Unix: An Oral History(princeton.edu)
105 points by zdw | 20 comments
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LK-99: The live online race for a room-temperature superconductor(forums.spacebattles.com)
489 points by fofoz | 492 comments
A SpaceBattles forum thread discussing claims of the LK-99 room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor and the online efforts to replicate it.
The Eleuther AI Mafia(latent.space)
70 points by swyx | 38 comments
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The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention(arxiv.org)
438 points by iNic | 161 comments
arXiv paper introducing FFTNet, an FFT-based adaptive spectral filtering framework offering O(n log n) token mixing as an alternative to self-attention.
The future of programming (1982)(dl.acm.org)
56 points by vismit2000 | 13 comments
ACM Digital Library page for the 1982 Communications of the ACM article "The future of programming" by Anthony I. Wasserman and Steven Gutz.
Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem(anthropic.com)
743 points by jlebar | 479 comments
Anthropic research post on formalizing the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, apparently using Claude, with a linked Xena Project blog response.
Reddit's Recently Announced API Changes, and the future of /r/blind(old.reddit.com)
483 points by nickcotter | 268 comments
An r/Blind announcement post discussing how Reddit's June 2023 API pricing changes threaten third-party apps that blind users rely on, and the subreddit's future.
The Tragedy of Google Books (2017)(theatlantic.com)
456 points by lispybanana | 175 comments
A 2017 Atlantic article by James Somers about how Google scanned millions of books but its plan for a universal digital library was stalled by a failed copyright settlement.
Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in the evolving universe?(arxiv.org)
416 points by harscoat | 347 comments
arXiv paper by Stuart Kauffman and Andrea Roli arguing that the emergence of life is an expected phase transition, using autocatalytic sets and the theory of the adjacent possible.