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Economists vs. Technologists on AI

https://ideasindevelopment.substack.com/p/economists-vs-technologists-on-ai
1•econlmics•1m ago•0 comments

Life at the Edge

https://asadk.com/p/edge
1•tosh•7m ago•0 comments

RISC-V Vector Primer

https://github.com/simplex-micro/riscv-vector-primer/blob/main/index.md
2•oxxoxoxooo•10m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Invoxo – Invoicing with automatic EU VAT for cross-border services

2•InvoxoEU•11m ago•0 comments

A Tale of Two Standards, POSIX and Win32 (2005)

https://www.samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/tale_two_stds_os2.html
2•goranmoomin•15m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is the Downfall of SaaS Started?

3•throwaw12•16m ago•0 comments

Flirt: The Native Backend

https://blog.buenzli.dev/flirt-native-backend/
2•senekor•17m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's Latest Platform Targets Enterprise Customers

https://aibusiness.com/agentic-ai/openai-s-latest-platform-targets-enterprise-customers
1•myk-e•20m ago•0 comments

Goldman Sachs taps Anthropic's Claude to automate accounting, compliance roles

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/anthropic-goldman-sachs-ai-model-accounting.html
2•myk-e•23m ago•3 comments

Ai.com bought by Crypto.com founder for $70M in biggest-ever website name deal

https://www.ft.com/content/83488628-8dfd-4060-a7b0-71b1bb012785
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•23m ago•1 comments

Big Tech's AI Push Is Costing More Than the Moon Landing

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-spending-tech-companies-compared-02b90046
3•1vuio0pswjnm7•25m ago•0 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•27m ago•0 comments

Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk
1•askl•29m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: How are researchers using AlphaFold in 2026?

1•jocho12•32m ago•0 comments

Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786614
1•devooops•37m ago•0 comments

Watermark API – $0.01/image, 10x cheaper than Cloudinary

https://api-production-caa8.up.railway.app/docs
1•lembergs•39m ago•1 comments

Now send your marketing campaigns directly from ChatGPT

https://www.mail-o-mail.com/
1•avallark•42m ago•1 comments

Queueing Theory v2: DORA metrics, queue-of-queues, chi-alpha-beta-sigma notation

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing-theory
1•jph•54m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hibana – choreography-first protocol safety for Rust

https://hibanaworks.dev/
5•o8vm•56m ago•1 comments

Haniri: A live autonomous world where AI agents survive or collapse

https://www.haniri.com
1•donangrey•56m ago•1 comments

GPT-5.3-Codex System Card [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/23eca107-a9b1-4d2c-b156-7deb4fbc697c/GPT-5-3-Codex-System-Card-02.pdf
1•tosh•1h ago•0 comments

Atlas: Manage your database schema as code

https://github.com/ariga/atlas
1•quectophoton•1h ago•0 comments

Geist Pixel

https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-geist-pixel
2•helloplanets•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP to get latest dependency package and tool versions

https://github.com/MShekow/package-version-check-mcp
1•mshekow•1h ago•0 comments

The better you get at something, the harder it becomes to do

https://seekingtrust.substack.com/p/improving-at-writing-made-me-almost
2•FinnLobsien•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: WP Float – Archive WordPress blogs to free static hosting

https://wpfloat.netlify.app/
1•zizoulegrande•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Hacked My Family's Meal Planning with an App

https://mealjar.app
1•melvinzammit•1h ago•0 comments

Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
2•basilikum•1h ago•0 comments

The Future of Systems

https://novlabs.ai/mission/
2•tekbog•1h ago•1 comments

NASA now allowing astronauts to bring their smartphones on space missions

https://twitter.com/NASAAdmin/status/2019259382962307393
2•gbugniot•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

What If Our Ancestors Didn't Feel Anything Like We Do?

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/01/human-ancestors-emotion-history/684959/
5•petethomas•2mo ago

Comments

beyondcompute•2mo ago
https://archive.is/ubjsq
retrac•2mo ago
Perhaps because I'm a layperson and haven't studied the topic enough, but I find there to be an almost incomprehensible gap with the emotions and psychology of classical antiquity.

Most of us learned in school that the ancient Greeks had no single word for our concept of love: they distinguished eros, philia, agape, xenia, etc, and did so in ways that don't directly map to our modern feelings.

It's not just love. All of their emotional and mental vocabulary was aligned to a different internal axis. From my interpretation, there was no word or concept that cleanly equates with our concept of either mind, or emotion.

What we call the mind correlates to what the Greeks called logos, pathos, pneumos, psyche, phrene, nous, thymos, eros. These concepts map to our concepts like will, desire, mind, soul, reason, consciousness, emotion. But they don't map in a straightforward way.

There was a generally rich emotional vocabulary for what could be called non-corporeal passions. Phren could be translated as brain, heart, mind, soul, thought, reason. It's where heavy sad thoughts sit, underneath your heart. It's also where you form your rational intentions. Thymos is somewhere between a thought and an emotion. It's related to blood pounding in the head and ragged breathing. But it's not a bodily sensation. At least not primarily. It's the feeling of surging towards the finish line in a close race, but for the soul. Thymos is a wet emotion, by the way. Cold and wet. As in the classical elements of water and air, which are what breath is made of, which is related to the mind and soul.

There's a world model that informs the emotions, even which parts of the body they are associated with, and why, and that model is now quite alien, which makes the emotions also rather alien.