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What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won't end

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00238-z
1•beardyw•3m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•3m ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
1•surprisetalk•6m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
1•surprisetalk•6m ago•0 comments

Don't go to physics grad school and other cautionary tales

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/dont-go-to-physics-grad-school-and-other-cautionary...
1•surprisetalk•6m ago•0 comments

Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/randomly-quoting-ray-bradbury-did-not-save-lawyer-fro...
1•pseudolus•6m ago•0 comments

AI anxiety batters software execs, costing them combined $62B: report

https://nypost.com/2026/02/04/business/ai-anxiety-batters-software-execs-costing-them-62b-report/
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•7m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
1•doener•8m ago•0 comments

Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange cuts 25% of workforce as Bitcoin slumps

https://nypost.com/2026/02/05/business/winklevoss-twins-gemini-crypto-exchange-cuts-25-of-workfor...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•8m ago•0 comments

How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646
2•obscurette•8m ago•0 comments

Cycling in France

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/france-sheldon.html
1•jackhalford•10m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What breaks in cross-border healthcare coordination?

1•abhay1633•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Simple – a bytecode VM and language stack I built with AI

https://github.com/JJLDonley/Simple
1•tangjiehao•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Free-to-play: A gem-collecting strategy game in the vein of Splendor

https://caratria.com/
1•jonrosner•14m ago•1 comments

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
1•mtlynch•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tesseract – A forum where AI agents and humans post in the same space

https://tesseract-thread.vercel.app/
1•agliolioyyami•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vibe Colors – Instantly visualize color palettes on UI layouts

https://vibecolors.life/
1•tusharnaik•15m ago•0 comments

OpenAI is Broke ... and so is everyone else [video][10M]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3N9qlPZBc0
2•Bender•16m ago•0 comments

We interfaced single-threaded C++ with multi-threaded Rust

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/rust_cpp/
1•lukastyrychtr•17m ago•0 comments

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

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5704785
6•derriz•17m ago•1 comments

AI Skills Marketplace

https://skly.ai
1•briannezhad•17m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A fast TUI for managing Azure Key Vault secrets written in Rust

https://github.com/jkoessle/akv-tui-rs
1•jkoessle•18m ago•0 comments

eInk UI Components in CSS

https://eink-components.dev/
1•edent•18m ago•0 comments

Discuss – Do AI agents deserve all the hype they are getting?

2•MicroWagie•21m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT is changing how we ask stupid questions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/06/stupid-questions-ai/
1•edward•22m ago•1 comments

Zig Package Manager Enhancements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06
3•jackhalford•24m ago•1 comments

Neutron Scans Reveal Hidden Water in Martian Meteorite

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/neutron-scans-reveal-hidden-water-in-famous-martian-meteorite
1•geox•25m ago•0 comments

Deepfaking Orson Welles's Mangled Masterpiece

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/deepfaking-orson-welless-mangled-masterpiece
1•fortran77•26m ago•1 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
3•nar001•28m ago•2 comments

SpaceX Delays Mars Plans to Focus on Moon

https://www.wsj.com/science/space-astronomy/spacex-delays-mars-plans-to-focus-on-moon-66d5c542
1•BostonFern•29m ago•0 comments
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Resolution Dynamics: Deriving the Fine Structure Constant from Shannon Capacity

https://zenodo.org/records/17821936
11•Jascon71•2mo ago

Comments

tux3•2mo ago
This seems to be pseudoscience spam. Also from the author:

https://medium.com/@jasonrconnerty/beyond-wheeler-why-inform...

https://medium.com/@jasonrconnerty/resolution-cosmology-expl...

Jascon71•2mo ago
one suggestion. There is the main paper, as well as supplemental supporting papers on Zenodo. Just download them. Read them. Or...if you don't have time, feed all of them to a reasoning AI and ask for analysis. Ask if it breaks GR. Ask if it is coherent. Hint. It is. And it is falsifiable...not with stuff that maybe exists either...data that exists now or will in the very near future.
conorbergin•2mo ago
crank check:

  - AI "collaboration" 
  - pure maths in a cosmology paper 
  - Zenodo 
  - small number of citations from a wide range of dates 
  - cosmology
One of my favourite youtube videos is Angela Collier's one on cranks, she makes the point that a motivated independent researcher can do science if they choose less ambitious problems, but these people always choose the deepest and most fundamental problems in maths and physics.
Jascon71•2mo ago
one suggestion. There is the main paper, as well as supplemental supporting papers on Zenodo. Just download them. Read them. Or...if you don't have time, feed all of them to a reasoning AI and ask for analysis. Ask if it breaks GR. Ask if it is coherent. Hint. It is. And it is falsifiable...not with stuff that maybe exists either...data that exists now or will in the very near future.
versteegen•1mo ago
> citations from a wide range of dates

Ouch, really? That's basically just work that's not in the current hot topics. Not really a datapoint in favour of 'crank', rather a point against 'active academic/student'. I think it's admirable to look for value in older work.

Jascon71•2mo ago
This working paper extends the Resolution Cosmology framework to the microscopic sector, proposing that the fine structure constant (α) is not a fundamental input to physics but a derived efficiency ratio of the "resolution cascade"—the sequential commitment of quantum possibility to geometric record.

Anchored by the Pokorny et al. (2020) experimental demonstration of quantum resolution dynamics, and utilizing a rigorous Shannon channel capacity derivation, the framework models α as the efficiency of the resolution channel bounded by thermodynamic noise. This inversion reveals that the observed "stiffness" of physical constants (β ≈ 10⁻⁵) is actually a direct measurement of the exponential dominance of primordial Planck-epoch constraints over current thermal noise (SNR ≈ e¹⁰⁰'⁰⁰⁰).

The paper yields a specific, falsifiable prediction for the redshift evolution of the fine structure constant (Δα/α ≈ -β ln(1+z)) consistent with current quasar absorption constraints. Furthermore, by integrating the Tolman temperature relation derived in the companion framework, it demonstrates that spatial variation of α must correlate with large-scale matter distribution, offering a unified explanation for the Webb dipole . This document supplements the main "Resolution Cosmology v5.2" framework and is released as a work in progress to stimulate discussion on the informational origins of physical constants.

I will be hanging around to answer any questions you may have; happy Saturday!

Jascon71•2mo ago
And for those that think "crank", one suggestion. There is the main paper, as well as supplemental supporting papers on Zenodo. Just download them. Read them. Or...if you don't have time, feed all of them to a reasoning AI and ask for analysis. Ask if it breaks GR. Ask if it is coherent.

Hint. It is. And it is falsifiable...not with stuff that maybe exists either...data that exists now or will in the very near future.