Stories by shaftoe444

Official abuse of state security has always been bad, now it's horrifying

Net neutrality, we hardly knew ye

Developer pockets $2M in savings from going cloud-free

Neanderthal-derived DNA is playing a significant role in autism susceptibility

Why didn't Rome have an industrial revolution?

Spengler's "Plan for a New Atlas of Antiquity" in English

Automated Social Science with LLMs

The Commercial Impact of Sora

Trident missile test fails for a second time in a row

Opening of West Point time capsule reveals what cynics said it would: Nothing

The New York Times disbands sports department

Study drugs make people worse at problem solving, not better

Existential risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in human history

How Britain ceased to be a computing superpower

Ross Douthat on Chat GPT

Ask HN: What do I spend my training allowance on?

Yes, a branch of the Army Corps of Engineers did make a cat calendar

Erik Hoel on Effective Altruism, Utilitarianism, and the Repugnant Conclusion

Potted History: The canning of food