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People use AI for companionship much less than we’re led to think

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2025-08-25 04:21:28

The overabundance of attention paid to how people are turning to AI chatbots for emotional support, sometimes even striking up relationships, often leads one to think such behavior is commonplace. A new report by Anthropic, which makes the popular AI chatbot Claude, reveals a different reality: In fact, people rarely seek out companionship from Claude, and turn to the bot for emotional support and personal advice only 2.9% of the time. “Companionship and roleplay combined comprise less than 0.

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Brad Feld on “Give First” and the art of mentorship (at any age)

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-08-26 05:31:20

Brad Feld has spent decades operating by a simple principle: give without expecting anything in return. This philosophy goes beyond traditional pay-it-forward thinking, he says. It’s about helping others, knowing only that meaningful connections and opportunities will emerge organically over time if you do. The entrepreneur and VC, who began angel investing in the 1990s, rose to prominence through his candid blog “Feld Thoughts,” which pulled back the curtain on the then-secretive venture indus

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Playing First Contact in Eclipse, a 3-Day Sci-Fi Larp

news.ycombinator.com .Wp-Block-Comment-Author-Name Box-Sizing Border-Box 2025-08-26 00:02:23

Eclipse is a three-day sci-fi larp set in 2059. Earth has been wracked by environmental disasters, leading to widespread civil war. Humanity’s hopes lie in the Eclipse space programme, established to find a new home using wormhole technology. When the larp begins, all 150 players are in a base on Gliese 628A, one of seven candidate planets for colonisation. The three days take place in real time as the base initiates first contact with aliens. Like Arrival and Interstellar, twin inspirations fo

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People Are Already Dropping Dead as Extreme Heat Scorches the US

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-28 21:08:32

In large swaths of these United States, people are already dying from this summer's brutal heat wave. According to St. Louis' KMOV, a 55-year-old woman was found dead in her apartment this week after her electricity had been shut off during this so-called "heat dome" phenomenon — which involves heat being trapped by atmospheric conditions, as if by a lid or a cap. Reporting from KSDK, another area broadcaster, indicated that the woman had been stranded in her apartment without air conditioning

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From MIT to low Earth orbit

technologyreview.com Cady Coleman 2025-08-28 21:00:00

Coleman sits in the rear seat of a supersonic T-38 jet for pilot training as a newly minted NASA astronaut candidate in 1992. “When a chemist gets to fly a T-38, she will always be smiling,” she says. NASA On the day of Sally Ride’s talk, I hurried into 10-250, the large lecture hall beneath the Great Dome that is the emblem of MIT. Sandy Yulke, the chair of the Association of MIT Alumnae, was already introducing Sally. Sally. Just a first name. As if she were one of us. I slid into an empty se

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RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-08-29 05:30:27

The road to “make America healthy again” will apparently be paved with Apple Watches. Health and Human Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has just unveiled a campaign that will try to encourage the widespread use of wearables. RFK Jr. announced the initiative Tuesday afternoon during a House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee meeting to discuss the HHS’ budget request for the upcoming fiscal year. In response to a question from Senator Troy Balderson (R-Ohio) about wearables, Kennedy revealed

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My "Are you presuming most people are stupid?" test

news.ycombinator.com Andy Masley 2025-08-29 09:31:15

Sometimes when people talk about a problem in society, they strongly imply that most people are stupid. This is wrong. Most people aren’t super knowledgeable about a lot of specific facts about the world (only half of Americans can name the 3 branches of government) but they’re intelligent when it comes to their own lives and the areas they work and spend time in. We should expect the average person to struggle with factual questions about abstract ideas and far-off events, but not so much abou

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Fewer Identity Theft Reports, Larger Losses: Here's What to Make of Latest Research

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-30 03:45:02

Is your data protected? Getty The Identity Theft Resource Center said Tuesday that fewer people contacted it for help over the past year, but also warned that new technologies, including artificial intelligence, are making it increasingly easier for cybercriminals to successfully victimize people. The ITRC mentions that, while fewer people are reporting crimes, the crimes that are reported represent greater financial loss. According to the ITRC's 2025 Trends In Identity Report, a total of 7,58

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Google brings historical Street View imagery to Google Earth

