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Gemini responds to request to turn on lights with hallucinated jailbreak prompt

https://www.reddit.com/r/googlehome/s/Lh3dYqccgB
1•visviva•28s ago•0 comments

RustCast -open-source Raycast-style launcher written in Rust

https://github.com/unsecretised/rustcast
1•todsacerdoti•29s ago•0 comments

Why Do Olympic Athletes Bite Their Medals?

https://www.thv11.com/article/sports/olympics/winter-games-iq/why-athletes-bite-medals-olympics/5...
1•RickJWagner•1m ago•0 comments

Mdash – Markdown in URL

https://kamilmac.github.io/mdash/
1•kmacinski•3m ago•0 comments

Brings your family memories now

https://familymemories.video
1•tareq_•3m ago•0 comments

Travel to Cheap Destinations

https://nomagicpill.substack.com/p/travel-to-cheap-destinations
1•surprisetalk•4m ago•0 comments

Rebuilding my home network with VLANs and 10Gbps

https://clintonboys.com/projects/homelab/03-network/
1•mtsolitary•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RepoSherlock – repo onboarding in minutes (map, run, risks)

1•kemal-arslan•6m ago•0 comments

Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 2

https://libroot.org/posts/going-through-snowden-documents-part-2/
1•stareatgoats•8m ago•0 comments

Can Europe get kids off social media?

https://www.ft.com/content/cf465c21-4789-490b-b328-41f6383567d7
2•thm•10m ago•0 comments

I Built a NAS (Buildlog)

https://arne.me/blog/buildlog-nas
2•abahlo•11m ago•0 comments

Making Software: How do computers store data?

https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/how-is-data-stored
1•Garbage•13m ago•0 comments

A timeline of claims about AI/LLMs

https://blog.nethuml.xyz/posts/2026/02/timeline-of-claims-about-ai-llms/
2•nethuml•15m ago•0 comments

Freeciv 3D with hex map tiles and WebGPU renderer

https://freecivworld.net/
1•roschdal•16m ago•0 comments

SpaceX-xAI Merger: Nobody's Talking About the von Neumann Elephant in the Room

1•juanpabloaj•20m ago•1 comments

Smart Homes Are Terrible

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/smart-homes-technology/685867/
6•aarghh•24m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Would you use an ESLint-like tool for SEO that fails your CI/CD build?

1•YannBuilds•25m ago•0 comments

Praise for Price Gouging

https://www.grumpy-economist.com/p/praise-for-price-gouging
1•mhb•28m ago•0 comments

Open source infra orchestrator agent clanker CLI

https://github.com/bgdnvk/clanker
1•tekbog•29m ago•0 comments

Lance table format explained simply, stupid (Animated)

https://tontinton.com/posts/lance/
1•tontinton•31m ago•0 comments

Solving Soma

https://anekstein.com/posts/2026-02-01-blocker
1•davidanekstein•31m ago•0 comments

We built a cloud platform for agentic software (our virtualization, etc.)

https://agentuity.com/
1•rblalock•31m ago•2 comments

Show HN: WLM-SLP – A 0D-27D Structural Language for Multi-Agent Alignment

https://github.com/gavingu2255-ai/WLM-Open-Source/blob/main/README.md
1•WujieGuGavin•31m ago•0 comments

Former Tumblr Head Jeff D'Onofrio Steps in as Acting CEO at the Washington Post

https://www.theverge.com/tech/875433/tumblr-jeff-donofrio-ceo-washington-post-layoffs
3•bookofjoe•35m ago•1 comments

Bounded Flexible Arrays in C

https://people.kernel.org/kees/bounded-flexible-arrays-in-c
1•fanf2•35m ago•0 comments

The Invisible Labor Force Powering AI

https://cacm.acm.org/news/the-invisible-labor-force-powering-ai/
1•pseudolus•37m ago•0 comments

Reading Recursion via Pascal

https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/reading-recursion-via-pascal
1•AlexeyBrin•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made a website that finds patterns on your spreadsheet

https://analyzetable.com
1•kouhxp•38m ago•0 comments

Jokes on You AI: Turning the Tables – LLMs for Learning

https://www.dev-log.me/jokes_on_you_ai_llms_for_learning/
1•wazHFsRy•38m ago•0 comments

You don't need RAG in 2026

https://ryanlineng.substack.com/p/you-dont-need-rag-in-2026
2•kareninoverseas•40m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

An Information theoretic approach to defining consciousness

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18GEVyw7QTAX-0pxYWBrGm_zta-d6okmN/view?usp=drivesdk
1•Trenthug•7mo ago

Comments

proc0•7mo ago
This is not well defined.

> Consciousness is defined as the fraction of an object's inherent description that an observer correctly believes to be true.

Here it's a belief, but in other places it's referring to a relationship between objects and belief (i.e. a ratio). In either case this isn't sufficient to account for the hard problem. It's just building a framework and using the word 'Consciousness' as one of the labels. Any definition of consciousness should account for why we have a subjective perspective that unrolls through time and has qualia.

Also "belief" implies subjectivity, which imlpies a conscious entity, so any use of "belief" is circular here.

An information theoretic approach would tackle this with Shannon entropy and Turing machines, for example.

Trenthug•7mo ago
The mention Shannon entropy is in there,the model was made with an intent only capture the subtleties of the descriptive aspects of consciousness,It is worth acknowledging that use of metrics of complexity like Shannon entropy and no. of bits required are the metrics used to quantify complexity and that section does seem to require some refinements (was the reason behind it being posted here), beliefs are just statements labelled true by the observer (karl friston's work uses a similar thing by using the word inference),and it does incorporate qualia(the subjective experiences) as the privately experienced symbols qualities of objects from which the inferences are made
Trenthug•7mo ago
Any opinions?