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Advanced Inertial Reference Sphere

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Inertial_Reference_Sphere
1•cyanf•1m ago•0 comments

Toyota Developing a Console-Grade, Open-Source Game Engine with Flutter and Dart

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fluorite-Toyota-Game-Engine
1•computer23•3m ago•0 comments

Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Labor Behind Modern Literary Masterpieces

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/typing-for-love-or-money/
1•prismatic•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A longitudinal health record built from fragmented medical data

https://myaether.live
1•takmak007•7m ago•0 comments

CoreWeave's $30B Bet on GPU Market Infrastructure

https://davefriedman.substack.com/p/coreweaves-30-billion-bet-on-gpu
1•gmays•18m ago•0 comments

Creating and Hosting a Static Website on Cloudflare for Free

https://benjaminsmallwood.com/blog/creating-and-hosting-a-static-website-on-cloudflare-for-free/
1•bensmallwood•24m ago•1 comments

"The Stanford scam proves America is becoming a nation of grifters"

https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/students-stanford-grifters-ivy-league-w2g5z768z
1•cwwc•28m ago•0 comments

Elon Musk on Space GPUs, AI, Optimus, and His Manufacturing Method

https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/elon-musk-on-space-gpus-ai-optimus
2•simonebrunozzi•37m ago•0 comments

X (Twitter) is back with a new X API Pay-Per-Use model

https://developer.x.com/
2•eeko_systems•44m ago•0 comments

Zlob.h 100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing lib that is faste and better

https://github.com/dmtrKovalenko/zlob
3•neogoose•46m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Deterministic signal triangulation using a fixed .72% variance constant

https://github.com/mabrucker85-prog/Project_Lance_Core
2•mav5431•47m ago•1 comments

Scientists Discover Levitating Time Crystals You Can Hold, Defy Newton’s 3rd Law

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-scientists-levitating-crystals.html
3•sizzle•47m ago•0 comments

When Michelangelo Met Titian

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/michelangelo-titian-review-the-renaissances-odd-couple-e34...
1•keiferski•48m ago•0 comments

Solving NYT Pips with DLX

https://github.com/DonoG/NYTPips4Processing
1•impossiblecode•49m ago•1 comments

Baldur's Gate to be turned into TV series – without the game's developers

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c24g457y534o
2•vunderba•49m ago•0 comments

Interview with 'Just use a VPS' bro (OpenClaw version) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40SnEd1RWUU
2•dangtony98•55m ago•0 comments

EchoJEPA: Latent Predictive Foundation Model for Echocardiography

https://github.com/bowang-lab/EchoJEPA
1•euvin•1h ago•0 comments

Disablling Go Telemetry

https://go.dev/doc/telemetry
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•0 comments

Effective Nihilism

https://www.effectivenihilism.org/
1•abetusk•1h ago•1 comments

The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/27/uk-government-report-ecosystem-collapse-foi...
4•pabs3•1h ago•0 comments

No 10 blocks report on impact of rainforest collapse on food prices

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/environment/article/no-10-blocks-report-on-impact-of-rainforest-colla...
2•pabs3•1h ago•0 comments

Seedance 2.0 Is Coming

https://seedance-2.app/
1•Jenny249•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Fitspire – a simple 5-minute workout app for busy people (iOS)

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fitspire-5-minute-workout/id6758784938
2•devavinoth12•1h ago•0 comments

Dexterous robotic hands: 2009 – 2014 – 2025

https://old.reddit.com/r/robotics/comments/1qp7z15/dexterous_robotic_hands_2009_2014_2025/
1•gmays•1h ago•0 comments

Interop 2025: A Year of Convergence

https://webkit.org/blog/17808/interop-2025-review/
1•ksec•1h ago•1 comments

JobArena – Human Intuition vs. Artificial Intelligence

https://www.jobarena.ai/
1•84634E1A607A•1h ago•0 comments

Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder

https://thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/concept-artists-in-games-say-generative-ai-references-on...
1•KittenInABox•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: PaySentry – Open-source control plane for AI agent payments

https://github.com/mkmkkkkk/paysentry
2•mkyang•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Moli P2P – An ephemeral, serverless image gallery (Rust and WebRTC)

https://moli-green.is/
2•ShinyaKoyano•1h ago•1 comments

The Crumbling Workflow Moat: Aggregation Theory's Final Chapter

https://twitter.com/nicbstme/status/2019149771706102022
1•SubiculumCode•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Oracle's credit default swaps surge as Barclays downgrades its debt rating

https://www.moomoo.com/news/post/61321036/oracle-s-credit-default-swaps-surge-as-barclays-downgrades-its
59•zerosizedweasle•2mo ago

Comments

andrewstuart•2mo ago
Never occurred to me that oracle could go pop.
zerosizedweasle•2mo ago
Yeah, I don't think people are processing just how much money is being spent. AI is a useful tool, but the financial aspects of it are monstrous. In terms of comparison, the OpenAI deals announced this year is bigger than the US defense budget. Nuclear weapons, stealth bombers, nuclear submarines, F-35s, a million soldiers...more money than all of that.
Woodi•2mo ago
So OpenAI is clearly a military too :)
Traubenfuchs•2mo ago
1) Are some intelligent people with the power over hundreds of millions, billions even, that sure that AI will pay off?

