Break It Down: A man tries to calculate what love costs (1983) [audio](thisamericanlife.org)

11 points by NaOH 1 year ago | 2 comments

The Techlash That Never Happened(eriktorenberg.substack.com)

43 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 50 comments

Three Observations(blog.samaltman.com)

143 points by davidbarker 1 year ago | 153 comments

The Gentle Singularity(blog.samaltman.com)

204 points by firloop 1 year ago | 336 comments

Moon(ciechanow.ski)

2976 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 248 comments

Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive article explaining the Moon, its phases, and its orbital path around Earth.

Astronomical Accidents, and the Proxima Centauri 'Signal' That Wasn't(centauri-dreams.org)

32 points by JPLeRouzic 2 years ago | 3 comments

NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'(wbur.org)

436 points by davidbarker 3 years ago | 493 comments

WBUR-hosted NPR News article reporting that NPR stopped posting on Twitter after the platform labeled it 'state-affiliated media'.

Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem(scientificamerican.com)

733 points by pr337h4m 6 months ago | 508 comments

Scientific American article about an amateur who used ChatGPT to prove a 60-year-old Erdős conjecture with a novel method.

Transcribe.cpp(workshop.cjpais.com)

696 points by sebjones 3 months ago | 144 comments

Project page announcing transcribe.cpp, a ggml-based speech transcription library supporting recent models, from the author of the Handy speech-to-text app.

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.

Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal(nytimes.com)

557 points by jbegley 1 month ago | 409 comments

New York Times article on a federal judge ruling that the Trump administration's blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal; the capture shows a captcha page.

Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer gravely(covertactionmagazine.com)

826 points by onewheeltom 3 years ago | 368 comments

CovertAction Magazine opinion article by Ashley Gjøvik arguing that whistleblowers act as society's conscience but face severe retaliation for exposing the powerful.