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I absolutely love the photo of the computer at the top of the article. Not at all what I thought I was going to see from this headline.

I wrote about the Gödelian limits of prompt-safe AI: https://matthodges.com/posts/2025-08-26-music-to-break-model...

But what if the power company needs to upgrade the substation to handle the increased needs of the data center? Or secure additional sources of electricity? In these cases, the investments are part of the electricity grid that everyone uses. These costs will likely be shared among all customers.

Okay but this is a policy choice. It doesn’t have to be that way.

Everything is a scam now. You can’t exchange money for products or services anymore. We just exchange money for scams.

This reality demands a new model: usage-based pricing for everything.

Oh boy!

although something people are aware of and they can judge the content themselves

Based on how arXiv papers get boosted around on social media, I don't believe this to be the case.

Of course some blog posts are worth citing. Then cite them as blog posts.

My point is that a LaTeX PDF can launder epistemic status. An unreviewed argument starts to look like established research merely because it adopts the visual grammar of a paper.

I always struggle to figure out what role arXiv should play in my information diet. On the one hand I support Open Access research. On the other hand, peer review is vital, and a substantial quantity of “papers” on arXiv are just blog posts in a LaTeX trench coat.

Knoppix LiveCD in 2004 was my very first try at Linux. The fear of HDD partitioning my parents' PC delayed me from installing Ubuntu Warty by a few months.

They also could have been much more interesting in the approach. LLMs can use their token distributions to generate stegotext that read like plausible prose but decode to payloads.¹

¹ https://github.com/hodgesmr/calgacus-mlx

Roughly 9 years ago: https://neveragain.tech/

My favorite go-to-sleep move is to load up Ben Eater on YouTube. I actually love Ben Eater’s content, but his voice and his lack of dopamine-chasing production make for perfect go-to-sleep encouragement. And then I have a genuinely interesting video to pick up when I’m not tired.

That's silly. I appreciate RSS as much as the next Hacker Newser, but, no. You could be throwing up hand-typed txt files with nothing else and that's still allowed to be a blog.

I was looking at Jack White tickets (on my phone) last week and Ticketmaster popped up that it was a phone free concert and everyone was required to deposit their phones into locked bags upon entry.

I have a mirror feeling about Chicago: very good city, but I wouldn’t want to live there due to the winters.

Geographic negative polarization has become far too entrenched in online discourse.

Anticipating all the Texas hate comments, just gonna plant a flag and say I love living in Austin. This city rules.

The article you linked does not support the claim you made.

It argues that antidepressants may be associated with aggression or violent behavior in a small susceptible subset. That is very different from “SSRIs explain the rise of school shootings.”

The “most school shooters were on SSRIS” claim has been studied directly: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31513302/

Their conclusion: “most school shooters were not previously treated with psychotropic medications - and even when they were, no direct or causal association was found.”

I wasn’t asking for evidence of the number of mass shootings. I was asking for evidence of “that’s why”.

That's why school shootings pretty much never happened before the 1970s

This claim is gonna need a lot more evidence.

I think this is how Beauty And The Beast opens.

Just link to the actual post,¹ which is also on the HN front page right now.²

¹ https://jonready.com/blog/posts/claude-fable5-is-allowed-to-...

² https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467896

Even at $63 per share, we give SpaceX a lot of benefit of the doubt in two of the three scenarios, in which we assume the company can achieve a rapidly reusable Starship rocket enabling multiple launches per week and successfully commercialize data centers in space.

In our downside scenario, orbital data centers won’t work or offer any advantage over terrestrial ones. We surmise that the company, having invested tens of billions to find this out, would cut bait on the project sometime around 2028, the way management walked away from plans to build multiple small-car factories at Tesla.

Saw I post on /r/programming in 2011.

I was the shadow of the waxwing slain¹

¹ Pale Fire is one of the greatest books I’ve ever read. It took me two tries because I didn’t understand what I was getting into the first time.

https://xcancel.com/danveloper/status/2061435541199994890

But of course if we automated those jobs with AI, we could direct AI produced value into universal basic income so people wouldn't lose their income. Then the concern is of course, that the owners will not share the produced value.

We have a few hundred years of tax policy and politics to draw on here.

There is literally zero mention, or even indication, of “election fraud” in this article other than the headline.

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I'm fairly AI-optimistic, but I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Every day the HN story is either "Apple patches actively exploited zero-click RCE" ... or ... "Show HN: Engage With Our Zero-Click RCE".

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To the “LLMs just interpolate their training data” crowd:

Ayer, and in a different way early Wittgenstein, held that mathematical truths don’t report new facts about the world. Proofs unfold what is already implicit in axioms, definitions, symbols, and rules.

I think that idea is deeply fascinating, AND have no problem that we still credit mathematicians with discoveries.

So either “recombining existing material” isn’t disqualifying, or a lot of Fields Medals need to be returned.