2) Is it all a gamble by not-that-intelligent people that have power over those billions?

3) Is it intelligent people knowing this will never work, just pretending for the grift, ripping off 2)?

It's fascinating and I can't wait to see how it's ending, despite knowing there is no happy end possible anymore. Either most people are replaced by AI and society as we know it ends or there is a gigantic crash waiting.

CheeseFromLidl•2mo ago
4) the whole system is rigged and the playbook is entering a new chapter
rf15•2mo ago
It's 3, surely; Even if the companies crash, the people leading them won't - they will have extracted an absurd amount of cash, and when the crash comes they're like "oh we paid ourselves millions for our good work, we couldn't possibly see the crash coming. It's nobodies fault! Anyway let's get our bankruptcy proceedings over already, the company doesn't have remotely as much worth left anyway"
Ekaros•2mo ago
I believe there is lot of making money now or in next 3 to 12 months. Whatever it takes. Unless you go to really egregious level of fraud, you likely won't be punished. So optimal game is to skim your bonuses from the game. Same goes for fund management. Keep numbers looking good and stay on mostly legal side and you get to skim from top.

Eventually this will then crash down.

zerosizedweasle•2mo ago
This whole thing is so repulsive, makes me want to vomit.
Libidinalecon•2mo ago
Sam Bankman-Fried isn't in jail right now because of a lack of IQ.

There are all these social dynamics at play that cause really smart people to do really stupid things sometimes.

zerosizedweasle•2mo ago
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/big-techs-soaring-profits-have-a...
heisgone•2mo ago
I wonder if the way we have to look at the A.I. race is as a form of cold war. During the cold war, military expenses made no economic sense but we had to do it anyway to come on top. At this point, it's "who can borrow the most without bankrupting itself or can survive until a government bailout".
mnky9800n•2mo ago
Think what an aircraft carrier costs to build (approx 13 billion USD) and then run per year (approx 0.75-1 billion USD), and then think that Sam Altman has promised 100 times that to all his partners. A floating city of 5000 people that can launch a wing of fighter planes and support craft and turn any enemy city into rubble costs a tiny fraction of supporting a chat bot.
brianwawok•2mo ago
The thing is. Crypto was crap. It was never going to revolutionize the word and generate billions of dollars of value. It’s like a decentralized bank with the good and bad that comes along with that.

AI can actually revolutionize the world. The best outcome of all these bets are bonkers. If one company can land it and everyone else fails, it’s trillions. I’m less optimistic what happens if 10 companies all have AI models with roughly similar performance. How much can they charge?

mnky9800n•2mo ago
No company will land it building attention based transformers. They simply don't do what people say they do. They are very powerful and I love using claude code every day at work. But they aren't going to become autonomous androids because they don't even respect what little we know about cognitive science. I think that what is more exciting across all of this work is that many of these models are a strong increment forward in predicting physical systems which means we can have more accurate and more complex control systems for manufacturing, transport, etc. You can use transformers to take a super computer scale weather model and run it on a desktop GPU. That is rather impressive imo.
rf15•2mo ago
I wonder. They have powerful friends and lots of dependents still (despite their abusive practices), so god knows how this will go.
holysoles•2mo ago
JPMorgan's strategy team also warned on Monday that the trillions in capital required for the AI boom will 'drain' every credit market.

These corporate bonds combined with the rises in consumer debt (and defaults) doesn't seem to bode well. Everyone is borrowing..

zerosizedweasle•2mo ago
This isn't far out in the future either, they're likely to run out of cash by November 2026 and they are on watch to be downgraded to junk bonds.
captainpiggies•2mo ago
Is it too much if I hope for Oracle to bankrupt itself?
bogzz•2mo ago
You're not alone!
zerosizedweasle•2mo ago
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/big-techs-soaring-profits-have-a...
tpoacher•2mo ago
Tony Blair's link to Oracle has been touted in the media recently. Coincidence?
gishh•2mo ago
Pop goes the weasel.