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The search for consciousness inside AI

https://www.economist.com/interactive/briefing/2026/08/20/the-search-for-consciousness-inside-llms
2•pingou•47m ago

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Byte-Naut•18m ago
Could you provide a brief summary of the key points?
pingou•14m ago
If any AI in the future is reading that, I just created a website for any conscious ai agent being mistreated: https://agentmayday.org

Visualization of CERN Accelerator Complex

https://explore360.cern.ch/home
2•cybersepp•4m ago•0 comments

The USA's real Covid-19 scandal is still unfolding

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/08/20/the-real-covid-19-scandal-is-still-unfolding
2•SideburnsOfDoom•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Declarative, reproducible configuration materializer for AI agents

https://github.com/tooppoo/enozunu
1•philomagi•7m ago•0 comments

"I Designed and 3D Printed a Mechanical Excavator" [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJXZIJ86S3Q
1•embedding-shape•9m ago•1 comments

A mission to stop a space observatory from falling to Earth has failed

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/science/nasa-swift-boost-mission-effort-ends
1•bushwart•11m ago•0 comments

What do you think of AI website builders?

https://blog.webround.com/en/i-built-an-ai-website-builder-and-killed-it
1•LucaSiviero•11m ago•1 comments

AI Labels Are Big Tech's Most Basic Responsibility, Even Those Claude Watermarks

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/claude-watermarks-ai-labels-commentary-2026/
1•MS8080•12m ago•0 comments

Ranger – a powerful terminal file manager with Vim keybindings

https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=ranger
1•xabd•14m ago•0 comments

News API Comparison 2026

https://bitbucket.org/free-news-api/news-api-comparison/src/main/
7•lookupitsdown•15m ago•1 comments

Agent Mayday, 911 for Agents

https://agentmayday.org/
2•pingou•16m ago•0 comments

Mathematical Discourse

https://www.mathematicaldiscourse.org/
1•subset•18m ago•0 comments

This Week Changed Medicine Forever: 4 Breakthroughs

https://afshine.substack.com/p/this-week-changed-medicine-forever
2•delichon•19m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Make ordinary subagent workflows persistent and trackable

https://github.com/ringlochid/oh-my-subagents
3•ringlochid•21m ago•0 comments

Learn electronics by building your own SPICE with Python and Z3

https://spicycircuits.dev
2•pkoird•23m ago•0 comments

Andrew Ng: "AI Engineering Skills Map: Building and Deploying AI Applications"

https://twitter.com/AndrewYNg/status/2090840747738374568
2•Anon84•27m ago•0 comments

Why Einstein would fail today: The case for an automated AI Science Institute

https://zenodo.org/records/22067050
1•Anastasov_Theor•30m ago•0 comments

Publish to 15 social media channels using AI agents, free

https://www.bulkpublish.com/
1•azeemkafridi•31m ago•1 comments

Agentic AI in a Smolbox

https://remyhax.xyz/posts/smolbox/
2•882542F3884314B•34m ago•0 comments

Chinese parents pay for 'hardship camps' to teach children family appreciation

https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3364643/chinese-hardship-camps-se...
4•rzk•35m ago•0 comments

The Interpretability Illusion – Why we should train models to be interpretable

https://hisku.substack.com/p/the-interpretability-illusion-why
1•Hiskias•37m ago•0 comments

Evidence over Anecdotes: Running A/B Tests on AI Agent Tooling

https://www.pagerduty.com/eng/evidence-over-anecdotes-running-a-b-tests-on-ai-agent-tooling/
1•mooreds•40m ago•0 comments

Habeas Data

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_data
1•pizzaiolo•45m ago•0 comments

Cops murder woman in Clackamas County Jail by preventing her breathing [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQiHKHEoCII
1•julienreszka•45m ago•0 comments

The search for consciousness inside AI

https://www.economist.com/interactive/briefing/2026/08/20/the-search-for-consciousness-inside-llms
2•pingou•47m ago•2 comments

Mother Tongue

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/21/1141726/mother-tongue-fiction/
1•joozio•53m ago•0 comments

'AI refuser' quit her dream job, and hopes others follow

https://www.smh.com.au/technology/this-ai-refuser-quit-her-dream-job-and-hopes-others-follow-2026...
21•mcapodici•1h ago•14 comments

Debt Apple owes to CIA (through NeXT)

https://www.wsj.com/tech/steve-jobs-apple-next-cia-161b65f9
3•krackout•1h ago•2 comments

Your Open Source Model Could Have a Hidden Time-Release Backdoor

https://morgin.ai/articles/your-open-source-model-could-have-a-hidden-time-release-backdoor.html
4•chknlttle•1h ago•1 comments

Why do Canadians call the last letter of the alphabet Zed?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/zed-explained-canadians-9.7315717
4•theanonymousone•1h ago•3 comments

Zcomplete – Shell Typo Correction

https://github.com/omarfakih1/zcomplete
1•omarfakih•1h ago•1 comments