Stories by alex-m

Can Language Models Represent the Past Without Anachronism?

Texas lawmakers advancing bill to ban kids from social media

Show HN: Milchick – a Firefox extension to simplify wordy posts

Show HN: Communication Without Networks – Just Light and Sound (Spectra)

Ask HN: Could a passive underwater device shift naval strategy?

Underwater anomaly-response probe: cheap, autonomous, disruptive?

Show HN: Hybrid Language Translator

OpenAI's o4-mini-high Model Solves the MU Puzzle

Show HN: CR4SH3R – Fast WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Scanner

Philip K. Dick: Stanisław Lem Is a Communist Committee (2015)

Framework pauses US sales of some laptops due to tariffs

Llama 4 performs worse than Llama 3 at translation

Openrouter – Quasar Alpha

Whatever Quasar Alpha is, it's excellent at translation

Tell HN: This Hacker News Exists (Not Really)

Blocking internet on phones improves attention, mental health, and well-being

Estimating the difficulty of a sentence in mere microseconds

Gemma 3's reasoning improvements don't translate to translations

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