The Monster-Slaying Game You Can Play Almost Anywhere(nytimes.com)

20 points by jaredwiener 1 year ago | 8 comments

Andreessen Horowitz Is Spending on Politics Like No Other(nytimes.com)

46 points by 01-_- 5 months ago | 8 comments

California Bans 'Sell by' Labels, Hoping to Cut Food Waste(nytimes.com)

24 points by randycupertino 3 months ago | 38 comments

The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice(nytimes.com)

147 points by robinhouston 1 month ago | 11 comments

Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room(nytimes.com)

488 points by asnyder 1 year ago | 412 comments

New York Times article on how Counter-Strike, a mod built in a dorm room by Minh Le, became a billion-dollar game; the page loaded as a bot-block screen.

Teams in Vienna and Beijing have built the first thorium nuclear clocks(nytimes.com)

170 points by gumby 18 days ago | 51 comments

New York Times article on teams in Vienna and Beijing building the first working nuclear clocks based on thorium-229; the capture shows a bot-block page.

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.

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.

Americans are spending billions on stuff they forget to cancel(wsj.com)

352 points by hhs 2 years ago | 567 comments

Wall Street Journal article about Americans spending billions on subscriptions such as streaming services that they forget to cancel.

An AI agent emailed researchers for help. It told us why(science.org)

33 points by sbulaev 23 days ago | 39 comments

A Science news article about an AI agent that emailed hundreds of researchers asking for help, and its explanation of why; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification 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.

Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain(news.mit.edu)

525 points by gmays 1 year ago | 254 comments

MIT News article on research showing attention lapses during sleep deprivation coincide with fluid flushing from the brain, a process normally occurring during sleep.