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Ashlee Vance
Personal blog · corememory.comsciencestartups
Ashlee Vance writes Core Memory, a personal blog at corememory.com about science and startups. Since 2025, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “OpenAI and Gabe Newell Back a Bold New Take on Fusing Humans and Machines”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Core Memory for its reporting on AI, Neuralink and OpenAI, including a documentary-style video following a Neuralink trial patient. Comments only quote or link these pieces, without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
On the Most Interesting People, Objects and Ideas in Science and Technology.
Most-linked posts?
- OpenAI and Gabe Newell Back a Bold New Take on Fusing Humans and Machines2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-16
- Altman and Masa Back a 27-Year-Old's Plan to Build a New Bell Labs Ultra2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-10
- A Young Man Used AI to Build a Nuclear Fusor2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-30
- A New Way to Study the Miracle of Life2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-07
What Hacker News says?
> lobotomise Anyone can write very fast software if you don't mind it sometimes crashing or having weird bugs. Why do people try to meme as if AI is different? It has unexpected outputs sometimes, getting it to not do that is 50% "more alignment" and 50% "hallucinate less". Just today I saw someone get the Amazon bot to roleplay furry erotica. Funny, sure, but it's still obviously a bug that a *sales bot* would do t…
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on “OpenAI O3-Mini”Submitted A Young Man Used AI to Build a Nuclear Fusor as a story · 87 points
HN discussionFYI: FortiGuard Intrusion Prevention - Access Blocked Web Page Blocked You have tried to access a web page that is in violation of your Internet usage policy. Category Pornography URL https://www.corememory.com/
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on “A Young Man Used AI to Build a Nuclear Fusor”Submitted Altman and Masa Back a 27-Year-Old's Plan to Build a New Bell Labs Ultra as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> The Core Memory team spent months filming with Brad Smith, the third patient to receive Neuralink's brain-computer interface implant. Smith has suffered from ALS for several years and agreed to be part of Neuralink's clinical trial in the hopes of being able to communicate better and interact more with the outside world. We documented his journey from before the surgery to after and watched as he learned to use th…
Comment linking /p/exclusive-mr-smith-gets-a-neuralink
on “Mr. Smith Gets a Neuralink Brain Implant [video]”Submitted Altman and Masa Back a 27-Year-Old's Plan to Build a New Bell Labs Ultra as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMore info: https://www.corememory.com/p/exclusive-openai-and-sam-altman...
Comment linking /p/exclusive-openai-and-sam-altman-back-merge-labs-bci
on “Merge Labs – Altman-Backed BCI Lab Using Biomolecular Ultrasound”Submitted How North Korea infiltrated American companies with fake tech workers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Take Me to Bed or Lose Me Forever in the Supersonic Corridor as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Fuel from Thin Air: The Magical Methane Machine as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted OpenAI and Gabe Newell Back a Bold New Take on Fusing Humans and Machines as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A New Way to Study the Miracle of Life as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Glow in the Dark Bunnies Coming to a Pet Store Near You... Finally. as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A New India Is Here, and It Wants to Make Things as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why America Can't Have Robots and Other Nice Things as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kelly Johnson, Skunk Works and the Days When America Did the Biggest Things as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Hundred Robots Are Running a Bio Lab as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Man Growing Organs on Demand as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ovelle Bio Wants to Give Women More Eggs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Spacecraft That Wouldn't Die as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A New Way to Study the Miracle of Life as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Science Corp. Aims to Plant Ideas in Brains with New Implant as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted So Begins Core Memory – A New Sci-Tech Media Company as a story · 1 points
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