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The Story of a Brain: AI Anxiety and the Illusion of the Mind

A man's biological brain is kept alive in a vat, but scientists gradually separate it into billions of isolated, individually prog...

Beyond Grep: Giving the Unix Pipe a Brain With Qsh

qsh is a local-first, privacy-focused CLI that gives your terminal "semantic brains" using a 0.8B Qwen model. It lets you pipe ima...

How to Run Your Own Local LLM — 2026 Edition — Version 1

In 2026, four Nvidia DGX Spark units (~$19K) give you 512 GB of unified AI memory and ~4 petaflops — enough to run any open-weight...

AI Is Not Being Adopted. It Is Being Installed.

The Canon Saw the Structure First, writes Andrew Keen. Keen: Science fiction understood the structure of this transition long befo...

The HackerNoon Newsletter: SERP Benchmarks: Success Rates and Latency at Scale (...

SkyReels-V4 Fixes the Most Uncanny Part of AI Video: Bad Sound Sync

SkyReels-V4 generates video and audio together, fixing uncanny timing issues like lip-sync drift and mismatched impacts—without ma...

How to Recommend at 10,000 Clicks Without Melting GPUs

HyTRec splits long histories: linear attention learns stable taste, softmax captures recent intent—fast, accurate recs even at 10k...

Governments Need To Take a More Active Role in Regulating AI: Here's Why

Governments are ramping up their role in keeping AI algorithms accountable and limiting their harms. Canada’s AI safety bill has b...

Packworks Earns a 313 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building an Operating System...

Packworks is building the operating system for Southeast Asia’s informal retail economy by digitizing hundreds of thousands of sar...

Comedians vs. AI: The Ethics of Satire and Safety Filtering

Explore how 20 professional comedians evaluate LLMs as creativity tools. Discover concerns regarding "cruise ship comedy" tropes,...

A Further Exploration of the AGI Delusion

The Intelligence Paradox is the idea that machines will eventually surpass humans in decision-making because they possess more kno...

The Conversational Image Editor Built for Speed

Google’s nano-banana-2/edit delivers fast, high-quality image editing via natural language, plus multi-image fusion and character...