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Spending on AI Is at Epic Levels. Will It Ever Pay Off?

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-bubble-building-spree-55ee6128
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•2m ago•0 comments

Run OpenAI Models Directly on Databricks

https://www.databricks.com/blog/run-openai-models-directly-databricks
1•shenli3514•8m ago•0 comments

What Is That Church on Stilts Near Fenchurch Street?

https://londonist.com/london/history/what-is-that-church-on-stilts-near-fenchurch-street
1•zeristor•8m ago•1 comments

A Very Early History of Algebraic Data Types

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/algdt-history/
1•signa11•16m ago•1 comments

Federation of Agents: Semantics-Aware, Large-Scale Communication Fabric

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20175
1•simonpure•21m ago•0 comments

America's Mental Health System Struggles to Protect the Public

https://reason.com/2025/09/25/after-deinstitutionalization-americas-mental-health-system-struggle...
5•SanjayMehta•21m ago•0 comments

Jeff Geerling previews Raspberry Pi 500

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv3RRAx7G6E
4•tomcam•22m ago•0 comments

Ex-Meta workers tell Congress tech giant stifled research on youth harm

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/09/meta-children-safety-privacy-virtual-reality/
3•1vuio0pswjnm7•23m ago•0 comments

The Road Not Taken [pdf]

https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken.pdf
1•JumpCrisscross•27m ago•0 comments

AI-Generated Video Book

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivDp8cje9LM
1•feliks22•27m ago•0 comments

How Common Is Accidental Invention?

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-common-is-accidental-invention
1•JumpCrisscross•29m ago•0 comments

A year of improving Node.js compatibility in Cloudflare Workers

https://blog.cloudflare.com/nodejs-workers-2025/
1•johtso•31m ago•0 comments

Symvol: Video AI Technology for Education

https://www.symvol.io/
1•feliks22•32m ago•0 comments

Tiny-Classifier.cpp – Our First Tiny Classifier

https://kirit.com/Tiny%20Classifiers/tiny-classifier.cpp
2•KayEss•32m ago•0 comments

Wild: A Fast Linker Written in Rust, Aims to Outperform Mold Linker

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wild-Linker
5•newman314•41m ago•0 comments

Trump says US will impose new tariffs on heavy trucks, drugs, kitchen cabinets

https://www.reuters.com/business/trump-says-us-will-impose-25-tariff-heavy-trucks-imports-october...
4•throw0101c•44m ago•0 comments

Trump signs executive order to transfer TikTok to US owners

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/09/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-saves-tiktok-w...
3•Improvement•45m ago•0 comments

The importance of full-stack openness and verifiability

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/09/24/openness_and_verifiability.html
1•dcreater•50m ago•0 comments

The Triangle of Everything

https://mirror.xyz/avsa.eth/ZB9O324wEdVZT_GHEjae_pzJ9eiFzgKqOrr0XkwGm2Y
1•100ideas•50m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How would you add telemetry logging to a mobile app for central review?

1•warrenm•51m ago•0 comments

Comparing Rust to Carbon

https://lwn.net/Articles/1036912/
2•signa11•52m ago•0 comments

What Is Capture the Flag?

https://ctftime.org/ctf-wtf/
1•n3t•1h ago•0 comments

Myoelectric Stimulation Silent Subwoofer for Body-Sensory Acoustic Sensation

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10979899/
3•PaulHoule•1h ago•0 comments

The Future of AI in FinTech Are Not MCPs

https://medium.com/@carlcarrie/mcp-and-fdc3-are-not-driving-the-future-of-ai-in-fintech-its-a-bra...
1•carlcarrie•1h ago•0 comments

The Digital Markets Act: time for a reset

https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/the-digital-markets-act-time-for-a-reset/
13•zdw•1h ago•2 comments

Investigating a Forged PDF

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/73317.html
7•teddyh•1h ago•2 comments

Agent Drafts PRs from ArXiv Papers [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_FNfZ71s2I
1•mynameisfunk•1h ago•0 comments

The Memory Paradox: Why Our Brains Need Knowledge in an Age of AI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11015
3•rahimnathwani•1h ago•1 comments

TopoLang: An Esolang Based on Topological Pattern Matching

https://github.com/tneukom/topolang
4•akkartik•1h ago•0 comments

Brother denies locking third-party ink cartridges

https://www.techradar.com/pro/brother-denies-claims-it-locked-down-third-party-printer-ink-cartri...
1•thegoodduck•1h ago•0 comments
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The Word Made Lifeless. Are we becoming stochastic parrots?

https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/lessons-of-babel/articles/the-word-made-lifeless
35•pseudolus•1h ago

Comments

brookst•45m ago
Hmm. What would Ian Betteridge say?
thfuran•19m ago
"What kind of parrot?"
pimlottc•11m ago
Norwegian blue. Beautiful plumage.
robmccoll•28m ago
You are a state machine. You have finite internal state that roughly adheres to a particular structure, you take in input, and as a function of internal state and input, you produce output and a new state. Sufficiently large models are a rough approximation. We are perhaps different stochastic parrots than the models we create, but likely stochastic parrots none the less.
shortrounddev2•23m ago
I believe that the different topologies of the kind of "idea graph" in the human mind is becoming less diverse. That, as media consolidates and becomes more accessible in all parts of the globe, the diversity of modes of thought decreases as people become, more or less, Americanized
rustystump•15m ago
Perhaps Americanized isnt the right term. Fundamentally, there is something at play where the more “known” the less magical the brain is. That is, it doesnt have to think outside the box because the box is seemingly fully explored.

Why do hard thing when everyone says hard thing is too hard. What if there was no everyone? Is thing that hard?

I dont think original thinking is going to go away but i do think it will be owned by those who control the all thing which absorbs it from the mass of information.

gyomu•14m ago
You are a hydraulic system. You are composed of interlinked pipes within which the pressure rises and lowers in order to produce all your thoughts and actions.

You are a chemical soup. Your body is a closed system of proteins and amino acids reacting with each other, driving behavior in order to sustain the reactions.

You are an electric grid. A system of interconnected wires where electric impulses respond to one another in a synchronized manner, from which your life force is derived.

zabzonk•11m ago
> You have finite internal state

As Terry Pratchett might have said - what about quantum?

Liftyee•22m ago
This highlights an interesting point that I hadn't examined before... the thoughts behind the words, and the experiences linked to those thoughts / the moment for which the words are needed.

Although from a chemical perspective and learning perspective humans may seem like stochastic machines, I think that the capability for inner thought and emotion does differentiate us from genAI. After all, we would not ascribe sentience to such a "stochastic parrot", but in a similar way we see the text output that AI generates and wrongly assume (in a previously reasonable assumption) that there must have been "thoughts" behind said text.

timschmidt•8m ago
I liken LLMs to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broca%27s_area

It's a functional subunit of the brain responsible for language interpretation and production.

Avicebron•16m ago
This is a very interesting way of saying that by offloading the procession of thoughts we take to come to a conclusion individually we become more dull and homogenized as a whole when using ai "shortcuts".
rustystump•5m ago
I think this is true with many tools but pronounced here with how ubiquitous language is. For most of human history most people could not read and write. Given llm interaction is almost exclusively written we may take a small step back where a mass of people are lazy using shortcuts and others are not.
frogger42•13m ago
The text on this site is too small. When you spend so much time on the design of your blog and don’t optimize for viewing on smaller mobile devices, it’s like painting the Mona Lisa and leaving it in your garage.
shnpln•13m ago
What happens when/if the machines do everything? We will have no more problems to solve.
esafak•8m ago
Paying your bills and finding something worthwhile to do with your life may be problems enough.