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Do you have a mathematically attractive face?

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

Code only says what it does

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/06/23/code.html
1•logicprog•7m ago•0 comments

The success of 'natural language programming'

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/12/16/natural-language.html
1•logicprog•7m ago•0 comments

The Scriptovision Super Micro Script video titler is almost a home computer

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-scriptovision-super-micro-script.html
2•todsacerdoti•7m ago•0 comments

Discovering the "original" iPhone from 1995 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cip9w-UxIc
1•fortran77•9m ago•0 comments

Psychometric Comparability of LLM-Based Digital Twins

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14264
1•PaulHoule•10m ago•0 comments

SidePop – track revenue, costs, and overall business health in one place

https://www.sidepop.io
1•ecaglar•13m ago•1 comments

The Other Markov's Inequality

https://www.ethanepperly.com/index.php/2026/01/16/the-other-markovs-inequality/
1•tzury•14m ago•0 comments

The Cascading Effects of Repackaged APIs [pdf]

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6055034
1•Tejas_dmg•16m ago•0 comments

Lightweight and extensible compatibility layer between dataframe libraries

https://narwhals-dev.github.io/narwhals/
1•kermatt•19m ago•0 comments

Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
2•RebelPotato•22m ago•0 comments

Dorsey's Block cutting up to 10% of staff

https://www.reuters.com/business/dorseys-block-cutting-up-10-staff-bloomberg-news-reports-2026-02...
2•dev_tty01•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Freenet Lives – Real-Time Decentralized Apps at Scale [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SxNBz1VTE0
1•sanity•27m ago•1 comments

In the AI age, 'slow and steady' doesn't win

https://www.semafor.com/article/01/30/2026/in-the-ai-age-slow-and-steady-is-on-the-outs
1•mooreds•34m ago•1 comments

Administration won't let student deported to Honduras return

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-wont-let-student-deported-honduras-return-2...
1•petethomas•34m ago•0 comments

How were the NIST ECDSA curve parameters generated? (2023)

https://saweis.net/posts/nist-curve-seed-origins.html
2•mooreds•35m ago•0 comments

AI, networks and Mechanical Turks (2025)

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2025/11/23/ai-networks-and-mechanical-turks
1•mooreds•35m ago•0 comments

Goto Considered Awesome [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UKVEUGEk6Y
1•linkdd•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Built a Free AI LinkedIn Carousel Generator

https://carousel-ai.intellisell.ai/
1•troyethaniel•39m ago•0 comments

Implementing Auto Tiling with Just 5 Tiles

https://www.kyledunbar.dev/2026/02/05/Implementing-auto-tiling-with-just-5-tiles.html
1•todsacerdoti•40m ago•0 comments

Open Challange (Get all Universities involved

https://x.com/i/grok/share/3513b9001b8445e49e4795c93bcb1855
1•rwilliamspbgops•41m ago•0 comments

Apple Tried to Tamper Proof AirTag 2 Speakers – I Broke It [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLK6ixQpQsQ
2•gnabgib•43m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Isolating AI-generated code from human code | Vibe as a Code

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@gace/vaac
1•bstrama•44m ago•0 comments

Show HN: More beautiful and usable Hacker News

https://twitter.com/shivamhwp/status/2020125417995436090
3•shivamhwp•44m ago•0 comments

Toledo Derailment Rescue [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPHh5yHxkfU
1•samsolomon•47m ago•0 comments

War Department Cuts Ties with Harvard University

https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4399812/war-department-cuts-ties-with-harva...
9•geox•50m ago•1 comments

Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
4•yi_wang•51m ago•0 comments

A Bid-Based NFT Advertising Grid

https://bidsabillion.com/
1•chainbuilder•55m ago•1 comments

AI readability score for your documentation

https://docsalot.dev/tools/docsagent-score
1•fazkan•1h ago•0 comments

NASA Study: Non-Biologic Processes Don't Explain Mars Organics

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/science-news/2026/02/06/nasa-study-non-biologic-processes-dont-ful...
3•bediger4000•1h ago•2 comments
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AI can't solve novel problems yet

https://jamesoclaire.com/2025/06/04/ai-obviously-cant-yet-solve-novel-problems/
4•ddxv•8mo ago

Comments

ddxv•8mo ago
https://github.com/blacktop/ipsw/issues/668#issuecomment-290...

I saw this hilarious exchange in one of the issues covering Apple’s recent changes that make it impossible to download IPA files.

Recreating an iPhone’s authentication to Apple App Store is a bit of a cat and mouse game. Apple recently changed it’s backend, so now dozens of projects are trying to find ways to circumvent or crack the Apple App Store download authentication.

Blacktop, out of likely boredom or curiosity, threw Claude at this issue for Claude to error out.

To be fair, it’s likely impossible for Claude to have figured this issue out. The ‘fix’ will be something quite novel, for example perhaps reverse engineering a way to authenticate with modern Apple App Store using an old Windows version of iTunes that is still supported.

Perhaps in the near future AI agents will be powerful enough to understand more complex environments, which will be interesting for these types of problems, but for now, it’s far from capable.

For anyone interested in the issue, this one is active as well: https://github.com/majd/ipatool/issues/357

NAHWheatCracker•8mo ago
Are there any well-thought treatises on what "novel" means?
ddxv•8mo ago
I was using it to mean new / not seen before problem. Perhaps that evokes a bit too grand concept? I know the issue I highlight is not that 'important' overall.

Edit: You're right the 'problem' might not be new/novel, just that the solution is new.

NAHWheatCracker•8mo ago
I wasn't criticizing the choice of word, apologies.

I'm interested if anyone has an idea of what it would mean for an AI to generate or do something "novel" in the sense of creatively new.

ddxv•8mo ago
Of course, I found the question interesting as well!
beardyw•8mo ago
What "novel" means? I would say putting things together in a way which hasn't been done before. Just asked Gemini:

There are 2 wolves and 2 sheep in a field. How many sheep will there be tomorrow?

Answer: There will still be 2 sheep tomorrow.

Needs some visualisation which LLMs don't really do well.