💥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Research Gold, a site that advertises services for medical researchers, including drafting peer-review ready manuscripts, systemic reviews and meta-analyses, claims that it’s “100% human-written, never AI,” and lists a number of PhD reviewers and professional methodologists on staff that carry out this meticulous, difficult work.The problem: The PhD reviewers Research Gold lists on its site are AI-generated and don’t exist. Other methodologists it lists are real, but are not aware their identity is being used by Research Gold. When I tried calling the company,…
🚀 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 11 Aug 2026 I recently stepped away from AI for a few weeks. Coming back, I’m more aware of the unhealthy habits I’d formed using it. It was an end-of-summer vacation, and I was lucky to be swimming in cold rivers, eating one too many s’mores, napping after lunch, etc. There was a lot of indulgence and a break from work and routines. For much of the time it was a break from my laptop and phone altogether, which meant a few weeks without AI.…
🔥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: CHATHAM, MASS. (WHDH) - A familiar sea creature that has helped save lives for decades may now need saving itself. Early each summer, horseshoe crabs crawl up on Massachusetts beaches to mate. “They are just lots of males here looking for some action,” one volunteer said. This time of year gives volunteers a chance to count just how many crabs remain. While horseshoe crabs outlived dinosaurs, their population along the East Coast drastically dipped in recent decades. One reason for the statistics is they are caught for fishing bait, another…
💥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Morgan Durrant, a Delta spokesperson, confirmed the details to Ars. “One initial finding is an unauthorized WiFi network, which was not provided, operated, or supplied by Delta, was present onboard the aircraft for a short time during the flight,” Durrant told Ars via email. Delta further noted that the flight’s safety was “never in question and no aircraft operating systems were affected,” and that no emergency was declared. The actual onboard Wi-Fi was disabled for 30 minutes. The Atlanta Police Department referred all inquiries to…
💥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today exercised its emergency authority in response to KalshiEX, LLC’s notification of a market emergency and ordered the exchange to continue to operate in accordance with the Commodity Exchange Act’s Core Principles.KalshiEX, LLC notified the Commission of the emergency after New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a complaint against the exchange in state court. In the lawsuit, filed on July 31, New York seeks a temporary restraining order prohibiting KalshiEX, LLC from offering all event contracts nationwide…
💥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Video gamers are in demand to help patrol the nation's skies.U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said in a recent social media post that the federal agency's recruitment campaign to recruit gamers as air traffic controllers has been a "game changer" for the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA hired more than 2,000 video gamers to train as air traffic controllers, meeting 94% of its hiring goal, according to the Transportation Department. Another 2,000-plus candidates are in the hiring pipeline, Duffy added. Why video gamers?When Duffy announced…
🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Continuing our investment in pg_clickhouse, improving pushdown coverage for analytic workloads has remained our top focus, with full pushdown across the TPC-H benchmark suite as our immediate metric. We've had a lot of progress since our last update in June, including on the TPC-H scoreboard, which we haven't really talked about since our introductory post back in December, so that's where we'll start. With the release of v0.10.0, our scoreboard has moved from 12 of 22 TPC-H queries fully pushed down to 16, leaving…
💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: In their launch editorial, the authors of the New Economies for Ending Poverty (NEEP) roadmap called for “changing the rules of the global economy.” They were promoting a policy playbook for the ‘degrowth’ movement, which has the stated goal of reducing economic production to redistribute wealth and reduce resource consumption. An Effort News investigation identified the source of NEEP’s income: 19th and early 20th century family fortunes. Those calling for degrowth are not the poor and hungry. Instead, they are heirs to generational fortunes, whose…
✨ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I was reading about compression recently when I stumbled upon something crazy: that compressors and LLMs are, at their core, trying to solve the exact same problem. In this post, I’m going to walk us through the basics of compression to understand its deep relationship with language modeling. It’s probably going to blow your mind. Bookmark this sectionHow compression works There are many ways of shrinking data. Take minification, for example: it works by stripping code down to the bare minimum that machines need…
🚀 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: As AI shifts from chatbots to autonomous agents, open models are serving market demands for full control over where AI runs and how it’s deployed and evolves. Today, NVIDIA is expanding its Nemotron 3 model family with Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, the highest-efficiency model in its class for long-running agentic AI workloads. This release follows Nemotron 3 Nano and reflects NVIDIA’s commitment to continually improving open models for greater accuracy and speed. Built for specialized tasks within larger multi-agent systems, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts…
