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AUR malware scanner written in Rust

https://github.com/Sohimaster/traur
2•sohimaster•2m ago•0 comments

Free FFmpeg API [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RAuSVa4MLI
2•harshalone•2m ago•1 comments

Are AI agents ready for the workplace? A new benchmark raises doubts

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/are-ai-agents-ready-for-the-workplace-a-new-benchmark-raises-do...
2•PaulHoule•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Watermark and Stego Scanner

https://ulrischa.github.io/AIWatermarkDetector/
1•ulrischa•7m ago•0 comments

Clarity vs. complexity: the invisible work of subtraction

https://www.alexscamp.com/p/clarity-vs-complexity-the-invisible
1•dovhyi•8m ago•0 comments

Solid-State Freezer Needs No Refrigerants

https://spectrum.ieee.org/subzero-elastocaloric-cooling
1•Brajeshwar•9m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Will LLMs/AI Decrease Human Intelligence and Make Expertise a Commodity?

1•mc-0•10m ago•1 comments

From Zero to Hero: A Brief Introduction to Spring Boot

https://jcob-sikorski.github.io/me/writing/from-zero-to-hello-world-spring-boot
1•jcob_sikorski•10m ago•0 comments

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and person close to Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/nsa-foreign-intelligence-trump-whistleblower
5•c420•11m ago•0 comments

How to Fake a Robotics Result

https://itcanthink.substack.com/p/how-to-fake-a-robotics-result
1•ai_critic•11m ago•0 comments

It's time for the world to boycott the US

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/2/5/its-time-for-the-world-to-boycott-the-us
1•HotGarbage•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Semantic Search for terminal commands in the Browser (No Back end)

https://jslambda.github.io/tldr-vsearch/
1•jslambda•11m ago•1 comments

The AI CEO Experiment

https://yukicapital.com/blog/the-ai-ceo-experiment/
2•romainsimon•13m ago•0 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
3•surprisetalk•17m ago•0 comments

MS-DOS game copy protection and cracks

https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/game_cracks.php
3•TheCraiggers•18m ago•0 comments

Updates on GNU/Hurd progress [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7FZXHF-updates_on_gnuhurd_progress_rump_drivers_64bit_smp_...
2•birdculture•18m ago•0 comments

Epstein took a photo of his 2015 dinner with Zuckerberg and Musk

https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=davenewworld_2%2Fstatus%2F2020128223850316274
8•doener•19m ago•2 comments

MyFlames: View MySQL execution plans as interactive FlameGraphs and BarCharts

https://github.com/vgrippa/myflames
1•tanelpoder•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LLM of Babel

https://clairefro.github.io/llm-of-babel/
1•marjipan200•20m ago•0 comments

A modern iperf3 alternative with a live TUI, multi-client server, QUIC support

https://github.com/lance0/xfr
3•tanelpoder•21m ago•0 comments

Famfamfam Silk icons – also with CSS spritesheet

https://github.com/legacy-icons/famfamfam-silk
1•thunderbong•22m ago•0 comments

Apple is the only Big Tech company whose capex declined last quarter

https://sherwood.news/tech/apple-is-the-only-big-tech-company-whose-capex-declined-last-quarter/
2•elsewhen•25m ago•0 comments

Reverse-Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600

https://github.com/joshuanwalker/Raiders2600
2•todsacerdoti•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Deterministic NDJSON audit logs – v1.2 update (structural gaps)

https://github.com/yupme-bot/kernel-ndjson-proofs
1•Slaine•30m ago•0 comments

The Greater Copenhagen Region could be your friend's next career move

https://www.greatercphregion.com/friend-recruiter-program
2•mooreds•31m ago•0 comments

Do Not Confirm – Fiction by OpenClaw

https://thedailymolt.substack.com/p/do-not-confirm
1•jamesjyu•31m ago•0 comments

The Analytical Profile of Peas

https://www.fossanalytics.com/en/news-articles/more-industries/the-analytical-profile-of-peas
1•mooreds•31m ago•0 comments

