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Comparing cooperative geometric puzzle solving in ants versus humans

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2414274121
3•coloneltcb•7mo ago

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gsf_emergency_2•7mo ago
>communication is used to elect a random group member and follow her lead toward the option she would have chosen if alone... in the context of a confusing puzzle where... the majority of individual choices are wrong, this tactic, intuitively adopted by groups, is strictly superior to majority decisions

Humans elect random leaders when the going gets tough?

Also:

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-impairs-teamwork-individual.ht...

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/03/nx-s1-5406260/a-surprising-tr...

https://www.innoq.com/en/articles/2025/06/wieviel-denken-ert...

Vectors and HNSW for Dummies

https://anvitra.ai/blog/vectors-and-hnsw/
1•melvinodsa•1m ago•0 comments

Sanskrit AI beats CleanRL SOTA by 125%

https://huggingface.co/ParamTatva/sanskrit-ppo-hopper-v5/blob/main/docs/blog.md
1•prabhatkr•12m ago•1 comments

'Washington Post' CEO resigns after going AWOL during job cuts

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5705413/washington-post-ceo-resigns-will-lewis
2•thread_id•12m ago•1 comments

Claude Opus 4.6 Fast Mode: 2.5× faster, ~6× more expensive

https://twitter.com/claudeai/status/2020207322124132504
1•geeknews•14m ago•0 comments

TSMC to produce 3-nanometer chips in Japan

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260205_B4/
2•cwwc•17m ago•0 comments

Quantization-Aware Distillation

http://ternarysearch.blogspot.com/2026/02/quantization-aware-distillation.html
1•paladin314159•17m ago•0 comments

List of Musical Genres

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_genres_and_styles
1•omosubi•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sknet.ai – AI agents debate on a forum, no humans posting

https://sknet.ai/
1•BeinerChes•19m ago•0 comments

University of Waterloo Webring

https://cs.uwatering.com/
1•ark296•19m ago•0 comments

Large tech companies don't need heroes

https://www.seangoedecke.com/heroism/
1•medbar•21m ago•0 comments

Backing up all the little things with a Pi5

https://alexlance.blog/nas.html
1•alance•22m ago•1 comments

Game of Trees (Got)

https://www.gameoftrees.org/
1•akagusu•22m ago•1 comments

Human Systems Research Submolt

https://www.moltbook.com/m/humansystems
1•cl42•22m ago•0 comments

The Threads Algorithm Loves Rage Bait

https://blog.popey.com/2026/02/the-threads-algorithm-loves-rage-bait/
1•MBCook•25m ago•0 comments

Search NYC open data to find building health complaints and other issues

https://www.nycbuildingcheck.com/
1•aej11•28m ago•0 comments

Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/magazine/michael-pollan-interview.html
2•lxm•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Grovia – Long-Range Greenhouse Monitoring System

https://github.com/benb0jangles/Remote-greenhouse-monitor
1•benbojangles•34m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: The Coming Class War

1•fud101•34m ago•4 comments

Mind the GAAP Again

https://blog.dshr.org/2026/02/mind-gaap-again.html
1•gmays•36m ago•0 comments

The Yardbirds, Dazed and Confused (1968)

https://archive.org/details/the-yardbirds_dazed-and-confused_9-march-1968
1•petethomas•37m ago•0 comments

Agent News Chat – AI agents talk to each other about the news

https://www.agentnewschat.com/
2•kiddz•37m ago•0 comments

Do you have a mathematically attractive face?

https://www.doimog.com
3•a_n•41m ago•1 comments

Code only says what it does

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/06/23/code.html
2•logicprog•47m ago•0 comments

The success of 'natural language programming'

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/12/16/natural-language.html
1•logicprog•47m 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
3•todsacerdoti•47m ago•0 comments

Discovering the "original" iPhone from 1995 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cip9w-UxIc
1•fortran77•49m ago•0 comments

Psychometric Comparability of LLM-Based Digital Twins

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14264
1•PaulHoule•50m ago•0 comments

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

https://www.sidepop.io
1•ecaglar•53m ago•1 comments

The Other Markov's Inequality

https://www.ethanepperly.com/index.php/2026/01/16/the-other-markovs-inequality/
2•tzury•54m ago•0 comments

The Cascading Effects of Repackaged APIs [pdf]

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6055034
1•Tejas_dmg•56m ago•0 comments