Articles by puttycat
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Altman on AI energy: it also takes 20 years of eating food to train a human (reddit.com)

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Spain approves decree to regularise half a million undocumented migrants (theguardian.com)

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Spain's fourth train in five days (sky.com)

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Matthew McConaughey trademarks catchphrase in bid to beat AI fakes (theguardian.com)

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Multiverse: The First AI Multiplayer World Model (enigma.inc)

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FBI Foils New Year's Eve Attacks in Southern California (cnn.com)

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Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions (gptzero.me)

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WhatsApp starts hiding full URLs in messages (reddit.com)

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Who Invented Transformer Neural Networks? (idsia.ch)

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Iran reports bird flu outbreak in poultry (reuters.com)

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Reality Check – AI/real photo quiz (realitycheckk.com)

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Anthropic to pay $3k per book in AI copyright settlement (axios.com)

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Fractal Compression (wikipedia.org)

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The Changing Politics of Masks (nytimes.com)

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Iron Beam (wikipedia.org)

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Ask HN: Who else is not using AI for coding?

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Ask HN: Does Google train on Google Docs?

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Python Pandas Ditches NumPy for Speedier PyArrow (thenewstack.io)

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The Factorio Mindset (2022) (thediff.co)

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Brain-to-voice neuroprosthesis restores naturalistic speech (engineering.berkeley.edu)

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First case of bird flu in sheep detected in England (theguardian.com)

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Causal chambers as a real-world physical testbed for AI methodology (nature.com)

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Official Sora sample videos on Instagram (instagram.com)

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Getting ChatGPT to print its (alleged) system prompt (bsky.app)

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Drugmakers say Crohn's drug met primary targets (reuters.com)

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Accent Oracle (boldvoice.com)

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Ask HN: Why did AI research mature in computer science and not in biology?

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LLuffman: LLM-Based Steganography (botnoise.org)

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Ask HN: How come ChatGPT can translate?

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Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons (wsj.com)

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CA Governor seeks to harness the power of GenAI to address homelessness (ca.gov)

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Neo Home Robot (twitter.com/ericjang11)

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Information-Theoretic Measures Reveal Grokking Is an Emergent Phase Transition (arxiv.org)

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Coping with long-term crises (2020) (light-bulbs.net)

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Risk of cognitive decline and dementia in older adults with Covid-19: review (sciencedirect.com)

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Media companies, banks, supermarkets hit by global outage linked to Windows PCs (theguardian.com)

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Cellebrite enables FBI to access data from Trump shooter's phone (globes.co.il)

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Ask HN: Would you go work for Facebook ("Meta")?

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UK party suspected of appointing fake candidates in election (theguardian.com)

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Toastmasters International (wikipedia.org)

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Chomsky's Levels of Adequacy (wikipedia.org)

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Google AI Overview Replies with Information from The Onion (twitter.com/oneunderscore__)

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Minimum Description Length Recurrent Neural Networks (2022) (arxiv.org)

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Firefox Tracking Protection Breaks Twitter/X (imgur.com)

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Nature Neuroscience Retraction: Genetic manipulation of autonomic nerve fiber (nature.com)

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First human case of avian flu in Texas (politico.com)

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Tell HN: My 2016 iPhone SE is a living proof of iOS enshittification

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Bridging empirical-theoretical gap in neural network formal language learning (arxiv.org)

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All the garbage I found on Substack in 1 hour (badnewsletter.substack.com)

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The key to spending less time on your phone is getting another phone (wsj.com)

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How to Use a Lockable Storage Box to Curb Our Addiction to Devices (2022) (nytimes.com)

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When does "no" mean no? Insights from sex robots (sciencedirect.com)

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GPTs Can't Count (github.com/0xnurl)

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GitHub's Old Chronoligcal Feed (github.com/login)

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Seam Carving (wikipedia.org)

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Password-protected language induction benchmark (github.com/taucompling)

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Poverty of the Stimulus (wikipedia.org)

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New York lawmakers' strategy to help children addicted to TikTok (nytimes.com)

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LLMs and the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus (auf.net)

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OpenAI's model version docs are not archivable (archive.org)

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[flagged] One Year into Musk, X Monthly Users Are Down 15% and Ad Revenue Has Slumped 54% (variety.com)

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The world is at war. And you will be part of it (beneaththepavement.substack.com)

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I Know Collapse Is Coming, but Have I Accepted It? (medium.com/collapsesurvival)

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Did Meta train its new image generation model on Facebook posts? (twitter.com/mmariansky)

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Searchable database of 183k books used to train models by Meta, others (theatlantic.com)

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Noisy intermediate-scale quantum era (wikipedia.org)

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Probe reveals previously secret Israeli spyware that infects targets via ads (theregister.com)

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Tens of thousands stranded at Burning Man after storm told to conserve food (cnn.com)

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P(doom) (garymarcus.substack.com)

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Benchmarking Neural Network Generalization for Grammar Induction (arxiv.org)

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Ash HN: Who is cloning my GitHub repo?

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TokenFlow: Consistent diffusion features for consistent video editing (diffusion-tokenflow.github.io)

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Ash HN: How can I make my idle CPU time useful to others?

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Does MS Word automatically send images to online OpenAI model to get alt text? (twitter.com/irisvanrooij)

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How to know if a Gmail message was scheduled (stackoverflow.com)

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33-46% of workers on MTurk used LLMs in a text production task (arxiv.org)

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Minimum Description Length PyTorch Nets (github.com/0xnurl)

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Bonzi – AI Assistant for Illustrators (instagram.com)

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AI and the American Smile (medium.com/socialcreature)

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Ask HN: How does archive.today bypass paywalls?

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Follow That Page – change detection and notification service (followthatpage.com)

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NSO Pegasus has iOS 15-16 zero-click exploits (citizenlab.ca)

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EnglishScript – embed natural language in your JavaScript code (uriv.medium.com)

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Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and informative (sciencedirect.com)

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Large language models are poor theories of human linguistic cognition (auf.net)

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First ever connectome of an insect brain complete (cam.ac.uk)

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Antidepressants and the Placebo Effect (2014) (nih.gov)

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Apple Mail in Ventura turns URLs to smart previews automatically, no override (discussions.apple.com)

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Tell HN: It has come to this – I bought a timed lock box to lock my phone in (amazon.com)

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Neural Nets Optimized for Kolmogorov Complexity / Minimum Description Length (direct.mit.edu)

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You can finally turn off 'online' status on WhatsApp (businesstoday.in)

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Roubini: We're Heading for a Stagflationary Crisis Unlike Anything We've Seen (time.com)

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Tiny Machine Learning Sensor Startup (staceyoniot.com)

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Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?

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AI Music Video: Die Antwoord – Age of Illusion (youtube.com)

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Ask HN: Did Facebook read my WhatsApp chat and target me with an ad?

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After College, Too Many Students Don’t Know Where to Go Next (nytimes.com)

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Show HN: Academic personal page in pure HTML and CSS (tau.ac.il)

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Israel Installs Remote-control Crowd Dispersal (grenades, tear gas, rubber)

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Sinkhole Opens on Tel Aviv Highway, Paralyses Most of Country