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Show HN: Moli P2P – An ephemeral, serverless image gallery (Rust and WebRTC)

https://moli-green.is/
1•ShinyaKoyano•2m ago•0 comments

How I grow my X presence?

https://www.reddit.com/r/GrowthHacking/s/UEc8pAl61b
1•m00dy•3m ago•0 comments

What's the cost of the most expensive Super Bowl ad slot?

https://ballparkguess.com/?id=5b98b1d3-5887-47b9-8a92-43be2ced674b
1•bkls•4m ago•0 comments

What if you just did a startup instead?

https://alexaraki.substack.com/p/what-if-you-just-did-a-startup
1•okaywriting•10m ago•0 comments

Hacking up your own shell completion (2020)

https://www.feltrac.co/environment/2020/01/18/build-your-own-shell-completion.html
1•todsacerdoti•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gorse 0.5 – Open-source recommender system with visual workflow editor

https://github.com/gorse-io/gorse
1•zhenghaoz•14m ago•0 comments

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

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1•ms7892•15m ago•0 comments

Local Agent Bench: Test 11 small LLMs on tool-calling judgment, on CPU, no GPU

https://github.com/MikeVeerman/tool-calling-benchmark
1•MikeVeerman•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AboutMyProject – A public log for developer proof-of-work

https://aboutmyproject.com/
1•Raiplus•16m ago•0 comments

Expertise, AI and Work of Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxWl9iT1XU
1•indiantinker•16m ago•0 comments

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/books/mass-market-paperback-books.html
3•pseudolus•17m ago•1 comments

PID Controller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%E2%80%93derivative_controller
1•tosh•21m ago•0 comments

SpaceX Rocket Generates 100GW of Power, or 20% of US Electricity

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2•bkls•21m ago•0 comments

Kubernetes MCP Server

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1•yindia•22m ago•0 comments

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

https://rokn.io/posts/building-movie-recommendation-agent
4•roknovosel•22m 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•31m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•31m ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

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What It's Like to Be a Worm

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2•surprisetalk•33m ago•0 comments

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

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2•surprisetalk•33m ago•0 comments

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

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4•pseudolus•34m ago•0 comments

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

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1•1vuio0pswjnm7•34m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

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

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2•1vuio0pswjnm7•36m 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•36m ago•0 comments

Cycling in France

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2•jackhalford•37m ago•0 comments

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

1•abhay1633•38m ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/JJLDonley/Simple
2•tangjiehao•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Free-to-play: A gem-collecting strategy game in the vein of Splendor

https://caratria.com/
1•jonrosner•41m ago•1 comments

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
1•mtlynch•42m 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.