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Bill Gates - Computers don't know how to represent knowledge (2017)

https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5whpqs/comment/dea5flw/
1•jcattle•2h ago

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jcattle•2h ago
In Bill Gates 2017 Reddit AMA, when asked "What kind of technological advancement do you wish to see in your lifetime?"

The answer is what LLMs can do for us today: "The big milestone is when computers can read and understand information like humans do. There is a lot of work going on in this field - Google, Microsoft, Facebook, academia,... Right now computers don't know how to represent knowledge so they can't read a text book and pass a test. "

Peter Thiel Wants Everyone to Think More About the Antichrist

https://www.wsj.com/tech/peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-dd28c876
1•voisin•2m ago•0 comments

TanStack Start v1 Release Candidate

https://tanstack.com/blog/announcing-tanstack-start-v1
1•tkdodo•3m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What do you wish you knew before your first startup?

1•paulwilsonn•3m ago•0 comments

Full-Stack Openness and Verifiability

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/09/24/openness_and_verifiability.html
1•aiw1nt3rs•3m ago•0 comments

America's Next Top Model Context Protocol Server [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVrCPo8eB3A
1•impish9208•3m ago•0 comments

Enabling an Ecosystem of Personalized and Interoperable Social Applications

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04889
1•sportdeath•3m ago•0 comments

Intuition behind Power of 2 Choices Load balancing

https://amandeepsp.github.io/blog/power-of-2/
1•mooreds•5m ago•0 comments

My Ed(1) Toolbox

https://aartaka.me/my-ed.html
2•mooreds•6m ago•0 comments

Chrome DevTools (MCP) for your AI agent

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-devtools-mcp
1•kristianpaul•6m ago•0 comments

New US curb on high-skill immigrant workers ignores evidence of its likely harms

https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2025/new-us-curb-high-skill-immigrant-workers-ignor...
1•mooreds•6m ago•0 comments

US Airlines Push to Strip Away Travelers' Rights by Rolling Back Key Protections

https://www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article/american-joins-delta-southwest-united-and-other-u...
2•duxup•7m ago•1 comments

AI and the FDA

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/09/ai-and-the-fda.html
2•mhb•9m ago•0 comments

20k Years of Computing

https://www.oranlooney.com/post/history-of-computing/
1•olooney•9m ago•0 comments

Explosions and drones targeting Gaza aid flotilla boats, activists say

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/24/explosions-and-multiple-drones-targeting-gaza-aid-f...
2•NomDePlum•9m ago•0 comments

Rights groups urge UK PM Starmer to abandon plans for mandatory digital ID

https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/rights-groups-urge-starmer-to-abandon-plans-for-man...
5•Improvement•9m ago•0 comments

Hyperspectral imaging for waste materials characterization and recovery

https://www.cell.com/matter/abstract/S2590-2385(25)00408-4
1•PaulHoule•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Verdent – AI coding agent that plans, tests, and ships

https://www.verdent.ai/
1•ZJChen•11m ago•0 comments

How to factor cost into agentic tool design

https://www.speakeasy.com/blog/cost-aware-pass-rate
1•ritzaco•12m ago•0 comments

How We Integrated FormAssembly into Drupal and Curtailed Spam Submissions

https://medium.com/urban-institute/how-we-integrated-formassembly-into-drupal-and-curtailed-spam-...
1•apwheele•16m ago•0 comments

Visual objects refine head direction coding

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu9828
1•bookofjoe•17m ago•0 comments

List of crowdsourced math projects actively seeking participants

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/500720/list-of-crowdsourced-math-projects-actively-seeking-par...
1•__rito__•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tool to measure AI adoption in software development teams

https://www.aidevscore.com/
1•eschnou•18m ago•1 comments

Dedicated mobile apps for vibe coding have so far failed to gain traction

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/23/dedicated-mobile-apps-for-vibe-coding-have-so-far-failed-to-gai...
1•thm•20m ago•0 comments

Eye Test Online – Free Vision Screening and Eye Tests

https://eyetestonline.org/
1•seven_qwq•21m ago•0 comments

Surprising Finding Indicates That 800k-Year-Old Hominins Utilized Fire

https://scitechdaily.com/a-surprising-finding-indicates-that-800000-year-old-hominins-utilized-fire/
1•geox•25m ago•0 comments

SQLite Pub/Sub, Quickstart, and More – Watermill 1.5 Released

https://threedots.tech/post/watermill-1-5/
1•roblaszczak•25m ago•0 comments

Notes on the Synthesis of Form

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_the_Synthesis_of_Form
1•tosh•27m ago•0 comments

WiGLE: Wireless Network Mapping

https://wigle.net/index
2•dp-hackernews•28m ago•0 comments

A.I. Bots or Us: Who Will End Humanity First?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/books/review/if-anyone-builds-it-everyone-dies-eliezer-yudowsk...
1•bookofjoe•29m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Silent Hill F fan site with browser-playable horror games

https://silenthillf.top
1•hugh1st•29m ago•0 comments