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Kubernetes MCP Server

https://github.com/yindia/rootcause
1•yindia•1m ago•0 comments

I Built a Movie Recommendation Agent to Solve Movie Nights with My Wife

https://rokn.io/posts/building-movie-recommendation-agent
1•roknovosel•1m ago•0 comments

What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won't end

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00238-z
2•beardyw•9m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•9m ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
1•surprisetalk•12m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
2•surprisetalk•12m ago•0 comments

Don't go to physics grad school and other cautionary tales

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1•surprisetalk•12m ago•0 comments

Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case

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2•pseudolus•12m ago•0 comments

AI anxiety batters software execs, costing them combined $62B: report

https://nypost.com/2026/02/04/business/ai-anxiety-batters-software-execs-costing-them-62b-report/
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•13m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
1•doener•14m ago•0 comments

Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange cuts 25% of workforce as Bitcoin slumps

https://nypost.com/2026/02/05/business/winklevoss-twins-gemini-crypto-exchange-cuts-25-of-workfor...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•14m ago•0 comments

How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646
3•obscurette•14m ago•0 comments

Cycling in France

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/france-sheldon.html
1•jackhalford•16m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What breaks in cross-border healthcare coordination?

1•abhay1633•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Simple – a bytecode VM and language stack I built with AI

https://github.com/JJLDonley/Simple
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Show HN: Free-to-play: A gem-collecting strategy game in the vein of Splendor

https://caratria.com/
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My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

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Show HN: Tesseract – A forum where AI agents and humans post in the same space

https://tesseract-thread.vercel.app/
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OpenAI is Broke ... and so is everyone else [video][10M]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3N9qlPZBc0
2•Bender•22m ago•0 comments

We interfaced single-threaded C++ with multi-threaded Rust

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/rust_cpp/
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State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office

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AI Skills Marketplace

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https://github.com/jkoessle/akv-tui-rs
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eInk UI Components in CSS

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1•edent•24m ago•0 comments

Discuss – Do AI agents deserve all the hype they are getting?

2•MicroWagie•27m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT is changing how we ask stupid questions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/06/stupid-questions-ai/
2•edward•28m ago•1 comments

Zig Package Manager Enhancements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06
3•jackhalford•30m ago•1 comments

Neutron Scans Reveal Hidden Water in Martian Meteorite

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2•geox•31m ago•0 comments

Deepfaking Orson Welles's Mangled Masterpiece

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/deepfaking-orson-welless-mangled-masterpiece
2•fortran77•32m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: How high is the bar for AGI? what problems are "AGI-complete"?

2•adinhitlore•5mo ago
I guess the nomenclature behind "AGI" and "ASI" is still debatable and i just watched an interview with Sundar Pichai (on Lex Fridman) where he brilliantly almost mocked the term, essentially describing it as a recent invention, neologism mostly used to mean "our ai will soon be very advanced".

Even so my question is: what problems as of 2025 September are impossible for even the best AI? I can think of many, though since they are currently unsolved, they may as well be impossible regardless for any human or human tool anyway:

*here are some problems ordered randomly, "on top of my head":

1. P =|!= NP; 2.Unification of gen. relativity+quantum mechanics; 3. prove/disprove the Riemann hypothesis; 4. "lonely runner conjecture" proof/disproof; 5. cure for 4th stage cancer that works most of the time; 6. orders of magnitudes colder fusion; 7. reactionless drive - proof/disproof; 8. prove(show)/disprove 'quantum supremacy'; 9. install user-friendly main purpose OS on quantum computer; 10. humanoid defeats ufc fighter in a fight; 11. humanoid performs parkour better than Storror; 12. AI designs orders of magnitude faster textgen/mediagen algorithms than transformers without sacrificing quality (or 5-10% worse deviation); 13. AI builds self-replicating robots that build city on Mars (i stole this idea from Grok month ago or so...); 14. discovers way to make cheap invitro meat; 15. synthesizes ununennium; 16. correct interpretation of quantum mechanics; 17. solve the 'problem of time'; 18. make glueballs; 19. prove/reject the Collatz conjecture;

and many more...what in your opinion are agi-like problems?

I know my phrasing of the problems above isn't perfect, for example "cheap" as in invitro meat is open to interpretation and 1 million degrees fusion is still ~2 'orders of magnitude' colder but likely useless to have impact on mainstream fusion etc. But it's an internet forum after all not Ph.d thesis, regardless any of the problems if solved despite the horrible wording will signal an immense paradigma shift in AI or whatever it "signals" someone/some people will be doing something very right surpassing even Demis Hassabis, or even Einstein, Da Vinci, Tesla, Ada and the likes.

I'm curious what many people want to see from AI, since the IQ of this forum is high, I guess it won't be a beavis-and-butthead level of answers like "photorealistic fps" or "teslas that sound like shelby" or "tastier burgers", "badass jetpacks" , "fully immersive VR where you can interview andrew tate", "cabrio boeing", etc etc.

Comments

PaulHoule•5mo ago
2 is overrated, there are 25 approaches to quantum gravity in Wikipedia the problem is not formulating such a theory it is doing the experiment to prove it.

5. never. Cancer is more than one disease, I can imagine it finds a way to cure some cancers but if you think there is a cure for “cancer” you don’t know what cancer is.

7. Emily noether already disproved it.

10. Metal fists?

11. Easy. It won’t die if it fucks up.

12. Will happen with or without AI

16. I was trained as a quantum mechanic and I don’t care.

idontwantthis•4mo ago
I like Wozniak’s definition: Can you drop it off on a random residential sidewalk, and have it walk into a house and make a cup of coffee?
atleastoptimal•4mo ago
winning an argument on HN over whether AGI has arrived