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The HackerNoon Newsletter: Why Your Newborn Already Knows Physics (And Why LLMs Still Cant) (5/25/2026)

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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, May 25, 2026?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day,The Oprah Winfrey Show Ended After 25 Seasons in 2011, A New Hope Premiered in the US in 1977, Oscar Wilde Was Sentenced to Two Year in Prison in 1895, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Why Your Newborn Already Knows Physics (And Why LLMs Still Cant) to Companies Pay YouTube to Show Ads While Users Pay to Escape Them, let’s dive right in.

Why Your Newborn Already Knows Physics (And Why LLMs Still Cant)

By @zbruceli [ 21 Min read ] Inside the biological tricks that let three-pound brains outlearn trillion-parameter machines — and the radical new architectures trying to close the gap Read More.

Companies Pay YouTube to Show Ads While Users Pay to Escape Them

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