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A Night Without the Nerds – Claude Opus 4.6, Field-Tested

https://konfuzio.com/en/a-night-without-the-nerds-claude-opus-4-6-in-the-field-test/
1•konfuzio•49s ago•0 comments

Could ionospheric disturbances influence earthquakes?

https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/research-news/2026-02-06-0
1•geox•2m ago•0 comments

SpaceX's next astronaut launch for NASA is officially on for Feb. 11 as FAA clea

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacexs-next-astronaut-launch-for-nas...
1•bookmtn•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: One-click AI employee with its own cloud desktop

https://cloudbot-ai.com
1•fainir•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Poddley – Search podcasts by who's speaking

https://poddley.com
1•onesandofgrain•6m ago•0 comments

Same Surface, Different Weight

https://www.robpanico.com/articles/display/?entry_short=same-surface-different-weight
1•retrocog•9m ago•0 comments

The Rise of Spec Driven Development

https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/02/06/the-rise-of-spec-driven-development.html
2•Brajeshwar•13m ago•0 comments

The first good Raspberry Pi Laptop

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/the-first-good-raspberry-pi-laptop/
3•Brajeshwar•13m ago•0 comments

Seas to Rise Around the World – But Not in Greenland

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/greenland-sea-levels-fall
2•Brajeshwar•13m ago•0 comments

Will Future Generations Think We're Gross?

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/will-future-generations-think-were
1•crescit_eundo•16m ago•0 comments

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

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5704785/state-department-trump-posts-x
2•righthand•19m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Verifiable server roundtrip demo for a decision interruption system

https://github.com/veeduzyl-hue/decision-assistant-roundtrip-demo
1•veeduzyl•20m ago•0 comments

Impl Rust – Avro IDL Tool in Rust via Antlr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmKvw73V394
1•todsacerdoti•20m ago•0 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
2•vinhnx•21m ago•0 comments

minikeyvalue

https://github.com/commaai/minikeyvalue/tree/prod
3•tosh•26m ago•0 comments

Neomacs: GPU-accelerated Emacs with inline video, WebKit, and terminal via wgpu

https://github.com/eval-exec/neomacs
1•evalexec•31m ago•0 comments

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

https://moli-green.is/
2•ShinyaKoyano•35m ago•1 comments

How I grow my X presence?

https://www.reddit.com/r/GrowthHacking/s/UEc8pAl61b
2•m00dy•36m ago•0 comments

What's the cost of the most expensive Super Bowl ad slot?

https://ballparkguess.com/?id=5b98b1d3-5887-47b9-8a92-43be2ced674b
1•bkls•37m ago•0 comments

What if you just did a startup instead?

https://alexaraki.substack.com/p/what-if-you-just-did-a-startup
5•okaywriting•44m ago•0 comments

Hacking up your own shell completion (2020)

https://www.feltrac.co/environment/2020/01/18/build-your-own-shell-completion.html
2•todsacerdoti•47m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gorse 0.5 – Open-source recommender system with visual workflow editor

https://github.com/gorse-io/gorse
1•zhenghaoz•47m ago•0 comments

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCR
1•ms7892•48m ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/MikeVeerman/tool-calling-benchmark
1•MikeVeerman•49m ago•0 comments

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

https://aboutmyproject.com/
1•Raiplus•49m ago•0 comments

Expertise, AI and Work of Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxWl9iT1XU
1•indiantinker•50m 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
4•pseudolus•50m ago•2 comments

PID Controller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%E2%80%93derivative_controller
1•tosh•54m ago•0 comments

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

https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/2019932764515234159
2•bkls•54m ago•1 comments

Kubernetes MCP Server

https://github.com/yindia/rootcause
1•yindia•56m ago•0 comments
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Ask HN: Are LLMs just the right-brain?

1•stevenalowe•2mo ago
And if so, does that make us (via prompting) a left-brain?

LLMs are fantastic at generating believable nonsense, a creative stream of expression that superficially resembles reality. This is not a criticism; what LLms can do is a superpower. But the left-brain of AGI is still MIA. Are model builders aiming to fill that void, or do we need a different mechanism? If so, what might that be?

Comments

incomingpain•2mo ago
The "left brain" vs "right brain" thing is a myth for humans.

LLMs are more than left vs right brained. They have multiple experts; they have multiple modality.

Some big models can have hundreds of "side of brain"

stevenalowe•2mo ago
Of course, using left/right brain as an analogy. Read it as A/B brain pairs like Minsky’s society of mind if you prefers. Bag of experts under the hood doesn’t matter if the whole spews nonsense. Right now, we check the output, the model does not check itself
namegulf•2mo ago
From a technical perspective, they're doing exactly what they're designed to do:

Self learn (i.e. unsupervised) patterns (using multi-head attention mechanism) from a large volume of input and then generate new patterns based on the. prompt.

stevenalowe•2mo ago
Yes I know how they work, the question is why they can’t self-evaluate