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Guess I'm a Rationalist Now

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-14 07:22:06

A week ago I attended LessOnline, a rationalist blogging conference featuring many people I’ve known for years—Scott Alexander, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Zvi Mowshowitz, Sarah Constantin, Carl Feynman—as well as people I’ve known only online and was delighted to meet in person, like Joe Carlsmith and Jacob Falkovich and Daniel Reeves. The conference was at Lighthaven, a bewildering maze of passageways, meeting-rooms, sleeping quarters, gardens, and vines off Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, which has rece

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Dell’s 2-in-1 Touchscreen Laptop Drops to $800 From $3,000, Comes With Tons of Goodies for Early Prime Day

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2025-09-14 19:40:26

If you’re still working off of a piece of decade old tech, it may be time to start looking for a replacement. The Dell Inspiron 2-in-1 laptop is a worthwhile option that can work for pretty much anyone’s basic needs, be it you’re a student, small business owner, or just someone who wants to use something besides their phone to check Facebook. Dell has its Inspiron touchscreen laptop on sale for 73% off, bringing it down from its listed price of $3,000 to just $800. Now that’s a pretty staggerin

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The best budget gaming laptops for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-15 02:00:37

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Gaming laptops have come a long way, and you no longer need to spend a fortune to enjoy smooth gameplay. While most gaming laptops can be pricey, there are now affordable options that deliver impressive performance without compromising too much on features. Whether you're diving into e

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This Lenovo laptop helped clean up my messy photo library - and it's on sale

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-09-15 01:00:15

ZDNET's key takeaways The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is available now for $1,299 for the 16GB of RAM, 1TB SSD configuration. It pairs a ton of customizable features with a nice display, surprisingly beefy speakers, and a marathon battery. A few physical design choices might be of concern for some users, and I wish it had an OLED. View now at Best Buy View now at Lenovo more buying choices At Best Buy, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is on sale for $1,100, a $300 discount. Lenovo a

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The best laptops for graphic designers in 2025: Expert tested and reviewed

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-09-15 03:15:13

Graphic design is an incredibly creative medium, but you have to have the right device to bring your ideas to fruition. A good laptop is more than a machine. It's a creative tool as important to the graphic designer as the brush is to the artist. It needs to run demanding software, display color with precision, and handle massive files without stuttering or overheating. We tested the top models of 2025 to find which ones meet the demanding needs of today's graphic artists. Also: Best laptops f

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Thursday, June 19

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-15 02:13:00

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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DropZap World – My falling block game with lasers, released after years of work

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-12 14:10:04

DropZap World — a falling block game with lasers, mirrors, splitters, color matching, and 120 levels! Experience the thrill of lasers, mirrors, and color-matching in DropZap World — a fresh twist on falling block games with 120 electrifying levels! Developed by the original creator of DropZap and DropZap 2, DropZap World stands on its own with unique gameplay and a level-based progression system that will captivate both new players and longtime fans. FEATURES - 120 Challenging Levels: Test your

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Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ Is Returning to Theaters, in a Truly Mega Way

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-09-15 07:15:48

Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola’s long-awaited dream project, came and went from theaters last year. Usually, after that, a film would show up on demand or for streaming but that wasn’t the case here. What was happening with Megalopolis? Now we know. Starting July 20, Coppola’s film will be taken on the road for a series of events called “An Evening With Francis Ford Coppola and Megalopolis Screening.” It kicks off in Red Bank, NJ, before going to Port Chester, NY; Chicago, IL; Denver, CO; Da

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Quantum Hardware Readiness for Two-Step Quantum Search Algorithm

computer.org Ilse Paredes 2025-09-15 10:03:11

The traveling salesman problem (TSP) has challenged computer scientists for decades. Finding the shortest route that visits all cities exactly once sounds simple, but it becomes computationally explosive as the number of destinations grows. With applications spanning logistics, manufacturing, and network optimization, any breakthrough in solving TSP efficiently could transform entire industries. A recent paper published in IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering by Rei Sato, Cui Gordon, Kazuhi

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OpenAI open sourced a new Customer Service Agent framework — learn more about its growing enterprise strategy

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-09-15 11:30:02

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Editor’s note: Carl will lead an editorial roundtable on this topic at VB Transform next week. Register today. OpenAI has released a new open-source demo that gives developers a hands-on look at how to build intelligent, workflow-aware AI agents using the Agents SDK. As first noticed by AI influencer and engineer Tibor Blaho (of the thir

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DropZap World – my falling block game with lasers, released after years of work

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-13 00:10:04

DropZap World — a falling block game with lasers, mirrors, splitters, color matching, and 120 levels! Experience the thrill of lasers, mirrors, and color-matching in DropZap World — a fresh twist on falling block games with 120 electrifying levels! Developed by the original creator of DropZap and DropZap 2, DropZap World stands on its own with unique gameplay and a level-based progression system that will captivate both new players and longtime fans. FEATURES - 120 Challenging Levels: Test your

