Hacker News with Generative AI: Research

Opsec lapse reveals hub for amateur cybercriminals (scworld.com)
An amateur hacker’s operational security error enabled researchers to uncover more details about a cybercrime operation utilizing the Proton66 bulletproof hosting service, DomainTools reported Thursday.
Cybersecurity, Operational Security, Cybercrime, Hosting Services, Research
6 points by LinuxBender 12 hours ago | 0 comments
Cashless society drives drop in children swallowing coins, researchers say (independent.co.uk)
The shift away from using coins has fuelled a drop in children needing surgery to remove objects they have swallowed or stuck up their noses, research suggests.
Health, Society, Trends, Children, Research
9 points by bookofjoe 12 hours ago | 20 comments
Do women talk more than men? (bps.org.uk)
New research challenges an old assumption with modern technology…
Gender, Communication, Psychology, Research, Technology
16 points by domofutu 14 hours ago | 18 comments
Germany's 'Deutschlandticket' helps environment – study (dw.com)
New research says a discounted public transport subscription in Germany has drastically lowered CO2 emissions in the country. The cost of the subscription is €58 a month, but some are saying it should be cheaper.
Environment, Public Transportation, Germany, Research, Sustainability
76 points by rustoo 18 hours ago | 42 comments
NOAA Weather will delete websites using Amazon, Google cloud services Saturday (bloomberg.com)
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency is poised to eliminate most websites tied to its research division under plans for the cancellation of a cloud web services contract, a move that could snarl operations at several labs.
Government, Cloud Computing, Technology, Research
96 points by ck2 23 hours ago | 94 comments
Bonobos' calls may be the closest thing to animal language we've seen (arstechnica.com)
Bonobos, great apes related to us and chimpanzees that live in the Republic of Congo, communicate with vocal calls including peeps, hoots, yelps, grunts, and whistles. Now, a team of Swiss scientists led by Melissa Berthet, an evolutionary anthropologist at the University of Zurich, discovered bonobos can combine these basic sounds into larger semantic structures.
Animal Communication, Linguistics, Primates, Science, Research
45 points by rbanffy 2 days ago | 10 comments
Univ of Hong Kong releases Dream 7B (Diffusion reasoning model) (reddit.com)
University of Hong Kong releases Dream 7B (Diffusion reasoning model). Highest performing open-source diffusion model to date. You can adjust the number of diffusion timesteps for speed vs accuracy
Open Source, Artificial Intelligence, Research
3 points by bredren 2 days ago | 0 comments
I just saw the future. It was not in America (nytimes.com)
I had a choice the other day in Shanghai: Which Tomorrowland to visit? Should I check out the fake, American-designed Tomorrowland at Shanghai Disneyland, or should I visit the real Tomorrowland — the massive new research center, roughly the size of 225 football fields, built by the Chinese technology giant Huawei? I went to Huawei’s.
China, Technology, Future, Research
14 points by jimnotgym 2 days ago | 9 comments
Calibrated Basic Income by Derek Van Gorder [pdf] (greshm.org)
Economics, Social Programs, Research, Public Policy
55 points by Suncho 2 days ago | 73 comments
Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing (bair.berkeley.edu)
We deployed 100 reinforcement learning (RL)-controlled cars into rush-hour highway traffic to smooth congestion and reduce fuel consumption for everyone.
Reinforcement Learning, Traffic Management, AI, Transportation, Research
50 points by saeedesmaili 3 days ago | 21 comments
Scientists witness living plant cells generate cellulose and form cell walls (phys.org)
In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose—a major constituent of all plant cell walls—a team of Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers have captured images of the microscopic process of cell-wall building continuously over 24 hours with living plant cells, providing critical insights that may lead to the development of more robust plants for increased food and lower-cost biofuels production.
Science, Biology, Plants, Biotechnology, Research
11 points by PaulHoule 3 days ago | 0 comments
Average person will be 40% poorer if world warms by 4C, new research shows (theguardian.com)
Economic models have systematically underestimated how global heating will affect people’s wealth, according to a new study that finds 4C warming will make the average person 40% poorer – an almost four-fold increase on some estimates.
Climate Change, Economics, Research, Global Warming
11 points by nickcotter 3 days ago | 2 comments
Average person will be 40% poorer if world warms by 4C, new research shows (theguardian.com)
Economic models have systematically underestimated how global heating will affect people’s wealth, according to a new study that finds 4C warming will make the average person 40% poorer – an almost four-fold increase on some estimates.
Climate Change, Economics, Global Warming, Research, Poverty
10 points by speckx 4 days ago | 1 comments
Top US Scientists "SOS" Letter to the Government (nytimes.com)
Researchers at academic institutions nationwide say that U.S. science is being dismantled.
