Communication by means of modulated Johnson noise(pnas.org)

53 points by austinallegro 1 month ago | 28 comments

Dress made of living mycelium can renew and repair itself(dezeen.com)

72 points by speckx 2 months ago | 45 comments

A refined phylochronology of the second plague pandemic in Western Eurasia(pnas.org)

19 points by Thevet 1 month ago | 0 comments

Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible(gmalandrakis.com)

261 points by l0new0lf-G 4 months ago | 490 comments

Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI(rswebsols.com)

321 points by speckx 18 days ago | 303 comments

News article on Meta and Microsoft limiting employee use of Anthropic's Claude AI; the captured page shows only a Cloudflare security verification screen.

Cancer-Related Mortality Among US Pilots and Flight Attendants(jamanetwork.com)

57 points by jader201 2 months ago | 51 comments

Full Text Search of US Court records(judyrecords.com)

412 points by FigurativeVoid 1 year ago | 81 comments

Judyrecords is a free full-text search engine covering over 740 million United States court cases, with an API.

PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform(github.com)

592 points by doener 3 months ago | 274 comments

GitHub repository for PeerTube, an AGPL-licensed ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform that uses P2P delivery in the browser.

LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024(antirez.com)

355 points by nalgeon 2 years ago | 230 comments

Intended to be antirez's blog post on using LLMs for programming in early 2024, but the capture shows a Redis-branded 404 error page.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

378 points by anarbadalov 1 year ago | 179 comments

MIT Press Reader article recounting the history of Tor, from its origins as a US military research project to a widely used privacy and anonymity tool.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.