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How Meta Made Linux a Planet-Scale Load Balancer

https://softwarefrontier.substack.com/p/how-meta-turned-the-linux-kernel
1•CortexFlow•10s ago•0 comments

A Turing Test for AI Coding

https://t-cadet.github.io/programming-wisdom/#2026-02-06-a-turing-test-for-ai-coding
1•phi-system•21s ago•0 comments

How to Identify and Eliminate Unused AWS Resources

https://medium.com/@vkelk/how-to-identify-and-eliminate-unused-aws-resources-b0e2040b4de8
1•vkelk•1m ago•0 comments

A2CDVI – HDMI output from from the Apple IIc's digital video output connector

https://github.com/MrTechGadget/A2C_DVI_SMD
1•mmoogle•1m ago•0 comments

CLI for Common Playwright Actions

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli
1•saikatsg•2m ago•0 comments

Would you use an e-commerce platform that shares transaction fees with users?

https://moondala.one/
1•HamoodBahzar•4m ago•1 comments

Show HN: SafeClaw – a way to manage multiple Claude Code instances in containers

https://github.com/ykdojo/safeclaw
2•ykdojo•7m ago•0 comments

The Future of the Global Open-Source AI Ecosystem: From DeepSeek to AI+

https://huggingface.co/blog/huggingface/one-year-since-the-deepseek-moment-blog-3
3•gmays•8m ago•0 comments

The Evolution of the Interface

https://www.asktog.com/columns/038MacUITrends.html
2•dhruv3006•9m ago•0 comments

Azure: Virtual network routing appliance overview

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/virtual-network-routing-appliance-overview
2•mariuz•9m ago•0 comments

Seedance2 – multi-shot AI video generation

https://www.genstory.app/story-template/seedance2-ai-story-generator
2•RyanMu•13m ago•1 comments

Πfs – The Data-Free Filesystem

https://github.com/philipl/pifs
2•ravenical•16m ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/rcarmo/go-busybox
3•rcarmo•17m ago•0 comments

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

https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nemotron/files/NVFP4-QAD-Report.pdf
2•gmays•18m 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...
2•andsoitis•18m ago•0 comments

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNorxwlZlFk
2•lysace•19m ago•0 comments

Zen Tools

http://postmake.io/zen-list
2•Malfunction92•21m ago•0 comments

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

https://hailey.at/posts/3mear2n7v3k2r
2•carnevalem•22m ago•1 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•24m ago•0 comments

Apfelstrudel: Live coding music environment with AI agent chat

https://github.com/rcarmo/apfelstrudel
2•rcarmo•25m ago•0 comments

What Is Stoicism?

https://stoacentral.com/guides/what-is-stoicism
3•0xmattf•25m 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•25m 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...
3•Brajeshwar•26m ago•0 comments

Extreme Inequality Presages the Revolt Against It

https://www.noemamag.com/extreme-inequality-presages-the-revolt-against-it/
2•Brajeshwar•26m ago•0 comments

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

1•dtjb•27m 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•27m ago•0 comments

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

1•buildingwdavid•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Knowledge-Bank

https://github.com/gabrywu-public/knowledge-bank
1•gabrywu•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: The Codeverse Hub Linux

https://github.com/TheCodeVerseHub/CodeVerseLinuxDistro
3•sinisterMage•35m 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•35m ago•0 comments
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Mathematics Discovering Its Consciousness: Lasso Estimator as Cosmic Backdoor

https://zakelfassi.com/blog/2025/2025-09-14-lasso-estimator-mathematical-consciousness-constraint-freedom
10•zakelfassi•4mo ago

Comments

jjgreen•4mo ago
Compressive sensing does have this mystical effect on people.
zakelfassi•4mo ago
Mystical is the right word. Maybe the danger is in mistaking the shimmer for a conclusion, when really it’s an invitation to keep looking.
zhainya•4mo ago
Articles like this make me feel bad. Many articles on HN do this to me, but ones like this in particular. I can sense the author's excitement, and everything sounds so profound, yet I have no clue what any of it actually means. The worst part is, even if it was ELI5, I'm fairly sure I'd still be lost. I guess I'll just go eat more Pop Tarts.
zakelfassi•4mo ago
If it feels opaque, you’re in good company. One of the core ideas I work with is that part of what lets us “stay ahead” cognitively is embracing density: not because every idea must be immediately digestible, but because wrestling with dense models (math, theory, abstraction) builds the muscle. You don’t need to grasp every LASSO coefficient to feel the weight of what constraint means. And yes — Pop-Tarts are more than fine (those Hariboesque gummies recently dropped at Trader Joes is that for me.) We all need something simple now & then when the brain’s been stretched.
_alternator_•4mo ago
Did my PhD in the area of compressed sensing; took a couple classes from Emmanuel Candés while he was at Caltech.

The leap from the RIP to consciousness is … big. But the wonder of mathematics does this kind of thing to me too. Sometimes you see a result so cool and wild that you have the sense that it encodes a secret of the universe; this feeling is why I got into mathematics to begin with.

zakelfassi•4mo ago
Yes, exactly. That sense of “secret of the universe encoded in a proof” is what I was trying to put words around. I know the jump from RIP to consciousness is huge; I’m not claiming a formal bridge, more that the shape of the constraint feels like an echo of something lived. A kind of resonance between mathematics as a language of limits and consciousness as the negotiation (or compilation?) of them. Your PhD work & courses with Candés as grounding makes you uniquely able to sense when leaps are being made. Thanks for your comment!