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Post #232163 2.46K Sep 14, 2026, 06:43 UTC

Of Gods and Languages: On "When God Spoke Greek"
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Los Angeles Review of Books Of Gods and Languages: On “When God Spoke Greek” | Los Angeles Review of Books Kevin Hart reviews Timothy Michael Law’s book about the Septuagint, When God Spoke Greek.

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Post #232162 2.36K Sep 14, 2026, 06:23 UTC

Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi (2022)
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Honisoit Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi – Honi Soit There’s no shortage of dystopian fiction. But instead of rejecting optimistic representation, can we use it to guide us forward?

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Post #232161 2.44K Sep 14, 2026, 05:45 UTC

Who Gets to Define the Rules for AI?
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Cohere Who Gets to Define the Rules for AI? | Cohere Explore why AI regulation should rely on evidence-based standards, independent testing, and diverse voices rather than rules set by a few dominant AI labs.

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Post #232160 2.6K Sep 14, 2026, 04:41 UTC

Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
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Fortune Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200 billion market-cap wipeout | Fortune The sportswear giant will be replaced by a tech company on Sept. 21, capping a five-year, nearly 80% stock slide driven by China weakness.

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Post #232159 2.43K Sep 14, 2026, 03:28 UTC

Turkish police detain dozens in raids on gay bars and homes of LGBTQ+ activists
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Bbc Turkish police detain dozens in raids on gay bars and homes of LGBTQ+ activists Human rights groups in Turkey have accused the government of using a family- values campaign to target the LGBTQ+ community.

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Post #232158 2.23K Sep 14, 2026, 02:53 UTC

The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence
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arXiv.org The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting,... This report surveys the landscape of potential security threats from malicious uses of AI, and proposes ways to better forecast, prevent, and mitigate these threats. After analyzing the ways in...

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Post #232157 2.24K Sep 14, 2026, 02:45 UTC

AI is not a normal technology
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12Gramsofcarbon AI is not a normal technology This is an addendum to my original Meditations on AI post, and a response to a few other articles from last year.

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Post #232156 2.19K Sep 14, 2026, 02:41 UTC

Apple's Dimensional Drawings
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Apple Developer Download dimensional drawings and technical specifications. Download precise dimensional drawings and technical specifications for Apple devices to ensure your accessory designs meet the exact requirements.

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Post #232155 2.16K Sep 14, 2026, 02:09 UTC

Show HN: Is It Greg?
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GitHub GitHub - antoineleclair/is-it-greg Contribute to antoineleclair/is-it-greg development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Post #232154 2.19K Sep 14, 2026, 01:16 UTC

The case against JPEG XL
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Giannirosato The case against JPEG XL | Gianni Rosato Investigating JPEG XL's place as a Web image codec.

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Post #232153 2.24K Sep 14, 2026, 01:11 UTC

Open-Source AI and Open Models Reading List
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www.interconnects.ai Open-Source AI & Open Models Reading List How to get up to speed on open models and their implications.

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Post #232152 2.19K Sep 14, 2026, 01:07 UTC

US diplomat secretly flown home ‘had child abuse images at flat’
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Thetimes US diplomat ‘secretly flown home had child abuse images at flat’ A row over diplomatic immunity has broken out after the return of the official who was allegedly sent abusive material

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Post #232151 2.16K Sep 14, 2026, 00:59 UTC

Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster
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TechCrunch Automattic confirms Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted ouster by board | TechCrunch Automattic says Mullenweg is back as "chairman and CEO of Automattic, with full support of the board."

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Post #232150 2.19K Sep 14, 2026, 00:33 UTC

The Coming War on General Computation (2011)
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Post #232149 2.8K Sep 13, 2026, 23:37 UTC

Due to concerns about malicious applications, GPT2 will not be released (2019)
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OpenAI Better language models and their implications We’ve trained a large-scale unsupervised language model which generates coherent paragraphs of text, achieves state-of-the-art performance on many language modeling benchmarks, and performs rudimentary reading comprehension, machine translation, question…

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Post #232148 2.63K Sep 13, 2026, 23:25 UTC

Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs
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Signal Community Registration without a phone number you have legitimate concerns, but you’re very wrong about this. zero-knowledge proofs are not only the technology behind donation badges and backup payments, but also behind groups. they can’t tie you to a specific donation just like they can’t tie you to…

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Post #232147 2.38K Sep 13, 2026, 23:11 UTC

AI recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all
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MIT Technology Review AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all AI agents are not yet creative enough to carry out genuinely innovative open-ended AI research, it seems.

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Post #232146 2.38K Sep 13, 2026, 23:02 UTC

The Contagion of Fear
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The Observation Deck The contagion of fear I have a difficult confession to make — a shameful incident that I have never spoken of, even to those closest to me. Late one night in my first year at university and having found computer science to be my life’s calling, I was in the back of the large computer…

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Post #232145 2.6K Sep 13, 2026, 21:39 UTC

Claude Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
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www.vals.ai Claude Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich | Vals AI We gave Claude Fable 5.1 an open task: solve an unsolved 370-year-old cipher. It solved it within a day.

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Post #232144 2.56K Sep 13, 2026, 20:45 UTC

Flawed Routers Flood University of Wisconsin Internet Time Server (2003)
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