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1979: The Model World of Robert Symes [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmDxmxhrGDc
1•xqcgrek2•1m ago•0 comments

Satellites Have a Lot of Room

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/02/02/satellites-have-a-lot-of-room/
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1980s Farm Crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_farm_crisis
1•calebhwin•2m ago•1 comments

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https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/fsid
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https://github.com/dakotalock/holygrailopensource
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Show HN: Minecraft Creeper meets 90s Tamagotchi

https://github.com/danielbrendel/krepagotchi-game
1•foxiel•22m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Termiteam – Control center for multiple AI agent terminals

https://github.com/NetanelBaruch/termiteam
1•Netanelbaruch•22m ago•0 comments

The only U.S. particle collider shuts down

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/particle-collider-shuts-down-brookhaven
1•rolph•25m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Why do purchased B2B email lists still have such poor deliverability?

1•solarisos•25m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Remotion directory (videos and prompts)

https://www.remotion.directory/
1•rokbenko•27m ago•0 comments

Portable C Compiler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_C_Compiler
2•guerrilla•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kokki – A "Dual-Core" System Prompt to Reduce LLM Hallucinations

1•Ginsabo•30m ago•0 comments

Software Engineering Transformation 2026

https://mfranc.com/blog/ai-2026/
1•michal-franc•31m ago•0 comments

Microsoft purges Win11 printer drivers, devices on borrowed time

https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/printers/microsoft-stops-distrubitng-legacy-v3-and-v4-pr...
3•rolph•31m ago•1 comments

Lunch with the FT: Tarek Mansour

https://www.ft.com/content/a4cebf4c-c26c-48bb-82c8-5701d8256282
2•hhs•35m ago•0 comments

Old Mexico and her lost provinces (1883)

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77881/pg77881-images.html
1•petethomas•38m ago•0 comments

'AI' is a dick move, redux

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2026/note-on-debating-llm-fans/
4•cratermoon•39m ago•0 comments

The source code was the moat. But not anymore

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1•otoolep•39m ago•0 comments

Does anyone else feel like their inbox has become their job?

1•cfata•39m ago•1 comments

An AI model that can read and diagnose a brain MRI in seconds

https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/ai-model-can-read-and-diagnose-brain-mri-seconds
2•hhs•43m ago•0 comments

Dev with 5 of experience switched to Rails, what should I be careful about?

2•vampiregrey•45m ago•0 comments

AlphaFace: High Fidelity and Real-Time Face Swapper Robust to Facial Pose

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16429
1•PaulHoule•46m ago•0 comments

Scientists discover “levitating” time crystals that you can hold in your hand

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Rammstein – Deutschland (C64 Cover, Real SID, 8-bit – 2019) [video]

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1•erickhill•49m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Yet Another Round of Zendesk Spam

5•Philpax•49m ago•1 comments

Postgres Message Queue (PGMQ)

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Show HN: Django-rclone: Database and media backups for Django, powered by rclone

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2•cui•55m ago•1 comments

NY lawmakers proposed statewide data center moratorium

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2•geox•57m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw AI chatbots are running amok – these scientists are listening in

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00370-w
3•EA-3167•57m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI agent forgets user preferences every session. This fixes it

https://www.pref0.com/
6•fliellerjulian•59m ago•0 comments
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Beyond 1s and 0s: Can AI Reason Without the Ability to Ask "Why?"

2•RagAlgo•1mo ago
Today at CES 2026, Jensen Huang stated: "Physical AI requires three computers."

An AI Supercomputer (DGX) to train the brain. A Simulation Computer (Omniverse) to simulate the world (Expectation). A Robot Computer (Jetson) to act in the real world (Observation).

The core of this architecture is the intentional separation of Simulation and Reality—designed to create a "Sim-to-Real Gap." When the simulation says "this floor is safe" but the robot feels "slippery," that gap forces the system to become smarter.

For months, I have been applying this same principle to pure information and logic.

My core argument: We must engineer intentional contradiction.

Current AI: Input -> Pattern Match -> Output (1 or 0). Fast. Efficient. Hollow.

What I propose: Input -> Detect Gap (A ≠ B) -> Ask "Why?" -> Search -> Resolve -> Output (1 or 0). Slower. But there is a process.

The final output is still binary. But the path mirrors human reasoning: Recognizing something does not fit. Asking "Why?" Searching for missing context. Forming a conclusion.

Same destination. Different journey. That journey is what we call "thinking."

We often talk about the "Uncanny Valley" of AI. It seems smart, yet we cannot fully trust it. I believe this exists because the world is not binary—reality is messy, probabilistic, contradictory—while AI collapses everything into 1 or 0 as quickly as possible.

This is why I am skeptical of current A2A (Agent-to-Agent) trends. If Agent A outputs a probability and Agent B processes it into another probability, we are just stacking 1s and 0s. For true collaboration, Agent A must output something else: a gap, a process, a question Agent B can meaningfully engage with.

I have been developing the Contextual Knowledge Network (CKN) to test this theory, focusing on Finance—the most contradictory field I know.

The principle: Score Stream A (Logic/Expectation) and Stream B (Observation/Reality) independently. Trigger "Why?" only when dissonance occurs.

Example: Stream A (News): "Positive earnings, price should rise" -> +9. Stream B (Chart): "Price is dropping" -> -7. Dissonance detected -> Trigger "Why?" -> AI investigates hidden context.

This offers: Efficiency: Tag IDs and scores instead of full paragraphs reduce token consumption by 1,000x. Energy: Lightweight reasoning on edge devices, not massive data centers. Sovereignty: Reasoning structure independent of underlying models (OpenAI, Anthropic).

I searched for academic papers on "contradiction handling." While there is research, I have yet to find: "Use contradiction as the fundamental trigger for reasoning itself."

An AI once told me, "Technology without proof has no value." So I built a proof of concept, and ironically, it became a business. That is life.

Discussion points: Is creativity just probability matching, or does it require conscious contradiction detection? Should we focus less on scaling GPUs and more on better triggers like contradiction detection? If we reduce token consumption by 1,000x through structured reasoning, does "Green AI" become viable for agentic systems?

I realize these are bold claims, but I have phrased them strongly to spark genuine technical debate. I welcome critiques—especially if you think I am completely wrong.

Note: I am Korean. I used an LLM to refine my English, which is ironically fitting for a post about AI. But the core ideas are mine.