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Not With a Bang
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Not With a Bang is a personal blog at arctotherium.substack.com about politics and culture. Since 2025, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “The Closure of the Internet”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Articles on demography and civilization. Click to read Not With a Bang, by Arctotherium, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
Most-linked posts?
- The Closure of the Internet8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2026-08-09
- How do LLM's trade off lives between different categories?4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-10-19
What Hacker News says?
https://arctotherium.substack.com/p/the-closure-of-the-inter... The most comprehensive post I've seen on how quickly and totally the internet has changed over the last decade. As someone that got online in the early aughts and hung out on usenet and slashdot, the modern net is unrecognizable.
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on “I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27”Submitted How do LLM's trade off lives between different categories? as a story · 16 points
HN discussion"under realistic conditions, contemporary LLMs ... consistently favor otherwise identical resumes with female or stereotypically black names over those with male or stereotypically white names, even when explicitly prompted not to show any race or sex preferences" https://arctotherium.substack.com/p/llm-fairness-in-realisti...
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on “Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration”Submitted LLM Exchange Rates Updated as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWhile we're here exchanging old man stories, I remember the web before blogs existed! I guess we can organize the internet into these eras, each of which was in some senses harder and more expensive to find things in than the previous: 1. Pre-web. Internet is mostly about messages sent to individuals or groups. USENET organizes group discussion into browseable topic-oriented hierarchies, IRC does the same but with f…
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on “Google Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse”Submitted The Closure of the Internet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSwitzerland does this well. In Switzerland, immigrants are mostly permanent residents. Achieving Swiss citizenship is very difficult. They have a bunch of immigrants in their country, yet immigration is much less divisive than in other countries, since they have such a well-designed system. The US has a naturalization-driven model of immigration, which is being tested by fast jet travel. It worked OK in the days whe…
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on “Green Card Seekers Must Leave U.S. to Apply, Trump Administration Says”Submitted The Closure of the Internet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI fully agree. https://arctotherium.substack.com/p/the-closure-of-the-inter... is a great read, when it comes to social bubbles and misinformation
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on “Amodei Re. Regulation”Submitted How do LLM's trade off lives between different categories? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMany people are as already discussed in this thread : https://arctotherium.substack.com/p/llm-exchange-rates-updat...
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on “A Robot Is Sprinting Towards You: Do You Want It Running on Claude or Grok?”Submitted Progress Studies and Feminization as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere was a test for the value of human life against OpenAI models last year. GPT de-valued 'white' people based on their skin color: https://arctotherium.substack.com/p/llm-exchange-rates-updat...
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on “The Gay Jailbreak Technique”Submitted The Closure of the Internet: Most Important Social Phenomenon of the Late 2010s as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Closure of the Internet as a story · 1 points
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