People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much(nytimes.com)

42 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 8 months ago | 34 comments

They used Xenon to climb Everest in days – is it the future of mountaineering?(nytimes.com)

85 points by nikcub 1 year ago | 154 comments

Tom Lehrer has died(nytimes.com)

583 points by detaro 1 year ago | 103 comments

New York Times obituary reporting the death of Tom Lehrer, the satirical songwriter and mathematician.

The turmoil at Thinking Machines Lab(nytimes.com)

15 points by philip1209 9 months ago | 4 comments

California Bans 'Sell by' Labels, Hoping to Cut Food Waste(nytimes.com)

24 points by randycupertino 3 months ago | 38 comments

How to Abandon Your Climate Commitments and Get Away with It(nytimes.com)

50 points by littlexsparkee 3 months ago | 13 comments

The average college student today(hilariusbookbinder.substack.com)

563 points by Jyaif 1 year ago | 680 comments

A Substack essay by a longtime professor describing how the average college student today differs from students of past decades.

Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem(scientificamerican.com)

733 points by pr337h4m 6 months ago | 508 comments

Scientific American article about an amateur who used ChatGPT to prove a 60-year-old Erdős conjecture with a novel method.

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado(arstechnica.com)

825 points by JaimeThompson 1 year ago | 332 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that the FBI raided the home of an Indiana University computer scientist whose profile was quietly removed and who has gone silent.

New study reveals most classic video games are unavailable(gamehistory.org)

430 points by coldpie 3 years ago | 390 comments

Video Game History Foundation article on a study finding 87% of classic video games are commercially unavailable today.

Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable(matthewball.co)

399 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 471 comments

Matthew Ball essay analyzing Roblox's scale as the world's biggest game and why the company remains unprofitable.

AI doesn't need 'superintelligence' or evil intent to start a nuclear war(thebulletin.org)

11 points by bookofjoe 21 days ago | 3 comments

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists article arguing AI could trigger nuclear war without superintelligence or malicious intent; the screenshot shows a different article on Trump-Xi strategic stability.