Monthly Highlights
8551.
Astronomers Spot a Cosmic Laser Halfway Across the Universe (universetoday.com)
8552.
Catching crumbs from the table by Ted Chiang (2000) [pdf] (gwern.net)
8553.
Social media is populist and polarising; AI may be the opposite (ft.com)
8554.
PhDs and other experts making $16/HR training AI to kill their own jobs (nymag.com)
8555.
Argentina was one of the richest countries at the beginning of the 20th century (ourworldindata.org)
8556.
The US's largest offshore wind farm just produced its first power (electrek.co)
8557.
Raving at the End of the World: looking for transcendence on the dance floor (theatlantic.com)
8558.
AI Exposure of the US Job Market (karpathy.ai)
8559.
Show HN: PSFuturemail – Write a letter and forget it until it arrives (psfuturemail.com)
8560.
Anything Will Lase If You Hit It Hard Enough (maximumeffort.substack.com)
8561.
TSA boss warns of airport shutdowns; no deal yet on day 40 of DHS funding fight (apnews.com)
8562.
Peter Thiel's Founders Fund Backs AI Cow Collar Startup at $2B Valuation (bloomberg.com)
8563.
I wore Meta's smartglasses for a month – and it left me feeling like a creep (theguardian.com)
8564.
Babel.nvim (github.com)
8565.
My Favourite Thing About Rust Is the Compiler (mayberay.bearblog.dev)
8566.
We Got Hooked on Fast, Free Shipping. Now Retailers Are Taking It Away (wsj.com)
8567.
Trump threatens to deploy ICE to airports as TSA shortages drive delays (washingtonpost.com)
8568.
Off-grid Dublin data centre fuelled by own power plant (rte.ie)
8569.
The Future of Text Layout Is Not CSS (twitter.com)
8570.
Iran establishes 'safe' shipping corridor for approved transits who pay $2M (lloydslist.com)
8571.
WordPress Everywhere (ma.tt)
8572.
Dog's Cancer Cure via ChatGPT and mRNA Vaccine Offers Hope for Humans (archyde.com)
8573.
I built a DNA computing kernel that processes 100k+ genes in parallel (github.com)
8574.
Tell HN: YouTube history setting privacy implications
8575.
Linux, Finally for Everyone (yololinux.com)
8576.
Show HN: thegoodmovies.com pick what to watch in under 60 seconds
8577.
America and Israel built military targeting machines: Software (economist.com)
8578.
We built the bicycle for the mind but never built the compass (simpleainewsletter.substack.com)
8579.
Astro 6.0 Is Released (astro.build)
8580.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Linear Search (evan-jones.appspot.com)