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Will Future Generations Think We're Gross?

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/will-future-generations-think-were
1•crescit_eundo•1m ago•0 comments

Kernel Key Retention Service

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/security/keys/core.html
1•networked•1m ago•0 comments

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

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5704785/state-department-trump-posts-x
1•righthand•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Verifiable server roundtrip demo for a decision interruption system

https://github.com/veeduzyl-hue/decision-assistant-roundtrip-demo
1•veeduzyl•5m ago•0 comments

Impl Rust – Avro IDL Tool in Rust via Antlr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmKvw73V394
1•todsacerdoti•5m ago•0 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
2•vinhnx•6m ago•0 comments

minikeyvalue

https://github.com/commaai/minikeyvalue/tree/prod
3•tosh•11m ago•0 comments

Neomacs: GPU-accelerated Emacs with inline video, WebKit, and terminal via wgpu

https://github.com/eval-exec/neomacs
1•evalexec•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Moli P2P – An ephemeral, serverless image gallery (Rust and WebRTC)

https://moli-green.is/
2•ShinyaKoyano•19m ago•1 comments

How I grow my X presence?

https://www.reddit.com/r/GrowthHacking/s/UEc8pAl61b
2•m00dy•21m ago•0 comments

What's the cost of the most expensive Super Bowl ad slot?

https://ballparkguess.com/?id=5b98b1d3-5887-47b9-8a92-43be2ced674b
1•bkls•22m ago•0 comments

What if you just did a startup instead?

https://alexaraki.substack.com/p/what-if-you-just-did-a-startup
3•okaywriting•28m ago•0 comments

Hacking up your own shell completion (2020)

https://www.feltrac.co/environment/2020/01/18/build-your-own-shell-completion.html
2•todsacerdoti•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gorse 0.5 – Open-source recommender system with visual workflow editor

https://github.com/gorse-io/gorse
1•zhenghaoz•32m ago•0 comments

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCR
1•ms7892•33m ago•0 comments

Local Agent Bench: Test 11 small LLMs on tool-calling judgment, on CPU, no GPU

https://github.com/MikeVeerman/tool-calling-benchmark
1•MikeVeerman•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AboutMyProject – A public log for developer proof-of-work

https://aboutmyproject.com/
1•Raiplus•34m ago•0 comments

Expertise, AI and Work of Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxWl9iT1XU
1•indiantinker•34m ago•0 comments

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/books/mass-market-paperback-books.html
3•pseudolus•35m ago•1 comments

PID Controller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%E2%80%93derivative_controller
1•tosh•39m ago•0 comments

SpaceX Rocket Generates 100GW of Power, or 20% of US Electricity

https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/2019932764515234159
2•bkls•39m ago•0 comments

Kubernetes MCP Server

https://github.com/yindia/rootcause
1•yindia•40m ago•0 comments

I Built a Movie Recommendation Agent to Solve Movie Nights with My Wife

https://rokn.io/posts/building-movie-recommendation-agent
4•roknovosel•40m ago•0 comments

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

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00238-z
2•beardyw•49m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•49m ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
2•surprisetalk•51m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
2•surprisetalk•51m 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...
2•surprisetalk•51m 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...
5•pseudolus•52m 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•52m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

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..