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Some Asexuals Are Using AI Companions for Intimacy Without the Sex

https://www.wired.com/story/some-asexual-people-are-using-ai-companions-for-intimacy-without-the-...
1•joozio•2m ago•0 comments

Opening a jar for 10 hours straight [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X969XcyIHWY
1•pingou•13m ago•0 comments

AidaIDE – A desktop IDE built around SSH sessions

https://aidaide.app/vs/putty
1•westhemess•14m ago•0 comments

SlothDB is an OLAP DB ahead of DuckDB on Clickbench SQL database in C++20

2•souravroy78•15m ago•0 comments

Microsoft rejects critical Azure vulnerability report, no CVE issued

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-rejects-critical-azure-vulnerability-rep...
1•rurban•15m ago•0 comments

The 'Mythos Moment'

https://profserious.substack.com/p/the-mythos-moment
1•krona•18m ago•0 comments

Running Local Language Model on Game Boy Color

https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1tbi2n3/i_got_a_real_transformer_language_model_runn...
1•AbuAssar•22m ago•0 comments

SPF PermError: What Causes It and How to Fix It Step-by-Step

https://dmarcguard.io/blog/spf-permerror-fix/
1•meysamazad•22m ago•0 comments

How the New Testament Was Copied and Preserved

https://www.jeremysarber.com/p/how-the-new-testament-was-copied
1•meysamazad•23m ago•0 comments

Building Shopie for Mac with SwiftUI

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/05/08/building-shopie-for-mac-with-swiftui/
1•SoKamil•25m ago•0 comments

We need something better than touchscreens in cars

https://thejollyteapot.com/2026/05/10/we-need-something-better-than-touchscreens-in-cars/
1•meysamazad•25m ago•0 comments

Riding the Leopard

https://www.notboring.co/p/riding-the-leopard
1•watchful_moose•26m ago•0 comments

Nvidia Surpasses Germany

https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/05/16/nvidia-surpasses-germany-how-the-market-caps-of-tech...
5•DeathArrow•35m ago•1 comments

'White monkeys' paid to make Chinese businesses look global

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/may/16/fake-lawyers-scientists-chefs-punters-white-...
1•YeGoblynQueenne•38m ago•0 comments

Why our AI agent needed a causal graph, not just a RAG database

https://openyf.dev/blogs/world-model
1•youelfedr•42m ago•0 comments

Huginn Net – Multi-Protocol Passive Fingerprinting (P0f-Style)

https://github.com/biandratti/huginn-net
1•xvilka•44m ago•0 comments

PE packer with randomized VM ISA per output file (C++)

https://github.com/iamsopotatoe-coder/TinyLoad
3•iamsopotatoe•49m ago•0 comments

MicroZig: Embedded Applications in Zig

https://github.com/ZigEmbeddedGroup/microzig
2•tosh•52m ago•0 comments

DFDS to invest €1B in battery electric ships for the Channel

https://www.dfds.com/en/about/media/news/dfds-to-invest-1-billion-euro-in-battery-electric-ships-...
3•zeristor•55m ago•0 comments

Media Date Fixer: Clean Up Wrong Dates in Photo and Video Libraries

https://github.com/xam-ps/Media-Date-Fixer
1•xamp•1h ago•0 comments

Magic 1.0 – A highly modular email theme

https://celaro.co/journal/magic-launch
1•celaro•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What's the minimum needed tech to sustain modern civilization?

1•curiousaboutml•1h ago•1 comments

Review: The Unaccountability Machine, by Dan Davies

https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1ssv55y/the_unaccountability_machine_by_dan_davies/
2•skanderbm•1h ago•0 comments

Nostalgebraist's Hydrogen Jukeboxes

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/nostalgebraists-hydrogen-jukeboxes
1•Michelangelo11•1h ago•0 comments

How a self-proclaimed Swiss king's 'empire' is riling local authorities

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260510-how-switzerland-self-proclaimed-king-built-a-land-emp...
1•smcin•1h ago•2 comments

kzoo.k

https://www.nsl.com/k/kzoo.k
2•tosh•1h ago•0 comments

My Thoughts on AI, Part 1: Fears, Opinions, and Mental Journey

https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2026/05/ai-thoughts-part-1-fears-opinions-journey/
1•mavelikara•1h ago•0 comments

Terse Code

https://iabdb.me/2021/04/13/terse-code/
2•tosh•1h ago•0 comments

Solving Connect Four

http://blog.gamesolver.org/
1•truegoric•1h ago•0 comments

Distrust Has a Job; It's Just Not the One You're Doing

https://age-of-product.com/micromanager-ai/
1•swolpers•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: What's the minimum needed tech to sustain modern civilization?

1•curiousaboutml•1h ago
I think this is a good systems design problem for HN to nerd out on.

There was a recent discussion about how the world is overly complicated. If we could keep it simple from the very beginning, how would we do it?

The goal: A civilization of humans living in harmony with fellow life forms. "Looking at the birds, feeling the wind". And since this is all we do, it's safe to assume that greed and crime no longer exist. No organized religion, discrimination, borders. No personal computers/phones. No money, no ownership.

To live reasonably, we do need healthcare, shelter, clean water, food, clothing, basic transport. We also need monitoring and warning systems for impending natural disasters. Perhaps we can get rid of all of spaceflight work and replace it with long range electric drones and weather balloons? I'm not sure.

All of this still requires plenty of "industry" - pharmaceuticals, agriculture, mining etc. How could such a system realistically work?

Comments

psb5•19m ago
According to Ashbys Law of Requiste Variety systems that survive a wide range of ever changing issues must display a wide range of responses. If variety in response is low system becomes fragile.

Variety not simplicity or efficiency or optimization is what saves the chimp troupe from every growing complexity in an ever changing environment.