Where do I stand on BIP-110 and the "spam war"? Discover why I believe this is a strategy of tension, the game theory behind this consensus battle, and why running a node and holding your own keys remains Bitcoin’s ultimate defense against corporate capture.

A casual, roughly bimonthly Sunday coffee meetup for Hacker News posters in Helsinki. Open to anyone with 64+ HN karma.

Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union boss

An important message from the Flowise team about the future of the project.

money, power, and populism in the AI buildout

Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.

Imagine a fish physicist. She is brilliant. Over centuries her tradition has built a physics of astonishing power: pressure, buoyancy, viscosity, the propagation of waves, the beautiful nonlinearities of turbulence. It predicts everything she can measure.…

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AI’s greatest mathematical successes have come from answers to problems posed by a mid-20th century iconoclast. By examining what makes the Erdős problems unique, mathematicians are trying to understand how AI might change the rest of math.

A char-level transformer trained from scratch on an $8 ESP32-S3. Not inference: the chip runs the full training loop, with backprop written by hand in C. - Carloscodix/qapla

TIME is now serving two different versions of its website. Humans get the magazine. AI crawlers get a stripped down markdown copy with ads baked in that no person will ever see. I fetched one ordinary…

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Every time I leave the US, I’m always struck by how happy other people seem to be. I’ve been to six continents, dozens of countries. Nowhere else ha...

Cloudflare OS is an open-source platform that lets everyone in your company build apps, automate work, and safely access internal systems, shaped around what your organization knows and how it operates.

Explore Aristotle’s timeless insights on virtue, knowledge, and happiness. These 25 quotes offer wisdom for a thoughtful and fulfilling life.

Master new words effortlessly with AI-powered translations and visual mnemonics.

A new image from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory offers a spectacularly deep view into a famous region of sky known as the COSMOS field. Located in the constellation Sextans, COSMOS is one of the most observed patches of the Universe — and Rubin’s new image…

From a single pilot to an air campaign: planning, parallelism, memory, verification, and observability for production-shaped agents.

‘Solutionism’ envisages the technology ending everything from the climate crisis to cancer, but huge class divisions are a more probable outcome