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Not just Neanderthals: Ghost lineage in Africa left its mark on our DNA (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: neanderthal, denisovans, ghost lineage

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Hooray for the Sockets Interface (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | by George Michaelson | tags: unix, berkeley software distribution, sockets

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New Parody Site Threatens to Replace CEOs With AI for Tiny Fraction of Their Bloated Salaries (futurism.com)

2026-07-25 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: overpaid, california berkeley, overpaid

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This El Niño is set to be the largest on record by a ‘mind-blowing margin’ (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-23 | by Dinneen | tags: el niño, berkeley earth, climate change

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Meta's AI models are powering the first wave of Genesis Mission projects (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-21 | tags: meta, genesis mission, lawrence berkeley national laboratory

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Frontier AI Is Faceplanting at Real-World Workplace Tasks (futurism.com)

2026-07-21 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: frontier ai, uc berkeley, autonomous agents

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GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-18 | tags: gpt-5.6, convex optimization, lean

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Metal-Organic Frameworks, Chemistry's New Miracle Materials (2018) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-15 | tags: berkeley, field, mofs

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Metal-Organic Frameworks, Chemistry's New Miracle Materials (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-15 | tags: berkeley, field, mofs

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Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Manager (LMDB) 1.0 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-02 | tags: lmdb, berkeleydb, memory-mapped database

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Arena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, is now a $100M business (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-29 | by Marina Temkin | get AI Leaderboard Platform → | tags: arena, uc berkeley, ai leaderboard

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A Berkeley AI professor makes a provocative argument for decelerating AI research (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-25 | get AI Safety and Ethics Book → | tags: berkeley ai, emma pierson, ai research

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'Electronic Nose' Shows Promise for Detecting Food Allergens and Spoilage (cnet.com)

2026-06-18 | by See Full Bio | get Electronic Nose Device → | tags: electronic nose, university of california berkeley, food allergens

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Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-04 | by Litong Deng | get AI Math Practice Workbook → | tags: berkeley cs, ai usage, math skills

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College Professors Say Incoming Students No Longer Understand Middle School Math and Science (futurism.com)

2026-06-03 | by Frank Landymore | get Math and Science Study Guides → | tags: uc berkeley, middle school math, sat

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Author Correction: US oil and gas system emissions from nearly one million aerial site measurements (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-29 | by Sherwin | get Drone Emission Monitoring Kit → | tags: california energy commission, lawrence berkeley national laboratory, aerial site measurements

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Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-28 | by Staff Writer | get SAT Math Prep Book → | tags: uc berkeley, sat, act

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I Gave My OpenClaw Agent a Physical Body (wired.com)

2026-05-20 | by Will Knight | get OpenClaw Robotics Kit → | tags: openclaw, huggingface, lerobot 101

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Grade Inflation Is Going Nuts as Every Student Is Basically Submitting the Same Essay (futurism.com)

2026-05-18 | by Frank Landymore | get Essay Grading Software Tool → | tags: ai chatbots, grade inflation, uc berkeley

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Harvard, Berkeley and Thousands of Schools Suffer Cyber Outage (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-05-07 | get Cybersecurity USB Data Block → | tags: harvard, canvas, cyber outage

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Research Hub Bridges Cybersecurity Gap for Under-Resourced Organizations (darkreading.com)

2026-05-05 | by Arielle Waldman | get Cybersecurity Starter Kit → | tags: cybersecurity, cisa, multi-state information sharing

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Elon Musk’s only expert witness at the OpenAI trial fears an AGI arms race (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-04 | by Tim Fernholz | get AI Safety and Ethics Book → | tags: openai, agi, elonn musk

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Why are top university websites serving porn? It comes down to shoddy housekeeping. (arstechnica.com)

2026-04-24 | tags: university websites, berkeley.edu, columbia.edu

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New 3D map of Universe could solve dark energy mystery (arstechnica.com)

2026-04-15 | get 3D Universe Star Map → | tags: desi, universe, dark energy

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Physicists think they've resolved the proton size puzzle (arstechnica.com)

2026-04-14 | get Proton Size Measurement Kit → | tags: proton radius, quantum mechanics, lothar maisenbacher

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Exploiting the most prominent AI agent benchmarks (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-11 | get AI Benchmark Test Kit → | tags: ai agent benchmarks, uc berkeley, sweet-bench

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How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-11 | get AI Benchmark Testing Kit → | tags: ai benchmarks, uc berkeley, trustworthiness

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Naked Man Bursts Into Tesla Service Center With a Shotgun (futurism.com)

2026-04-09 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: tesla, berkeley, shotgun

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I prefer OG style websites – what are yours? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-03 | get Vintage Web Design Kit → | tags: wikipedia, ucjeps, berkeley

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In Memoriam: John W. Addison, my PhD advisor (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-15 | by View All Posts Bill Wadge | tags: john addison, uc berkeley, model theory