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Medium mentions (3083)

• AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region

  Moloch wins again https://medium.com/@darth.mark.23/the-moloch-dilemma-how-game-theory-reveals-a-hidden-force-behind-global-issues-8b21194ff16e. - Source: Hacker News / about 13 hours ago

• Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2026 [So Far]

  The tests are in no way scientific. Do a little research and you will find some horrifying truths about what is presented. https://medium.com/@randomuser_11627/the-telepathy-tapes-is-a-scam-606f7e11963e https://jonogden.substack.com/p/lets-talk-about-the-telepathy-tapes https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-telepathy-tapes-more-fc-pseudoscience/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 days ago

• Microsoft Fire IdTech Team at Id Software

  Console vs PC is a red herring since UE games still stutter on consoles, people just notice that less because most games run at 30 fps anyway. You can read Unreal's own blog posts on this and they'll actually explain that this is mostly down to their material system (and game logic/scripts reaching into it) being designed to create nearly infinite shader variations on the fly in response to arbitrary world/game... - Source: Hacker News / 3 days ago

• Why migrants come to Germany for work and then leave again

  I'm no expert on haplogroups either, but cursory googling seems to indicate they are far more numerous and nuanced than the late victorian, scientific-racism derived classifications used today - i.e.: black, white, asian etc. But we don't need to be specialists in population genetics to observe that human cultures interbreed. We can't reliably correlate visible biomarkers with genetic origin, especially in... - Source: Hacker News / 3 days ago

• Footage Shows Cop Stalking Woman After Surveilling Her with a LPR

  I think it's intresting to read about the guy who made yolo, take a look at his website and later, his thoughts about the monster he may have created. https://medium.com/@graham.wallington/the-evolution-of-yolo-joseph-redmons-departure-and-the-ethics-of-computer-vision-66d9b75f0eca https://pjreddie.com/darknet/yolo/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago

PCGameBenchmark mentions (16)

• should i play definitive or original version?

  Definitive Edition has some quality of life features the original doesn't have (for example, checkpoints and GPS), and the bugs in the Definitive Edition aren't nearly as bad as people make them out to be. When I played through it I didn't encounter anything major. As for performance issues, all I can say is that I played through the game on an Xbox One S the December after it released and it was fine. If you're... Source: over 2 years ago

• Can my pc run this game?

  According to pcgamebenchmark.com , I can run the game, but according to systemrequirementslab.com I cannot because of the graphics card and CPU. What do you think considering the specs below? Thanks. Source: almost 3 years ago

• PC gaming virgin on a budget (UK)

  I'm pretty clueless when it comes to pc gaming. I know that for the latest games I'm likely looking at around £1k budget, and this is not something I have right now. I've been looking at second hand laptops or desktops, and using https://pcgamebenchmark.com to see what games they might run (no idea how accurate this is), and it looks like I could easily play most total war games on a second hand laptop or desktop... Source: about 3 years ago

• Can my laptop run it?

  Hi, I need advice here, so I look at pcgamebenchmark.com and it says my laptop can run it. However when I go to steam to purchase the game, I noticed that the minimum specs is different. I'm actually interested in this game but I've a not so good laptop specs. What do you guys think? Source: over 3 years ago

• should I get Forza Horizon 4 or 5?

  And my PC has an i5-9400f, GTX 1660 Super and 16 GB of ram, pcgamebenchmark.com said that mine can run FH5 at recommended or higher settings. Source: over 3 years ago