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-08-30 09:00:00

Google announced on Tuesday that you can now access historical Street View imagery on Google Earth. Until now, you’ve only been able to access historical Street View imagery on Google Maps. Google says the launch will allow people to explore from even more viewpoints, whether it’s a bird’s eye view or at street level. Google is introducing the update to commemorate Google Earth’s 20th birthday. The launch comes as there was a social media trend last year that saw people visiting Google Maps to

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Harvard hired researcher to uncover slavery ties, fires him for finding slaves

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-30 17:24:55

Jordan Lloyd had been praying for something big to happen. The 35-year-old screenwriter was quarantining in her apartment in North Hollywood in June 2020. Without any work projects to fill her days, she picked up the novel Roots, by Alex Haley, to reread. The novel tells the story of Kunta Kinte, Haley’s ancestor, who is captured and sold into slavery in the Gambia and then brought to Virginia, where he is forced to labor on a plantation. It was adapted into an Emmy-award winning television ser

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Meta is ruining WhatsApp with ads, but I still can’t leave it

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-01 00:00:15

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority When WhatsApp was acquired by Meta (then Facebook) over a decade ago, people immediately began to fairly speculate that ads would eventually seep into what had, until then, been a refreshingly ad-free messaging experience. And yet, quite surprisingly, WhatsApp managed to stay mostly unspoiled, even though bits of Instagram and Facebook (like Stories and Communities) kept sneaking in. That sunny stretch is starting to fade at last. If you’ve been following th

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2B people don't have safe drinking water: what does this mean for them?

news.ycombinator.com Hannah Ritchie 2025-09-01 09:12:08

Two billion people don’t have safe drinking water: what does this really mean for them? For billions, it can mean hours spent collecting water. For almost a million, it means dying from disease. In the time it would take me to write the next sentence, I could get up, walk to the kitchen, and pour myself a glass of clean water. I’ve never had to worry about whether that water would make me sick. Almost six billion other people in the world share this reality. They have safe drinking water in th

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Hinge CEO Justin McLeod says dating AI chatbots is ‘playing with fire’

theverge.com Nilay Patel 2025-09-01 09:00:00

Today, I’m talking with Hinge founder and CEO Justin McLeod. Hinge is one of the biggest dating apps in the United States — it’s rivaled only by Tinder, and both are owned by the massive conglomerate Match Group, which has consolidated a huge chunk of the online dating ecosystem. A fair warning here: I’ve never actually used a dating app — the algorithm that matched my wife and I was the university housing lottery, which put us in adjacent dorm rooms in the fall of 2000. And my wife is now a di

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The X Window System didn't immediately have X terminals

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-01 23:50:24

For a while, X terminals were a reasonably popular way to give people comparatively inexpensive X desktops. These X terminals relied on X's network transparency so that only the X server had to run on the X terminal itself, with all of your terminal windows and other programs running on a server somewhere and just displaying on the X terminal. For a long time, using a big server and a lab full of X terminals was significantly cheaper than setting up a lab full of actual workstations (until inexp

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From fear to fluency: Why empathy is the missing ingredient in AI rollouts

venturebeat.com Rukmini Reddy 2025-09-01 21:05:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more While many organizations are eager to explore how AI can transform their business, its success will hinge not on tools, but on how well people embrace them. This shift requires a different kind of leadership rooted in empathy, curiosity and intentionality. Technology leaders must guide their organizations with clarity and care. People use

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How to negotiate your salary package

news.ycombinator.com May 2025-08-28 23:16:53

The complete guide to salary negotiation for engineers and other professionals who think negotiating is morally questionable. Until I ran VaccinateCA my single most important career contribution might have been writing about salary negotiation. That essay has been read by millions of people. Of those people, a relatively small percentage send me email to tell me that the advice has worked for them. I previously kept a spreadsheet of the impact they shared with me, and it ticked over into eight

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The cultural decline of literary fiction

news.ycombinator.com Owen Yingling 2025-09-01 17:00:09

Recently, there has been a lot of talk about the “decline of the literary (straight) (white) male.” The marginal benefit provided by an additional take on this topic, some clever new angle walking the tightrope between edgy and politically correct, is rapidly approaching zero. The problem with these articles—and the discourse as a whole—is that none of them go far enough. There is an impassable chasm between the stardom of Mailer, Updike, McCarthy, DFW, Franzen, etc and whoever is getting fello

