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The Meaning Machine: A Dream for Universal Language

https://eric.vicenti.net/posts/dream-of-universal-language
1•evv•1h ago

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evv•1h ago
Hey HN, hope you enjoy this idea!

LLMs are a game-changer, but they’re only half the story: probabilistic and fuzzy. The missing half is a universal formal language: something precise enough to translate cleanly between human languages and let anyone communicate with computers, without learning programming!

My dream is to remove barriers everywhere: culture, science, medicine, law, diplomacy. You don’t erase ambiguity, you encode it! Dialects, jargon, puns, inside jokes, social context.. we can build everything in.

Maybe this isn't possible, but now that we have language models to help... it might be!

Maybe my own RSS Reader could be useful for you too

https://www.whileforloop.com/en/blog/2026/01/23/feedy-rss-reader-for-e-ink/
1•lukas346•1m ago•1 comments

Best Hacker News videos normalized by number of HN users

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1•eamag•1m ago•0 comments

Tiny falcons are helping keep the food supply safe on cherry farms

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2•duxup•1m ago•0 comments

Pandas 3.0

https://pandas.pydata.org/community/blog/pandas-3.0.html
1•jonbaer•4m ago•0 comments

Databases Don't Know Why You're Asking

https://inferal.com/blog/databases-dont-know-why/
1•refset•5m ago•0 comments

Scribe reduces agent token usage by 30% with no loss of accuracy

https://sibylline.dev/articles/2026-01-22-scribe-swebench-benchmark/
1•CuriouslyC•5m ago•0 comments

Portable Cartesian brace expansion in your shell

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1•ComputerGuru•7m ago•0 comments

Avoiding Duplicate Objects in Django Querysets

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1•johnnymetz•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Software Terms Dictionary – A guide to industry terminology

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Omikron: The Nomad Soul

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1•doppp•10m ago•0 comments

Alex Honnold's made-for-Netflix free solo of Taipei 101 draws awe – and unease

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1•robaato•12m ago•0 comments

Astrolabe

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RCE in ImunifyAV, a common malware scanner for shared web hosting

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1•aleksejs•14m ago•0 comments

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2•oeken•16m ago•2 comments

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1•speckx•16m ago•0 comments

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BlackRock CEO Larry Fink: 'What Happens to Everyone Else If AI Fuels Inequality?

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1•bilekas•17m ago•0 comments

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Giving your healthcare info to a chatbot is, unsurprisingly, a terrible idea

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2•speckx•19m ago•0 comments

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Rippling treats payroll errors as feature requests

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3•ubergeek42•24m ago•1 comments

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3D-printed pump-less liquid cooler can deliver 600 watts of cooling

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1•MrJagil•28m ago•0 comments

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2•typeofhuman•28m ago•1 comments