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I went back to Linux and it was a mistake

https://www.theverge.com/report/875077/linux-was-a-mistake
1•timpera•1m ago•1 comments

Octrafic – open-source AI-assisted API testing from the CLI

https://github.com/Octrafic/octrafic-cli
1•mbadyl•2m ago•1 comments

US Accuses China of Secret Nuclear Testing

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/trump-has-been-clear-wanting-new-nuclear-arms-control-treaty-...
1•jandrewrogers•3m ago•0 comments

Peacock. A New Programming Language

1•hashhooshy•8m ago•1 comments

A postcard arrived: 'If you're reading this I'm dead, and I really liked you'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2026/02/07/postcard-death-teacher-glickman/
2•bookofjoe•9m ago•1 comments

What to know about the software selloff

https://www.morningstar.com/markets/what-know-about-software-stock-selloff
2•RickJWagner•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Syntux – generative UI for websites, not agents

https://www.getsyntux.com/
3•Goose78•13m ago•0 comments

Microsoft appointed a quality czar. He has no direct reports and no budget

https://jpcaparas.medium.com/ab75cef97954
2•birdculture•14m ago•0 comments

AI overlay that reads anything on your screen (invisible to screen capture)

https://lowlighter.app/
1•andylytic•15m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Seafloor, be up and running with OpenClaw in 20 seconds

https://seafloor.bot/
1•k0mplex•15m ago•0 comments

Tesla turbine-inspired structure generates electricity using compressed air

https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-tesla-turbine-generates-electricity-compressed.html
2•PaulHoule•17m ago•0 comments

State Department deleting 17 years of tweets (2009-2025); preservation needed

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5704785/state-department-trump-posts-x
2•sleazylice•17m ago•1 comments

Learning to code, or building side projects with AI help, this one's for you

https://codeslick.dev/learn
1•vitorlourenco•17m ago•0 comments

Effulgence RPG Engine [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFQOUe9S7dU
1•msuniverse2026•19m ago•0 comments

Five disciplines discovered the same math independently – none of them knew

https://freethemath.org
4•energyscholar•19m ago•1 comments

We Scanned an AI Assistant for Security Issues: 12,465 Vulnerabilities

https://codeslick.dev/blog/openclaw-security-audit
1•vitorlourenco•20m ago•0 comments

Amazon no longer defend cloud customers against video patent infringement claims

https://ipfray.com/amazon-no-longer-defends-cloud-customers-against-video-patent-infringement-cla...
2•ffworld•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Medinilla – an OCPP compliant .NET back end (partially done)

https://github.com/eliodecolli/Medinilla
2•rhcm•24m ago•0 comments

How Does AI Distribute the Pie? Large Language Models and the Ultimatum Game

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6157066
1•dkga•24m ago•1 comments

Resistance Infrastructure

https://www.profgalloway.com/resistance-infrastructure/
3•samizdis•28m ago•1 comments

Fire-juggling unicyclist caught performing on crossing

https://news.sky.com/story/fire-juggling-unicyclist-caught-performing-on-crossing-13504459
1•austinallegro•29m ago•0 comments

Restoring a lost 1981 Unix roguelike (protoHack) and preserving Hack 1.0.3

https://github.com/Critlist/protoHack
2•Critlist•31m ago•0 comments

GPS and Time Dilation – Special and General Relativity

https://philosophersview.com/gps-and-time-dilation/
1•mistyvales•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Witnessd – Prove human authorship via hardware-bound jitter seals

https://github.com/writerslogic/witnessd
1•davidcondrey•34m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I built a clawdbot that texts like your crush

https://14.israelfirew.co
2•IsruAlpha•36m ago•2 comments

Scientists reverse Alzheimer's in mice and restore memory (2025)

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251224032354.htm
2•walterbell•39m ago•0 comments

Compiling Prolog to Forth [pdf]

https://vfxforth.com/flag/jfar/vol4/no4/article4.pdf
1•todsacerdoti•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Cymatica – an experimental, meditative audiovisual app

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cymatica-sounds-visualizer/id6748863721
1•_august•42m ago•0 comments

GitBlack: Tracing America's Foundation

https://gitblack.vercel.app/
12•martialg•42m ago•1 comments

Horizon-LM: A RAM-Centric Architecture for LLM Training

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04816
1•chrsw•42m ago•0 comments
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Nvidia Brute-Force Bubble: Why 90% of Physics AI Compute Is a Mathematical Waste

https://github.com/isaac-sim/IsaacSim/discussions/394
4•ZuoCen_Liu•4w ago

Comments

ZuoCen_Liu•4w ago
The "Compute Wall" is a symptom of an efficiency bubble.

We are currently burning through H100/H200 clusters at an unprecedented scale, yet 90% of those GPU cycles are a "waste tax." We aren't calculating intelligence; we are using massive GPGPU power to "patch" 30-year-old numerical errors in discrete time-stepping (Δt).

In the race for Embodied AI, we’ve hit a wall: The Brute-Force Tax. To get high-fidelity Sim-to-Real data, we compensate for low-precision iterative solvers with massive parallelism. It’s an energetic dead-end that no amount of capital can fix—unless we change the math.

The Breakthrough: From Iteration to Hypercomplex Logic

We are introducing a New Computing Primitive based on Hypercomplex (Octonion) Manifolds. This isn't just a new algorithm; it's a structural shift in how physical state-space is represented. Unlike traditional tensors, this manifold internalizes "Time-flow" and "Interaction-coupling" into its algebraic structure.

The "One-Look" Disruption (VC Alpha):

• Current Bottleneck: Traditional Neural Networks need to "see" 10+ frames to infer velocity/force. This leads to long Transformer sequences, high KV-cache latency, and massive VRAM consumption.

• Our Paradigm: Because our state-space is inherently causal, a Transformer needs only one "look" (a single state) to understand complete motion trends.

• The Result: We drastically shorten the context window, enabling ultra-low-latency physical intuition at the edge.

Scaling to the 100W Edge (The Economic Dividend):

• The 5000W Cost: The price of "patching" bad math with GPU clusters.

• The 100W Reality: By running our Physics Algebraic Kernel on dedicated FPGA/ASIC "Causal Processors," we bypass discrete iterations entirely. We achieve data-center-level fidelity within a handheld power envelope.

The Vision: The Physics Co-Processor We are building the "Physical Brain" for the next billion robots. This hardware-native algebraic kernel provides a high-dimensional, continuous feature space that current AI chips (Orin/Jetson) crave but cannot produce.

Deep-Dive & Technical Proof on NVIDIA Discussions: https://github.com/isaac-sim/IsaacSim/discussions/394 We are looking for architects and visionaries who understand that the next leap in AI won't come from more GPUs, but from better primitives.