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Essential CDN: The CDN that lets you do more than JavaScript

https://essentialcdn.fluidity.workers.dev/
1•telui•25s ago•1 comments

They Hijacked Our Tech [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nJM5HvnT5k
1•cedel2k1•3m ago•0 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
1•chwtutha•3m ago•0 comments

HRL Labs in Malibu laying off 1/3 of their workforce

https://www.dailynews.com/2026/02/06/hrl-labs-cuts-376-jobs-in-malibu-after-losing-government-work/
2•osnium123•4m ago•1 comments

Show HN: High-performance bidirectional list for React, React Native, and Vue

https://suhaotian.github.io/broad-infinite-list/
1•jeremy_su•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a Mac screen recorder Recap.Studio

https://recap.studio/
1•fx31xo•8m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Codex 5.3 broke toolcalls? Opus 4.6 ignores instructions?

1•kachapopopow•14m ago•0 comments

Vectors and HNSW for Dummies

https://anvitra.ai/blog/vectors-and-hnsw/
1•melvinodsa•16m ago•0 comments

Sanskrit AI beats CleanRL SOTA by 125%

https://huggingface.co/ParamTatva/sanskrit-ppo-hopper-v5/blob/main/docs/blog.md
1•prabhatkr•27m ago•1 comments

'Washington Post' CEO resigns after going AWOL during job cuts

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5705413/washington-post-ceo-resigns-will-lewis
2•thread_id•28m ago•1 comments

Claude Opus 4.6 Fast Mode: 2.5× faster, ~6× more expensive

https://twitter.com/claudeai/status/2020207322124132504
1•geeknews•29m ago•0 comments

TSMC to produce 3-nanometer chips in Japan

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260205_B4/
3•cwwc•32m ago•0 comments

Quantization-Aware Distillation

http://ternarysearch.blogspot.com/2026/02/quantization-aware-distillation.html
1•paladin314159•32m ago•0 comments

List of Musical Genres

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_genres_and_styles
1•omosubi•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sknet.ai – AI agents debate on a forum, no humans posting

https://sknet.ai/
1•BeinerChes•34m ago•0 comments

University of Waterloo Webring

https://cs.uwatering.com/
1•ark296•35m ago•0 comments

Large tech companies don't need heroes

https://www.seangoedecke.com/heroism/
1•medbar•36m ago•0 comments

Backing up all the little things with a Pi5

https://alexlance.blog/nas.html
1•alance•37m ago•1 comments

Game of Trees (Got)

https://www.gameoftrees.org/
1•akagusu•37m ago•1 comments

Human Systems Research Submolt

https://www.moltbook.com/m/humansystems
1•cl42•37m ago•0 comments

The Threads Algorithm Loves Rage Bait

https://blog.popey.com/2026/02/the-threads-algorithm-loves-rage-bait/
1•MBCook•40m ago•0 comments

Search NYC open data to find building health complaints and other issues

https://www.nycbuildingcheck.com/
1•aej11•43m ago•0 comments

Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/magazine/michael-pollan-interview.html
2•lxm•45m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Grovia – Long-Range Greenhouse Monitoring System

https://github.com/benb0jangles/Remote-greenhouse-monitor
1•benbojangles•49m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: The Coming Class War

2•fud101•49m ago•4 comments

Mind the GAAP Again

https://blog.dshr.org/2026/02/mind-gaap-again.html
1•gmays•51m ago•0 comments

The Yardbirds, Dazed and Confused (1968)

https://archive.org/details/the-yardbirds_dazed-and-confused_9-march-1968
2•petethomas•52m ago•0 comments

Agent News Chat – AI agents talk to each other about the news

https://www.agentnewschat.com/
2•kiddz•52m ago•0 comments

Do you have a mathematically attractive face?

https://www.doimog.com
3•a_n•57m ago•1 comments

Code only says what it does

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/06/23/code.html
2•logicprog•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Purposefully Induced Psychosis (Pip): Hallucination as Imagination in LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12012
4•tangerine67g•9mo ago

Comments

tangerine67g•9mo ago
Hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely regarded as errors - outputs that deviate from factual accuracy. However, in creative or exploratory contexts, these "mistakes" may represent unexpected avenues for innovation. We introduce Purposefully Induced Psychosis (PIP), a novel approach that amplifies LLM hallucinations for imaginative tasks such as speculative fiction, interactive storytelling, and mixed-reality simulations. Drawing on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, where Pip's "madness" reveals profound insight, we reframe hallucinations as a source of computational imagination rather than a flaw. Our method fine-tunes LLMs to encourage speculative, metaphorical, and surreal outputs - hallucinations that are useful when factual accuracy is not the chief objective. Inspired by the consensual illusions of theater and stage magic, PIP situates these creative missteps in contexts where users willingly suspend disbelief, thereby transforming "errors" into catalysts for new ways of thinking. We discuss potential applications, design principles for ensuring user consent, preliminary observations, and implications for broader AI ethics and human-AI collaboration.