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The case against social media is stronger than you think

news.ycombinator.com Nathan Witkin 2025-10-01 06:39:17

The Mob, 1935, by Carl Hoeckner 1. Introduction The philosopher Dan Williams recently published two pieces on social media— “Scapegoating the Algorithm” at Asterisk Magazine, and “The Case Against Social Media is Weaker Than You Think” at his Substack. As their titles attest to, both argue that the case against social media, on epistemic and political grounds, has been considerably overstated. I recently published a lengthy essay arguing the opposite: that the case against social media has, i

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Leaked Video Shows US Military Shooting UFO With Hellfire Missile

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-01 06:45:26

Someone has leaked a video of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP) — the military's preferred term for unidentified flying objects, better known as UFOs — to Congress. As USA Today reports, this never-before-seen video was provided anonymously to Eric Burlison, a Missouri Republican and member of the House of Representative's UAP Caucus, and shows a bizarre encounter that occurred last October off the coast of Yemen. In the video, an Air Force MQ-9 "Reaper" drone tracks the object that B

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California's age verification bill for app stores and operating systems takes another step forward

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-01 14:43:39

A California bill that would require operating system and app store providers to verify users' ages before they can download apps has cleared the Assembly 58-0, and will now move on to Gov. Gavin Newsom, Politico reports. The Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043), introduced by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, does not require photo identification for verification, but puts the onus on the platforms to provide tools for parents to indicate the user's age during a device's setup, and use this informatio

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The Case Against Social Media Is Stronger Than You Think

news.ycombinator.com Nathan Witkin 2025-10-01 11:39:17

The Mob, 1935, by Carl Hoeckner 1. Introduction The philosopher Dan Williams recently published two pieces on social media— “Scapegoating the Algorithm” at Asterisk Magazine, and “The Case Against Social Media is Weaker Than You Think” at his Substack. As their titles attest to, both argue that the case against social media, on epistemic and political grounds, has been considerably overstated. I recently published a lengthy essay arguing the opposite: that the case against social media has, i

Topics: evidence media polarization political social

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Scientists Say They Can't Explain the Signal They Just Detected From Beyond Our Galaxy

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-01 10:15:24

Gamma ray bursts are some of the most powerful explosions in the universe, unleashing as much energy in mere seconds as the Sun will in its entire 10 billion year lifespan. Typically, they're produced by stars dying in a spectacular supernova — a rapid collapse that completely obliterates the stellar object. But now, astronomers say they've detected a gamma ray burst that utterly defies explanation: it repeated multiple times over the course of a single day, as if the star somehow suffered back

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Scientists Find Evidence of Flowing Water on Giant Asteroid

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-01 12:30:28

Today, the near-Earth asteroid known as Ryugu is bone dry. But new research suggests that the half-mile space rock may have once been flowing with liquid water — and crucially, at a period in the solar system's history far later than when that would have been thought possible. The findings, published in a new study in the journal Nature, could add weight to the theory that soggy asteroids brought Earth its first stores of H2O billions of years ago. "This changes how we think about the long-ter

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My art skills peaked in kindergarten but my portable projector had me covered

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-01 09:00:27

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority To set the stage, my artistic ability falls somewhere between a toddler with a crayon and the least helpful player on your Pictionary team. So when faced with the prospect of hand-painting a birthday banner, I was dubious, though still committed. Like any modern adult, I turned to tech, and while projectors may not have been designed for amateur crafters, they’re surprisingly perfect for the job. Setting up shop Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority The bigges

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Exclusive: Google wants to make Android phones safer by switching to ‘risk-based’ security updates

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-01 10:00:06

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority For the past decade, Google has consistently published an Android Security Bulletin every month, even if the company wasn’t ready to roll out a security update to its own Pixel devices. These bulletins detail the vulnerabilities that have been fixed in that month’s security release, with issues ranging from low to critical in severity. Given how large and complex the Android operating system and its underlying components are, it’s not unusual to see a dozen or

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Android’s version of Apple Health is in bad shape, but Google’s got a plan for change

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-01 10:00:24

00:00 – Mishaal Rahman: Is Google’s delay in releasing source code a sign of AOSP’s impending doom? 00:04 – C. Scott Brown: And could Google finally make Health Connect a true alternative to Apple Health? 00:09 – Mishaal Rahman: I’m Mishaal Rahman. 00:11 – C. Scott Brown: And I’m C. Scott Brown and this is the Authority Insights podcast where we break down the latest news and leaks surrounding the Android operating system. 00:20 – Mishaal Rahman: So this week or actually last week, Google re

