The two Christian saints who are the Buddha(signoregalilei.com)

220 points by surprisetalk 1 month ago | 159 comments

The last Romans are still around(signoregalilei.com)

116 points by surprisetalk 4 months ago | 180 comments

Tides are weirder than you think(signoregalilei.com)

132 points by surprisetalk 10 months ago | 37 comments

Preserved Fish, Boss of New York City(signoregalilei.com)

22 points by surprisetalk 9 months ago | 5 comments

What Columbus used instead of the North Star(signoregalilei.com)

16 points by surprisetalk 4 months ago | 2 comments

The mountain that weighed the Earth(signoregalilei.com)

89 points by surprisetalk 9 months ago | 14 comments

Writing Is Closer to Thought Than Code(danielmiessler.com)

46 points by eigenBasis 4 hours ago | 21 comments

Daniel Miessler blog post arguing that written intent, via an 'Ideal State Artifact', rather than code should be the source of truth when building software with AI.

Anubis saved our websites from a DDoS attack(fabulous.systems)

317 points by DoctorOW 1 year ago | 237 comments

Blog post describing how the ScummVM project used the Anubis proof-of-work proxy to fend off a DDoS attack on its website, wiki, and forums.

Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world(news.ucsc.edu)

414 points by XzetaU8 11 months ago | 284 comments

UC Santa Cruz news article reporting research suggesting early developing human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world.

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.

Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files(alexschapiro.com)

752 points by bearsyankees 10 months ago | 258 comments

A blog post describing how the author found an unauthenticated API flaw in Filevine's legal AI tool exposing 100k+ confidential files, with a disclosure timeline.

Cosmologically Unique IDs(jasonfantl.com)

443 points by jfantl 8 months ago | 140 comments

A blog post by Jason Fantl exploring how to generate IDs that would remain unique across the entire universe, from UUIDs to cosmological scales.