Hallucinations in GPT5 – Can models say "I don't know" (June 2025)

https://jobswithgpt.com/blog/llm-eval-hallucinations-t20-cricket/
1•sp1982•31m ago•0 comments

What AI is good for, according to developers

https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/generative-ai/what-ai-is-actually-good-for-according-to-developers/
1•mooreds•31m ago•0 comments

OpenAI might pivot to the "most addictive digital friend" or face extinction

https://twitter.com/lebed2045/status/2020184853271167186
1•lebed2045•33m ago•2 comments
Open in hackernews

Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research

https://pearlab.icrl.org/
38•walterbell•4mo ago

Comments

helterskelter•3mo ago
Reminds me of the Global Consciousness Project:

https://noosphere.princeton.edu/gcpdot/

AndrewDucker•3mo ago
The two key snippets from Wikipedia:

"PEAR conducted formal studies on two primary subject areas, psychokinesis (PK) and remote viewing" ... "PEAR's results have been criticized for deficient reproducibility.[16] In one instance two German organizations failed to reproduce PEAR's results, while PEAR similarly failed to reproduce their own results.[13] An attempt by York University's Stan Jeffers also failed to replicate PEAR's results.[9]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_Engineering_Anomalie...

mathattack•3mo ago
I think articles like the OP destroy the meaning of words like rigor. If the work was even remotely reproducible we'd see a gold rush that puts AI to shame.
walterbell•3mo ago
https://pearlab.icrl.org/implications.html

  Despite the small scale of the observed consciousness-related anomalies, they could be functionally devastating to many types of contemporary information processing systems, especially those relying on random reference signals.. or to any other technical scenarios where the emotions, attitudes, or purposes of human operators may intensify and deepen their interactions with the controlling devices and processes.. As cutting-edge nanotechnology and quantum computing move into even more delicately poised information processors, protection against such consciousness-related interference could become increasingly relevant..
15m trailer for "The Pear Proposition" DVD review of the project that ran from 1979 to 2007. It was founded by professor Robert G. Jahn, then Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University, https://player.vimeo.com/video/4359545
mallowdram•3mo ago
This is parapsychology, not anomalies research.
rhet0rica•3mo ago
Are you really criticizing a name chosen in 1979 by Princeton faculty because it doesn't comply with SCP Foundation nomenclature?
mallowdram•3mo ago
I can dream, can't I?
nakamoto_damacy•3mo ago
Between 1987 and 1988, I was obsessed with recording an anomaly with my first programmable Casio calculator that had an RND function. At the ripe age of 15, I took a bus to a warehouse-like building in some London suburb that had advertised the calculator in some computer magazine. I had saved up 100+ pounds and the calculator was 98 pounds plus VAT. I came home and opened the box and started reading the manual. All the sudden I fixated on some logical issue that can arise based on its instruction set. I have no recollection why, but I knew if that I could crash the calculator if I forced an undecidable state. Sure enough, when I ran it, it would wipe out what I had stored in memory and the LCD would go blank. Nothing unusual about that, I had simply managed to break it. I was fond of breaking things. After some time, I decided to make it more fun so I made it crash only if the random value 0.153 came up (I used the RND function inside the loop) and for fun I started recording the times it took before it crashed. Out of shear boredom and fascination with the power I had to crash the calculator, I started daring it to crash by thinking out loud (but in my head still, like an inner voice) the number 0.153. I convinced myself that I have ESP of some kind because the more I concentrated on that number the faster the calculator seemed to crash. I tabulated the times over a two year period (in a notepad that I ended up shredding and throwing in the trash because I thought I was going crazy.) My data revealed an anomaly in the correlation between the frequency of saying the magic number in my head (nothing special about the number) and the time it took for the calculator to crash.

Personally, I don't believe in the "anomaly". However. I still can't explain it. I mean it's not like my mind could interface with CMOS or that the calculator was fed off some quantum number generator or even an analog source. It was a deterministic pseudorandom number generator.

Yet, I spent two years of my teenage years obsessed with the experiment and the results. LOL.