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How 'overworked, underpaid' humans train Google's AI to seem smart

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 09:30:50

In the spring of 2024, when Rachael Sawyer, a technical writer from Texas, received a LinkedIn message from a recruiter hiring for a vague title of writing analyst, she assumed it would be similar to her previous gigs of content creation. On her first day of work a week later, however, her expectations went bust. Instead of writing words herself, Sawyer’s job was to rate and moderate the content created by artificial intelligence. The job initially involved a mix of parsing through meeting note

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"Learning how to Learn" will be next generation's most needed skill

news.ycombinator.com Derek Gatopoulos 2025-10-01 13:10:55

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google's artificial intelligence research company DeepMind, right, and Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis discuss the future of AI, ethics and democracy during an event at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, in Athens, Greece, Friday, Sept. 12, 2025. Credit: AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis A t

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Evidence of Ancient Asteroid Impact and Tsunami Found in North Carolina

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-10-01 10:00:48

Around 35 million years ago, a small asteroid traveling at 40,000 miles per hour (64,373 kilometers per hour) struck Earth, crashing into the Atlantic Ocean near the modern-day town of Cape Charles, Virginia. The approximately 3-mile-wide (5-kilometer) object created a large impact crater that’s buried half a mile beneath Chesapeake Bay. Hundreds of miles south of the crater, scientists have found new evidence of the asteroid impact and the tsunami that followed the shattering event. Hidden ben

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Charlie Kaufman Holds Hollywood Responsible for Today’s ‘Terrible’ World

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-01 12:30:18

Filmmaker Charlie Kaufman’s got a lot to say about the state of the world—and why he thinks Hollywood is at least partially to blame for it. In a new interview with The Guardian, the mind behind 2004’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and this year’s short How to Shoot a Ghost said the film industry has “everything to do with [why] the world is in a terrible, terrible situation right now.” As part of said industry, Kaufman considers it a personal responsibility to “not put garbage into th

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Elon Musk’s Comments on Houston Flood Tunnels Are Misleading, Experts Say

gizmodo.com Yilun Cheng 2025-10-01 14:00:02

This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Billionaire Elon Musk is taking issue with a recent investigation by the Houston Chronicle and The Texas Newsroom that raised questions about a flood tunnel project he’s pitching to address Houston’s chronic flooding woes. But experts said his response, which he did not explain to the newsrooms, is

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Show HN: wcwidth-o1 – Find Unicode text cell width in no time for JavaScript/TS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 15:53:43

A TypeScript/JavaScript port of Markus Kuhn’s wcwidth and wcswidth implementations, optimized to O(1). These functions are defined in IEEE Std 1003.1 (POSIX). Superior Performance ⚡️ Instant O(1) lookup time 🌏 Full Unicode 15.1 coverage Getting Started Install Wcwidth-O1 via npm: npm i wcwidth-o1 Usage JavaScript / TypeScript: import wcwidth from 'wcwidth-o1' ; const example1 = wcwidth ( 'a' ) ; // 1 const example2 = wcwidth ( '好' ) ; // 2 const example3 = wcwidth ( '😊' ) ; // 2 or i

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Horror Icon Lin Shaye Is Returning to ‘Insidious’

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-10-01 17:50:56

Insidious franchise star Lin Shaye’s dearly departed medium character will make another return to star in Blumhouse’s sixth film in the series. The horror legend’s tenure as psychic Elise Rainier has been a beloved part of the Insidious movies and filmmaker Jacob Chase has officially enlisted her return, as reported by Deadline. The actress is joined by Amelia Eve (star of Netflix’s The Haunting of Bly Manor) in the upcoming installment, written by Chase and David Leslie Johnson. It goes into p

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First 'perovskite camera' can see inside the human body

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-28 05:49:08

Physicians rely on nuclear medicine scans, like SPECT scans, to watch the heart pump, track blood flow and detect diseases hidden deep inside the body. But today’s scanners depend on expensive detectors that are difficult to make. Now, scientists led by Northwestern University and Soochow University in China have built the first perovskite-based detector that can capture individual gamma rays for SPECT imaging with record-breaking precision. The new tool could make common types of nuclear medic

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Charlie Kirk’s Alleged Killer Wrote Meme Messages on Bullet Casings. Here’s Where They Came From