Science, Government, Research, Academia, United States
6 points by hydrolox 4 days ago | 1 comments
DeepMind slows down research releases in battle to keep competitive edge (ft.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Research, Business, Competition
5 points by StanAngeloff 4 days ago | 1 comments
Study finds solo music listening boosts social well-being (phys.org)
Listening to music by yourself might not seem like a social activity, but University at Buffalo researchers have published a study that suggests how doing so can have valuable social benefits.
Music, Psychology, Social Benefits, Research
270 points by PaulHoule 5 days ago | 109 comments
The US Assault on Science: National Academies Letter (nytimes.com)
Some 1,900 leading researchers accused the Trump administration in an open letter on Monday of conducting a “wholesale assault on U.S. science” that could set back research by decades and that threatens the health and safety of Americans.
Science, Politics, Research, United States
95 points by pmags 5 days ago | 42 comments
New blood test checks for Alzheimer's and assesses progression, study (theguardian.com)
Researchers have developed a blood test for patients with thinking and memory problems to check if they have Alzheimer’s and to see how far it has progressed.
Alzheimer's, Medicine, Health, Science, Research
10 points by pseudolus 5 days ago | 0 comments
Glutamate Unlocks Brain Cell Channels to Enable Thinking and Learning (neurosciencenews.com)
In an effort to understand how brain cells exchange chemical messages, scientists say they have successfully used a highly specialized microscope to capture more precise details of how one of the most common signaling molecules, glutamate, opens a channel and allows a flood of charged particles to enter.
Neuroscience, Brain, Learning, Research, Biology
6 points by westurner 5 days ago | 2 comments
AI agents: Less capability, more reliability, please (sergey.fyi)
Artificial Intelligence, Reliability, Research
422 points by serjester 5 days ago | 254 comments
Bell Labs Holmdel Complex (wikipedia.org)
The Bell Labs Holmdel Complex, in Holmdel Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, functioned for 44 years as a research and development facility, initially for the Bell System and later Bell Labs.[3] The centerpiece of the campus is an Eero Saarinen–designed structure that served as the home to over 6,000 engineers and researchers.[4] This modernist building, dubbed "The Biggest Mirror Ever" by Architectural Forum due to its mirror box exterior, was the site of a Nobel Prize discovery, the
History, Architecture, Research, New Jersey
30 points by lordleft 5 days ago | 7 comments
Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models (Anthropic) (transformer-circuits.pub)
We introduce a method to uncover mechanisms underlying behaviors of language models. We produce graph descriptions of the model’s computation on prompts of interest by tracing individual computational steps in a “replacement model”. This replacement model substitutes a more interpretable component (here, a “cross-layer transcoder”) for parts of the underlying model (here, the multi-layer perceptrons) that it is trained to approximate.
Artificial Intelligence, Language Models, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Research
173 points by ydnyshhh 5 days ago | 27 comments
Installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits (2020) (vox.com)
An emergency situation that turned out to be mostly a false alarm led a lot of schools in Los Angeles to install air filters, and something strange happened: Test scores went up. By a lot. And the gains were sustained in the subsequent year rather than fading away.
Education, Air Quality, Public Health, Research, Los Angeles
308 points by tangjurine 5 days ago | 141 comments
Xiaofeng Wang (researchgate.net)
Research, Academia, People
49 points by rolph 6 days ago | 15 comments
AI Experts Say We're on the Wrong Path to Achieving Human-Like AI (gizmodo.com)
According to a panel of hundreds of artificial intelligence researchers, the field is currently pursuing artificial general intelligence the wrong way.
Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Research, Science, Technology
9 points by rntn 6 days ago | 0 comments
What Anthropic Researchers Found After Reading Claude's 'Mind' Surprised Them (singularityhub.com)
Despite popular analogies to thinking and reasoning, we have a very limited understanding of what goes on in an AI’s “mind.”
Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Research, Language Models
6 points by Brajeshwar 6 days ago | 0 comments
Population stratification led to a decade of false genetic findings (theinfinitesimal.substack.com)
How population stratification led to a decade of sensationally false genetic findings
Genetics, Science, Research, Bias, Human Biology
32 points by SubiculumCode 6 days ago | 0 comments
Oil and gas money shapes research, creates 'echo chamber' in higher education (floodlightnews.org)
Louisiana’s flagship university is looking to partner more closely with petrochemical industries in the state
Higher Education, Research, Louisiana
45 points by rntn 7 days ago | 7 comments
Publishers trial paying peer reviewers – what did they find? (nature.com)
Trials suggest that offering payment can increase the chance of a researcher agreeing to review, and in some cases speed up the process.
Publishing, Research, Peer Review, Incentives
31 points by xqcgrek2 7 days ago | 27 comments
Researchers bring prehistoric algae back to life (phys.org)
Fully active again even after around 7,000 years without light and oxygen in the Baltic Sea sediment: the diatom Skeletonema marinoi.
Science, Biology, Algae, Research, Ancient Life
9 points by geox 7 days ago | 0 comments