Dimensionality—neuroscience’s red herring?
Placing too much emphasis on a specific interpretation of dimensionality, or treating it as an end-all quantification of some aspect of neural computation, may hinder progress in understanding the...
Agentics: Agent Optimized Codebases
Here’s a hopefully uncontroversial statement: ‘good’ code is contextual. O, sure, everyone knows how to spot bad code. If you have 12 layers of nested for-loops you are probably doing something...
An Alien Mind
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49588080 Points: 361 # Comments: 314
QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes
Article URL: https://beige.party/@intransitivelie/117057396732763183 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49586171 Points: 1207 # Comments: 259
An Alien Mind
Jakub Pachocki reflects on increasingly capable AI and the challenge of keeping it aligned. He calls for stronger safeguards and international coordination.
Homelab deployments: a tutorial made of prompts
Every now and then I get a hankering to write about my homelab, but there's so much to talk about that I end up just writing nothing. This is my attempt to stay on a smaller topic in the hopes it's...
7 Weekend Projects That Make Your Home Lab Less Dependent on You
I have been pretty focused on automation in the home lab. But there is also mindset changes I needed to make to keep from having to baby sit my lab… The post 7 Weekend Projects That Make Your Home...
Who said a tech addict can't be comfortable far from home?
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The revolt of the reader
Article URL: https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/05/the-revolt-of-the-reader/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580939 Points: 491 # Comments: 230
2027 Coaching
I’ll keep this short and simple. 2027 is scary close and I am only opening 5 roster spots for new athletes on my remote coaching plans. I am including the rest of 2026 for free for anyone who signs...
There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get
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It matters who teaches you
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