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The Cultural Decline of Literary Fiction

news.ycombinator.com Owen Yingling 2025-09-01 22:00:09

Recently, there has been a lot of talk about the “decline of the literary (straight) (white) male.” The marginal benefit provided by an additional take on this topic, some clever new angle walking the tightrope between edgy and politically correct, is rapidly approaching zero. The problem with these articles—and the discourse as a whole—is that none of them go far enough. There is an impassable chasm between the stardom of Mailer, Updike, McCarthy, DFW, Franzen, etc and whoever is getting fello

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On memes, mimetic desire, and why it's always that deep

news.ycombinator.com Caitlyn Clark 2025-08-31 05:23:52

When filmmaker and scholar Hito Steyerl wrote her manifesto “In Defense of the Poor Image” in 2009, internet memes were only in their infancy. But in the years since, the meme has become the dominant form of the poor image — “an illicit fifth-generation bastard of an original image.” Of the poor image, Steyerl wrote: Altogether, poor images present a snapshot of the affective condition of the crowd, its neurosis, paranoia, and fear, as well as its craving for intensity, fun, and distraction. T

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Meta held talks to buy Thinking Machines, Perplexity, and Safe Superintelligence

theverge.com Alex Heath 2025-09-02 01:53:47

is a deputy editor and author of thenewsletter. He has been reporting on the tech industry for more than a decade. At this point, it’s becoming easier to say which AI startups Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t looked at acquiring. In addition to Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence (SSI), sources tell me the Meta CEO recently discussed buying ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab and Perplexity, the AI-native Google rival. None of these talks progressed to the formal offer stage for variou

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James Gunn Says ‘Get Off Matt’s Nuts,’ ‘The Batman’ Sequel Will Happen When It Happens

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-09-02 15:45:02

Cool your jets Batman fans, James Gunn has heard you loud and clear over the highly anticipated sequel to Matt Reeves’ The Batman. So much so that he recently expressed his frustration with the demand in defense of the time DC Studios was taking. “Listen, we’re supposed to get a script in June. I hope that happens. We feel really good about it,” Gunn told Entertainment Weekly, and colorfully added, “People should get off Matt’s nuts because it’s like, let the guy write the screenplay in the amo

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Rolling the ladder up behind us

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-02 19:51:02

Rolling the ladder up behind us Published on 2025-06-20 , 5674 words, 21 minutes to read Who will take over for us if we don't train the next generation to replace us? A critique of craft, AI, and the legacy of human expertise. A picture of two patches of wild grass bifurcated by a retaining pond. - Photo by Xe Iaso, Canon EOS R6 Mark 2, unknown lens Cloth is one of the most important goods a society can produce. Clothing is instrumental for culture, expression, and for protecting one's modes

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Troubling Case Links Vaping to Aggressive Lung Cancer

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-09-03 09:20:47

Vaping might be safer than cigarette smoking, but they carry their own health risks. A New Jersey man’s electronic cigarette habit likely contributed to his fast-spreading, fatal lung cancer, his doctors say. Doctors at the AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic City detailed the tragic death this month in the American Journal of Case Reports. The 51-year-old former smoker and longtime vaper developed an aggressive lung cancer that killed him just months after diagnosis. Though a causa

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Tesla partners with Electrify Expo to launch full-weekend EV test drives

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-09-03 09:00:00

Electrify Expo, which has spent the last five years putting on festivals across the U.S. to educate people about electric vehicles, is launching a demo experience where people can take an EV home for a weekend. The first company to partner up is Tesla, and Electrify Expo CEO BJ Birtwell says more brands will come on board in the near future. “It’s an opportunity for our attendees at Electrify Expo to have a no-pressure, non-sales-y experience with an electric vehicle on their terms, running err

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My A11y Journey

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-03 10:34:48

23 years ago I was in a bad place. I'd quit my first attempt at a PhD for various reasons that were, with hindsight, bad, and I was suddenly entirely aimless. I lucked into picking up a sysadmin role back at TCM where I'd spent a summer a year before, but that's not really what I wanted in my life. And then Hanna mentioned that her PhD supervisor was looking for someone familiar with Linux to work on making Dasher , one of the group's research projects, more usable on Linux. I jumped.The timing

