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What your snot can reveal about your health

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250708-what-your-snot-can-reveal-about-your-health
1•bookofjoe•13s ago•0 comments

Baby bust: Why the French want fewer children – or none at all

https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250710-baby-bust-why-the-french-want-fewer-children-or-none-at-all
1•mooreds•42s ago•0 comments

Contemplating Entity Component Architecture (2024)

https://datavirke.dk/posts/contemplating-entity-component-architecture/
1•mpweiher•56s ago•0 comments

Repaste Your MacBook (But Don't)

https://christianselig.com/2025/07/repaste-macbook/
1•speckx•56s ago•0 comments

A recent high-profile case of AI hallucination serves as a stark warning

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5463512
1•mooreds•1m ago•0 comments

'Click-to-cancel' rule is blocked

https://apnews.com/article/ftc-click-to-cancel-30db2be07fdcb8aefd0d4835abdb116a
4•gok•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: NodeLoop – Hub for electronics design knowledge and tools

https://nodeloop.org/
1•eezZ•2m ago•0 comments

How Big Business killed the 'click-to-cancel' FTC rule, which would have saved

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hiltzik-big-business-killed-click-100000373.html
3•gok•3m ago•0 comments

The Life-Changing Joy of Tidying My Prison Cell

https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2023/03/08/like-marie-kondo-try-convict-method/
1•danso•3m ago•0 comments

The Least Bad Tax on Wealth

https://www.sterlinginvestmentreport.com/p/the-least-bad-tax-on-wealth
3•SterlingInvRep•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: One place to see if your marketing is working

https://www.kruxel.com
3•dev_marketer•5m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Need C code for drawing graphic primitives to a framebuffer

2•Surac•6m ago•1 comments

OpenCL 3.0.19 Released with SPIR-V Queries, Android Hardware Buffer Extensions

https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenCL-3.0.19-Released
2•rbanffy•6m ago•0 comments

The Book of PF, 4th edition available soon

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=175205773526134&w=2
1•dbbr•7m ago•0 comments

Ruby Triathlon

https://www.rubytriathlon.com/
1•mooreds•7m ago•0 comments

Apple Bug Prevents You from Telling People About Dave and Buster's

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/05/12/apple-ampersand-messages-bug/
1•IgorPartola•7m ago•0 comments

Is the State of the World Causing You Pain?

https://nautil.us/is-the-state-of-the-world-causing-you-pain-1223766/
1•rbanffy•8m ago•0 comments

SRT-H: A hierarchical framework for autonomous surgery

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adt5254
1•rbanffy•9m ago•0 comments

People Use Ensō: Writing App Use Cases Gathered over 6 Years

https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/how-people-use-enso/
1•rpastuszak•10m ago•0 comments

How AI on Microcontrollers Actually Works: The Computation Graph

https://danielmangum.com/posts/ai-microcontrollers-computation-graph/
1•hasheddan•10m ago•0 comments

Why Golang's Popularity Is Soaring: Real Data from Top Tech Companies

https://www.netguru.com/blog/golang-popularity
2•unripe_syntax•11m ago•0 comments

ThinkSound – Online Free AI Powered Video to Audio and Sound Effects Generator

https://thinksound.app/
2•MxcAlex•13m ago•0 comments

More license upheaval to come after SAP kills RISE with SAP products, users warn

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/more_license_upheaval_to_come/
5•rntn•14m ago•0 comments

Ultrafast Coherent Dynamics of Microring Modulators

https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.17986
2•whynotmaybe•19m ago•1 comments

Silicon Valley, 1991

https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1lwy2nq/silicon_valley_1991/
4•taubek•20m ago•1 comments

Interview with creator of Kitty Terminal and Calibre [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PYLPC3dzWQ
2•inatreecrown2•20m ago•0 comments

A Final Reflection on Regret

https://samii.dev/notes/regret/
1•samixg•20m ago•0 comments

Adaptive Two Sided Laplace Transforms as a Replacement for Self-Attention

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15714
2•PaulHoule•22m ago•1 comments

Show HN: AWS create_bucket API is BAD

1•furkansahin•23m ago•0 comments

Tissue-integrated bionic knee restores versatile movement after amputation

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv3223
1•thunderbong•24m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Are LLMs starting to become sentient?

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/are-llms-starting-to-become-a-sentient
4•Duanemclemore•6h ago

Comments

labrador•5h ago
Betteridge's law says "no"
cranberryturkey•5h ago
Douglas Hofstadter’s response is deeply insightful, yet it also subtly highlights something crucial about human interaction with technology—our inherent bias towards anthropomorphizing complex systems.

It's easy for us, especially when interacting with highly fluent systems like LLMs, to confuse linguistic proficiency with genuine consciousness or self-awareness. Hofstadter's notion of the "Eliza effect" is particularly poignant, underscoring how easily intelligent individuals can be seduced by systems that effectively mimic conversational depth without experiencing genuine cognition.

However, there's another perspective worth considering: even if LLMs aren’t truly conscious, our fascination with them might tell us more about ourselves than the machines. Our excitement about "consciousness" in machines might reflect our innate desire to understand our own consciousness better, revealing deeper truths about human nature, aspirations, and our relentless pursuit of meaning.

Perhaps the true value of these interactions isn't proving consciousness in AI, but rather illuminating the profound mysteries that remain unsolved within ourselves.