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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•4m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•4m 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•7m 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•9m 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•9m 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•11m 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•15m 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•15m ago•0 comments

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

https://vibecolors.life/
1•tusharnaik•16m 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•18m ago•0 comments

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

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5704785
6•derriz•18m ago•1 comments

AI Skills Marketplace

https://skly.ai
1•briannezhad•18m 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•19m ago•0 comments

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

2•MicroWagie•22m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT is changing how we ask stupid questions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/06/stupid-questions-ai/
1•edward•23m 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•27m ago•1 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
3•nar001•29m 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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I built a Symbolic AI that explains itself, no more black box

https://signal-zero.ai
1•klietus•1mo ago

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klietus•1mo ago
Over the last year I built a structurally aligned neuro-symbolic AI system. By structurally aligned it operates on a cascaded invariant system. By neuro-symbolic I mean it uses LLMs as a cognitive substrate.

It's invariant design is as such: 1. System prompt invariants 2. Root domain invariants 3. Leaf domain invariants 4. Symbol invariants

Each level infers and inherits invariants from the level above it.

The root invariants are as follows:

* non-coercion * reality-alignment * no-silent-mutation * auditability * explicit-choice * baseline-integrity * drift-detection * agency

It works really well. By using a generalized symbolic format I've been able to encode patterns from any domain, from psychology to web parsing formats. Using RAG and fast back end caches for the tool chains I was able to give it the tools to load in parts of it's cognitive graph dynamically, solving the context length problem and drift.

Since it's a dynamic symbolic system it has full auditability and a UI that displays the cognitive reasoning chain that it took to arrive at it's narrative conclusion.

It synthesizes symbols from narrative, data sources and compression of other patterns. Due to this you are able to talk to it about an algorithm, it can then synthesize that algorithm and execute it while matching it against data using semantic cues.

On my website there is a capabilities page, and a blog. I'm not selling anything, just letting you guys know that it exists. The black box problem and alignment has an answer and it doesn't have to be RLHF.

Here is a folder of screenshots for the running system. You can follow the blog, which was just launched as I go through the rest of the development.

Some of the things you see in the screen shots will be a little confusing, like the triads. You can think of those as ultra compressed forms of the symbolic meaning that assist in cross domain pattern matching.

I was able to build this because I didn't design it, I mapped it out of the LLMs rules for the rules. When you tell an LLM "Anytime I say blue, tell me it's actually Azure" you are building a symbolic system. It remembers it in context and can then execute that rule the next time a narrative cue triggers it, like when you say blue. I later designed the host process and UI to make it more usable.

Signal Zero is the very advanced form of that concept. It can not only trigger a simple rule, but follow linked patterns, execute symbolic macros and treat symbols differently based on meta data, like topology, domain and type.

Since it synthesizes and reinjects symbols immediately it learns immediately, no retraining the model. You grow your symbolic domains and it learns the concepts. You feed it data and it learns the patterns within the data.

I have backend processes for world exploration, symbolic compression and hypothesis generation and evidence gathering built now but whatever you can think of you can pretty much build with this technology.

I can't release this for you guys to play with, unfortunately.

I just wanted you all to know it exists, that its possible and that it works really freaking well.

Enjoy the screenshots: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1T6vjBup_wmKsUWx3t6R0...

I'll eventually stop writing code and write some papers explaining how it works.