A few words about FiveThirtyEight(natesilver.net)

113 points by JumpCrisscross 1 year ago | 81 comments

Nate Silver: Some personal news(natesilver.substack.com)

157 points by r721 3 years ago | 109 comments

Pixar was never a masterpiece factory(freddiedeboer.substack.com)

83 points by paulpauper 3 years ago | 152 comments

Eliminating Daylight Savings Time would make the average American’s life darker(natesilver.net)

16 points by JeremyNT 1 year ago | 26 comments

Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?(natesilver.net)

74 points by 7777777phil 4 months ago | 207 comments

Mozilla roll out first AI features in Firefox Nightly(blog.mozilla.org)

59 points by sharpshadow 2 years ago | 41 comments

The Mathocalypse(scottaaronson.blog)

361 points by 6bitquant 18 days ago | 380 comments

Scott Aaronson blog post reacting to OpenAI releasing hundreds of AI-generated math results, including a claimed proof of Khot's Unique Games Conjecture.

Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight(karpathy.bearblog.dev)

637 points by __rito__ 10 months ago | 261 comments

Andrej Karpathy blog post about using LLMs to grade decade-old Hacker News discussions and commenters' predictions with hindsight, presented as an "HN Time Capsule" site.

The Post-AGI Era(avidfayaz.com)

10 points by Avid_F 1 month ago | 3 comments

A personal blog essay on Fayaz Notes arguing that AGI has arrived and exploring what the post-AGI era means.

Private equity is buying everything from vet offices to tech conglomerates(theverge.com)

482 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 312 comments

A Verge Decoder interview with prosecutor Brendan Ballou on how private equity buys companies from vet offices to tech firms, why the system is broken, and fixes.

Journalists should be skeptical of all sources including scientists(natesilver.substack.com)

424 points by amadeuspagel 3 years ago | 299 comments

Nate Silver's Silver Bulletin Substack essay arguing journalists should scrutinize scientists as sources, citing prominent scientists' misinformation on COVID's origins.

The Future Is Niri(ersei.net)

388 points by mattjhall 1 year ago | 202 comments

A personal blog post giving the author's opinion on the Niri scrollable tiling Wayland compositor after years of using Sway and i3.