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Show HN: Runtime Fence – Kill switch for AI agents

https://github.com/RunTimeAdmin/ai-agent-killswitch
1•ccie14019•2m ago•1 comments

Researchers surprised by the brain benefits of cannabis usage in adults over 40

https://nypost.com/2026/02/07/health/cannabis-may-benefit-aging-brains-study-finds/
1•SirLJ•4m ago•0 comments

Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist, apocalypse linked to the 'end of modernity'

https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-thiel-antichrist-greta-thunberg-end-of-modernity-billionaires/
1•randycupertino•4m ago•1 comments

USS Preble Used Helios Laser to Zap Four Drones in Expanding Testing

https://www.twz.com/sea/uss-preble-used-helios-laser-to-zap-four-drones-in-expanding-testing
2•breve•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Animated beach scene, made with CSS

https://ahmed-machine.github.io/beach-scene/
1•ahmedoo•11m ago•0 comments

An update on unredacting select Epstein files – DBC12.pdf liberated

https://neosmart.net/blog/efta00400459-has-been-cracked-dbc12-pdf-liberated/
1•ks2048•11m ago•0 comments

Was going to share my work

1•hiddenarchitect•14m ago•0 comments

Pitchfork: A devilishly good process manager for developers

https://pitchfork.jdx.dev/
1•ahamez•14m ago•0 comments

You Are Here

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html
3•mltvc•18m ago•0 comments

Why social apps need to become proactive, not reactive

https://www.heyflare.app/blog/from-reactive-to-proactive-how-ai-agents-will-reshape-social-apps
1•JoanMDuarte•19m ago•1 comments

How patient are AI scrapers, anyway? – Random Thoughts

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026/02/07/how-patient-are-ai-scrapers-anyway/
1•samtrack2019•19m ago•0 comments

Vouch: A contributor trust management system

https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
2•SchwKatze•20m ago•0 comments

I built a terminal monitoring app and custom firmware for a clock with Claude

https://duggan.ie/posts/i-built-a-terminal-monitoring-app-and-custom-firmware-for-a-desktop-clock...
1•duggan•21m ago•0 comments

Tiny C Compiler

https://bellard.org/tcc/
1•guerrilla•22m ago•0 comments

Y Combinator Founder Organizes 'March for Billionaires'

https://mlq.ai/news/ai-startup-founder-organizes-march-for-billionaires-protest-against-californi...
1•hidden80•22m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: Need feedback on the idea I'm working on

1•Yogender78•23m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw Addresses Security Risks

https://thebiggish.com/news/openclaw-s-security-flaws-expose-enterprise-risk-22-of-deployments-un...
2•vedantnair•23m ago•0 comments

Apple finalizes Gemini / Siri deal

https://www.engadget.com/ai/apple-reportedly-plans-to-reveal-its-gemini-powered-siri-in-february-...
1•vedantnair•24m ago•0 comments

Italy Railways Sabotaged

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr4rx04xjpo
4•vedantnair•24m ago•0 comments

Emacs-tramp-RPC: high-performance TRAMP back end using MsgPack-RPC

https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc
1•fanf2•26m ago•0 comments

Nintendo Wii Themed Portfolio

https://akiraux.vercel.app/
2•s4074433•30m ago•2 comments

"There must be something like the opposite of suicide "

https://post.substack.com/p/there-must-be-something-like-the
1•rbanffy•32m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why doesn't Netflix add a “Theater Mode” that recreates the worst parts?

2•amichail•33m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Engineering Perception with Combinatorial Memetics

1•alan_sass•39m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Steam Daily – A Wordle-like daily puzzle game for Steam fans

https://steamdaily.xyz
1•itshellboy•41m ago•0 comments

The Anthropic Hive Mind

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b
1•spenvo•41m ago•0 comments

Just Started Using AmpCode

https://intelligenttools.co/blog/ampcode-multi-agent-production
1•BojanTomic•42m ago•0 comments

LLM as an Engineer vs. a Founder?

1•dm03514•43m ago•0 comments

Crosstalk inside cells helps pathogens evade drugs, study finds

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-crosstalk-cells-pathogens-evade-drugs.html
2•PaulHoule•44m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Design system generator (mood to CSS in <1 second)

https://huesly.app
1•egeuysall•44m ago•1 comments
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Mind captioning: Evolving descriptive text of mental content of brain activity

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw1464
25•Marshferm•3mo ago

Comments

fouc•3mo ago
In the future, we'll probably lose the ability to verbalize or construct sentences because our thoughts will be directly understood by LLMs, it'll be too easy and convenient.
Marshferm•3mo ago
It can’t be LLMs they’re incompatible with thought.
fouc•3mo ago
you didn't look at the paper? or you're taking umbrage with the "understanding" part?
Marshferm•3mo ago
It’s not understanding, it’s explanation. I read the paper, I posted it.

