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Ask HN: Opus 4.6 ignoring instructions, how to use 4.5 in Claude Code instead?

1•Chance-Device•1m ago•0 comments

We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
1•ColinWright•4m ago•0 comments

Jim Fan calls pixels the ultimate motor controller

https://robotsandstartups.substack.com/p/humanoids-platform-urdf-kitchen-nvidias
1•robotlaunch•7m ago•0 comments

Exploring a Modern SMTPE 2110 Broadcast Truck with My Dad

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/exploring-a-modern-smpte-2110-broadcast-truck-with-my-dad/
1•HotGarbage•7m ago•0 comments

AI UX Playground: Real-world examples of AI interaction design

https://www.aiuxplayground.com/
1•javiercr•8m ago•0 comments

The Field Guide to Design Futures

https://designfutures.guide/
1•andyjohnson0•9m ago•0 comments

The Other Leverage in Software and AI

https://tomtunguz.com/the-other-leverage-in-software-and-ai/
1•gmays•11m ago•0 comments

AUR malware scanner written in Rust

https://github.com/Sohimaster/traur
3•sohimaster•13m ago•1 comments

Free FFmpeg API [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RAuSVa4MLI
3•harshalone•13m ago•1 comments

Are AI agents ready for the workplace? A new benchmark raises doubts

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/are-ai-agents-ready-for-the-workplace-a-new-benchmark-raises-do...
2•PaulHoule•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Watermark and Stego Scanner

https://ulrischa.github.io/AIWatermarkDetector/
1•ulrischa•18m ago•0 comments

Clarity vs. complexity: the invisible work of subtraction

https://www.alexscamp.com/p/clarity-vs-complexity-the-invisible
1•dovhyi•19m ago•0 comments

Solid-State Freezer Needs No Refrigerants

https://spectrum.ieee.org/subzero-elastocaloric-cooling
2•Brajeshwar•20m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Will LLMs/AI Decrease Human Intelligence and Make Expertise a Commodity?

1•mc-0•21m ago•1 comments

From Zero to Hero: A Brief Introduction to Spring Boot

https://jcob-sikorski.github.io/me/writing/from-zero-to-hello-world-spring-boot
1•jcob_sikorski•21m ago•1 comments

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and person close to Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/nsa-foreign-intelligence-trump-whistleblower
8•c420•22m ago•1 comments

How to Fake a Robotics Result

https://itcanthink.substack.com/p/how-to-fake-a-robotics-result
1•ai_critic•22m ago•0 comments

It's time for the world to boycott the US

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/2/5/its-time-for-the-world-to-boycott-the-us
3•HotGarbage•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Semantic Search for terminal commands in the Browser (No Back end)

https://jslambda.github.io/tldr-vsearch/
1•jslambda•23m ago•1 comments

The AI CEO Experiment

https://yukicapital.com/blog/the-ai-ceo-experiment/
2•romainsimon•24m ago•0 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
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MS-DOS game copy protection and cracks

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4•TheCraiggers•29m ago•0 comments

Updates on GNU/Hurd progress [video]

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Epstein took a photo of his 2015 dinner with Zuckerberg and Musk

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MyFlames: View MySQL execution plans as interactive FlameGraphs and BarCharts

https://github.com/vgrippa/myflames
1•tanelpoder•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LLM of Babel

https://clairefro.github.io/llm-of-babel/
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A modern iperf3 alternative with a live TUI, multi-client server, QUIC support

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Famfamfam Silk icons – also with CSS spritesheet

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1•thunderbong•33m ago•0 comments

Apple is the only Big Tech company whose capex declined last quarter

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4•elsewhen•36m ago•0 comments

Reverse-Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600

https://github.com/joshuanwalker/Raiders2600
2•todsacerdoti•38m ago•0 comments
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Ask HN: Even with AGI, it wouldn't know what you know. Can we preserve that?

1•consumer451•6mo ago
Even if we had true AGI today, even if that AGI attained top .001% human-level intelligence as a product, that product would still not have your experiences and knowledge of a given project or domain. It could not replace you.

That AGI didn't experience what you have experienced. How could it without recording all of your audio and visual input?

Clearly, I am not the first person to think of this concept. My question: is it important for us to fight the inevitable attempt at capture of all our audio/visual existence? Or, is this a Luddite concept in 2025?

Comments

bigyabai•6mo ago
In all likelihood, you individually do not live an interesting or successful enough life to be good training data. Data brokers would probably struggle to sell AI companies your personal data.
consumer451•6mo ago
My post, which is likely not clear, is not about training models. It is about an AI product which could replace everything that your brain does. Not just work, but all of your decision making [0].

If all of your work and knowledge is done via text like Slack or Email, or via transcribed online meetings, then this seems relatively easy in the long term. That problem is not that hard, conceptually. However, it would still not know some anecdote that you heard over beers from someone else, which is how multiple AI concepts were discovered.

If we continue that idea, not just work, but to offload all our our thinking, a virtual you, it would require from birth A/V data capture, right?

[0] The reason that this came up in my mind is that today I presented a new LLM-enabled feature in my SaaS product, to my beta users. One user quickly and unironically, responded "This is awesome! I don't have to use my brain for this anymore!" This scared the crap out of me, and my post here is the generalization of this idea.

alganet•6mo ago
I don't understand what you are saying.

Is it some elaboration on "It's useless, humans are better, therefore stop trying to collect data?".

If it is, it is more of an assertion than a question. Those are rather common, and there isn't much to say about them.

If it's not, you should express your doubts better. Explain in detail where you're coming from.

consumer451•6mo ago
Sorry, some people drink beers and message their ex's. I apparently post poorly written Ask HN's.

My original thought here was: chill out everyone! Even if we had AGI, even ASI today... neither of those systems could know everything that you have seen, heard, dreamed, or thought. They cannot truly replace you... unless all audio, video, and eventually neuro signals in your lifetime are recorded. This is really important, as all of those things influence you to make the decisions that you make. This is what makes you unique, and important.

Then the next thought was... is that something worth fighting against? Or, should I welcome my individually trained technological replacement?

When I was talking about this with a co-worker earlier today, the thought occurred: this is not only the final frontier of privacy, but of individuality.

alganet•6mo ago
You're looking for a fight. There's nothing regarding individuality in that.
consumer451•6mo ago
> You're looking for a fight.

Not at all. That is not my style. I am looking for a discussion.

> There's nothing regarding individuality in that.

I must have miscommunicated.

If you are to be truly replaced by an AI agent, how is that not the loss of individuality? A drop-in AI clone of everything that you could do, would imply the loss of individuality, would it not? How could it not?

pulvinar•6mo ago
I'm not understanding this either.

It should be no more a loss of your individuality than if you were replaced at your job by another equally capable human worker. Of course they wouldn't have _your_ experience, they'd have their own.

And likewise for the AGI.

alganet•6mo ago
You're looking for "something to fight for", the discussion is just a way of doing that. Your a person that has a fight, you need to have it.

I'm not that, so I can't understand your argument. I don't need to have something to fight for to have meaning in life, to understand justice, to have feelings. I can do it without belonging to a group, or having an agenda.

In other words, I will not join your quest.