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Jim Fan calls pixels the ultimate motor controller

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

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

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

The Field Guide to Design Futures

https://designfutures.guide/
1•andyjohnson0•2m ago•0 comments

The Other Leverage in Software and AI

https://tomtunguz.com/the-other-leverage-in-software-and-ai/
1•gmays•4m ago•0 comments

AUR malware scanner written in Rust

https://github.com/Sohimaster/traur
2•sohimaster•6m ago•0 comments

Free FFmpeg API [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RAuSVa4MLI
2•harshalone•6m 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•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Watermark and Stego Scanner

https://ulrischa.github.io/AIWatermarkDetector/
1•ulrischa•12m ago•0 comments

Clarity vs. complexity: the invisible work of subtraction

https://www.alexscamp.com/p/clarity-vs-complexity-the-invisible
1•dovhyi•13m ago•0 comments

Solid-State Freezer Needs No Refrigerants

https://spectrum.ieee.org/subzero-elastocaloric-cooling
1•Brajeshwar•13m ago•0 comments

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

1•mc-0•14m 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•14m 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
7•c420•15m ago•1 comments

How to Fake a Robotics Result

https://itcanthink.substack.com/p/how-to-fake-a-robotics-result
1•ai_critic•15m 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•16m ago•0 comments

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

https://jslambda.github.io/tldr-vsearch/
1•jslambda•16m ago•1 comments

The AI CEO Experiment

https://yukicapital.com/blog/the-ai-ceo-experiment/
2•romainsimon•18m ago•0 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
3•surprisetalk•21m ago•0 comments

MS-DOS game copy protection and cracks

https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/game_cracks.php
3•TheCraiggers•22m ago•0 comments

Updates on GNU/Hurd progress [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7FZXHF-updates_on_gnuhurd_progress_rump_drivers_64bit_smp_...
2•birdculture•23m ago•0 comments

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

https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=davenewworld_2%2Fstatus%2F2020128223850316274
11•doener•23m ago•2 comments

MyFlames: View MySQL execution plans as interactive FlameGraphs and BarCharts

https://github.com/vgrippa/myflames
1•tanelpoder•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LLM of Babel

https://clairefro.github.io/llm-of-babel/
1•marjipan200•25m ago•0 comments

A modern iperf3 alternative with a live TUI, multi-client server, QUIC support

https://github.com/lance0/xfr
3•tanelpoder•26m ago•0 comments

Famfamfam Silk icons – also with CSS spritesheet

https://github.com/legacy-icons/famfamfam-silk
1•thunderbong•26m ago•0 comments

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

https://sherwood.news/tech/apple-is-the-only-big-tech-company-whose-capex-declined-last-quarter/
3•elsewhen•30m ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/joshuanwalker/Raiders2600
2•todsacerdoti•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Deterministic NDJSON audit logs – v1.2 update (structural gaps)

https://github.com/yupme-bot/kernel-ndjson-proofs
1•Slaine•35m ago•0 comments

The Greater Copenhagen Region could be your friend's next career move

https://www.greatercphregion.com/friend-recruiter-program
2•mooreds•35m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

"Bullshit Index" Tracks AI Misinformation

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-misinformation-llm-bullshit
6•Brajeshwar•5mo ago

Comments

_wire_•5mo ago
//A language model hallucinating corresponds to situations in which the model loses track of reality so it’s not able to produce accurate outputs.//

"track of reality"?

The article traffics in the same bullshit as it is calling out.

The conclusion somehow walks by the idea of truth with barely a flinch about the enormity of the term, where in principle the entire scope of the project is meaningless without some stipulations about truth; stipulations which if made would tend to obviate the details of model internal implementation and put focus on the place the models currently store truth: the training data.

So what about the significance of RLHF?! Why does anyone expect truth can be properly arbitrated by human feedback any more so than it was in the OG training sets?

If we switch our concern from language synthesis to images created by diffusion, which according to the underlying machine have the same principles of operation, is anyone asking how "true" AI generated images are? Of course not because the point is meaningless. Images are accepted because they are believable and language is accepted by the same criteria.

If we generalize the idea of human feedback to the operation and profit expectations of the social media industry, a starkly obvious factor for performance sparkles brightly before us: the industry will relentlessly track towards whatever garners attention and truth can go to hell.