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-01 22:25:45

Police in Utah have arrested 22-year-old Tyler Robinson in connection with Wednesday’s shooting death of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, according to a press conference held Friday by Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and FBI Director Kash Patel. Robinson allegedly confessed to a family member that he had been the shooter, and a family friend called the police before he was arrested in the early morning hours of Friday. “Tyler Robinson reached out to a family friend w

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Via shrugs off tepid open to end first day of trading slightly above IPO price

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-10-02 01:16:00

Investors took a cautious approach to transit software startup Via’s IPO on Friday, with shares opening below the company’s IPO price before recovering at end the day slightly higher. The company, which initially filed confidentially for IPO in July, priced its IPO at $46 per share, raising $492.9 million. Those shares slipped to $44 when the stock began trading Friday afternoon, and then inched back into the green to finish at just over $49. The modest gain values Via at roughly $3.9 billion a

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Eden becomes the first Nintendo Switch emulator on the Google Play Store

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-02 05:04:25

Nick Fernandez / Android Authority TL;DR The first Nintendo Switch emulator is up on the Google Play Store. Eden Emulator is a fork of one of the most successful and infamous Switch emulators. Your phone will need to be running on Android 11 or later. At the end of last week, Nintendo Switch emulator Eden received a major update that saw the official stable release of version 0.0.3. This update fixed a number of bugs, provided some performance boosts, integrated EmuReady, and brought support

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This is your chance to save up to $400 on GRID Studio frames

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-02 05:14:48

If you’ve ever wanted one of GRID Studio’s famous deconstructed iPhones (or know someone who would really love it), now’s the time. To celebrate GRID Studio’s 5th anniversary, they’re taking hundreds off the regular price. But you have to act quick. We have featured GRID Studio’s frames multiple times on 9to5Mac, and for good reason. From the original iPhone to iPads, MacBooks, iPods, and beyond, their beautiful deconstructed wall art frames always prove popular gifts and collector’s items. No

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North Korea executing more people for watching foreign films and TV, UN finds

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 05:09:18

North Korea executing more people for watching foreign films and TV, UN finds 12 hours ago Share Save Jean Mackenzie Seoul correspondent Share Save KCNA via EPA Life under Kim Jong Un's rule has become tougher and people are more afraid, the report claims The North Korean government is increasingly implementing the death penalty, including for people caught watching and sharing foreign films and TV dramas, a major UN report has found. The dictatorship, which remains largely cut off from the w

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Hyundai battery plant faces startup delay after US immigration raid, CEO says

news.ycombinator.com Nora Eckert 2025-10-02 05:00:13

A battery plant co-owned by Hyundai Motor is facing a minimum startup delay of two to three months following an immigration raid last week, Hyundai CEO Jose Munoz said on Thursday. The Georgia plant, which is operated through a joint venture between Hyundai and South Korea's LG Energy Solution, was at the center of the largest single-site enforcement operation in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's history last week. Munoz, in his first public comments since the raid, said he was surpri

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Scientists Finally ‘See’ a Proton Move Through Water, and It Only Took 200 Years

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-02 05:00:37

For over two centuries, scientists have known that water transports a positive charge through protons. But they had never actually seen it happen—until now. In a Science paper published September 11, Yale researchers reported that they devised a method to track, measure, and effectively “see” a proton’s journey through water. For the experiment, the team used a 30-foot-long mass spectrometer—an instrument that separates different elements by mass—that took years to customize and refine. The dev

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Amazon suspends engineer who protested company's work with Israeli government

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-10-01 15:45:48

A person walks by The Spheres at the Amazon.com Inc. headquarters in Seattle, Washington, on Nov. 14, 2022. Amazon suspended a software engineer who protested the company's work with the Israeli government, CNBC has confirmed. Ahmed Shahrour, a Palestinian engineer who works for Amazon's Whole Foods business and is based in Seattle, was informed Monday morning that he was being suspended with pay "until further notice" after he posted messages on Slack criticizing the company's ties to Israel.

