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

53 points by austinallegro 1 month ago | 28 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.

The Contract on America(3quarksdaily.com)

11 points by hkhn 1 month ago | 5 comments

A History of the Chiming Machines at Gloucester's Cathedral and Churches (2017) [pdf](bgas.org.uk)

10 points by dvt 1 month ago | 1 comments

A brief history of the U.S. trying to add backdoors into encrypted data (2016)(atlasobscura.com)

502 points by whatever3 2 years ago | 174 comments

Atlas Obscura article from 2016 recounting the history of US government attempts, including by the NSA, to insert backdoors into encryption.

Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop(resobscura.substack.com)

463 points by benbreen 3 months ago | 222 comments

Benjamin Breen's Res Obscura essay arguing quality non-fiction books counter AI slop, introducing a vibe-coded tool indexing prize-winning books.

Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Uncover a Company's True Culture(praachi.work)

351 points by abhas9 2 years ago | 190 comments

A blog post advising tech job candidates on open-ended questions to ask interviewers to uncover a company's real culture.

Alonzo Church: Architect of computer intelligence(onepercentrule.substack.com)

318 points by drcwpl 2 years ago | 81 comments

A Substack essay profiling logician Alonzo Church and his solution to the Entscheidungsproblem as a foundational contribution to computer science.

Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining(si.inc)

392 points by nee1r 1 year ago | 267 comments

Standard Intelligence blog post describing how they built a 30-petabyte hard drive storage cluster in a San Francisco colocation center for under $500k to store video pretraining data.

Radios, how do they work?(lcamtuf.substack.com)

613 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 101 comments

A blog post by lcamtuf giving a brief introduction to antennas, superheterodyne receivers, and signal modulation schemes for hobbyists.