blame Agentic AI (7/7/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, July 7, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, USSR Launched Venera...
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I convinced myself that I could easily win Squid Game, but after putting myself through the Roblox version it's clear that I absolutely would not walk away champion
Because why wouldn't you want to recreate Netflix's most popular, and most morally questionable show?
On the functional self of LLMs
Published on July 7, 2025 3:39 PM GMTSummaryIntroduces a research agenda I believe is important and neglected: investigating whether frontier LLMs acquire something functionally similar to a self, a deeply...
Russia’s K-278 Komsomolets or Mike-Class Submarine: A Tragic History
The Komsomolets is a classic example of a "system accident," where the catastrophe was not caused by a single failure but by the unforeseen and fatal interaction of multiple, smaller...
Call of Duty: WW2 pulled from PC following reports of remote code exploit trolling players with 'Notepad pop-ups, PC shutdowns' and desktop wallpaper of a lawyer
RCE attacks are among the nastiest out there, though this hacker seems to be in it for the memes.
Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists
Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists Adrian Holovaty describes how his SoundSlice service saw an uptick in users attempting to use their sheet music scanner to import...
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