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Doo: A Simple, Fast Programming Language Built on Rust and LLVM

1•nynrathod•4m ago•0 comments

House of Lords asks OfCom to step up Online Safety Act enforcement

https://twitter.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1984971416651866425
1•cft•5m ago•0 comments

Computer Says No

2•Pocomon•7m ago•0 comments

Create Studio Ghibli-style art from text or photos using AI

https://ghibli-ai.me
1•ucollabn•9m ago•0 comments

Cyprus: Europe's Rising Star in Astronomy and Astrophysics

https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/troodos-observatory-to-open-in-june-bringing-cyprus-into...
1•northlondoner•13m ago•1 comments

AI Video Tools

https://www.short.ai/
1•pipiads•14m ago•0 comments

In Grok we don't trust: academics assess Elon Musk's AI-powered encyclopedia

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/03/grokipedia-academics-assess-elon-musk-ai-power...
1•n1b0m•14m ago•0 comments

Benedict Anderson: Humane Nationalist

https://unherd.com/2025/11/benedict-anderson-nationalist-prophet/
1•barry-cotter•15m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I couldn't tell if $180K net worth at 32 was good, so I built this

1•mzou•19m ago•0 comments

State of the Climate a Planet on the Brink

https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biaf149/8303627?login=false
1•mariuz•19m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: A good launch plan for an indiehacker project

2•muddi900•19m ago•1 comments

Teenypt is a minimal GPT-2 implementation built with tinygrad

https://github.com/b0bleet/teenypt
2•maxpaynapple•20m ago•0 comments

European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)

https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/strategy/strategy-research-and-innovation/our-digita...
1•doener•22m ago•0 comments

Celtic Code: Drawing Knots with Python

https://2earth.github.io/website/20250202.html
1•HansardExpert•23m ago•1 comments

Show HN: SynapseAudit – VS Code security scanner with local analysis

https://synapseaudit.digidenone.tech/
1•chiragnahata•23m ago•0 comments

Claude Skills Market

https://skillsmp.com/
1•handfuloflight•24m ago•0 comments

China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq50j5vwny6o
1•giuliomagnifico•26m ago•0 comments

Fastshot.ai – Built my first mobile app for free (no code)

https://fastshot.ai/
2•teminal•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hephaestus – Autonomous Multi-Agent Orchestration Framework

https://github.com/Ido-Levi/Hephaestus
6•idolevi•28m ago•0 comments

How to Keep Winning

https://amasad.me/keep-winning
1•daviducolo•28m ago•0 comments

Bye, Google Search

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/11/01/Blog-Search-Pagefind
3•HieronymusBosch•37m ago•0 comments

Octocode MCP – AI Researcher for Smart, Deep Multi-Repo Code Context

https://github.com/bgauryy/octocode-mcp
2•bgauryy•41m ago•1 comments

I love boring business ideas

https://bytesauna.com/post/i-love-boring-business-ideas
1•mapehe•44m ago•0 comments

The APM paradox: Too much data, too few answers

https://www.honeybadger.io/blog/apm-paradox/
3•todsacerdoti•44m ago•0 comments

The Heart of the Matter

https://rodgercuddington.substack.com/p/the-heart-of-the-matter
1•freespirt•46m ago•0 comments

We used AI to personalize financial planning for everyday users

https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/67099/wealthai
2•asaws•48m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How long until solid decentralized alternative to Instagram?

