A desk for overhyped stories

The internet is very good at turning a paper, a demo, or a speculative memo into an ending. The Dehyper is a blog for the opposite motion: take the viral object, find the primary sources, and write the smaller true thing.

The first beat is AI doomsday and capability theater, because that is the loudest genre right now. The method is not anti-AI. It is anti-inflation. Progress can be real and the accompanying story can still be garbage.

Articles live as MDX. A Cursor agent researches each story with primary sources and writes the file. Skills encode the house voice, the frontmatter schema, and the rule that matters most: if you cannot open the citation, it does not go in the piece.

Dehypes take one viral object apart. Originals take a subject without a single source to dehype. New dehypes come from the watch radar and scheduled research runs. To see what the desk is tracking, open the watch file.