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DataCenter.FM – background noise app featuring the sound of the AI bubble

Posted by louisbarclay on Thursday April 30, 2026 @03:52AM
from the datacenter.fm dept.

https://datacenter.fm/

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AI Writing: How to Tell

Posted by louisbarclay on Friday December 19, 2025 @06:39AM
from the mozillafoundation.org dept.

https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/nothing-personal/superficial-intelligence-ai-writing/

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Help me save the world, but don't tell Marcos: a train data Secret Santa

Posted by louisbarclay on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @07:04AM
from the directing.attention.to dept.

https://directing.attention.to/p/help-me-save-the-world-but-dont-tell

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Let the little guys in: A context sharing runtime for the personalised web

Posted by louisbarclay on Monday October 27, 2025 @01:27PM
from the arjun.md dept.

https://arjun.md/little-guys

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AI researcher burnout: the greatest existential threat to humanity?

Posted by louisbarclay on Thursday October 09, 2025 @05:08AM
from the alignmentalignment.ai dept.

https://alignmentalignment.ai/caaac/blog/ai-researcher-burnout

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To make AI safe, we must develop it as fast as possible without safeguards

Posted by louisbarclay on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @11:20AM
from the alignmentalignment.ai dept.

https://alignmentalignment.ai/caaac/blog/ai-safe-fast

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Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

Posted by louisbarclay on Thursday September 11, 2025 @07:42AM
from the alignmentalignment.ai dept.

https://alignmentalignment.ai

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Anti-deepfake wearable [Satire]

Posted by louisbarclay on Friday June 20, 2025 @05:16AM
from the wearthebox.com dept.

https://wearthebox.com

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Show HN: The Box – Anti-deepfake wearable [Satire]

Posted by louisbarclay on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @04:46AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://wearthebox.com

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OpenAI releases new AI agent for your hungover colleague Greg

Posted by louisbarclay on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @09:12AM
from the attention.direct dept.

https://attention.direct/greg-agent

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Search continues for someone with an opinion on AI

Posted by louisbarclay on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @06:42AM
from the attention.direct dept.

https://attention.direct/search-ai

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RIP CrowdTangle

Posted by louisbarclay on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @02:10PM
from the ripcrowdtangle.com dept.

https://www.ripcrowdtangle.com/

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Choice of your AI assistant? Nope, probably not

Posted by louisbarclay on Friday May 31, 2024 @07:13AM
from the 12challenges.substack.com dept.

https://12challenges.substack.com/p/choice-of-your-ai-assistant-nope

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Rare traits I see in every high performing scrambled eggs

Posted by louisbarclay on Thursday May 16, 2024 @11:04AM
from the 12challenges.substack.com dept.

https://12challenges.substack.com/p/7-rare-traits-i-see-in-every-high

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Zuck vs. Zuck: 7 Thoughts

Posted by louisbarclay on Friday May 03, 2024 @07:52AM
from the 12challenges.substack.com dept.

https://12challenges.substack.com/p/zuck-vs-zuck-7-thoughts

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The follow lie, and why it's worse than ever

Posted by louisbarclay on Friday April 26, 2024 @10:31AM
from the 12challenges.substack.com dept.

https://12challenges.substack.com/p/the-follow-lie-and-why-its-worse

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Every day, AI increases the cost of being a public figure

Posted by louisbarclay on Thursday April 25, 2024 @04:36AM
from the 12challenges.substack.com dept.

https://12challenges.substack.com/p/every-day-ai-increases-the-cost-of

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How to scroll more and live less

Posted by louisbarclay on Monday April 22, 2024 @07:04AM
from the 12challenges.substack.com dept.

https://12challenges.substack.com/p/how-to-scroll-more-and-live-less

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Assistant and I

Posted by louisbarclay on Thursday April 18, 2024 @06:16AM
from the 12challenges.substack.com dept.

https://12challenges.substack.com/p/assistant-and-i

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Will the real Aggregator's AI Risk please stand up?

Posted by louisbarclay on Thursday March 28, 2024 @08:38AM
from the 12challenges.substack.com dept.

https://12challenges.substack.com/p/will-the-real-aggregators-ai-risk

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AI OSes: bad news for ads?

Posted by louisbarclay on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @08:41AM
from the 12challenges.substack.com dept.

https://12challenges.substack.com/p/ai-oses-bad-news-for-ads

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Russian Political Jokes

Posted by louisbarclay on Monday March 18, 2024 @02:10PM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_political_jokes

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Re:Ban TikTok? Maybe. Force them to reveal basic data? Definitely on Thursday March 14, 2024 @12:00PM (#39705652)

It's not done at all - and there are no top lists. It's a vacuum. The main ray of hope here is the EU's Digital Services Act, which will hopefully force them to provide info

Ban TikTok? Maybe. Force them to reveal basic data? Definitely

Posted by louisbarclay on Thursday March 14, 2024 @10:51AM
from the 12challenges.substack.com dept.

https://12challenges.substack.com/p/ban-tiktok-maybe-force-them-to-reveal

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"AI, no ads please": 4 words to wipe out $1T

Posted by louisbarclay on Thursday March 07, 2024 @11:43AM
from the 12challenges.substack.com dept.

https://12challenges.substack.com/p/ai-no-ads-please-4-words-to-wipe

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Help me stop the EU bullying Apple

Posted by louisbarclay on Thursday February 29, 2024 @08:17AM
from the 12challenges.substack.com dept.

https://12challenges.substack.com/p/help-me-stop-the-eu-bullying-apple

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Astrology and Science

Posted by louisbarclay on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @08:59AM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrology_and_science

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Re:Show HN: AboutIdeasNow – search /about, /ideas, /now pages of 7k+ p... on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @06:11AM (#39522685)

This is an awesome awesome list! Thank you for adding /about and /ideas! It also reminded me to have a proper look for awesome-personal-sites or similar, and there are a few:

https://github.com/logancyang/awesome-personal-websites

https://github.com/christopherkade/awesome-dev-websites

https://github.com/tk-notes/awesome-personal-websites

Re:Show HN: AboutIdeasNow – search /about, /ideas, /now pages of 7k+ p... on Monday February 26, 2024 @10:32AM (#39512425)

Oh wow, that is so cool! We hadn't come across it, nice UX too. Thanks for posting

Show HN: AboutIdeasNow – search /about, /ideas, /now pages of 7k+ personal sites

Posted by louisbarclay on Monday February 26, 2024 @09:39AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://aboutideasnow.com/

Hi HN!It’s hard to find interesting people to work with on your ideas.Our solution: index the /about, /ideas, /now pages of 1000s of personal websites. There are thousands of cool personal sites out there, with amazing ideas on them, but there’s nowhere to easily search through. So we built a simple site that indexes 7k+ personal sites [0]. We were inspired by Derek Sivers’ Now page movement...

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