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OpenAI is winding down its work with Scale AI, whose founder is joining Meta

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-09-15 22:02:14

OpenAI is winding down its work with Scale AI, the artificial intelligence startup that received a multibillion-dollar investment from Meta earlier this month and saw its founder join the social media company to lead an AI effort. Scale AI is best known for its work helping major tech companies, including OpenAI, prepare data they use to train cutting-edge AI models. But OpenAI has been pulling back from the startup over the last six to 12 months, according to an OpenAI spokesperson. OpenAI ha

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Spatializing 6k years of global urbanization from 3700 BC to AD 2000

news.ycombinator.com Reba 2025-09-12 10:53:25

Transcription Chandler’s book includes population data from 2250 BC to AD 1975 in various charts and tables. The book contains 656 9×5.5 inch pages and is divided into multiple sections, including Sources and Methods, Continental Tables and Maps (highlighting locations of major cities as illustrated in Fig. 4), Data Sheets for Ancient Cities (the main tables of the book shown in Fig. 1), Tables of the World’s Largest Cities, and Whereabouts of Unfamiliar Cities. Each page in the Data Sheets for

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Originally Priced at $1,250, These Bang & Olufsen Headphones Now Match The Price Of AirPods Max

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-09-16 03:23:52

Bang & Olufsen is the epitome of the luxury brand of high-end headphones, the firm that reflects both perfect design and celestial sound. Even Apple, with its much-lauded AirPods Max, tends to sell its flagship for approximately half the price of Bang & Olufsen’s flagship – at least so far. Amazon is having a final sale on the Bang & Olufsen Beoplay H95 in black, and it’s a rare opportunity to get one of the greatest active noise-canceling headphones out there: For fans of the highest quality a

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Iran’s Internet Blackout Adds New Dangers for Civilians Amid Israeli Bombings

wired.com Matt Burgess 2025-09-16 03:17:52

Alimardani says that it appears mobile data services are patchy, and for many people virtual private networks, which can be used to avoid censorship, have stopped working. This means it has been difficult to reach people in the country and potentially for information to get out, Alimardani says. “Some family that left Tehran today were offline and disconnected from the internet and finally found some connectivity when they were 200 kilometers outside of Tehran in another province,” Alimardani ex

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OpenAI drops Scale AI as a data provider following Meta deal

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-09-16 03:16:21

OpenAI is phasing out its work with Scale AI and cutting ties with the data provider following Meta’s deal with the startup, an OpenAI spokesperson told Bloomberg on Wednesday. Sarah Friar, the chief financial officer of OpenAI, previously suggested the company would continue its work with Scale AI. Now, it appears OpenAI has changed its tone. OpenAI said it was already winding down its work with Scale AI ahead of Meta’s announcement last week that it was investing billions of dollars in the s

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Framework Laptop 12 review

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-16 05:09:34

"What's this purple laptop? It's cool." Over a decade-plus of doing gadget reviews and review-adjacent things, my wife (and, lately, my 5-year-old) have mostly stopped commenting on the ever-shifting selection of laptops I have in my bag or lying around the house at any given time. Maybe she can't tell them apart, or maybe she just figures there isn't that much to say about whatever black or silver metal slab I'm carrying around. Either way, they practically never elicit any kind of response, u

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Dell 15.6″ Laptop with Outrageous Specs Is Now 75% Off in Amazon’s Ultimate Clearance Sale

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-09-16 07:42:28

Historically, it has not been common to get a Dell laptop at less than $1000 because the company prides itself in providing superior features. However, Amazon sometimes surprises us with deals that beat even Black Friday discounts. Right now is one such precious moment: Amazon has dropped the price of a powerful Dell 15.6-inch laptop (1TB SSD, 32GB RAM, i3) to the point where it can be yours for less than $500 which is a virtually unheard-of price for a Dell of such caliber. At $499, the model i

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OpenAI found features in AI models that correspond to different ‘personas’

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-09-16 07:10:58

OpenAI researchers say they’ve discovered hidden features inside AI models that correspond to misaligned “personas,” according to new research published by the company on Wednesday. By looking at an AI model’s internal representations — the numbers that dictate how an AI model responds, which often seem completely incoherent to humans — OpenAI researchers were able to find patterns that lit up when a model misbehaved. The researchers found one such feature that corresponded to toxic behavior i

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ChatGPT can now generate images in WhatsApp

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-16 11:53:14

Back in December, OpenAI launched its ChatGPT WhatsApp contact as part of its “12 Days of OpenAI” holiday announcements. And while this version of the chatbot is still more limited than what you get on the web or desktop, it is rolling out a useful new trick: image generation. Yep, people actually do this While the idea of texting ChatGPT over WhatsApp might seem a little odd, several WhatsApp-heavy users I’ve talked to say they love the convenience of having ChatGPT right there, without needi

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Anthropic now lets developers use Claude Code with any remote MCP server

