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Πfs – The Data-Free Filesystem

https://github.com/philipl/pifs
1•ravenical•2m ago•0 comments

Go-busybox: A sandboxable port of busybox for AI agents

https://github.com/rcarmo/go-busybox
1•rcarmo•3m ago•0 comments

Quantization-Aware Distillation for NVFP4 Inference Accuracy Recovery [pdf]

https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nemotron/files/NVFP4-QAD-Report.pdf
1•gmays•3m ago•0 comments

xAI Merger Poses Bigger Threat to OpenAI, Anthropic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-02-03/musk-s-xai-merger-poses-bigger-threat-to-op...
1•andsoitis•3m ago•0 comments

Atlas Airborne (Boston Dynamics and RAI Institute) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNorxwlZlFk
1•lysace•4m ago•0 comments

Zen Tools

http://postmake.io/zen-list
1•Malfunction92•7m ago•0 comments

Is the Detachment in the Room? – Agents, Cruelty, and Empathy

https://hailey.at/posts/3mear2n7v3k2r
1•carnevalem•7m ago•0 comments

The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail

https://blog.nix-ci.com/post/2026-02-05_the-purpose-of-ci-is-to-fail
1•zdw•9m ago•0 comments

Apfelstrudel: Live coding music environment with AI agent chat

https://github.com/rcarmo/apfelstrudel
1•rcarmo•10m ago•0 comments

What Is Stoicism?

https://stoacentral.com/guides/what-is-stoicism
3•0xmattf•11m ago•0 comments

What happens when a neighborhood is built around a farm

https://grist.org/cities/what-happens-when-a-neighborhood-is-built-around-a-farm/
1•Brajeshwar•11m ago•0 comments

Every major galaxy is speeding away from the Milky Way, except one

https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/every-major-galaxy-is-speeding-away-from-the-milky-wa...
2•Brajeshwar•11m ago•0 comments

Extreme Inequality Presages the Revolt Against It

https://www.noemamag.com/extreme-inequality-presages-the-revolt-against-it/
2•Brajeshwar•11m ago•0 comments

There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

1•dtjb•12m ago•0 comments

What Really Killed Flash Player: A Six-Year Campaign of Deliberate Platform Work

https://medium.com/@aglaforge/what-really-killed-flash-player-a-six-year-campaign-of-deliberate-p...
1•jbegley•13m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Anyone orchestrating multiple AI coding agents in parallel?

1•buildingwdavid•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Knowledge-Bank

https://github.com/gabrywu-public/knowledge-bank
1•gabrywu•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: The Codeverse Hub Linux

https://github.com/TheCodeVerseHub/CodeVerseLinuxDistro
3•sinisterMage•21m ago•2 comments

Take a trip to Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth

https://soranews24.com/2026/02/07/take-a-trip-to-japans-dododo-land-the-most-irritating-place-on-...
2•zdw•21m ago•0 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
24•bookofjoe•21m ago•9 comments

BookTalk: A Reading Companion That Captures Your Voice

https://github.com/bramses/BookTalk
1•_bramses•22m ago•0 comments

Is AI "good" yet? – tracking HN's sentiment on AI coding

https://www.is-ai-good-yet.com/#home
3•ilyaizen•23m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Amdb – Tree-sitter based memory for AI agents (Rust)

https://github.com/BETAER-08/amdb
1•try_betaer•24m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw Partners with VirusTotal for Skill Security

https://openclaw.ai/blog/virustotal-partnership
2•anhxuan•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Seedance 2.0 Release

https://seedancy2.com/
2•funnycoding•24m ago•0 comments

Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
1•thelok•24m ago•0 comments

Towards Self-Driving Codebases

https://cursor.com/blog/self-driving-codebases
1•edwinarbus•24m ago•0 comments

VCF West: Whirlwind Software Restoration – Guy Fedorkow [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLoXodz1N9A
1•stmw•25m ago•1 comments

Show HN: COGext – A minimalist, open-source system monitor for Chrome (<550KB)

https://github.com/tchoa91/cog-ext
1•tchoa91•26m ago•1 comments

FOSDEM 26 – My Hallway Track Takeaways

https://sluongng.substack.com/p/fosdem-26-my-hallway-track-takeaways
1•birdculture•27m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Bayes, Bits and Brains

https://bayesbitsbrains.github.io/
96•cgadski•5mo ago

Comments

AdieuToLogic•5mo ago
Sometimes it is best to remember that you are a person and are not in competition with algorithms.

The author labels the first riddle thusly:

  Intelligence test
And reinforces this with the first sentence:

  Test your intelligence with the following widget!
If trying to solve it is fun and the faux implication immaterial, awesome. However, if the expressed characterization of:

  Don't feel bad if a machine beats you ...
Is bothersome, remember that all of this is just one person's way of shaping your experience such that continued engagement is likely.
vasekrozhon•5mo ago
Hi, the author here. It was meant as a light joke, and I totally agree that we should not feel bad if an AI can predict the next letter better than us. Maybe I should rephrase it to something like "IQ test for AIs" to hint a bit more about what's to come -- this is what we train the AIs for to be intelligent.
JoshCole•5mo ago
> We are now getting an equivalent definition of what neural nets are being trained for! LLMs are trained to compress the internet as much as possible!

Nice payoff. Others have also called out the relationship to compression (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKMuA_TVz3A).

_0ffh•5mo ago
The relationship has been thought about for a long time. In 2006 it even led to the creation of the Hutter Prize, with around 38k€ payed out so far.
CuriouslyC•5mo ago
Framing it as compression is reductive (intended). Yes compression of information is a proxy measure of Kolmogorov complexity, however it's really more accurate to say you're accurately mapping the conditional probability distribution, since it's a stochastic machine that produces samples from a distribution, not a literal compressed representation of anything (you have to do work to extract this stuff and it's not 100% in all cases).
vasekrozhon•5mo ago
Hi, the author here.

@JoshCole Thanks -- I also like that lecture by Ilya, added it to the resources now.

@0ffh -- Yeah I hope the page does not come across as me trying to claim some new revolutionary insights. People like Ilya have been talking about this years ago - I am just trying to package it into a hopefully more accessible format.