2. Show HN: Compute Polynomials Twice as Fast (thomasahle.com)

Evaluate a degree-n polynomial with about n/2 multiplications. Type a polynomial, pick β„š, ℝ, β„‚, a Mersenne prime or a binary field, and get the preprocessed evaluation chain as math, C code or a circuit β€” everything runs in your browser.

7. Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance (current.fas.harvard.edu)

Researcher Matthew Nock pioneered the technique of using smartphone technology to survey high-risk adults and adolescents in real time. In a new study, Nock and his team report using the technology to predict 75 percent of suicide attempts in the week before they occurred.

17. Apple Watch Ultra 4 (www.apple.com)

Apple today introduced Apple Watch Ultra 4, the ultimate sports and adventure watch, now with new health, fitness, and audio intelligence capabilities.

19. AI Responsibility – OpenAI and Anthropic (twitter.com)

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

24. Apple Watch Ultra 4 (www.apple.com)

Apple Watch Ultra 4 is the ultimate running watch, with longer battery life, advanced health and fitness tracking, and Siri AI and audio intelligence.

26. Playing whack-a-mole is losing (dadrian.io)

I want to juxtapose two classes of people in the security industry on the defender side of security engineering for products. The first are the Security as Identity people. This goes back to the security-as-counterculture attitude, glamorized in Hackers and dating back to phone phreaking. It reflects Thompson’s β€œWorkism”, where work is not just a way to earn a living, but a way to build a sense of identity, purpose, and community. In the case of security, this identity tends to be built around being different, seeing things other people do not, and being clever in an edgy and misunderstood way. Someone who is beyond merely a security professional, but has the persona of a Hacker. Stylish outsiders smarter than the system. Detectives finding insights others miss.

27. AI Has a Discovery Problem (mhacevedo.com)

The biggest bottleneck to AI adoption isn't intelligence. It's discovery. The system can do almost anything, but it still requires you to already know what to ask for.

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