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-09-16 11:00:00

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Anthropic pioneered the Model Context Protocol (MCP) open standard for connecting AI assistants and agents to data systems seamlessly and securely. Since MCP's introduction last year, the standard has become increasingly adopted across the industry, including by Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google. Now, the company is expanding capabilities for developers. Claude Code support for remote MCP On Wednesday, Anthropic announced that it would allow users to integrate Claude Code with

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The best graphic design software of 2025: Feature-packed, professional tools

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-09-16 11:34:42

Whether you're a student just starting your graphic design journey or you're a seasoned professional, you won't get far without the right tools. We've moved on from the early days of classic Adobe Photoshop and Corel, and while these software suites are now modern and valuable in their own right, there is a multitude of graphic design packages out there for you to choose from. Windows, Mac, tablets, or even smartphones -- no matter the device, there's software out there for you. Some are focus

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The ‘OpenAI Files’ push for oversight in the race to AGI

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-09-16 11:19:50

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said humanity is only years away from developing artificial general intelligence that could automate most human labor. If that’s true, then humanity also deserves to understand and have a say in the people and mechanics behind such an incredible and destabilizing force. That is the guiding purpose behind “The OpenAI Files,” an archival project from the Midas Project and the Tech Oversight Project, two nonprofit tech watchdog organizations. The Files are a “collection o

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Dotemu’s CEO wants to bring back classic games the right way

venturebeat.com Mike Minotti 2025-09-16 15:00:00

I grew up with arcade beat-em-ups like Konami’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time and X-Men. It was a genre I loved, so I was sad to see it diminish in relevance. Thankfully, beat-em-ups have had a revival, thanks in part to publishers like Dotemu and developers like Tribute Games. The two teamed up for 2022’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge, a worthy successor to Turtles in Time. Now, they’re working on Marvel Cosmic Invasion. Like Shredder’s Revenge, it’s a classi

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Framework Laptop 12 review: Doing the right thing comes at a cost

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-16 15:00:14

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Earlier this year, Framework announced it was making a smaller, 12-inch laptop and a beefy desktop to go alongside its 13- and 16-inch notebooks. A few months later, and the former has arrived, putting the same modular, repairable laptop into a slightly smaller body. Unlike its bigger

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Best Buy Has HP’s 14″ 2-in-1 Laptop for Almost 50% Off to Compete With Amazon’s Early Prime Day Deal

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2025-09-16 15:40:00

Why choose between a laptop or a tablet when you can get one device that can be both? Best Buy has the Lenovo Envy 2-in-1 touchscreen laptop at a pretty sizable discount. Normally priced at $800, but for a limited time you can get it for $380 off. That brings it down to just $420—a discount of about 48%. The HP Envy laptop supports Full HD 1920 x 1080 resolution in it’s 14-inch touchscreen. The bezel is super thin allowing the active area of the laptop to reach the very edge. It’s running on an

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Framework Laptop 12 review: I’m excited to see what the 2nd generation looks like

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-16 15:00:46

"What's this purple laptop? It's cool." Over a decade-plus of doing gadget reviews and review-adjacent things, my wife (and, lately, my 5-year-old) have mostly stopped commenting on the ever-shifting selection of laptops I have in my bag or lying around the house at any given time. Maybe she can't tell them apart, or maybe she just figures there isn't that much to say about whatever black or silver metal slab I'm carrying around. Either way, they practically never elicit any kind of response, u

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YouTube launches new Shopping product stickers for Shorts

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-09-16 15:19:39

YouTube is updating the Shopping experience for Shorts, the company announced on Wednesday. The platform is launching new Shopping product stickers to make it easy for viewers to know that the products being used in the Short are shoppable. The new stickers could be a way for creators to increase their earnings. During its testing last month, YouTube found that Shorts with Shopping product stickers saw over 40% more clicks on products than Shorts with the Shopping button, it said. Previously,

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Social media beats TV as top American news source for first time, study finds

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-09-16 19:36:40

SB Arts Media/Getty For the first time, the proportion of Americans turning to social media for news surpassed traditional platforms like TV. Oxford's Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism released its 2025 Digital News Report this week, and the data shows a shift in how Americans get their news. Researchers surveyed nearly 100,000 people across 48 countries and asked how often they used certain forms of media to get their news in the past week – social and video networks, TV, online

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Framework Laptop 12 review: plastic fantastic

theverge.com Antonio G. Di Benedetto 2025-09-16 20:00:00

is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. Framework finally made a touchscreen laptop, and the convertible 2-in-1 is one of the coolest-looking computers ever made. It doesn’t have top-tier specs, but its two-year-old 13th Gen Intel Core i3 processor isn’t on its last legs just yet. Like Framework’s Laptop 13, the new Laptop 12 has modular ports and fully repairable innards. An

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Guess I'm a Rationalist Now

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OpenAI is winding down its work with Scale AI, whose founder is joining Meta

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Iran’s Internet Blackout Adds New Dangers for Civilians Amid Israeli Bombings

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Dell 15.6″ Laptop with Outrageous Specs Is Now 75% Off in Amazon’s Ultimate Clearance Sale

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