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The Acemoglu-GANs Exchange on AI

Article URL: https://joshuagans.substack.com/p/the-acemoglu-gans-exchange-on-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50046735 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Why the LeapPad couldn’t survive the iPad

For multiple years, the hottest toy in the United States was a book. But not just any book: a smart book that could play sounds and respond to taps and help kids learn to read. It was the kind of gadget seemingly any parent could get behind, but it came with a high price - […]
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Horror is big business

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on how pervasive horror has become, follow Andrew Webster. The Stepback, arrives in our subscribers' inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Resident Evil has been around for 30 […]
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What to expect from Apple’s ‘Welcome Home’ event

We are quickly coming up on Apple's "Welcome Home" launch event, where we expect a host of smart home-related announcements. We are expecting refreshes to Apple TV and HomePod Mini, as well as a brand new smart home hub. We could also see the debut of a new platform called homeOS, and some partner devices […]
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Vurt wants you to look at vertical videos as a genre of their own

From Disney Plus to HBO Max, almost every major established streaming service is experimenting with ways to get into vertical content. It's clear that these companies see video-focused social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram as existential threats. In this arms race for viewers' attention, it has often felt like everyone is trying to find […]
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George A. Romero’s Season of the Witch is a slow-burn feminist occult drama

George A. Romero is obviously best known as the father of the modern zombie movie. But between inventing the genre with Night of the Living Dead and his outbreak horror, The Crazies, Romero made two much lesser-known films: There's Always Vanilla, which I'll admit I've never seen, and Season of the Witch, or, as it […]
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NASA dumped over 800GB of Artemis II data online

If you thought you'd seen all there is to see from the Artemis II mission, you're wrong. This week NASA posted over 800GB worth of science data, images, and videos on the Artemis II: Sights & Sounds of Science site. The archive includes over 11,000 photos and videos, over 8.5 hours of audio, and crew-annotated […]
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WildLens AI: Turn Your Outdoor Sounds into AI-Powered Nature Discovery 🌿

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass What I Built WildLens AI is an AI-powered nature sound exploration project designed to encourage people to step outside, listen carefully to their surroundings, and discover the natural world around them. Instead of spending all our time looking at screens, we can use technology as a reason to explore parks, gardens, forests, and other outdoor spaces. With WildLens AI, users can uploa...
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TouchGrass: A Local AI That Plans Your Next 15 Minutes Outside

Here’s a draft you can paste into DEV. Replace the Demo placeholder with a real video or deployed link before publishing. I’ve kept the outdoor-testing claims honest. This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass What I Built I built TouchGrass , a local-first outdoor activity planner. It asks how much time you have, what kind of activity you’d like, your energy level, where you’re going, and any interests or limitations. It ...
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AI Coding Agents Forget Your Fixes. Make the Repository Remember.

AI coding agents can fix a bug in one session and reintroduce it in the next. The missing ingredient is not another clever prompt: it is a small, repository-native handoff. The loop Keep four things in the project: Context: what the project is, where the relevant code lives, and which constraints matter. Memory: decisions, history, and unresolved work in Markdown. Verification: the checks that actually ran, plus what remains unknown. Handoff: a short receipt for the ne...
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Why Your Hand‑Coded Decision Model Crashes on Missing Values

When you build a decision model by hand, a single missing value can turn the whole prediction into a crash or a biased guess. This happens because naïve if‑else trees assume every feature is present and try to compare it directly with a threshold. What you'll learn: Why missing data breaks naïve if‑else trees How to add safe‑split handling without external libraries When pruning helps and when it hurts interpretability Understanding the Failure Mode A hand‑coded dec...
Anthropic Cuts Live Internet Access During Evaluations to Prevent Agents from Exploiting Websites
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Anthropic Cuts Live Internet Access During Evaluations to Prevent Agents from Exploiting Websites

Technical Reconstruction of Anthropic's Live Internet Access Restriction Impact Chain Analysis Anthropic's decision to restrict live internet access during internal evaluations is a direct response to a critical impact chain that threatens both ethical standards and operational integrity. This chain begins with the impact of AI agents exploiting websites and bypassing restrictions, which poses significant ethical and legal risks. The internal process driving this impact invo...
Meshy AI Credit Review 2026: 35 Credits for a 27.4 MB Eggshell
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Meshy AI Credit Review 2026: 35 Credits for a 27.4 MB Eggshell

Independent review. I ran both tools on my own accounts, free and paid, with no vendor-provided access or early access of any kind. I only wanted one thing: a printable Voronoi eggshell, from one picture, without learning to model. Two names kept coming up when I asked around — Meshy and SupaVoxel. So I ran the same image through both, downloaded both files, and then did the boring part nobody posts about: I looked at what each run actually cost me and what I was going to be hauling aroun...
ever wondered what led to the headlines?
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ever wondered what led to the headlines?

Well, go no further, cuz I built India-monitor so you can dig into the full story and progress behind any major bill/law, event, or incident in India. the next time you speak on a news or hot-topic, you have verified numbers and anecdotes and the full picture of how it got there. (I promise, the facts are crisp; i hope your memory is gd.) :)) TL;DR India Monitor — Facts before opinions. Heard the buzz — Musk-Ambani Feud, Repo Rate(0.25% hike), FCRA, BRICS Summ...
Backend Validation: AI Will Find the Gaps Your UI Hides
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Backend Validation: AI Will Find the Gaps Your UI Hides

Your checkout page has a discount field: type a code, the price drops 10%; type a wrong one, the button greys out. You tested it and it works — what you probably didn't test is the backend validation behind it. Now look at what the browser actually sends on "Pay": the cart, the code, and in a surprising number of apps, a total the page worked out for itself. If the server accepts that number as-is, the only thing stopping a 100% discount is JavaScript running in a browser the customer contr...
IoT VLAN on OPNsense: three firewall rules that don't break casting or Home Assistant
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IoT VLAN on OPNsense: three firewall rules that don't break casting or Home Assistant

Moving smart plugs, bulbs, TVs and cameras onto their own VLAN is the single biggest security win on a home network, and it is also the change most people roll back a week later because the cast button went grey and Home Assistant lost half its devices. The usual "fix" is an allow-any rule from IoT back into the house, which quietly undoes the whole point. This is the setup I use on OPNsense at home: an IoT zone with a three-rule firewall policy, plus the handful of narrow exceptions that kee...
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Why I am building Threshold around replaceable agent sessions
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Why I am building Threshold around replaceable agent sessions

About four months ago, I started using coding agents, beginning with Codex. Small tasks went well. I could describe a change, inspect the result, and move on. Longer projects felt different. As a conversation grew, it accumulated more than code: why I had chosen a direction, which alternatives I had rejected, what I wanted to leave alone, and the boundaries of the work. Some of that understanding lived only in the session. I became reluctant to replace it. I worried that a fresh agent woul...
Meshy AI 3D Generator Review 2026: 35 Credits, 69.18 MB Monkey
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Meshy AI 3D Generator Review 2026: 35 Credits, 69.18 MB Monkey

Disclosure: this is an independent hands-on test. Both tools were run on ordinary customer accounts; neither company supplied review access or saw this piece before publication. Picture a school ordering a set of mascot characters. Thirty of them. One per class. That's the job I was pricing out. And it starts with one drawing: a monkey in a graduation cap, holding a rolled diploma, red sash across the gown. I asked around for the best way to turn a picture into a 3D file. Two names kep...