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HomeKit Weekly: SwitchBot’s Evaporative Humidifier gets smarter with Matter 1.4 support

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-10-02 13:00:00

SwitchBot released its Evaporative Humidifier last year, and it’s now even better thanks to newly upgraded firmware that includes Matter 1.4 support. The update brings faster setup and better cross-platform compatibility for a device type that is typucally stuck as a “dumb appliance” in your house. Some of my favorite gear eufyCam 2C Upgrade your home security with wireless cameras that includes HomeKit compatibility. Unlike a lot of humidifiers, the SwitchBot Evaporative Humidifier uses cold

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Save $70 on One of Our Favorite Android Tablets

wired.com Brad Bourque 2025-10-02 13:19:33

If you're hunting for a well-priced Android tablet that's perfect for occasional use around the house, look no further than the Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 FE, which is currently discounted at Amazon to just $430. It's one of our favorite Android tablets, with the right balance of features, power, and battery life for most people. Despite using an LCD screen instead of the increasingly common AMOLED, the Samsung's 10.7-inch panel is vivid and clear for most use cases. It's great for curling up with

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Google is a ‘bad actor’ says People CEO, accusing the company of stealing content

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-02 13:53:26

The CEO of the largest digital and print publisher in the U.S. has accused Google of being a bad actor for crawling its websites to support the search giant’s AI products. Neil Vogel, CEO of People, Inc. (formerly Dotdash Meredith), a publisher that operates over 40 brands, including People, Food & Wine, Travel & Leisure, Better Homes & Gardens, Real Simple, Southern Living, AllRecipes, and others, said that Google is not playing fair because it uses the same bot to crawl websites to index them

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Forget carriers: your next phone plan could come from an app

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-02 17:03:33

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR AT&T is partnering with Gigs, a Mobile Virtual Network Enabler, to let companies integrate prepaid services into existing apps and platforms. Early adopters include fintech companies like Klarna and OnePay, which are adding mobile service to their financial apps. Unlike most prepaid brands, Gigs-powered services can openly advertise that they run on AT&T’s network. Carriers are increasingly making it easier for independent companies to launch their o

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New HybridPetya ransomware can bypass UEFI Secure Boot

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-02 17:18:07

A recently discovered ransomware strain called HybridPetya can bypass the UEFI Secure Boot feature to install a malicious application on the EFI System Partition. HybridPetya appears inspired by the destructive Petya/NotPetya malware that encrypted computers and prevented Windows from booting in attacks in 2016 and 2017 but did not provide a recovery option. Researchers at cybersecurity company ESET found a sample of HybridPetya on VirusTotal. They note that this may be a research project, a p

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The case against social media is stronger than you think

Leaked Video Shows US Military Shooting UFO With Hellfire Missile

California's age verification bill for app stores and operating systems takes another step forward

The Case Against Social Media Is Stronger Than You Think

Scientists Say They Can't Explain the Signal They Just Detected From Beyond Our Galaxy

Scientists Find Evidence of Flowing Water on Giant Asteroid

My art skills peaked in kindergarten but my portable projector had me covered

Exclusive: Google wants to make Android phones safer by switching to ‘risk-based’ security updates

Android’s version of Apple Health is in bad shape, but Google’s got a plan for change

How 'overworked, underpaid' humans train Google's AI to seem smart

"Learning how to Learn" will be next generation's most needed skill

Evidence of Ancient Asteroid Impact and Tsunami Found in North Carolina

Charlie Kaufman Holds Hollywood Responsible for Today’s ‘Terrible’ World

Elon Musk’s Comments on Houston Flood Tunnels Are Misleading, Experts Say

Show HN: wcwidth-o1 – Find Unicode text cell width in no time for JavaScript/TS

Horror Icon Lin Shaye Is Returning to ‘Insidious’

First 'perovskite camera' can see inside the human body

Charlie Kirk’s Alleged Killer Wrote Meme Messages on Bullet Casings. Here’s Where They Came From

Via shrugs off tepid open to end first day of trading slightly above IPO price

Eden becomes the first Nintendo Switch emulator on the Google Play Store

This is your chance to save up to $400 on GRID Studio frames

North Korea executing more people for watching foreign films and TV, UN finds

Hyundai battery plant faces startup delay after US immigration raid, CEO says

Scientists Finally ‘See’ a Proton Move Through Water, and It Only Took 200 Years

Amazon suspends engineer who protested company's work with Israeli government

HomeKit Weekly: SwitchBot’s Evaporative Humidifier gets smarter with Matter 1.4 support

Save $70 on One of Our Favorite Android Tablets

Google is a ‘bad actor’ says People CEO, accusing the company of stealing content

Forget carriers: your next phone plan could come from an app

New HybridPetya ransomware can bypass UEFI Secure Boot

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