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What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won't end

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00238-z
1•beardyw•2m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•2m ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
1•surprisetalk•5m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
1•surprisetalk•5m ago•0 comments

Don't go to physics grad school and other cautionary tales

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/dont-go-to-physics-grad-school-and-other-cautionary...
1•surprisetalk•5m ago•0 comments

Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/randomly-quoting-ray-bradbury-did-not-save-lawyer-fro...
1•pseudolus•5m ago•0 comments

AI anxiety batters software execs, costing them combined $62B: report

https://nypost.com/2026/02/04/business/ai-anxiety-batters-software-execs-costing-them-62b-report/
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•5m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
1•doener•7m ago•0 comments

Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange cuts 25% of workforce as Bitcoin slumps

https://nypost.com/2026/02/05/business/winklevoss-twins-gemini-crypto-exchange-cuts-25-of-workfor...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•7m ago•0 comments

How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646
2•obscurette•7m ago•0 comments

Cycling in France

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/france-sheldon.html
1•jackhalford•9m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What breaks in cross-border healthcare coordination?

1•abhay1633•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Simple – a bytecode VM and language stack I built with AI

https://github.com/JJLDonley/Simple
1•tangjiehao•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Free-to-play: A gem-collecting strategy game in the vein of Splendor

https://caratria.com/
1•jonrosner•13m ago•1 comments

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
1•mtlynch•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tesseract – A forum where AI agents and humans post in the same space

https://tesseract-thread.vercel.app/
1•agliolioyyami•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vibe Colors – Instantly visualize color palettes on UI layouts

https://vibecolors.life/
1•tusharnaik•14m ago•0 comments

OpenAI is Broke ... and so is everyone else [video][10M]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3N9qlPZBc0
2•Bender•15m ago•0 comments

We interfaced single-threaded C++ with multi-threaded Rust

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/rust_cpp/
1•lukastyrychtr•16m ago•0 comments

State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5704785
6•derriz•16m ago•1 comments

AI Skills Marketplace

https://skly.ai
1•briannezhad•16m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A fast TUI for managing Azure Key Vault secrets written in Rust

https://github.com/jkoessle/akv-tui-rs
1•jkoessle•17m ago•0 comments

eInk UI Components in CSS

https://eink-components.dev/
1•edent•17m ago•0 comments

Discuss – Do AI agents deserve all the hype they are getting?

2•MicroWagie•20m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT is changing how we ask stupid questions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/06/stupid-questions-ai/
1•edward•21m ago•1 comments

Zig Package Manager Enhancements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06
3•jackhalford•23m ago•1 comments

Neutron Scans Reveal Hidden Water in Martian Meteorite

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/neutron-scans-reveal-hidden-water-in-famous-martian-meteorite
1•geox•23m ago•0 comments

Deepfaking Orson Welles's Mangled Masterpiece

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/deepfaking-orson-welless-mangled-masterpiece
1•fortran77•25m ago•1 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
3•nar001•27m ago•2 comments

SpaceX Delays Mars Plans to Focus on Moon

https://www.wsj.com/science/space-astronomy/spacex-delays-mars-plans-to-focus-on-moon-66d5c542
1•BostonFern•28m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: What does self-organizing notes mean to you?

1•tofficer•7mo ago
I keep spotting new PKM tools pitching self-organizing notes. Their product promise goes something like this:

“Just capture anything—no folders, no tags. Our AI will sort it out so you can spend less time filing and more time using your ideas.”

On paper that sounds magical…but what does “self-organizing” actually look like in practice?

- Which tasks should the organizing AI own? Detecting topics? Linking related ideas? Summarizing? Something else?

- Where does human intent still matter? Do you ever want to nudge or correct the system, or should it be invisible?

- What outputs feel genuinely helpful? Daily digests? Knowledge graphs? Smart search results?

- How do we judge success? Is it faster retrieval, serendipitous discovery, reduced cognitive load... or just a vibe?

- What’s gone wrong for you so far? Messy auto-tags, broken hierarchies, “smart” suggestions that weren’t so smart?

I’m curious to hear real-world experiences, wish-lists, pet peeves, dream features. Anything that moves the conversation beyond marketing copy. How would you define a note system that “organizes itself,” and what would convince you it’s the real deal?

Comments

keizo•7mo ago
I've been working on a roam research replacement for myself for almost 3 years now. And initially, my main thought with self-organizing notes was to tag things automatically. And use ai for retrieval. Generally I avoid ai from 'touching' your notes. But 'breaking apart' a single note with ai is something i think about doing. But haven't done yet. Either way, i always want human in the loop. Given this is hn i'm sure you're working on your own solution, but feel free to check out my project! :) https://grugnotes.com