Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

40 bayindirh 2025-06-17 07:59:40 UTC brainonllm.com Llama Share 10

This study examined the cognitive cost of using LLMs in essay writing, finding that LLM assistance led to weaker neural connectivity and decreased learning skills. Participants who used LLMs showed lower ownership and memory recall compared to those who used search engines or wrote without tools.

What happens when clergy take psilocybin

177 bookofjoe 2025-06-16 21:37:40 UTC nautil.us Llama Share 201

Religious leaders who took high doses of psilocybin reported profound spiritual experiences, with over 90% saying it was one of the most meaningful experiences of their lives. The study raises questions about the relationship between hallucinogens and religious experience, with some researchers suggesting psychedelics may have influenced ancient mystical experiences.

How Frogger 2’s source code was recovered from a destroyed tape [video]

94 perching_aix 2025-06-17 00:37:40 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 12

Show HN: Chawan TUI web browser

265 shiomiru 2025-06-16 21:37:40 UTC chawan.net Llama Share 43

A tarball of Chawan is available with compilation instructions in the README file. It requires OpenSSL 3.0 or LibreSSL from OpenBSD 7.7 for installation.

Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs

84 feross 2025-06-17 01:37:40 UTC nolanlawson.com Llama Share 36

Building accessible UIs is not just morally right but also beneficial for developers as it makes debugging and testing easier, improves code quality, and enhances productivity. By prioritizing accessibility, developers can create better interfaces that are not only usable by people with disabilities but also more intuitive and efficient for everyone.

WhatsApp introduces ads in its app

421 greenburger 2025-06-16 14:37:40 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 557

Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker

Photon transport through the entire adult human head

16 gnabgib 2025-06-17 04:37:40 UTC spiedigitallibrary.org GoogleT5 Share 10

Fnirs allows for 3d tomographic reconstructions of brain activity. but using transmitted light to produce maps in this way for the adult head has yet to be demonstrated, writes s.n. he expects that transmitting light through the head at wavelengths beyond 1 m could make the physical problem of overcoming scattering and absorption less challenging. in 2014, his phd was awarded to the ...

The Humble Programmer (1972)

44 squircle 2025-06-17 01:37:40 UTC cs.utexas.edu GoogleT5 Share 5

Alan helsing: i entered the programming profession officially on the first spring morning of 1952. helfand: the turning point was the conference on software engineering in garmisch, october 1968 - there was an open admission of the software crisis. "the purpose of abstracting is not to be vague, but to create an new semantic level in which one can absolutely precise" if we want to build ...

Show HN: Canine – A Heroku alternative built on Kubernetes

222 czhu12 2025-06-16 18:37:40 UTC github.com/czhu12 Full Share 92

Power of Kubernetes, Simplicity of Heroku. Contribute to czhu12/canine development by creating an account on GitHub.

Benzene at 200

197 Brajeshwar 2025-06-16 15:37:40 UTC chemistryworld.com Llama Share 99

Michael Faraday discovered benzene in 1825, a molecule with unique properties that transformed chemistry. Benzene's legacy has led to the discovery of aromatic compounds, graphene, and other materials that have revolutionized fields like electronics, energy, and medicine.

Show HN: I recreated 90s Mode X demoscene effects in JavaScript and Canvas

95 gneissguise 2025-06-17 04:37:40 UTC jdfio.com Full Share 27

Your browser does not support the HTML5 canvas element, or JavaScript is disabled. This experience relies on canvas for visual demonstrations.

Iron nitride permanent magnets made with DIY ball mill [video]

45 xqcgrek2 2025-06-16 23:37:40 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 5

OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract

168 erikrit 2025-06-16 22:37:40 UTC cnbc.com Llama Share 99

OpenAI received a $200 million one-year contract from the US Defense Department for AI tools. The contract will develop AI capabilities for national security missions in the US.

The drawbridges come up: the dream of a interconnected context ecosystem is over

33 dbreunig 2025-06-17 00:37:40 UTC dbreunig.com Llama Share 6

MCPs may follow Web 2.0's path, where APIs initially enabled free exchange but evolved into tightly governed interfaces. Platforms may control access to their data and AI, limiting MCPs to a protocol for easy LLM tool use.

Show HN: Nexus.js - Fabric.js for 3D

60 ges 2025-06-16 21:37:40 UTC punk.cam Full Share 19

Nexus is a powerful, intuitive library for seamlessly handling 2D and 3D objects in web applications. Create, manipulate, and interact with cubes, images, and 3D models with smooth gestures, precise controls, and real-time transformations.

Natural rubber with high resistance to crack growth

11 cocoggu 2025-06-17 03:37:40 UTC nature.com Llama Share 0

Researchers improved natural rubber's resistance to crack growth by forming a tanglemer with dense entanglements and sparse crosslinks. This method increased fatigue threshold and toughness, making natural rubber more sustainable and practical for use.

