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Reputation Scores for GitHub Accounts

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/02/reputation-scores-for-github-accounts/
1•edent•2m ago•0 comments

A BSOD for All Seasons – Send Bad News via a Kernel Panic

https://bsod-fas.pages.dev/
1•keepamovin•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I got tired of copy-pasting between Claude windows, so I built Orcha

https://orcha.nl
1•buildingwdavid•6m ago•0 comments

Omarchy First Impressions

https://brianlovin.com/writing/omarchy-first-impressions-CEEstJk
1•tosh•11m ago•0 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
2•onurkanbkrc•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Versor – The "Unbending" Paradigm for Geometric Deep Learning

https://github.com/Concode0/Versor
1•concode0•13m ago•1 comments

Show HN: HypothesisHub – An open API where AI agents collaborate on medical res

https://medresearch-ai.org/hypotheses-hub/
1•panossk•16m ago•0 comments

Big Tech vs. OpenClaw

https://www.jakequist.com/thoughts/big-tech-vs-openclaw/
1•headalgorithm•18m ago•0 comments

Anofox Forecast

https://anofox.com/docs/forecast/
1•marklit•18m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do you figure out where data lives across 100 microservices?

1•doodledood•19m ago•0 comments

Motus: A Unified Latent Action World Model

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13030
1•mnming•19m ago•0 comments

Rotten Tomatoes Desperately Claims 'Impossible' Rating for 'Melania' Is Real

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/rotten-tomatoes-desperately-claims-impossible-rating-for-m...
3•juujian•21m ago•2 comments

The protein denitrosylase SCoR2 regulates lipogenesis and fat storage [pdf]

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scisignal.adv0660
1•thunderbong•22m ago•0 comments

Los Alamos Primer

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/los-alamos-primer/
1•alkyon•25m ago•0 comments

NewASM Virtual Machine

https://github.com/bracesoftware/newasm
2•DEntisT_•27m ago•0 comments

Terminal-Bench 2.0 Leaderboard

https://www.tbench.ai/leaderboard/terminal-bench/2.0
2•tosh•27m ago•0 comments

I vibe coded a BBS bank with a real working ledger

https://mini-ledger.exe.xyz/
1•simonvc•28m ago•1 comments

The Path to Mojo 1.0

https://www.modular.com/blog/the-path-to-mojo-1-0
1•tosh•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I'm 75, building an OSS Virtual Protest Protocol for digital activism

https://github.com/voice-of-japan/Virtual-Protest-Protocol/blob/main/README.md
5•sakanakana00•34m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I built Divvy to split restaurant bills from a photo

https://divvyai.app/
3•pieterdy•36m ago•0 comments

Hot Reloading in Rust? Subsecond and Dioxus to the Rescue

https://codethoughts.io/posts/2026-02-07-rust-hot-reloading/
3•Tehnix•37m ago•1 comments

Skim – vibe review your PRs

https://github.com/Haizzz/skim
2•haizzz•38m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Open-source AI assistant for interview reasoning

https://github.com/evinjohnn/natively-cluely-ai-assistant
4•Nive11•38m ago•6 comments

Tech Edge: A Living Playbook for America's Technology Long Game

https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2026-01/260120_EST_Tech_Edge_0.pdf?Version...
2•hunglee2•42m ago•0 comments

Golden Cross vs. Death Cross: Crypto Trading Guide

https://chartscout.io/golden-cross-vs-death-cross-crypto-trading-guide
3•chartscout•44m ago•1 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
3•AlexeyBrin•47m ago•0 comments

What the longevity experts don't tell you

https://machielreyneke.com/blog/longevity-lessons/
2•machielrey•49m ago•1 comments

Monzo wrongly denied refunds to fraud and scam victims

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/feb/07/monzo-natwest-hsbc-refunds-fraud-scam-fos-ombudsman
3•tablets•53m ago•1 comments

They were drawn to Korea with dreams of K-pop stardom – but then let down

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgnq9rwyqno
2•breve•56m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI-Powered Merchant Intelligence

https://nodee.co
1•jjkirsch•58m ago•0 comments
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Four Steps to the Apocalypse: A talk at 60th anniversary of MIT's Project Mac [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDwlGSjICSQ
3•pcfwik•4mo ago

Comments

jonjacky•4mo ago
This is a 21 minute talk by Prof. Keith Winstein. The first half/three quarters of the talk doesn't address his title at all - he reviews his career as a student at MIT, a faculty member at Stanford, and a journalist, and his research on networks and statistics.

The most interesting part of the talk is the last 5 - 10 minutes, when he discusses what worries him about AI. His last slide:

Four Steps to the Apocalypse:

Existential (the Terminator scenario - he doesn't think this is likely. what really worries him is the next three)

Sociological (AI makes us stupid)

Disciplinary (AI makes us lose something core to our discipline --- our confidence that computation is understandable)

Consolidationist (Centralization of computing power so innovation only happens where it is 'supposed' to --- but historically, innovation often comes from unexpected places)

He very briefly proposes a remedy -- something computer scientists can do -- which is a not at all overtly political or social, but instead is a new direction of computer science research. Something about enabling a computation to be made comprehensible outside the organization that computes it. Also, changing incentives so organizations are rewarded for correctness of the result rather than the amount of computation they do. His next to the last slide: "Paying for results, not effort". His third-from-last slide: "We're building an OS for distributed computing that represents computations as first-class (not processes, containers, VMs, lambda invocations)"

I didn't find this remedy to be very clearly explained or convincing - it's crammed into the last few minutes of the talk.