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1•rkta•2m ago•0 comments

ClawEmail: 1min setup for OpenClaw agents with Gmail, Docs

https://clawemail.com
1•aleks5678•8m ago•1 comments

UnAutomating the Economy: More Labor but at What Cost?

https://www.greshm.org/blog/unautomating-the-economy/
1•Suncho•15m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Gettorr – Stream magnet links in the browser via WebRTC (no install)

https://gettorr.com/
1•BenaouidateMed•16m ago•0 comments

Statin drugs safer than previously thought

https://www.semafor.com/article/02/06/2026/statin-drugs-safer-than-previously-thought
1•stareatgoats•18m ago•0 comments

Handy when you just want to distract yourself for a moment

https://d6.h5go.life/
1•TrendSpotterPro•20m ago•0 comments

More States Are Taking Aim at a Controversial Early Reading Method

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/more-states-are-taking-aim-at-a-controversial-early-read...
1•lelanthran•21m ago•0 comments

AI will not save developer productivity

https://www.infoworld.com/article/4125409/ai-will-not-save-developer-productivity.html
1•indentit•26m ago•0 comments

How I do and don't use agents

https://twitter.com/jessfraz/status/2019975917863661760
1•tosh•32m ago•0 comments

BTDUex Safe? The Back End Withdrawal Anomalies

1•aoijfoqfw•35m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Compile-Time Vibe Coding

https://github.com/Michael-JB/vibecode
5•michaelchicory•37m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Ensemble – macOS App to Manage Claude Code Skills, MCPs, and Claude.md

https://github.com/O0000-code/Ensemble
1•IO0oI•41m ago•1 comments

PR to support XMPP channels in OpenClaw

https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pull/9741
1•mickael•41m ago•0 comments

Twenty: A Modern Alternative to Salesforce

https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty
1•tosh•43m ago•0 comments

Raspberry Pi: More memory-driven price rises

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/more-memory-driven-price-rises/
1•calcifer•48m ago•0 comments

Level Up Your Gaming

https://d4.h5go.life/
1•LinkLens•52m ago•1 comments

Di.day is a movement to encourage people to ditch Big Tech

https://itsfoss.com/news/di-day-celebration/
3•MilnerRoute•53m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI generated personal affirmations playing when your phone is locked

https://MyAffirmations.Guru
4•alaserm•54m ago•3 comments

Show HN: GTM MCP Server- Let AI Manage Your Google Tag Manager Containers

https://github.com/paolobietolini/gtm-mcp-server
1•paolobietolini•55m ago•0 comments

Launch of X (Twitter) API Pay-per-Use Pricing

https://devcommunity.x.com/t/announcing-the-launch-of-x-api-pay-per-use-pricing/256476
1•thinkingemote•56m ago•0 comments

Facebook seemingly randomly bans tons of users

https://old.reddit.com/r/facebookdisabledme/
1•dirteater_•57m ago•1 comments

Global Bird Count Event

https://www.birdcount.org/
1•downboots•57m ago•0 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
2•soheilpro•59m ago•0 comments

Jon Stewart – One of My Favorite People – What Now? with Trevor Noah Podcast [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44uC12g9ZVk
2•consumer451•1h ago•0 comments

P2P crypto exchange development company

1•sonniya•1h ago•0 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
2•jesperordrup•1h ago•0 comments

Write for Your Readers Even If They Are Agents

https://commonsware.com/blog/2026/02/06/write-for-your-readers-even-if-they-are-agents.html
1•ingve•1h ago•0 comments

Knowledge-Creating LLMs

https://tecunningham.github.io/posts/2026-01-29-knowledge-creating-llms.html
1•salkahfi•1h ago•0 comments

Maple Mono: Smooth your coding flow

https://font.subf.dev/en/
1•signa11•1h ago•0 comments

Sid Meier's System for Real-Time Music Composition and Synthesis

https://patents.google.com/patent/US5496962A/en
1•GaryBluto•1h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Hegel 2.0: The imaginary history of ternary computing (2018)

https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/65/weatherby.php
59•Hooke•9mo ago

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Frummy•8mo ago
Most Pynchonian.. We live in a very hegelian time. Competing narratives, external to us, within us, having to grow our view beyond both to incorporate both. It's not doublethink if you zoom in our out enough sociologically. Samadhi is impossible, but get close enough it's surely where hegelian thought is integrated, in the watchful silence below symbolic thought. This was an enjoyable read bringing the spirit upward into mechanical symboljuggling combining it with a hegelian struggle of nations as dispersed in scientist-spiritchampions in a technological avenue like todays US-China AI wrestling.
gnramires•8mo ago
I didn't get to read it in its entirety.

I personally think we can view logic(s) as tools. I think in a way Bayesian/probabilistic/fuzzy logics (and extensions) are more useful or appropriate in a greater setting than binary logic. We don't really know anything to absolute certainty in real life, as there may always be interfering things getting in the way of our conclusions and our senses -- and although that's just a theoretical impediment usually (we are quite sure of many things, like say that the set of primes is unbounded), in many real life cases it's very relevant, and we're usually making fuzzy judgements about things (like, the success of a venture, whether we will enjoy one thing or another, which path to take, etc.). But it doesn't make sense to declare binary logic obsolete. Think of it as floats and ints (integers). Although we can represent integers using floating point representation, in many cases representing things as ints is much more efficient and simpler. In the same way boolean logic, perhaps the simplest practical logic, is extremely useful in many cases.

Binary logic (in terms of binary expressions and binary circuits) of course is also universal, as you can represent anything in binary -- so the choice of logic, given several universal choices, comes down to application and setting (including physical realization of the circuits/logic and its match to your application).

For example, analog control circuits were (overwhelmingly up to the 80s perhaps) extremely useful in factories controlling processes, and there are relatively simple physical implementations of linear controls using electronics, and even (mechanical) mechanisms. Then we got really good at building small digital circuits and their analog implementation became mostly irrelevant (but still were an important stage for industrial development). With appropriate non-linearities large analog networks are universal as well though (hence Neural Networks, which happen to be implemented using binary circuits currently, but who knows this might change :) ).

So I think it may be fair to see fuzzy logics as more general and more general in some sense, but they are equivalent in other senses to any universal logic (at least as far as taking computable approximations of continuous quantities).

I read a while ago about Cyc's approach to Ontologies, which I understood to be systems used to prove desired claims. There were hierarchical ontologies, in the sense that if you failed to prove some claim in a certain system, you could resort to a slower, but more powerful system (in the sense that it could decide more claims). I guess you can interpret fuzzy logics as a higher ontology in another sense -- the sense of which our knowledge is really always uncertain and precisely evaluating this uncertainty may be necessary (versus just approximating claims as True/False) -- so probabilistic logics would be higher in both the sense of less efficient and more complete.

Note also how things can change and you may want/need to extend your logic indefinitely! Consider how it may be useful to go beyond a simple uncertainty of a claim, and consider for example how reliable this uncertainty itself is: e.g. it may be useful to distinguish between something you know nothing about, which you might arguably attribute probability 50% to, and something you know for sure has a probability of 50%, like a coin flip -- which in turn seems like a more powerful system to be used when it gives better results than the ones which convey less information.

The view of course that you're just building increasingly sophisticated binary systems that more effectively address your tasks persists valid (and relevant as we still use binary computers), again as the fact that other logics are valid too.

guappa•8mo ago
> you can represent anything in binary

You can't even represent real numbers…

Xss3•8mo ago
With enough bits you can represent any number...
guappa•8mo ago
No, you can't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinality_of_the_continuum
Xss3•8mo ago
You just need infinite bits. Simple.
jsemrau•8mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21747893