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Microsoft appointed a quality czar. He has no direct reports and no budget

https://jpcaparas.medium.com/microsoft-appointed-a-quality-czar-he-has-no-direct-reports-and-no-b...
1•RickJWagner•1m ago•0 comments

Multi-agent coordination on Claude Code: 8 production pain points and patterns

https://gist.github.com/sigalovskinick/6cc1cef061f76b7edd198e0ebc863397
1•nikolasi•2m ago•0 comments

Washington Post CEO Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/technology/washington-post-will-lewis.html
1•jbegley•2m ago•0 comments

DevXT – Building the Future with AI That Acts

https://devxt.com
2•superpecmuscles•3m ago•0 comments

A Minimal OpenClaw Built with the OpenCode SDK

https://github.com/CefBoud/MonClaw
1•cefboud•3m ago•0 comments

The silent death of Good Code

https://amit.prasad.me/blog/rip-good-code
2•amitprasad•4m ago•0 comments

The Internal Negotiation You Have When Your Heart Rate Gets Uncomfortable

https://www.vo2maxpro.com/blog/internal-negotiation-heart-rate
1•GoodluckH•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Glance – Fast CSV inspection for the terminal (SIMD-accelerated)

https://github.com/AveryClapp/glance
2•AveryClapp•6m ago•0 comments

Busy for the Next Fifty to Sixty Bud

https://pestlemortar.substack.com/p/busy-for-the-next-fifty-to-sixty-had-all-my-money-in-bitcoin-...
1•mithradiumn•7m ago•0 comments

Imperative

https://pestlemortar.substack.com/p/imperative
1•mithradiumn•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I decomposed 87 tasks to find where AI agents structurally collapse

https://github.com/XxCotHGxX/Instruction_Entropy
1•XxCotHGxX•12m ago•1 comments

I went back to Linux and it was a mistake

https://www.theverge.com/report/875077/linux-was-a-mistake
1•timpera•13m ago•1 comments

Octrafic – open-source AI-assisted API testing from the CLI

https://github.com/Octrafic/octrafic-cli
1•mbadyl•14m ago•1 comments

US Accuses China of Secret Nuclear Testing

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/trump-has-been-clear-wanting-new-nuclear-arms-control-treaty-...
2•jandrewrogers•15m ago•1 comments

Peacock. A New Programming Language

1•hashhooshy•20m ago•1 comments

A postcard arrived: 'If you're reading this I'm dead, and I really liked you'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2026/02/07/postcard-death-teacher-glickman/
2•bookofjoe•21m ago•1 comments

What to know about the software selloff

https://www.morningstar.com/markets/what-know-about-software-stock-selloff
2•RickJWagner•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Syntux – generative UI for websites, not agents

https://www.getsyntux.com/
3•Goose78•25m ago•0 comments

Microsoft appointed a quality czar. He has no direct reports and no budget

https://jpcaparas.medium.com/ab75cef97954
2•birdculture•26m ago•0 comments

AI overlay that reads anything on your screen (invisible to screen capture)

https://lowlighter.app/
1•andylytic•27m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Seafloor, be up and running with OpenClaw in 20 seconds

https://seafloor.bot/
1•k0mplex•27m ago•0 comments

Tesla turbine-inspired structure generates electricity using compressed air

https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-tesla-turbine-generates-electricity-compressed.html
2•PaulHoule•29m ago•0 comments

State Department deleting 17 years of tweets (2009-2025); preservation needed

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5704785/state-department-trump-posts-x
2•sleazylice•29m ago•1 comments

Learning to code, or building side projects with AI help, this one's for you

https://codeslick.dev/learn
1•vitorlourenco•29m ago•0 comments

Effulgence RPG Engine [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFQOUe9S7dU
1•msuniverse2026•31m ago•0 comments

Five disciplines discovered the same math independently – none of them knew

https://freethemath.org
4•energyscholar•31m ago•1 comments

We Scanned an AI Assistant for Security Issues: 12,465 Vulnerabilities

https://codeslick.dev/blog/openclaw-security-audit
1•vitorlourenco•32m ago•0 comments

Amazon no longer defend cloud customers against video patent infringement claims

https://ipfray.com/amazon-no-longer-defends-cloud-customers-against-video-patent-infringement-cla...
2•ffworld•33m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Medinilla – an OCPP compliant .NET back end (partially done)

https://github.com/eliodecolli/Medinilla
2•rhcm•36m ago•0 comments

How Does AI Distribute the Pie? Large Language Models and the Ultimatum Game

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6157066
1•dkga•36m ago•1 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?