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My A11 Journey

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-03 15:34:48

23 years ago I was in a bad place. I'd quit my first attempt at a PhD for various reasons that were, with hindsight, bad, and I was suddenly entirely aimless. I lucked into picking up a sysadmin role back at TCM where I'd spent a summer a year before, but that's not really what I wanted in my life. And then Hanna mentioned that her PhD supervisor was looking for someone familiar with Linux to work on making Dasher , one of the group's research projects, more usable on Linux. I jumped.The timing

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Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-03 16:27:48

Paul was a gig worker in the San Francisco Bay Area.1 Formerly a project manager in tech until several companies in a row laid him off, he started working entirely for platforms like Lyft, Uber and TaskRabbit. He managed to eke out a living, but the jobs posed a different problem. ‘Honestly, a lot of times, I go out and the person doesn’t even know my name, even though I introduced myself as Paul,’ he told me. ‘Instead, customers just point and say: “OK, yeah, just put it over there,” and then

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How a 30-year-old techno-thriller predicted our digital isolation

technologyreview.com Tom Humberstone 2025-09-04 01:00:00

How much will you trust an AI chatbot powered by Meta to be your friend? Answers to this may vary. Even if you won’t, other people are already making close connections with “AI companions” or “falling in love” with ChatGPT. The rise of “cognitive offloading”—of people asking AI to do their critical thinking for them—is already well underway, with many high school and college students admitting to a deep reliance on the technology. Beyond the obvious concern that AI “friends” are hallucinating,

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The FDA Just Approved a Long-Lasting Injection to Prevent HIV

wired.com Jorge Garay 2025-09-04 02:30:00

The US Food and Drug Administration has just approved lenacapavir, an injectable form of HIV prevention that is almost 100 percent effective and requires only two doses per year. Science magazine described the medicine the most important scientific advance of 2024. In clinical trials, lenacapavir proved to be 99.9 percent effective in preventing HIV infection through sexual transmission in people weighing more than 35 kilograms. The drug, an antiretroviral, works not by stimulating an immune re

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In praise of “normal” engineers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-04 09:36:41

This article was originally commissioned by Luca Rossi (paywalled) for refactoring.fm, on February 11th, 2025. Luca edited a version of it that emphasized the importance of building “10x engineering teams” . It was later picked up by IEEE Spectrum (!!!), who scrapped most of the teams content and published a different, shorter piece on March 13th. This is my personal edit. It is not exactly identical to either of the versions that have been publicly released to date. It contains a lot of the so

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People use AI for companionship much less than we’re led to think

Brad Feld on “Give First” and the art of mentorship (at any age)

Playing First Contact in Eclipse, a 3-Day Sci-Fi Larp

People Are Already Dropping Dead as Extreme Heat Scorches the US

From MIT to low Earth orbit

RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years

My "Are you presuming most people are stupid?" test

Fewer Identity Theft Reports, Larger Losses: Here's What to Make of Latest Research

Google brings historical Street View imagery to Google Earth

Harvard hired researcher to uncover slavery ties, fires him for finding slaves

Meta is ruining WhatsApp with ads, but I still can’t leave it

2B people don't have safe drinking water: what does this mean for them?

Hinge CEO Justin McLeod says dating AI chatbots is ‘playing with fire’

The X Window System didn't immediately have X terminals

From fear to fluency: Why empathy is the missing ingredient in AI rollouts

How to negotiate your salary package

The cultural decline of literary fiction

The Cultural Decline of Literary Fiction

On memes, mimetic desire, and why it's always that deep

Meta held talks to buy Thinking Machines, Perplexity, and Safe Superintelligence

James Gunn Says ‘Get Off Matt’s Nuts,’ ‘The Batman’ Sequel Will Happen When It Happens

Rolling the ladder up behind us

Troubling Case Links Vaping to Aggressive Lung Cancer

Tesla partners with Electrify Expo to launch full-weekend EV test drives

My A11y Journey

My A11 Journey

Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible

How a 30-year-old techno-thriller predicted our digital isolation

The FDA Just Approved a Long-Lasting Injection to Prevent HIV

In praise of “normal” engineers

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