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The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail

https://blog.nix-ci.com/post/2026-02-05_the-purpose-of-ci-is-to-fail
1•zdw•1m ago•0 comments

Apfelstrudel: Live coding music environment with AI agent chat

https://github.com/rcarmo/apfelstrudel
1•rcarmo•2m ago•0 comments

What Is Stoicism?

https://stoacentral.com/guides/what-is-stoicism
3•0xmattf•3m ago•0 comments

What happens when a neighborhood is built around a farm

https://grist.org/cities/what-happens-when-a-neighborhood-is-built-around-a-farm/
1•Brajeshwar•3m ago•0 comments

Every major galaxy is speeding away from the Milky Way, except one

https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/every-major-galaxy-is-speeding-away-from-the-milky-wa...
2•Brajeshwar•3m ago•0 comments

Extreme Inequality Presages the Revolt Against It

https://www.noemamag.com/extreme-inequality-presages-the-revolt-against-it/
1•Brajeshwar•3m ago•0 comments

There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

1•dtjb•4m ago•0 comments

What Really Killed Flash Player: A Six-Year Campaign of Deliberate Platform Work

https://medium.com/@aglaforge/what-really-killed-flash-player-a-six-year-campaign-of-deliberate-p...
1•jbegley•5m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Anyone orchestrating multiple AI coding agents in parallel?

1•buildingwdavid•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Knowledge-Bank

https://github.com/gabrywu-public/knowledge-bank
1•gabrywu•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: The Codeverse Hub Linux

https://github.com/TheCodeVerseHub/CodeVerseLinuxDistro
3•sinisterMage•13m ago•2 comments

Take a trip to Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth

https://soranews24.com/2026/02/07/take-a-trip-to-japans-dododo-land-the-most-irritating-place-on-...
2•zdw•13m ago•0 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
14•bookofjoe•13m ago•5 comments

BookTalk: A Reading Companion That Captures Your Voice

https://github.com/bramses/BookTalk
1•_bramses•14m ago•0 comments

Is AI "good" yet? – tracking HN's sentiment on AI coding

https://www.is-ai-good-yet.com/#home
1•ilyaizen•15m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Amdb – Tree-sitter based memory for AI agents (Rust)

https://github.com/BETAER-08/amdb
1•try_betaer•16m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw Partners with VirusTotal for Skill Security

https://openclaw.ai/blog/virustotal-partnership
2•anhxuan•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Seedance 2.0 Release

https://seedancy2.com/
2•funnycoding•16m ago•0 comments

Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
1•thelok•16m ago•0 comments

Towards Self-Driving Codebases

https://cursor.com/blog/self-driving-codebases
1•edwinarbus•17m ago•0 comments

VCF West: Whirlwind Software Restoration – Guy Fedorkow [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLoXodz1N9A
1•stmw•18m ago•1 comments

Show HN: COGext – A minimalist, open-source system monitor for Chrome (<550KB)

https://github.com/tchoa91/cog-ext
1•tchoa91•18m ago•1 comments

FOSDEM 26 – My Hallway Track Takeaways

https://sluongng.substack.com/p/fosdem-26-my-hallway-track-takeaways
1•birdculture•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Env-shelf – Open-source desktop app to manage .env files

https://env-shelf.vercel.app/
1•ivanglpz•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Almostnode – Run Node.js, Next.js, and Express in the Browser

https://almostnode.dev/
1•PetrBrzyBrzek•23m ago•0 comments

Dell support (and hardware) is so bad, I almost sued them

https://blog.joshattic.us/posts/2026-02-07-dell-support-lawsuit
1•radeeyate•24m ago•0 comments

Project Pterodactyl: Incremental Architecture

https://www.jonmsterling.com/01K7/
1•matt_d•24m ago•0 comments

Styling: Search-Text and Other Highlight-Y Pseudo-Elements

https://css-tricks.com/how-to-style-the-new-search-text-and-other-highlight-pseudo-elements/
1•blenderob•26m ago•0 comments

Crypto firm accidentally sends $40B in Bitcoin to users

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/crypto-firm-accidentally-sends-40-055054321.html
1•CommonGuy•26m ago•0 comments

Magnetic fields can change carbon diffusion in steel

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260125083427.htm
1•fanf2•27m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Gwern's "Stem Humor" Directory

https://gwern.net/doc/math/humor/index
60•surprisetalk•2mo ago

Comments

throwaway314155•2mo ago
Not directly related, but I'm curious if gwern ever caved on their views about GAN's being "abandoned" for diffusion?

https://gwern.net/gan

gwern•2mo ago
No. I think the need for adversarial losses in order to distill diffusion models into one-step forward passes has provided additional evidence that GANs were much more viable than diffusimaxis loudly insisted.

(Although I'm not really current on where image generation is these days or who is using GAN-like approaches under the hood or what are the current theoretical understandings of GAN vs AR vs diffusion, so if you have some specific reason I should have "caved", feel free to mention it - I may well just be unaware of it.)

throwaway314155•2mo ago
"SotA diffusion uses adversarial methods anyways" seems like a bit of a departure from the case you make in the blog post.

edit: For what it's worth - I agree. At least some auto-encoders (which will produce latents for diffusion models) use some form of adversarial method.

Still, I'm curious if you think GAN models in their more familiar form are going to eventually take on LCM/diffusion models?

throwaway314155•2mo ago
Silence says it all.
woopwoop•2mo ago
https://people.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/zagier/files/math-mag/63-2/f...

"How often should you beat your kids?", by Don Zagier.

> This note is a follow-up to the note "How to beat your kids at their own game" by K. Levasseur, in which the author proposes the following game to be played against one's own children: ... Levasseur analyzes the game and shows that on average you will have a score of n + (sqrt(pi * n) - 1) / 2 + O(n^{-1/2}), while the kid, of course, will have an average score of exactly n.

> We maintain, however, that only the most degenerate parent would play against a 2-year-old for money, and that our concern should therefore be not by how much you expect to win, but with probability you will win at all.

GreyZephyr•2mo ago
I really want people to crowdsource the DMT prime factorisation project. I know at least one person tried but lost interest before they met an elf. It just seems like such a fun experiment to run. Is it possible to recall numbers at all while taking DMT? Can you memorise new ones? If not why not etc, and maybe the machine God factorises numbers for you!
Retr0id•2mo ago
Given it's an old article I'm sure someone else has pointed this out by now, but the article mixes up RSA modulus size expressed in base-10 (as in RSA-260) and base-2 (as in RSA-768 - The RSA challenge moduli are themselves inconsistently named)
temp0826•2mo ago
The interesting thing about DMT is that it doesn't really seem to affect your mind/cognition (that is, if you can observe all the weirdness happening in a very detached way instead of being overwhelmed by it, it is an exceptionally clear-headed experience). Not exactly the same but I've drank ayahuasca hundreds of times (worked at retreat centers/apprenticed) and it's amazing how much work you can do on a light dose vs being blasted to the center of the universe (though, that is good once in a while to get over blockages). It can be hard to get a footing with dmt because it's so fast (and it's really hard to land in the "workable" zone compared to drinking ayahuasca).