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Write your next book without the friction

Posted by harscoat on Friday September 25, 2026 @09:31AM
from the hughhowey.com dept.

https://hughhowey.com/neo/

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Uproar in France over award-winning author accused of using AI

Posted by harscoat on Friday September 25, 2026 @06:48AM
from the bbc.com dept.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ck7v4y45893go

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Racing with the Machines

Posted by harscoat on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @09:32PM
from the peterturchin.substack.com dept.

https://peterturchin.substack.com/p/cliodynamics-and-ai-the-mid-2026

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Firelight and the Origins of Spoken Language

Posted by harscoat on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @05:52AM
from the royalsocietypublishing.org dept.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/293/2078/20260602/483174/Firelight-and-the-origins-of-spoken

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The End of an Era

Posted by harscoat on Friday July 31, 2026 @07:51AM
from the hughhowey.com dept.

https://hughhowey.com/the-end-of-an-era/

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Shooting Starlink: The "no limits" partnership between Russia and China

Posted by harscoat on Thursday July 09, 2026 @07:00AM
from the theins.press dept.

https://theins.press/en/inv/294635

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The Death of Khamenei and the End of an Era

Posted by harscoat on Saturday February 28, 2026 @04:33PM
from the theatlantic.com dept.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/02/death-khamenei-end-era/686196/

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Iran's supreme leader killed in strike, Israeli officials say

Posted by harscoat on Saturday February 28, 2026 @04:19PM
from the washingtonpost.com dept.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/02/28/israel-strikes-iran-live-updates/

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Khamenei Dead

Posted by harscoat on Saturday February 28, 2026 @02:47PM
from the twitter.com dept.

https://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/2027830773328302396

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OpenAI Raises $110B

Posted by harscoat on Friday February 27, 2026 @09:24AM
from the wsj.com dept.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/openai-raises-110-billion-a2a34d23

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China's robot dance for German Chancellor

Posted by harscoat on Thursday February 26, 2026 @06:20AM
from the twitter.com dept.

https://twitter.com/MKuefner/status/2026928081538265378

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Twitter lists are not working

Posted by harscoat on Sunday January 18, 2026 @05:04PM
from the x.com dept.

https://x.com/i/lists/1569816202020589570

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Are You Dead?

Posted by harscoat on Monday January 12, 2026 @09:14AM
from the twitter.com dept.

https://twitter.com/tongbingxue/status/2010631573251690622

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Meta's Yann LeCun targets €3B valuation for AI startup

Posted by harscoat on Thursday December 18, 2025 @12:26PM
from the ft.com dept.

https://www.ft.com/content/d88729c0-c44f-4530-b888-bafa29ee0446

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Yann LeCun raising €500M at €3B valuation for new AI startup

Posted by harscoat on Thursday December 18, 2025 @12:09PM
from the sifted.eu dept.

https://sifted.eu/articles/yann-lecun-ami-labs-3bn-valuation

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Ants as liquid brains: Movement heterogeneity shapes collective efficiency

Posted by harscoat on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @08:39AM
from the pnas.org dept.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2506930122

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Ancient DNA solves mystery of Hungarian, Finnish language family's origins

Posted by harscoat on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @05:05AM
from the news.harvard.edu dept.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/07/ancient-dna-solves-mystery-of-hungarian-finnish-language-familys-origins/

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A couple tried for 18 years to get pregnant. AI made it happen

Posted by harscoat on Thursday July 03, 2025 @09:16AM
from the cnn.com dept.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/03/health/ai-male-infertility-sperm-wellness

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RNA neoantigen vaccines prime long-lived CD8T cells in pancreatic cancer

Posted by harscoat on Thursday February 27, 2025 @05:02AM
from the nature.com dept.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08508-4

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SemiAnalysis says DeepSeek spent more than it claims

Posted by harscoat on Thursday February 06, 2025 @05:43PM
from the taiwannews.com.tw dept.

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/6030380

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Surprising element found in Tycho Brahe's alchemy lab confounds scientists

Posted by harscoat on Sunday July 28, 2024 @07:11AM
from the cnn.com dept.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/27/science/tycho-brahe-alchemy-lab-tungsten/index.html

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Scientists discover 'dark' oxygen produced more than 13,000ft deep in the ocean

Posted by harscoat on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @08:49AM
from the cnn.com dept.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/22/science/dark-oxygen-discovery-deep-sea-mining/index.html

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Oxygen discovery defies knowledge of the deep ocean

Posted by harscoat on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @02:30AM
from the bbc.com dept.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c728ven2v9eo

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Evidence of dark oxygen production at the abyssal seafloor

Posted by harscoat on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @02:05AM
from the nature.com dept.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02393-

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How to Start Google

Posted by harscoat on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @11:36AM
from the paulgraham.com dept.

https://paulgraham.com/google.html

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Re:Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in the evolvi... on Thursday January 25, 2024 @01:07PM (#39132497)

OP here, fyi Stuart Kauffman's comment is below on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39131136

Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in the evolving universe?

Posted by harscoat on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @09:06AM
from the arxiv.org dept.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09514

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The Interactive History of the Steam Engine

Posted by harscoat on Thursday December 07, 2023 @11:23AM
from the ageofinvention.xyz dept.

https://www.ageofinvention.xyz/p/age-of-invention-the-interactive

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Re:OpenAI Rival Mistral Nears $2B Valuation with Andreessen Horowitz B... on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @12:32PM (#38534067)

https://archive.is/4F3dT#selection-4559.0-4954.0

OpenAI Rival Mistral Nears $2B Valuation with Andreessen Horowitz Backing

Posted by harscoat on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @12:12PM
from the bloomberg.com dept.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-04/openai-rival-mistral-nears-2-billion-valuation-with-nvidia-funding

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