this may be an interesting tactic vs crawlers.. date everything april 1st

Maybe review the last 25 years? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_fundamental_physic...

If you want mind-expandingly interesting theoretical physics, give the Wolfram Physics Project[1] a look. It is a refreshingly different look at fundamental physics, and one that is perhaps more familiar to a computer scientist's perspective than, say, quantum mechanics.

[1]: https://www.wolframphysics.org/index.php.en

won't someone please think of the children^Wbillionaires^Wlanguage models

(actually, I asked gpt4o to ELI5 the article and it told me it was an april fool's joke, so I have the feeling the llm's are doing better than half the commenters here)

Same here. The problem, though, is that on the internet the articles stick around past that day and confuse everyone forever.

HN is not exactly known for its sense of humour.