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1•tejavvo•1m ago•0 comments

Service Degradation in West US Region

https://azure.status.microsoft/en-gb/status?gsid=5616bb85-f380-4a04-85ed-95674eec3d87&utm_source=...
1•_____k•1m ago•0 comments

The Janitor on Mars

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1998/10/26/the-janitor-on-mars
1•evo_9•3m ago•0 comments

Bringing Polars to .NET

https://github.com/ErrorLSC/Polars.NET
2•CurtHagenlocher•5m ago•0 comments

Adventures in Guix Packaging

https://nemin.hu/guix-packaging.html
1•todsacerdoti•6m ago•0 comments

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

1•buildingwdavid•6m 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•6m ago•0 comments

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

https://www.warcraftcn.com/
1•vyrotek•7m 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•8m ago•0 comments

Velocity of Money

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money
1•gurjeet•11m ago•0 comments

Stop building automations. Start running your business

https://www.fluxtopus.com/automate-your-business
1•valboa•15m 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•16m ago•0 comments

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

https://palettepoint.com
1•latentio•17m ago•0 comments

Robust and Interactable World Models in Computer Vision [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B4kkaGOozA
2•Anon84•21m ago•0 comments

Nestlé couldn't crack Japan's coffee market.Then they hired a child psychologist

https://twitter.com/BigBrainMkting/status/2019792335509541220
1•rmason•22m ago•0 comments

Notes for February 2-7

https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2026/02/07/2000
2•rcarmo•24m ago•0 comments

Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/07/boomers_vs_zoomers_workplace/
2•Willingham•31m ago•0 comments

The Big Hunger by Walter J Miller, Jr. (1952)

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-big-hunger
2•shervinafshar•32m ago•0 comments

The Genus Amanita

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita.html
1•rolph•37m ago•0 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
10•mooreds•37m ago•3 comments

Ask HN: Was my first management job bad, or is this what management is like?

1•Buttons840•39m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to Reduce Time Spent Crimping?

2•pinkmuffinere•40m ago•0 comments

KV Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01815
1•walterbell•44m ago•0 comments

A quantitative, multimodal wearable bioelectronic device for stress assessment

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67747-9
1•PaulHoule•46m ago•0 comments

Why Big Tech Is Throwing Cash into India in Quest for AI Supremacy

https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-tech-is-throwing-cash-into-india-in-quest-for-ai-supremac...
3•saikatsg•46m ago•0 comments

How to shoot yourself in the foot – 2026 edition

https://github.com/aweussom/HowToShootYourselfInTheFoot
2•aweussom•47m ago•0 comments

Eight More Months of Agents

https://crawshaw.io/blog/eight-more-months-of-agents
4•archb•49m ago•0 comments

From Human Thought to Machine Coordination

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202602/from-human-thought-to-machine-coo...
1•walterbell•49m ago•0 comments

The new X API pricing must be a joke

https://developer.x.com/
1•danver0•50m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RMA Dashboard fast SAST results for monorepos (SARIF and triage)

https://rma-dashboard.bukhari-kibuka7.workers.dev/
1•bumahkib7•50m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Stop talking to technology executives like they have anything to say

https://www.stilldrinking.org/stop-talking-to-technology-executives-like-they-have-anything-to-say
100•dougb5•5mo ago

Comments

antonvs•5mo ago
Except, Altman almost certainly knows he’s bullshitting. It’s politics: you say what you think people will believe, to achieve some desired result.

The only connection it has to what Altman himself believes is what he believes will make his company, and by extension him, more money.

In this case, getting people to accept that it’s ok for AI to shape people’s perception of reality is very obviously in his interest.

ozgrakkurt•5mo ago
The frustration comes from seeing someone, that seemingly has no idea about the subject, spill lies about the subject and people arguing based on the said lies.
scrubs•5mo ago
Agree. We want the engineering equivalent to what the doj was doing pre-trump: if we have something important to say it'll be done in court with evidence in a formal process. In engineering we want a paper, data, and code. The rest is mostly noise.
bradleyjg•5mo ago
You object, but is there any practical difference between:

Sam Altman can’t say anything meaningful or interesting on almost all subjects.

and

Sam Altman will refuse to say anything meaningful or interesting on almost all subjects?

antonvs•5mo ago
My point is that what he’s saying most likely doesn’t come from an incorrect, STEM-education based belief, as the article proposes.

That distinction is important if you want to understand what’s happening.

The difference between essentially lying and stating one’s legitimate beliefs is pretty important.

timcambrant•5mo ago
He most certainly wants to make more money, but at this point I bet he first and foremost wants his company to survive long enough to join the big five arena, which doesn't seem likely.

He knows that OpenAI's has a first-mover advantage and that it won't last forever. They will spend everything they earn on salaries and Microsoft's cloud. As their competitors catch up, OpenAI's biggest asset will be Altman's reputation as international AI guru unless someone challenges that.

antonvs•5mo ago
> OpenAI's biggest asset will be Altman's reputation as international AI guru unless someone challenges that.

Let’s nip that in the bud and challenge it right here. Altman has no credentials in the AI space other than as an executive. There’s no evidence to support the idea that he’s a “guru”. He dropped out of a CS program to found a social networking app.

It’s a bad idea to confuse successful executives with people that have real technical expertise in some discipline.

unraveller•5mo ago
>we expect to be misled for the purpose of entertainment, and rightly decry illusion in what is presented to us as documentation

Believe in unbiased documentation at your peril. When you desire a peek behind the curtain into random people's lives you are going to get taken for a ride everytime. That makes scrolling heavy on entertainment value and all users know it.

Social media algorithm scores are just a way for us to outsource easy reputation management, that puts a lot of hops in between you and authenticity and can't really be called a "shared reality" with a straight face. Perhaps now something better can come along that doesn't favor Image marksmen.

scrubs•5mo ago
American CEOs spend most of their time in sales, marketing, a kind of corporate hustle. I agree: stop taking them so damn seriously.