Start at what are human explanations:

https://www.alisongopnik.com/Papers_Alison/Explain%20final.p...

Now what are words in relation to that drive?

“We refute (based on empirical evidence) claims that humans use linguistic representations to think.” Ev Fedorenko Language Lab MIT 2024

What are LLMs?

As language or tokens cannot represent anything of merit in brains accurately, then the interpretation of what is semantic vs what is a task variable action potential is subject to the Gopnik problem.

It’s an enforced circularity that never allows the brain/ecology to speak for itself in its native process.

fouc•2mo ago
thoughts would be more analogous to the weights in the the LLM, rather than language or tokens as you mention
pessimizer•3mo ago
They'll give up talking to us too, and just interface through our ears. The LLM earpiece will just make some 2800 baud modem noises and we'll move around like marionettes.
Terr_•3mo ago
Not quite a wordless scenario, but after seeing some people today already scrolling for dopamine, I'm still worried:

> I can remember putting on the headset for the first time and the computer talking to me and telling me what to do. It was creepy at first, but that feeling really only lasted a day or so. Then you were used to it, and the job really did get easier. Manna never pushed you around, never yelled at you. The girls liked it because Manna didn’t hit on them either. Manna simply asked you to do something, you did it, you said, “OK”, and Manna asked you to do the next step. Each step was easy. You could go through the whole day on autopilot, and Manna made sure that you were constantly doing something. At the end of the shift Manna always said the same thing. “You are done for today. Thank you for your help.” Then you took off your headset and put it back on the rack to recharge. The first few minutes off the headset were always disorienting — there had been this voice in your head telling you exactly what to do in minute detail for six or eight hours. You had to turn your brain back on to get out of the restaurant.

-- https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

Marshferm•3mo ago
It’s entirely reliant on symbols, ie it’s irrelevant in terms of brain-ecology processes.
Terr_•3mo ago
The shareholders yearn for the Torment Nexus.
HollowVoice•3mo ago
And to think, I grew up thinking Greg Egan and Iain Banks were (mostly) trying to write hopeful stories. It was dystopian all along!

Oh well, time to kill all the weirdos.

UltraSane•3mo ago
I can see many people not learning how to write when speech to text gets good enough.
briga•3mo ago
Is this the future technology that anyone wants?
juris•3mo ago
if only to screen suitable material for the presidency.
Terr_•3mo ago
System output: "Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV."
hereme888•3mo ago
And then wait for the discounted $5k deal* for an automated robotic surgery to implant a NeuraLink device.

*You agree to allow the company to collect anonymized data, to help improve* the device.

*Our lawyers are still working on this.

Terr_•3mo ago
If I had my legal 'druthers, such, er, "brain-derived mental content" would be flatly illegal to obtain without a specific and discrete sharing decision by the person, and such decisions may not be part of any contract, so:

1. You can buy a tool and use it to monitor yourself, whether daily-logger, dream-recorder, a fetish-detector, whatever.

2. You can share specific results with others on a case-by-case basis, but it's illegal for them to obtain it any other way.

3. It is not illegal (or at least unenforceable) for someone to require you to share results in exchange for something else, like requiring employees to wear a disloyalty-detector headband.

The question of how it applies to the 5th amendment right against self-incrimination... Hmm. Someone placing Guilt-O-Meter on your head would be illegal, but if you did it yourself and left log files around...

survirtual•3mo ago
You're close but the idea gets much broader and extends to augmented intelligence as well.

Once the brain is readable, it actually becomes easier to justify legal protections for augmented compute intelligence, ironically enough.

The inevitable end result for a benevolent manifested planet / universe is we all have equal share of impenetrable compute.

This result is unavoidable if we want to live a free and prosperous life.

It requires encoding certain human rights, freedoms, privacy protections, and corporate / government limitations that human beings are not remotely ready to encode yet.

So by extension, I won't hold my breath on brain scanning being a technology I would be comfortable with in the hands of this current world and thinking.

8474_s•3mo ago
What is the real-world fidelity of this "decoding both perceptual and mental content"? Can it record dream as video?