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

https://github.com/MikeVeerman/tool-calling-benchmark
1•MikeVeerman•55s ago•0 comments

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

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

Expertise, AI and Work of Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxWl9iT1XU
1•indiantinker•1m 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
1•pseudolus•2m ago•1 comments

PID Controller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%E2%80%93derivative_controller
1•tosh•6m ago•0 comments

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

https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/2019932764515234159
1•bkls•6m ago•0 comments

Kubernetes MCP Server

https://github.com/yindia/rootcause
1•yindia•7m ago•0 comments

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

https://rokn.io/posts/building-movie-recommendation-agent
2•roknovosel•7m 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•16m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•16m ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
1•surprisetalk•18m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
2•surprisetalk•18m ago•0 comments

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

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/dont-go-to-physics-grad-school-and-other-cautionary...
1•surprisetalk•18m ago•0 comments

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

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/randomly-quoting-ray-bradbury-did-not-save-lawyer-fro...
2•pseudolus•19m ago•0 comments

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

https://nypost.com/2026/02/04/business/ai-anxiety-batters-software-execs-costing-them-62b-report/
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•19m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
1•doener•20m ago•0 comments

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

https://nypost.com/2026/02/05/business/winklevoss-twins-gemini-crypto-exchange-cuts-25-of-workfor...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•20m 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•21m ago•0 comments

Cycling in France

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/france-sheldon.html
1•jackhalford•22m ago•0 comments

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

1•abhay1633•22m ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/JJLDonley/Simple
1•tangjiehao•25m ago•0 comments

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

https://caratria.com/
1•jonrosner•26m ago•1 comments

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
1•mtlynch•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tesseract – A forum where AI agents and humans post in the same space

https://tesseract-thread.vercel.app/
1•agliolioyyami•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vibe Colors – Instantly visualize color palettes on UI layouts

https://vibecolors.life/
2•tusharnaik•28m ago•0 comments

OpenAI is Broke ... and so is everyone else [video][10M]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3N9qlPZBc0
2•Bender•28m ago•0 comments

We interfaced single-threaded C++ with multi-threaded Rust

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/rust_cpp/
1•lukastyrychtr•29m ago•0 comments

State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5704785
7•derriz•29m ago•1 comments

AI Skills Marketplace

https://skly.ai
1•briannezhad•30m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A fast TUI for managing Azure Key Vault secrets written in Rust

https://github.com/jkoessle/akv-tui-rs
1•jkoessle•30m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

The Answer (1954)

https://sfshortstories.com/?p=5983
37•dash2•4mo ago

Comments

dash2•4mo ago
Direct link: https://archive.org/details/angelsspaceships0000fred/page/36...
dooglius•4mo ago
The review is only a little shorter than the story!
ajkjk•4mo ago
I think if a story gives you a sense of wonder when you're young, it's a good story, even if it seems cheesy later. Probably the reason it doesn't later is that you saw so many things like that when you were young and they don't surprise you anymore.
antisthenes•4mo ago
I agree.

I would give anything to feel a sense of wonder that I used to get when reading sci-fi in my youth.

But "can't enter the same river twice" and all that.

xmprt•4mo ago
Who's writing good scifi these days which evoke that same sense of wonder? Project Hail Mary was a fun read but felt a bit too in the weeds with the details.
bobbiechen•4mo ago
Gotta be Ted Chiang. Try his short story collection titled Exhalation: Stories.
AnotherGoodName•4mo ago
A bit like saying Shakespeare is full of cliché’s. Which it is, but it literally invented those cliché’s.
joblessjunkie•4mo ago
Reminds me quite a bit of Asimov’s “The Last Question”, which mines the same “computer-as-God” vein, is also very short, and has a suspiciously related title. Asimov’s story appeared in 1956, just two years later.
gjm11•4mo ago
My exact thought process on seeing the title here: "Ah, 'insufficient data for meaningful answer'. No, wait, that one's called 'The Last Question'. So perhaps it's 'There is now'." :-)

(Asimov's is better. Also, the version of this one in my memory is better than the actual story, in that "There is now" is better than the rather clunky equivalent in the story. I suppose it's possible that I'm remembering a different, slightly better written, story with the exact same idea.)

igravious•4mo ago
Came here to ask what was the Asimov story that echoed this ...
Animats•4mo ago
It's the same story as "Company Man", posted here yesterday. But it was a new idea when Asimov wrote it.
dredmorbius•4mo ago
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45443298>
rbanffy•4mo ago
You might call it weak and gimmicky all you want, but it entrenched itself deeply into our collective imagination.

I saw many people come up independently with a direct quote from this story when they saw the IBM promotional image of a man standing in front of an IBM Quantum System One machine.

The image: https://www.techmonitor.ai/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2023/...

imglorp•4mo ago
I think humans are weak and prone to leaping on gimmicks and extrapolating with limited information to wherever their imagination takes them.

If shown a dazzling, mysterious, $10m glass cube draped with all that hyperbolic "quantum future wow!!" marketing, ordinarily smart people will leap to anything. In reality, QC doesn't seem to have a ton of applications yet.

rbanffy•4mo ago
A lot, if not all, of those references were in jest. Nobody was expecting the machine to be an actual deity.
IAmBroom•4mo ago
The post you're replying to doesn't suggest anyone expected deification.

The post suggests sparkly marketing hooplah wrapping up meager actuality.

rbanffy•4mo ago
> The post suggests sparkly marketing hooplah wrapping up meager actuality.

I don't think any of those who quoted from this story fell into the marketing hyperbole. We all know these machines are interesting engineering marvels, but far from actually useful at the moment, with the exception of a very narrow set of problems that fall within the narrow capabilities. The people who fell for it probably never heard of this story.

satisfice•4mo ago
See Arthur C. Clark, Nine Billion Names of God, from 1953
readthenotes1•4mo ago
Fred Brown is also responsible for a famous Star Trek episode
anonymousiam•4mo ago
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Fredric_Brown
igravious•4mo ago
Was there a similar Asimov story that ended with the words, "let there be light!" ?
JKCalhoun•4mo ago
Yep. Called "The Last Question": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question
ray02398•4mo ago
I remember trying this on Wolfram Alpha when it launched back around 2010. https://smallthingsmostly.me/istheregod