First screen, captured .
526 points by classichasclass | 392 comments
A Boston Diaries blog post complaining about the Thinkbot AI web crawler, which ignores robots.txt and asks to be blocked by IP across 74 addresses from 41 network blocks.
173 points by j3s | 107 comments
107 points by raybb | 18 comments
273 points by AntiRush | 65 comments
156 points by ingve | 121 comments
76 points by gmays | 16 comments
University of Essex news release reporting research on how butterflies use optical illusions in their wing patterns to evade predators.
758 points by beefman | 64 comments
Project page for Visual Anagrams, a University of Michigan research paper using pretrained diffusion models to generate multi-view optical illusions.
542 points by gregsadetsky | 125 comments
A personal blog post on lmao.center about accidentally creating a wigglegram, a stereoscopic animated photo effect, with example images.
813 points by jonbaer | 72 comments
Project homepage for Animated Drawings, Meta FAIR's tool and paper implementation for automatically animating children's drawings of human figures.
453 points by bx376 | 663 comments
An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.
546 points by fagnerbrack | 213 comments
A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.