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  No, Vox Day's AI-Generated Books Did Not Debunk Evolution Anthropologist Gutsick Gibbon, with guest population-geneticist Alex Hancock, dismantles professional bigot Vox Day’s creationist claims and then proceeds to dismantle the rest of his history and public appearances. Sorry if that title causes psychic damage. Content warning: math.

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  Why These Flock (YC S17) Cameras Are Worse Than You Thought Just a quick little explanation of those cameras put up by Flock Safety (YC S17). Posting it here in the hopes that it’ll quell the urge I feel to post it to Lobsters and make pushcx delete it.

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  Hi folks, I’m making another tech-stack recommendation. Previously, on Awful, I noted that below 87.5% availability, whether a service is up is effectively random chance. We’ve reached that point for GitHub’s Platform, which includes components like Actions, Copilot, Pages, and the core API of issues and PRs. I do not have confidence in GitHub’s owners or operators to remedy this situation, so I cannot recommend it professionally nor to neighbors. As a bit of nuance, note that Pages seems to hav...

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  I went to their FAQ to see how they close the analog hole and found this gem, likely indicative of focus-group sentiment: > Do I have to use the AI agent tools? No. The AI tools are optional. You can hold your rewards, manage them directly, or allocate them to Gudtrip’s supported open-source agent tools where available. So the analog hole's even worse than one might have thought. I wonder if there's a no-purchase-necessary clause somewhere; could I purchase a $20 vape and let it sit...

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  Dan Gackle [threatens to quit HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47728106) over their reluctance to condemn an act of violence towards Sam Altman: > I don't think I've ever seen a thread this bad on Hacker News. The number of commenters justifying violence, or saying they "don't condone violence" and then doing exactly that, is sickening and makes me want to find something else to do with my life—something as far away from this as I can get. I feel ashamed of this...

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  [Currently, on Lobsters](https://lobste.rs/s/063ldo/why_lean), folks are grappling with the fact that [Leo de Moura](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_de_Moura) got wrecked by chatbots. I decided to read [his slides about Lean in 2026](https://leodemoura.github.io/static/files/LeanTogether2026.pdf) and summarized my findings [on Mastodon](https://defcon.social/@corbin/116352841489954348). It's not just De Moura; I think that the entire Lean project is on shaky foundations and I think th...

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  I agree on the big points but think capitalism is more subtle than that. > Capitalism does cost efficiency incredibly well. It doesn’t do robustness, because redundancy costs money. So blocking one strait can stop the world. At some point, neoliberalism stops being the best lens for understanding the world. This is a great case in point. Capitalism is *not* cost-efficient; the economy wastes about two or three hours of labor for every productive labor-hour, and that shows up in pricing. *An...