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Peter Thiel comes to Paris to speak about the Antichrist(lemonde.fr)
9 points by perihelions 8mo ago|3 comments
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Gamers suspicious of AI content have forced developers to cancel titles(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by perihelions 8mo ago|0 comments
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by perihelions 8mo ago
"aimed to stop protesters from "organizing reunions and protests"" is a direct quote from one of their top politicians. I'm not going to pretend I didn't read it. There's foreign bad-actor misinformation
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by perihelions 8mo ago
An even more apt analogy is France in New Caledonia. Back in 2024, the French territorial government used an anti-terrorism law to enforce DNS blocks in that overseas territory, for the express purpose of suppressing political protests (b
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by perihelions 8mo ago
> "interesting new phenomenon" Pardon me, but summary executions in the United States taking place in broad daylight, with seeming impunity, is very much a new and novel phenomenon, and incredibly interesting to many of us. T
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by perihelions 8mo ago
Here's the source for that one (just in case anyone is living under a rock or something), https://www.startribune.com/border-patrol-greg-bovino-smoke-... ( "A federal agent sprays a man being pinned to the ground
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by perihelions 8mo ago
That's a summary execution in broad daylight. I have no words.
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Genetic Data from over 20k U.S. Children Misused for 'Race Science'(nytimes.com)
16 points by perihelions 8mo ago|4 comments
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Europe Prepares for a Nightmare Scenario: The U.S. Blocking Access to Tech(wsj.com)
20 points by perihelions 8mo ago|6 comments
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by perihelions 8mo ago
> "Not sure what he would gain from that." Besides the ~$1 million a head he's openly selling[0] pardons for? Why wouldn't he pardon a white-collar felon fraudster? This president has pardoned dozens of those[1]—fra
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Hellenistic War-Elephants and the Use of Alcohol Before Battle(cambridge.org)
65 points by perihelions 8mo ago|23 comments
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by perihelions 8mo ago
More discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633574 ( "Found: Medieval Cargo Ship – Largest Vessel of Its Kind Ever (smithsonianmag.com)" , 54 comments) edit: Also, I think this domain (medievalists.net
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by perihelions 8mo ago
> "think is related to some undetermined future nebulously bad thing" Anna's Archive made threats in writing to distribute, concretely and specifically, the plaintiff's copyrighted works as torrents.
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Judge blocks government from searching data seized from Washington Post reporter(washingtonpost.com)
31 points by perihelions 8mo ago|2 comments
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by perihelions 8mo ago
An even better source, imho: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/blue-origin-we-want-to... ( "Another Jeff Bezos company has announced plans to develop a megaconstellation" )
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by perihelions 8mo ago
(Mercosur*, for "Mercado Común del Sur" [0]; Mercator was a geographer from the 16th century[1]). [0] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php... ( "Glossary:Mercosur" ) [1
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Why neither Asia nor the US has produced a rival to ASML(ft.com)
5 points by perihelions 8mo ago|3 comments
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by perihelions 8mo ago
This is a clear plagiarism of a Reuters article[0], which should be submitted instead. [0] https://www.reuters.com/science/italy-uncovers-basilica-desi... ( "Italy uncovers basilica designed by Vitruvius, the &#
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by perihelions 8mo ago
character: l (displayed as l) (codepoint 108, #o154, #x6c) LATIN SMALL LETTER L Why did you replace the "I" in "AI" with its homoglyph "l"?
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by perihelions 8mo ago
Discussed here at the time, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45604313 ( "Chat-GPT becomes Sex-GPT for verified adults (twitter.com/sama)" )
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by perihelions 8mo ago
If you zoom out and look at the big picture, the whole article is little more than a summarization of a different article, published in Fortune . https://fortune.com/2026/01/12/google-founder-sergey-brin-hi..
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by perihelions 8mo ago
You misread the article; this is a $2,000 product. An unrelated 32-inch 8k monitor from Asus is $8,000—it's mentioned in passing to disclaim that the LG isn't, technically , the highest-DPI monitor on the market.
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US chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky had cocktail of drugs in system at death(nypost.com)
7 points by perihelions 8mo ago|6 comments
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Memory chip makers could face 100% tariffs unless increased US production(pcgamer.com)
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by perihelions 8mo ago
There's not that much they can do. It's often discussed that if the extreme August 1972 solar storm had overlapped with an Apollo mission (it didn't), it would have acutely sickened the astronauts. https://en.wikip
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by perihelions 8mo ago
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with this discovery. I noticed when this story was posted on HN earlier, that this "news" domain (thedefensenews.com) is an LLM product; and it hallucinates direct quotes from expert
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Tell HN: The current top story on R/news is LLM slop(old.reddit.com)
11 points by perihelions 8mo ago|3 comments
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by perihelions 8mo ago
(Self-reply): This LLM slop is the current #1 story on r/news, if anyone else wanted to share in my abject despair at the state of AI disinformation. https://old.reddit.com/r/news/
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The US is buying icebreakers from Finland(bbc.co.uk)
13 points by perihelions 8mo ago|2 comments
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by perihelions 8mo ago
It's LLM-generated too. Not subtle about it either; besides being gross unreadable dreck, things it represents as direct quotes from experts are hallucinations. I.e., the quote attributed (falsely) to a CSIS analyst, "A domestic

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