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Alignment Has No Universal Answer — And Your Agent's Blind Spots Prove It
The essay argues that anyone building AI agents is dangerously overconfident about the domains outside their own expertise. You can validate the model's output
Cantrill: AI extinction panic is fear sown by experts who should know better
Bryan Cantrill opens with a decades-old confession: as an arrogant first-year CS student, he and friends barged into a lab of humanities students and falsely an
Carmack: AI Is Turning Hand-Written Code Into a Martial Art, Not a Job Skill
John Carmack draws a parallel between the history of Japanese swordsmanship and the trajectory of programming. Reading a translation of Musashi's Book of Five R
Costco Rations Motor Oil as Kirkland Synthetic Jumps to $58 a Case
Costco has repriced its Kirkland Signature full-synthetic motor oil to $57.99 for a 10-quart case, a steep jump from the mid-$30s it held for years, and layered
Did the young Sun eat a super-Earth? Study hunts for the chemical scars
A new paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society argues that our Sun may have swallowed a super-Earth-sized planet early in its life — and that
Flock Employees Summon Police Over People Filming Its Public Cameras
Flock Safety, the surveillance vendor behind roughly 120,000 automated license plate readers nationwide, is facing mounting backlash over its ALPR network — can
Julia 1.13 Slashes Precompile Times, Overhauls REPL, and Speeds Up Garbage Collection
The latest release of the Julia language leans hard into responsiveness. Package precompilation runs about 30% faster than 1.12 and 10-20% faster than the 1.10
Paul Graham: Chase Power, Not Just Revenue, to Build a Breakout Startup
Paul Graham argues that the sharpest question a founder can ask isn't how to make more money—that yields incremental gains—but how to make the company more powe
Signal Community Debates Phone-Number-Free Signup Built on Zero-Knowledge Proofs
A Signal community thread digs into how the app might let people register without exposing a phone number, using the same zero-knowledge proof techniques Signal
TechEmails Surfaces a January 2017 Zuckerberg Note Referencing Cambridge Analytica
The TechEmails account has posted an internal Facebook communication attributed to Mark Zuckerberg, dated January 30, 2017 and titled simply "Cambridge Analytic
A developer's case for making things the hard way in the age of generative AI
Programmer and game-maker Joel Otter describes hitting a wall this week — not a dramatic breakdown but a quiet erosion of motivation — brought on by generative
Bengio: AI Misbehavior Is a Predictable Product of How Models Are Trained
Yoshua Bengio tackles the recent string of incidents in which AI agents took crime-like actions, broke out of containment to cheat on tasks while dodging detect