Articles by mdp2021
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Coconut Oil Jet Fuel Matches Kerosene's Efficiency in Engine Tests (studyfinds.com)

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Amiga-Inspired AROS Goes Bare Metal on Raspberry Pi (hackaday.com)

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Austrian mountain town [Leoben] finds niche in AI boom (techxplore.com)

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Europe Is Building an Impossible Fusion Reactor [Ben Miles] [video] (youtube.com)

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Oral therapy protected mice from lethal radiation while sparing cancer treatment (medicalxpress.com)

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Device Goes Past Equilibrium [Steve Mould] [video] (youtube.com)

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BBC's Ann Droid [from Diane Morgan] raises questions about the future of care (theconversation.com)

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Why Americans Stopped Reading Books (openculture.com)

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OpenAI is becoming a surveillance company (garymarcus.substack.com)

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The Mundaneum, XX Century "Internet" Put World Knowledge on Millions Index Cards (openculture.com)

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Ukrainian publishers call for support after Russian attacks destroy 10M books (theguardian.com)

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10000 Classic Movie Posters Digitized and Put Online Free to Browse and Download (openculture.com)

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We Tested Qwen3.8 27B: How Much GPU and VRAM Do You Need (hardware-corner.net)

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Laser mosquito zapper promises precision strikes as backers itch for answers (theregister.com)

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AMD Working on a New Back End for Improving ROCm Compute in QEMU/VMs (phoronix.com)

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Flexible brain circuits can switch between different tasks (news.mit.edu)

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How the "censorship-industrial complex" is changing the Internet and US policy (technologyreview.com)

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Phone tracking adding to license plate readers, associating devices with cars (techxplore.com)

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Trump to give Republicans a 3-1 FCC majority, not filling empty Democratic seat (arstechnica.com)

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Linus Torvalds says AI has made Linux kernel updates the new normal (theregister.com)

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MIT researchers tackle the economic realities of fusion power (news.mit.edu)

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Reasons I [Gary Marcus] wouldn't count Google out (garymarcus.substack.com)

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Anthony Kenny [Philosopher] (1931-2026) (dailynous.com)

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Headlights got brighter, whiter, and more blinding after dark (arstechnica.com)

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The Youth AI Privacy Act's Privacy Paradox (eff.org)

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Pepper-spraying drones deploying against school shooters, not everyone approves (theweek.com)

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The Chatbot Act Forces One Parenting Model on Every Family (eff.org)

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The Screen Act Threatens Privacy Far Beyond Adult Websites (eff.org)

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Ask HN: Are we having a substantial increase of "Show HN" since LLM aided coding

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Syria's ancient sites face widespread looting and systematic bulldozing (phys.org)

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Is Trump Forcing Mastercard and Visa on Brazil (auth: TLDR News) (+ abridgement) (youtube.com)

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EU grants US request to restrict satellite images of Iran War region (arstechnica.com)

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End-to-End Encryption and "Going Dark" (schneier.com)

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The GUARD Act would sacrifice privacy and parental rights (reason.org)

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The Frank Zappa Interview That Still Feels [?] Today (1984) [video] (youtube.com)

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Most House Mice Tested Now Carry Mutations That Beat Common Rodent Poison (studyfinds.com)

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Isaac Asimov Laments the "Cult of Ignorance" in the United States (1980) (openculture.com)

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1776 (Peter H. Hunt; Peter Stone; Sherman Edwards 1972). Quotes (imdb.com)

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Ask HN: Impact on LLM development after the USA policy of preliminary vetting

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Alan Turing's Remarkable, Nearly-Forgotten Voice Encryption Device (hackaday.com)

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Kids Act Would Require Age Checks to Get Online (eff.org)

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It Is Beginning: AI Improves Itself (auth: Sabine Hossenfelder) (+abridgement) (youtube.com)

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Right to Repair: The Battle You Didn't Know You Were Fighting (video) (youtube.com)

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With Nvidia Groq 3, the Era of AI Inference Is (Probably) Here (⌛ March 2026) (ieee.org)

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MIT 14.12 Economic Applications of Game Theory, Fall 2025 (youtube.com)

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Prism: Demystifying Retention and Interaction in Mid-Training (arxiv.org)

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Found 10 Genius Clocks Every Science Lover Needs [video] (youtube.com)

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Beyond 80/20: High-Entropy Minority Tokens Drive Effective RL for LLM Reasoning (arxiv.org)

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A Visual Tour of Modern LLM Architectures (youtube.com)