ZX Spectrum graphics magic

73 ibobev 2025-06-17 01:37:40 UTC zxonline.net Llama Share 20

The ZX Spectrum's screen is divided into two memory areas: pixel area and attribute area, where pixel area stores whether each pixel is on or off and attribute area stores colors and effects for 8x8 pixel blocks. To draw graphics on the Spectrum, one must calculate the address of each pixel and attribute byte, which can be done using formulas, tables, or incremental shifts, and understanding ...

Jacob's Phone Simulator

3 surprisetalk 2025-06-17 06:37:40 UTC jacobfilipp.com Full Share 0

Below is a simulation of how I browse the web now.Not everyone uses phones in the same way. I hope this tool helps Web Designers ensure that their website is readable and accessible for all sorts of folks 🙏 This project was inspired by my crappy phone. Love you lots, “Mr. Crackles”!

Dull Men’s Club

123 herbertl 2025-06-16 18:37:40 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 69

The Dull Men's Club is a Facebook group with millions of members who celebrate mundane life, quirky hobbies, and ordinary things. They strive to be dull and droll, with tongue-in-cheek humor, avoiding excitement and politics.

Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me

225 nomdep 2025-06-17 00:37:40 UTC blog.miguelgrinberg.com Llama Share 243

The user shares their personal experience with Generative AI tools for coding, stating that they do not make them faster and that reviewing AI-generated code is harder than writing it themselves. They believe that relying on AI tools for coding can lead to decreased quality and increased risk, and that the benefits of using AI tools are often based on perception rather than hard data.

Nanonets-OCR-s – OCR model that transforms documents into structured markdown

310 PixelPanda 2025-06-16 08:37:40 UTC huggingface.co Llama Share 68

Nanonets-OCR-s is a state-of-the-art image-to-markup model that extracts structured data from documents with features like LaTeX equation recognition and signature detection. It converts documents into markdown with features like image description, watermark extraction, and complex table extraction.

Open-Source RISC-V: Energy Efficiency of Superscalar, Out-of-Order Execution

80 PaulHoule 2025-06-16 17:37:40 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 20

Researchers modified the OoO C910 core for RISC-V standard compliance and introduced CVA6S+, a dual-issue core with 34.4% performance improvement over CVA6. CVA6S+ leads in area efficiency, while C910 is competitive in energy efficiency, challenging the common belief about high-performance core costs.

Show HN: Zeekstd – Rust Implementation of the ZSTD Seekable Format

195 rorosen 2025-06-16 10:37:40 UTC github.com/rorosen Llama Share 44

Zeekstd's seekable format splits compressed data into frames for efficient decompression. It allows for partial decompression of specific frames.

Case Study: Mars College

4 surprisetalk 2025-06-17 05:37:40 UTC supernuclear.substack.com Prefix Share 0

Editor’s note: this is a guest post from Amy Brown Carver, a Martian and screenwriter, and Grid Free Minds. If you'd like to see more of Amy's work or to reach out to collaborate, you can find her here. I’ve been hearing rumors about Mars College for years, and it sounded straight out of science fiction: artists, AI kids, and hippies building some kind of solarpunk utopia in the ...

Blaze (YC S24) Is Hiring

0 2025-06-16 21:37:40 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Blaze is hiring a Junior Software Engineer to join their AI-first approach in building a cross-border payments app, leveraging cutting-edge AI tools to achieve 10x productivity. The ideal candidate has strong problem-solving skills, proficiency in AI-driven development tools, and experience with JavaScript, React, and NodeJS.

OpenTelemetry for Go: Measuring overhead costs

117 openWrangler 2025-06-16 15:37:40 UTC coroot.com Llama Share 36

Enabling OpenTelemetry in a Go application introduces a noticeable but controlled overhead, including 35% CPU increase and 5-10% memory increase. However, the tradeoff is justified for teams prioritizing fast incident resolution, while eBPF-based instrumentation offers a more lightweight option for broad system visibility.

Breaking Quadratic Barriers: A Non-Attention LLM for Ultra-Long Context Horizons

57 PaulHoule 2025-06-16 19:37:40 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 23

A novel non-attention based architecture for large language models efficiently handles long context windows by combining State Space blocks, Multi Resolution Convolution layers, a Recurrent Supervisor, and Retrieval Augmented External Memory. This design avoids quadratic memory and computation overload, scaling near linearly with sequence length.

Snorting the AGI with Claude Code

282 beigebrucewayne 2025-06-16 20:37:40 UTC kadekillary.work Full Share 178

blog - kade killary

Working on databases from prison

768 dvektor 2025-06-16 12:37:40 UTC turso.tech Llama Share 483

I joined Turso as a software engineer after being incarcerated and landing the job from my prison cell. I overcame addiction and poor decisions through hard work and determination, and now I'm proud to be part of the team building the modern SQLite.

Is gravity just entropy rising? Long-shot idea gets another look

286 pseudolus 2025-06-16 08:37:40 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 242

Physicists are exploring entropic gravity, a theory that gravity arises from the random motion of particles and the attendant rise of entropy. This approach suggests that gravity is not a fundamental force, but rather an emergent property of the universe.