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Show HN: I built a free UCP checker – see if AI agents can find your store

https://ucphub.ai/ucp-store-check/
1•vladeta•5m ago•1 comments

Show HN: SVGV – A Real-Time Vector Video Format for Budget Hardware

https://github.com/thealidev/VectorVision-SVGV
1•thealidev•6m ago•0 comments

Study of 150 developers shows AI generated code no harder to maintain long term

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9EbCb5A408
1•lifeisstillgood•7m ago•0 comments

Spotify now requires premium accounts for developer mode API access

https://www.neowin.net/news/spotify-now-requires-premium-accounts-for-developer-mode-api-access/
1•bundie•9m ago•0 comments

When Albert Einstein Moved to Princeton

https://twitter.com/Math_files/status/2020017485815456224
1•keepamovin•11m ago•0 comments

Agents.md as a Dark Signal

https://joshmock.com/post/2026-agents-md-as-a-dark-signal/
1•birdculture•12m ago•0 comments

System time, clocks, and their syncing in macOS

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/05/21/system-time-clocks-and-their-syncing-in-macos/
1•fanf2•14m ago•0 comments

McCLIM and 7GUIs – Part 1: The Counter

https://turtleware.eu/posts/McCLIM-and-7GUIs---Part-1-The-Counter.html
1•ramenbytes•17m ago•0 comments

So whats the next word, then? Almost-no-math intro to transformer models

https://matthias-kainer.de/blog/posts/so-whats-the-next-word-then-/
1•oesimania•18m ago•0 comments

Ed Zitron: The Hater's Guide to Microsoft

https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3me7ibeym2c2n
2•vintagedave•21m ago•1 comments

UK infants ill after drinking contaminated baby formula of Nestle and Danone

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c931rxnwn3lo
1•__natty__•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Android-based audio player for seniors – Homer Audio Player

https://homeraudioplayer.app
2•cinusek•22m ago•0 comments

Starter Template for Ory Kratos

https://github.com/Samuelk0nrad/docker-ory
1•samuel_0xK•23m ago•0 comments

LLMs are powerful, but enterprises are deterministic by nature

2•prateekdalal•27m ago•0 comments

Make your iPad 3 a touchscreen for your computer

https://github.com/lemonjesus/ipad-touch-screen
2•0y•32m ago•1 comments

Internationalization and Localization in the Age of Agents

https://myblog.ru/internationalization-and-localization-in-the-age-of-agents
1•xenator•32m ago•0 comments

Building a Custom Clawdbot Workflow to Automate Website Creation

https://seedance2api.org/
1•pekingzcc•35m ago•1 comments

Why the "Taiwan Dome" won't survive a Chinese attack

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/why-taiwan-dome-won-t-survive-chinese-attack
2•ryan_j_naughton•35m ago•0 comments

Xkcd: Game AIs

https://xkcd.com/1002/
1•ravenical•37m ago•0 comments

Windows 11 is finally killing off legacy printer drivers in 2026

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11-finally-pulls-the-plug-on-legacy-p...
1•ValdikSS•37m ago•0 comments

From Offloading to Engagement (Study on Generative AI)

https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5729/10/11/172
1•boshomi•39m ago•1 comments

AI for People

https://justsitandgrin.im/posts/ai-for-people/
1•dive•40m ago•0 comments

Rome is studded with cannon balls (2022)

https://essenceofrome.com/rome-is-studded-with-cannon-balls
1•thomassmith65•46m ago•0 comments

8-piece tablebase development on Lichess (op1 partial)

https://lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/op1-partial-8-piece-tablebase-available/1ptPBDpC
2•somethingp•47m ago•0 comments

US to bankroll far-right think tanks in Europe against digital laws

https://www.brusselstimes.com/1957195/us-to-fund-far-right-forces-in-europe-tbtb
4•saubeidl•48m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Have AI companies replaced their own SaaS usage with agents?

1•tuxpenguine•51m ago•0 comments

pi-nes

https://twitter.com/thomasmustier/status/2018362041506132205
1•tosh•53m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Crew – Multi-agent orchestration tool for AI-assisted development

https://github.com/garnetliu/crew
1•gl2334•53m ago•0 comments

New hire fixed a problem so fast, their boss left to become a yoga instructor

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/06/on_call/
1•Brajeshwar•55m ago•0 comments

Four horsemen of the AI-pocalypse line up capex bigger than Israel's GDP

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/06/ai_capex_plans/
1•Brajeshwar•55m ago•0 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

Comments

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