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Show HN: Caslib – Computer Algebra Calculator (Hack Club Project)

https://github.com/breynard0/caslib
1•breynard•1m ago•1 comments

At Age 25, Wikipedia Refuses to Evolve

https://spectrum.ieee.org/wikipedia-at-25
1•asdefghyk•1m ago•1 comments

Show HN: ReviewReact – AI review responses inside Google Maps ($19/mo)

https://reviewreact.com
1•sara_builds•2m ago•0 comments

Why AlphaTensor Failed at 3x3 Matrix Multiplication: The Anchor Barrier

https://zenodo.org/records/18514533
1•DarenWatson•3m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How much of your token use is fixing the bugs Claude Code causes?

1•laurex•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Agents – Sync MCP Configs Across Claude, Cursor, Codex Automatically

https://github.com/amtiYo/agents
1•amtiyo•7m ago•0 comments

Hello

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FSD helped save my father's life during a heart attack

https://twitter.com/JJackBrandt/status/2019852423980875794
2•blacktulip•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Writtte – Draft and publish articles without reformatting, anywhere

https://writtte.xyz
1•lasgawe•13m ago•0 comments

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9FUdOfp8ME
1•zeristor•15m ago•0 comments

Brookhaven Lab's RHIC Concludes 25-Year Run with Final Collisions

https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/brookhaven-labs-rhic-concludes-25-year-run-with-final-collis...
2•gnufx•17m ago•0 comments

Transcribe your aunts post cards with Gemini 3 Pro

https://leserli.ch/ocr/
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.72% Variance Lance

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ReKindle – web-based operating system designed specifically for E-ink devices

https://rekindle.ink
1•JSLegendDev•24m ago•0 comments

Encrypt It

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Personalizing esketamine treatment in TRD and TRBD

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1736114
1•PaulHoule•26m ago•0 comments

SpaceKit.xyz – a browser‑native VM for decentralized compute

https://spacekit.xyz
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NotebookLM: The AI that only learns from you

https://byandrev.dev/en/blog/what-is-notebooklm
2•byandrev•27m ago•1 comments

Show HN: An open-source starter kit for developing with Postgres and ClickHouse

https://github.com/ClickHouse/postgres-clickhouse-stack
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Game Boy Advance d-pad capacitor measurements

https://gekkio.fi/blog/2026/game-boy-advance-d-pad-capacitor-measurements/
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South Korean crypto firm accidentally sends $44B in bitcoins to users

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/crypto-firm-accidentally-sends-44-billion-bitcoins-use...
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Apache Poison Fountain

https://gist.github.com/jwakely/a511a5cab5eb36d088ecd1659fcee1d5
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Web.whatsapp.com appears to be having issues syncing and sending messages

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Google in Your Terminal

https://gogcli.sh/
1•johlo•32m ago•0 comments

Shannon: Claude Code for Pen Testing: #1 on Github today

https://github.com/KeygraphHQ/shannon
1•hendler•33m ago•0 comments

Anthropic: Latest Claude model finds more than 500 vulnerabilities

https://www.scworld.com/news/anthropic-latest-claude-model-finds-more-than-500-vulnerabilities
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Brooklyn cemetery plans human composting option, stirring interest and debate

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/brooklyn-green-wood-cemetery-human-composting/
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Why the 'Strivers' Are Right

https://greyenlightenment.com/2026/02/03/the-strivers-were-right-all-along/
1•paulpauper•39m ago•0 comments

Brain Dumps as a Literary Form

https://davegriffith.substack.com/p/brain-dumps-as-a-literary-form
1•gmays•39m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

The unreasonable effectiveness of pattern matching

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11432
3•chbint•2w ago

Comments

fuzzfactor•2w ago
This is a good paper that is worth looking at in detail.
chbint•1w ago
I confess it was disappointing for me. Their main claim seems to be that thinking comprises pattern matching and pattern completion--allowing them to say that LLMs do resemble something we humans do-- but that's essentially the idea behind the connectionist movement from the 1980's - the one out of which current DNN models came from. Perhaps a friend of 1960's symbolic AI would be unhappy with that claim, but there are not many of these around anymore (Gary Marcus is misrepresented as one such, but his view is that models should be hybrid, not purely symbolic).

Nowadays, the question about whether LLMs are "actually" doing something similar to human thinking revolves around other dimensions, such as whether they rely on emergent world-models or not. Whether such world models would require symbolic reasoning or not is a different matter.