2•zanellia•50m ago•5 comments

Orcas Repeatedly Attack Young Great White Sharks, Drone Footage Reveals

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/orcas-repeatedly-attack-young-great-white-sharks-drone...
2•quapster•52m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Chess but you make your own starting position

https://chess39.com/
1•chess39•55m ago•1 comments

The 1B Token Challenge: Finding the Perfect Pre-Training Mix

https://huggingface.co/blog/codelion/optimal-dataset-mixing
2•codelion•1h ago•0 comments
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UBCO study disproves the simulation hypothesis

https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2025/10/30/ubco-study-debunks-the-idea-that-the-universe-is-a-computer-simulation/
16•mxkopy•13h ago

Comments

mxkopy•13h ago
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22950

Their argument is that quantum gravity can encode undecidable statements, and therefore cannot be completely computed. Of course take it with a grain of salt, since it relies on an incomplete and possibly inaccurate characterization of quantum gravity, something we don’t know anything about. Still, a cool idea.

ameliaquining•6h ago
The paper's core claim is wrong even before you get into any quantum gravity stuff. The other HN thread contains a number of comments explaining why.
recursivecaveat•1h ago
Do you necessarily need to compute anything in order to perform a simulation? Suppose whenever some weird undecidable statement quantum gravity situation comes up inside the simulation, you pause it, recreate the scenario on a lab bench, and then copy the data into your simulation. You didn't compute what would happen, you don't even necessarily understand how it works, but as long as its the same quantum gravity stuff inside and out, the simulation can proceed faithfully. This makes some assumptions about locality I guess.

Of course the whole affair seems a little moot since you obviously only have to be accurate enough that it doesn't disrupt the ancestor simulation or whatever, but that's less fun to think about I suppose.

badenglish•12h ago
with the same success the study refutes the researchers' religious belief in the truth
E-Reverance•11h ago
Just for reference, the main author's stance on god : https://youtu.be/k_VBzweMIlM?t=125
junon•8h ago
I would imagine the hand-wavey response might not be far away from "God is not algorithmic".
MangoToupe•4h ago
The concept of "god" and "simulated universe" seem to be essentially the same
beardyw•12h ago
I always felt that most numbers being irrational would make simulation tricky.

On the other hand, if it's just me, and everything including you is just simulated for my benefit, it's not too hard.

mxkopy•12h ago
Indeed, simulating God himself will have to wait a little bit
anon291•5h ago
There are no irrational numbers measurable in the universe. Irrational numbers as far as we encounter are computable via straightforward algorithms.
BigParm•8h ago
The only thing to simulate is my personal experience.
aeve890•8h ago
I'm surprised that the simulation hypothesis is even falsifiable. I mean, the guys above are supposed to be in a totally different level of existence from ours, how can we even start to think we can debug the simulation? Wouldn't that be already covered by beings way smarter than us?
ozb•7h ago
(dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45762892 )

And again, almost every statement in this paper is wrong, including the main claim

UltraSane•3h ago
If the minds are being simulated they could be manipulated to ignore any evidence they are in a simulation.
southwindcg•2h ago
Yes, this is exactly my problem with claims about the 'real' universe if we are, in fact, in a simulation. It might be literally, programmatically, impossible for us to infer anything about it. The analogy I like to use is Pac-Man believing that the entire universe exists within the confines of a blue-walled maze.
hyghjiyhu•2h ago
From the ghosts perspective it is of prime importance to understand the behaviour of pacman. But it is influenced by the player's psychology which is in turn influenced by the surrounding world. Then: a sufficiently advanced model of pacman must include (at least implicitly) a description of the outside world.
johnnienaked•3h ago
The simulation hypothesis rests on shaky assumptions
burnt-resistor•33m ago
It rests on magical conspiracy theories with an imaginary "them" hobgoblins. Changelings with more dimensions.
moi2388•2h ago
“ Here’s a basic example using the statement, “This true statement is not provable.” If it were provable, it would be false, making logic inconsistent. If it’s not provable, then it’s true, but that makes any system trying to prove it incomplete”

Only if you assume the law of the excluded middle, right?

Statements aren’t just true or false, they can also be malformed or undefined.

Jean-Papoulos•1h ago
The article suggests this paper is based on quantum gravity. Which we don't have an accepted theory of. Based on this, I'm not going to read the rest of this clickbait.
burnt-resistor•35m ago
Similar to a cosmological argument, something that cannot be proven or disproven from within the system that cannot be escaped. How convenient.