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Seedance2 – multi-shot AI video generation

https://www.genstory.app/story-template/seedance2-ai-story-generator
1•RyanMu•1m ago•1 comments

Πfs – The Data-Free Filesystem

https://github.com/philipl/pifs
1•ravenical•5m ago•0 comments

Go-busybox: A sandboxable port of busybox for AI agents

https://github.com/rcarmo/go-busybox
1•rcarmo•6m ago•0 comments

Quantization-Aware Distillation for NVFP4 Inference Accuracy Recovery [pdf]

https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nemotron/files/NVFP4-QAD-Report.pdf
1•gmays•6m ago•0 comments

xAI Merger Poses Bigger Threat to OpenAI, Anthropic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-02-03/musk-s-xai-merger-poses-bigger-threat-to-op...
1•andsoitis•6m ago•0 comments

Atlas Airborne (Boston Dynamics and RAI Institute) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNorxwlZlFk
1•lysace•7m ago•0 comments

Zen Tools

http://postmake.io/zen-list
1•Malfunction92•10m ago•0 comments

Is the Detachment in the Room? – Agents, Cruelty, and Empathy

https://hailey.at/posts/3mear2n7v3k2r
1•carnevalem•10m ago•0 comments

The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail

https://blog.nix-ci.com/post/2026-02-05_the-purpose-of-ci-is-to-fail
1•zdw•12m ago•0 comments

Apfelstrudel: Live coding music environment with AI agent chat

https://github.com/rcarmo/apfelstrudel
1•rcarmo•13m ago•0 comments

What Is Stoicism?

https://stoacentral.com/guides/what-is-stoicism
3•0xmattf•14m ago•0 comments

What happens when a neighborhood is built around a farm

https://grist.org/cities/what-happens-when-a-neighborhood-is-built-around-a-farm/
1•Brajeshwar•14m ago•0 comments

Every major galaxy is speeding away from the Milky Way, except one

https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/every-major-galaxy-is-speeding-away-from-the-milky-wa...
2•Brajeshwar•14m ago•0 comments

Extreme Inequality Presages the Revolt Against It

https://www.noemamag.com/extreme-inequality-presages-the-revolt-against-it/
2•Brajeshwar•14m ago•0 comments

There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

1•dtjb•15m ago•0 comments

What Really Killed Flash Player: A Six-Year Campaign of Deliberate Platform Work

https://medium.com/@aglaforge/what-really-killed-flash-player-a-six-year-campaign-of-deliberate-p...
1•jbegley•16m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Anyone orchestrating multiple AI coding agents in parallel?

1•buildingwdavid•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Knowledge-Bank

https://github.com/gabrywu-public/knowledge-bank
1•gabrywu•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: The Codeverse Hub Linux

https://github.com/TheCodeVerseHub/CodeVerseLinuxDistro
3•sinisterMage•24m ago•2 comments

Take a trip to Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth

https://soranews24.com/2026/02/07/take-a-trip-to-japans-dododo-land-the-most-irritating-place-on-...
2•zdw•24m ago•0 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
27•bookofjoe•24m ago•10 comments

BookTalk: A Reading Companion That Captures Your Voice

https://github.com/bramses/BookTalk
1•_bramses•25m ago•0 comments

Is AI "good" yet? – tracking HN's sentiment on AI coding

https://www.is-ai-good-yet.com/#home
3•ilyaizen•26m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Amdb – Tree-sitter based memory for AI agents (Rust)

https://github.com/BETAER-08/amdb
1•try_betaer•27m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw Partners with VirusTotal for Skill Security

https://openclaw.ai/blog/virustotal-partnership
2•anhxuan•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Seedance 2.0 Release

https://seedancy2.com/
2•funnycoding•27m ago•0 comments

Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
1•thelok•27m ago•0 comments

Towards Self-Driving Codebases

https://cursor.com/blog/self-driving-codebases
1•edwinarbus•28m ago•0 comments

VCF West: Whirlwind Software Restoration – Guy Fedorkow [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLoXodz1N9A
1•stmw•28m ago•1 comments

Show HN: COGext – A minimalist, open-source system monitor for Chrome (<550KB)

https://github.com/tchoa91/cog-ext
1•tchoa91•29m ago•1 comments
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The Coming Technological Singularity, by Vernor Vinge (1993)

https://edoras.sdsu.edu/~vinge/misc/singularity.html
28•wyclif•7mo ago

Comments

melling•7mo ago
We lost Vernor Vinge last year.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_Vinge

We didn’t make it to the singularity but the race is on. Hope he realized we finally had a bit of a breakthrough.

manugo4•7mo ago
He was spot on
btreecat•7mo ago
I learned about the Zone of Thought series through another commenter here who mentioned the concept of a "programmer at arms" and "software archeology" and pointed to his second novel, A Deepness in the Sky.

I loved the whole series and now recommend them to folks looking for something wild and fun in the sci-fi realm.

RIP

dtagames•7mo ago
It should be clear already that LLMs aren't a path to intelligence since they don't contain or exhibit any.

Knowing this, there is no approaching "singularity" of advanced machine intelligence.

Asraelite•7mo ago
If you're so sure about that then you should be able to provide a rigorous, testable definition of intelligence, and a proof of why that definition specifically and nothing less is what must be met for machines to become exponentially self-improving.
dtagames•7mo ago
It's the opposite. I can provide a rigorous description of how LLMs are built and operate (and have done so)[0]. There is no intelligence, however defined, in that process. It is the ultimate in rote behavior.

Furthermore, LLMs are not learning or self-improving in any way. They are fed training data, corrections, and prompts and produce their answers solely through predictions, not as a result of learning.

[0] https://levelup.gitconnected.com/something-from-nothing-d755...

Asraelite•7mo ago
> There is no intelligence, however defined

Ok, I choose to define intelligence as having the ability to transform vectors of tokens with matrices. There, LLMs are now intelligent and what you just said is incorrect, because this is one possible definition of intelligence.

Seriously, nobody can argue against what you are saying if refuse to elaborate on what exactly you mean. Provide the definition for "intelligence" you are using.

dtagames•7mo ago
This recent post by another author is a good explanation that I agree with: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44423206
Asraelite•7mo ago
That is some of the most nonsensical philosophical rambling I've ever seen. There are many problems with it but the main one is that it assumes a priori that humans are intelligent and machines are not, and then uses circular reasoning to justify that.

> it is the human being reading intelligence into the behavior of LLMs. There is none in the LLM.

There is no justification for why it must be a human and only a human that can "read intelligence into" something.

I give up. I don't think you even know what you're claiming.

ashoeafoot•7mo ago
Maybe its a recursive loop? Humans create AI, dies out, AI creates a Simulation tovrecreate its creators, humans build AI and so on..