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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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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SuperPrompt

Save & paste your AI prompts without switching tabs. Discussion | Link

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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...

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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...

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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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