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Ask HN: Why doesn't Netflix add a theater mode that recreates the worst parts?

1•amichail•47s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Engineering Perception with Combinatorial Memetics

1•alan_sass•7m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Steam Daily – A Wordle-like daily puzzle game for Steam fans

https://steamdaily.xyz
1•itshellboy•8m ago•0 comments

The Anthropic Hive Mind

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b
1•spenvo•8m ago•0 comments

Just Started Using AmpCode

https://intelligenttools.co/blog/ampcode-multi-agent-production
1•BojanTomic•10m ago•0 comments

LLM as an Engineer vs. a Founder?

1•dm03514•11m ago•0 comments

Crosstalk inside cells helps pathogens evade drugs, study finds

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-crosstalk-cells-pathogens-evade-drugs.html
2•PaulHoule•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Design system generator (mood to CSS in <1 second)

https://huesly.app
1•egeuysall•12m ago•1 comments

Show HN: 26/02/26 – 5 songs in a day

https://playingwith.variousbits.net/saturday
1•dmje•13m ago•0 comments

Toroidal Logit Bias – Reduce LLM hallucinations 40% with no fine-tuning

https://github.com/Paraxiom/topological-coherence
1•slye514•15m ago•1 comments

Top AI models fail at >96% of tasks

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-failed-test-on-remote-freelance-jobs/
4•codexon•15m ago•2 comments

The Science of the Perfect Second (2023)

https://harpers.org/archive/2023/04/the-science-of-the-perfect-second/
1•NaOH•16m ago•0 comments

Bob Beck (OpenBSD) on why vi should stay vi (2006)

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=115820462402673&w=2
2•birdculture•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: a glimpse into the future of eye tracking for multi-agent use

https://github.com/dchrty/glimpsh
1•dochrty•20m ago•0 comments

The Optima-l Situation: A deep dive into the classic humanist sans-serif

https://micahblachman.beehiiv.com/p/the-optima-l-situation
2•subdomain•21m ago•1 comments

Barn Owls Know When to Wait

https://blog.typeobject.com/posts/2026-barn-owls-know-when-to-wait/
1•fintler•21m ago•0 comments

Implementing TCP Echo Server in Rust [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjOBZ_Xzuio
1•sheerluck•21m ago•0 comments

LicGen – Offline License Generator (CLI and Web UI)

1•tejavvo•25m ago•0 comments

Service Degradation in West US Region

https://azure.status.microsoft/en-gb/status?gsid=5616bb85-f380-4a04-85ed-95674eec3d87&utm_source=...
2•_____k•25m ago•0 comments

The Janitor on Mars

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1998/10/26/the-janitor-on-mars
1•evo_9•27m ago•0 comments

Bringing Polars to .NET

https://github.com/ErrorLSC/Polars.NET
3•CurtHagenlocher•28m ago•0 comments

Adventures in Guix Packaging

https://nemin.hu/guix-packaging.html
1•todsacerdoti•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: We had 20 Claude terminals open, so we built Orcha

1•buildingwdavid•30m ago•0 comments

Your Best Thinking Is Wasted on the Wrong Decisions

https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-07-your-best-thinking-is-wasted-on-the-wrong-decis...
1•iand675•30m ago•0 comments

Warcraftcn/UI – UI component library inspired by classic Warcraft III aesthetics

https://www.warcraftcn.com/
1•vyrotek•31m ago•0 comments

Trump Vodka Becomes Available for Pre-Orders

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kirkogunrinde/2025/12/01/trump-vodka-becomes-available-for-pre-order...
1•stopbulying•32m ago•0 comments

Velocity of Money

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money
1•gurjeet•35m ago•0 comments

Stop building automations. Start running your business

https://www.fluxtopus.com/automate-your-business
1•valboa•39m ago•1 comments

You can't QA your way to the frontier

https://www.scorecard.io/blog/you-cant-qa-your-way-to-the-frontier
1•gk1•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PalettePoint – AI color palette generator from text or images

https://palettepoint.com
2•latentio•41m 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..