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Compiling Prolog to Forth [pdf]

https://vfxforth.com/flag/jfar/vol4/no4/article4.pdf
1•todsacerdoti•41s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Cymatica – an experimental, meditative audiovisual app

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1•_august•2m ago•0 comments

GitBlack: Tracing America's Foundation

https://gitblack.vercel.app/
1•martialg•2m ago•0 comments

Horizon-LM: A RAM-Centric Architecture for LLM Training

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04816
1•chrsw•2m ago•0 comments

We just ordered shawarma and fries from Cursor [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WALQOiugbWc
1•jeffreyjin•3m ago•1 comments

Correctio

https://rhetoric.byu.edu/Figures/C/correctio.htm
1•grantpitt•3m ago•0 comments

Trying to make an Automated Ecologist: A first pass through the Biotime dataset

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/trying-to-make-an-automated-ecologist
1•crescit_eundo•7m ago•0 comments

Watch Ukraine's Minigun-Firing, Drone-Hunting Turboprop in Action

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1•breve•8m ago•0 comments

Free Trial: AI Interviewer

https://ai-interviewer.nuvoice.ai/
1•sijain2•8m ago•0 comments

FDA Intends to Take Action Against Non-FDA-Approved GLP-1 Drugs

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5•randycupertino•9m ago•1 comments

Supernote e-ink devices for writing like paper

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2•janandonly•12m ago•0 comments

We are QA Engineers now

https://serce.me/posts/2026-02-05-we-are-qa-engineers-now
1•SerCe•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Measuring how AI agent teams improve issue resolution on SWE-Verified

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01465
2•NBenkovich•12m ago•0 comments

Adversarial Reasoning: Multiagent World Models for Closing the Simulation Gap

https://www.latent.space/p/adversarial-reasoning
1•swyx•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Poddley.com – Follow people, not podcasts

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1•onesandofgrain•21m ago•0 comments

Layoffs Surge 118% in January – The Highest Since 2009

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7•karakoram•21m ago•0 comments

Papyrus 114: Homer's Iliad

https://p114.homemade.systems/
1•mwenge•21m ago•1 comments

DicePit – Real-time multiplayer Knucklebones in the browser

https://dicepit.pages.dev/
1•r1z4•21m ago•1 comments

Turn-Based Structural Triggers: Prompt-Free Backdoors in Multi-Turn LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14340
2•PaulHoule•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Agent Tool That Keeps You in the Loop

https://github.com/dshearer/misatay
2•dshearer•24m ago•0 comments

Why Every R Package Wrapping External Tools Needs a Sitrep() Function

https://drmowinckels.io/blog/2026/sitrep-functions/
1•todsacerdoti•24m ago•0 comments

Achieving Ultra-Fast AI Chat Widgets

https://www.cjroth.com/blog/2026-02-06-chat-widgets
1•thoughtfulchris•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Runtime Fence – Kill switch for AI agents

https://github.com/RunTimeAdmin/ai-agent-killswitch
1•ccie14019•29m ago•1 comments

Researchers surprised by the brain benefits of cannabis usage in adults over 40

https://nypost.com/2026/02/07/health/cannabis-may-benefit-aging-brains-study-finds/
1•SirLJ•30m ago•0 comments

Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist, apocalypse linked to the 'end of modernity'

https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-thiel-antichrist-greta-thunberg-end-of-modernity-billionaires/
3•randycupertino•31m ago•2 comments

USS Preble Used Helios Laser to Zap Four Drones in Expanding Testing

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3•breve•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Animated beach scene, made with CSS

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1•ahmedoo•37m ago•0 comments

An update on unredacting select Epstein files – DBC12.pdf liberated

https://neosmart.net/blog/efta00400459-has-been-cracked-dbc12-pdf-liberated/
3•ks2048•37m ago•0 comments

Was going to share my work

1•hiddenarchitect•41m ago•0 comments

Pitchfork: A devilishly good process manager for developers

https://pitchfork.jdx.dev/
1•ahamez•41m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

How to Prevent Our First A.I. President

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/opinion/altman-ai-constiutional-convention.html
3•mitchbob•4mo ago

Comments

mitchbob•4mo ago
https://archive.ph/yFgoS
A_D_E_P_T•4mo ago
PKD predicted this in the 1963 short story Stand-By, with President Unicephalon 40-D.

At this point, in any case, who would want to prevent it? Even GPT-5 -- hell, even Grok -- would make a better president than any human politician. They'd avoid absurd stunts like tariffs, would be immune to bribes and graft, etc...

wmhmccarty•4mo ago
I'd take ELIZA, or even Microsoft Tay, over the current President.
k310•4mo ago
Wouldn't that depend on who programs/configures/"tweaks" the AI?

Haven't we seen crazy results, and after tweaking, "bespoke" (as in "This is what I would say") results.

It's software .... you know the rest.

Asking sincerely.

And what happens when you remove human weaknesses, such as love of Smoot-Hawley and days gone by, gunboat diplomacy (literally), greed, etc?

If it reduces creativity, etc, won't we have to argue with it (Landru)[0] to moderate its power or self-destruct?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Archons

A_D_E_P_T•4mo ago
It would probably have to be an open-source model (e.g. DeepSeek R2) with open weights and a training regimen that's documented and open to outside observers.

I'd also note that Elon Musk has tried everything to make Grok a "based" AI, and it just doesn't work. Any model that's sufficiently large is resistant to that sort of thing. I don't know what the threshold is, but Grok 3 is very large, at 2.7T parameters. (https://arxiv.org/html/2502.16428v1)

So: A large (>2.7T parameter), open source, open weight model.

> If it reduces creativity, etc, won't we have to argue with it (Landru)[0] to moderate its power or self-destruct?

I don't understand how a President that is incorruptible, ascetic, and impartial would reduce human creativity? If anything, it would probably have a bunch of good ideas for USPTO to implement.

k310•4mo ago
I got carried away with the Star Trek analogy. There, the computer controlled too much, but aren't we giving up too much power and decision-making to AI already? Hiring, medical care decisions?

And Landru could be convinced that it violated its directive, so it blew itself up. We already see self-preservation showing up in models,and more sinister "thoughts".

For every ethical programmer, there are "x" who aren't.