Articles by olalonde
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How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt (reuters.com)

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Global surge in copper theft snares telecoms and trains (ft.com)

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FreeBSD Just Removed the Last of Its GPL-Licensed Code (hackaday.com)

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General Resolution: LLM Usage in Debian (debian.org)

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AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking (hermit-tech.com)

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Lingbot-map: A 3D foundation model for reconstructing scenes from streaming data (github.com/robbyant)

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Would a Stanford Taurus Actually Work? (reddit.com)

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China tests sea-based rocket booster recovery system (reuters.com)

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Ask HN: How has the ML engineer job evolved outside of LLM labs?

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The Sunscreen Result No One Wants to Talk About (charlottekupewasserphd.substack.com)

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A new report on the dangers of politicizing humanities in academia (whyevolutionistrue.com)

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Hacking their bodies for a longer life: is there science behind their methods? (nature.com)

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The Report That's Divided the Academy (chronicle.com)

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ZEC drops 30% after Anthropic AI finds Zcash counterfeit vulnerability (tradingview.com)

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Daily pill daraxonrasib doubles survival time for pancreatic cancer patients (bbc.com)

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Helpful tool if you're somebody who files FOIA requests for email logs (bsky.app)

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AI is becoming increasingly unpopular (marketscreener.com)

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Bullwhip Effect (wikipedia.org)

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Stochastic Parrots: Frequently Unasked Questions (medium.com/emilymenonbender)

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When Claudia Met Claudius (unherd.com)

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The Network (citadel21.com)

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A hair dryer at a Paris airport broke Polymarket weather markets (xcancel.com)

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Plzdontkillus: An experimental creator bootcamp about AI doom (plzdontkillus.com)

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IPv4 vs. IPv6 FAQ (tailscale.com)

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The Need for an Independent AI Grid (amppublic.com)

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2025 State of Rust Survey Results (rust-lang.org)

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Amdahl's Law (wikipedia.org)

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The Monobloc: the best-selling chair (domusweb.it)

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Monobloc (Chair (wikipedia.org)

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Using Rust and Postgres for everything: patterns learned over the years (kerkour.com)

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X has under 30 engineers (twitter.com/nikitabier)

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Chinese Peptides Are the Latest Biohacking Trend in the Tech World (nytimes.com)

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Is There Anything Good About Men? (2007) (archive.org)

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Symbolic Doomsday Clock moves closer to midnight amid 'catastrophic risks' (aljazeera.com)

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Packet Radio (wikipedia.org)

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Canada agrees to cut tariff on Chinese EVs (apnews.com)

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Atheist's Wager (wikipedia.org)

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Trump says US will 'run' Venezuela until 'safe transition can take place' (bbc.co.uk)

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[dupe] Trump Says Maduro Captured After US Airstrikes Hit Venezuela (bloomberg.com)

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AI tools are becoming capable enough to pick off open Erdos problem (mathstodon.xyz)

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Doomslayer: Reasons the World Isn't Falling Apart (humanprogress.org)

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Lalanne Hippo Bar Sells for Record-Breaking $31.4M (galeriemagazine.com)

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The dying industry of cargo ship travel (thespinoff.co.nz)

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Musk launches Grokipedia to compete with Wikipedia (apnews.com)

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Oscar (Therapy Cat) (wikipedia.org)

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Linus Torvalds Rejects RISC-V Changes for Linux 6.17: "Garbage" (phoronix.com)

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Bitcoin soars to all-time peak just shy of $112,000 (reuters.com)

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Ecma International approves ECMAScript 2025: What's new? (2ality.com)

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Alan Smithee (wikipedia.org)

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Bitcoin Op_return Controversy: Complete Summary (gist.github.com)

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The Linux 6.15 kernel arrives – and it's big a victory for Rust fans (zdnet.com)

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Mermaid: Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text (github.com/mermaid-js)

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JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management (v8.dev)

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OpenAI/GPT-2 (github.com/openai)

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Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux (stosberg.com)

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The US is reviewing Benchmark's investment into Chinese AI startup Manus (techcrunch.com)

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Show HN: MCP-Human: Human Assistance for AI Assistants (github.com/olalonde)

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Ask HN: Did Aliexpress stop shipping to US?

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Prompt Engineering Interactive Tutorial (github.com/anthropics)

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Ask HN: Can't publish on the Play Store without a physical office?

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Google Vids: Online Video Creator and Editor (workspace.google.com)

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Aider-AI/aider: aider is AI pair programming in your terminal (github.com/aider-ai)

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Variability Hypothesis (wikipedia.org)

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Complete hardware and software setup for running Deepseek-R1 locally (twitter.com/carrigmat)

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Bitcoin hits record above $75,000 as crypto industry celebrates Trump win (ft.com)

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Equities swing, Bitcoin hits record as traders weigh Trump 2.0 (yahoo.com)

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Quantum Computing: Between Hope and Hype (scottaaronson.blog)

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A UK treaty could spell the end of the .io domain (theverge.com)

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Satoshi Nakamoto and the Origins of Bitcoin (arxiv.org)

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The AI startup drama that's damaging Y Combinator's reputation (indiehackers.com)

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Waiting for Blue Robot (waiting-for-blue-robot.gitlab.io)

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Sam Altman invested $180M into a company trying to delay death (technologyreview.com)

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Construction of 220V hydroelectric power plant [video] (youtube.com)

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How to Send a Swift Wire from Scratch (iso20022js.com)

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Principal–Agent Problem (wikipedia.org)

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An Optimization That's Impossible in Rust (tunglevo.com)

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The Simplest Bootloader (yassineseghrouchni.vercel.app)

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Dnsfs. Store your files in others DNS resolver caches (benjojo.co.uk)

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SQL Has Problems. We Can Fix Them: Pipe Syntax in SQL (simonwillison.net)

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Linus Torvalds talks AI, Rust adoption (zdnet.com)

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So you want to build an embedded Linux system? (jaycarlson.net)

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Tiny Tapeout: Quicker, easier and cheaper to make your own chip (tinytapeout.com)

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AgroWeed Seeker (AWS) (hackster.io)

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CBOR – Concise Binary Object Representation (cbor.io)

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A comprehensive roadmap for aspiring Embedded Systems Engineers (github.com/m3y54m)

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WebAssembly on Zephyr (golioth.io)

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C Isn't a Programming Language Anymore (2022) (faultlore.com)

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Ask HN: Discord/online communities for (solo) startup founders?

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Battery University (batteryuniversity.com)

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Linux Is Obsolete (1992) (groups.google.com)

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Ask HN: What Is CrowdStrike?

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ChatGPT has caused a drop in demand for online digital freelancers (techradar.com)

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Elon Musk drops lawsuit against OpenAI (theverge.com)

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Silver's $1.3T Market Cap Surpassed by BTC (coindesk.com)

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Bitcoin surges to a new record high as mainstream money flows into crypto (cnn.com)

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Nginx core developer quits project in security dispute, starts "freenginx" fork (arstechnica.com)

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Sacred Stones Worshipped for Generations in India Turn Out to Be Dinosaur Eggs (geartape.com)

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AI gets MAD after being tricked into making a choice in the Trolley Problem (reddit.com)

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The Homebrew Computer Club and the Dawn of the Personal Computer (allaboutcircuits.com)

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Iowa Demolishes Its First 3D Printed House (hackaday.com)