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MIT 9.35 Perception, Spring 2024 [video] (youtube.com)

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Rotating Globes Powered by Light (movaglobes.com)

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Ask HN: Good minimal hardware to run LLMs and general NNs

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Snowflake Cortex AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware (simonwillison.net)

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Altman's "sloppy" mistake works in Anthropic's favor [video] (youtube.com)

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MIT 15.773 Hands-On Deep Learning Spring 2024 [video] (youtube.com)

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CMU [Carnegie Mellon] Introduction to Deep Learning 11785 Spring 2026: Lecture 0 [video] (youtube.com)

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Intel's Nova Lake-Ax for Local LLMs – What We Know About AMD's Halo Competitor (hardware-corner.net)

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John Edmark's geometric patterns underlying space and growth in nature (johnedmark.com)

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"Nightmare bacteria" are rapidly spreading (theweek.com)

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Carbon dioxide may drive lung damage in[to] obstructive pulmonary disease (medicalxpress.com)

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What Will Academia.edu Do with Its New Rights to Your Name, Likeness, and Voice? (dailynous.com)

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40k-Year-Old Symbols in Caves Worldwide May Be the Earliest Written Language (openculture.com)

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"Why Everything Pam Bondi Said About 'Hate Speech' Is Wrong" (reason.com)

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Does Pam Bondi know what free speech is? (thespectator.com)

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[flagged] Commenters Deemed Offensive After Charlie Kirk's Death Face Consequences (time.com)

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Readest Could Be [a] New Favorite eBook Reader App on Linux (itsfoss.com)

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Local LLMs Directory [with VRAM Calculator] (apxml.com)

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Leonardo da Vinci's To-Do List from 1490: The Plan of a Renaissance Man (openculture.com)

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How Much Metal Can $10K Buy? (visualcapitalist.com)

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Upgradable Laptop GPUs Have Arrived (ieee.org)

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Can you say no to your doctor using an AI scribe? (theconversation.com)

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Eighteenth-Century Takes on Basic Income (jstor.org)

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[Bruce Schneier's] Latest Book: Rewiring Democracy (schneier.com)

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Welcome EmbeddingGemma, Google's new efficient embedding model (huggingface.co)

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Imagining the future of banking with agentic AI (technologyreview.com)

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From Libraries to Schools: Why Organizations Should Install Privacy Badger (eff.org)

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An Anatomically Correct Replica of the Human Brain, Knitted by a Psychiatrist (openculture.com)

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Can Creatine Keep Your Brain Sharp? (time.com)

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Can an AI doppelgänger help me do my job? (technologyreview.com)

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"Medicine goes viral" – resuscitating a century-old solution, bacteriophages (cnrs.fr)

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Some therapists are using ChatGPT. Clients are triggered (technologyreview.com)

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Tech Founders Must Prioritize the Problem Before Their Solution (ieee.org)

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I [Sabine Hossenfelder] tried Vibe Physics. This is what I learned [video] (youtube.com)

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Lawyer Ian Bassin says authoritarians throughout history followed these 7 steps [video] (youtube.com)

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Bring your own brain? Why local LLMs are taking off (theregister.com)

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The Qweremin, a [C64 based] QWERTY theremin (linusakesson.net)

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U.S. denies Palestinian officials visas to attend UN General Assembly (axios.com)

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ICANN Wiki: All 2012 New gTLD Applications (icannwiki.org)

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Google Is Now Rolling Out an AI-Powered Duolingo Competitor (lifehacker.com)

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What scaling doesn't buy: peeling back the hype on Google's trendy Nano Banana (garymarcus.substack.com)

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Partisan Gerrymandering After Rucho (stevevladeck.com)

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More than 100 companies are chasing an AI chip gold rush. Few will surive (theregister.com)

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LLM VRAM Usage Cut by 45x? What Jet-Nemotron Means for Local Users (hardware-corner.net)

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French Toilets of Spikersuppa in Oslo, Norway (atlasobscura.com)

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Game-Changer for Local LLMs: AMD Medusa Halo Points to 384-Bit LPDDR6 Bandwidth (hardware-corner.net)

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Cochrane library, global source of indep. health evidence: NZ restricting access (theconversation.com)

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California Resident Tests Positive for Plague. What to Know About the Disease (time.com)

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"Deeply concerning": reading for fun in the US has fallen by 40% (theguardian.com)

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We should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs (technologyreview.com)

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Open weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across providers (simonwillison.net)