frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Open Source @Github

fp.

Squeezing the bytes out of webhosting and Linux with SquashFS and Overlay

https://virtuallyfun.com/2024/06/11/squeezing-the-bytes-out-of-webhosting-linux-with-squashfs-ove...
1•ankitg12•22s ago•0 comments

UX should just be called Experience Design

https://www.leadinginproduct.com/p/eexperience-design-is-a-better-term
1•benkan•1m ago•0 comments

Right to Internet Access

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_Internet_access
2•emot•5m ago•0 comments

US Military confirms it has deployed weapons in space

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/15/us/us-space-force-weapons-capabilities-hnk
1•samizdis•9m ago•1 comments

Google Artemis – Missing attribution to mobile-use and its contributors

https://github.com/google/artemis/issues/40
1•domhudson•9m ago•0 comments

Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT 6 Astra controlled my Robot Arm. Who painted better?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/rfi4npFNSr
1•AnkurCW•11m ago•0 comments

Leslie Lamport: Some Data on the Frequency of Errors in Mathematics Papers [pdf]

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/statistics.pdf
1•Alien1Being•14m ago•1 comments

Brig: Run coding agents in a MicroVM sandbox

https://github.com/brig-sh/brig
1•iamsyr•17m ago•0 comments

The k-server conjecture is true

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.15979
1•iamsyr•17m ago•0 comments

I graduated UCLA only to become a peasant [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8SQ3qVnSco
1•carabiner•17m ago•0 comments

Google DeepMind Staffer Says AI May 'Kill Us All' in Exit Post

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/google-deepmind-staffer-says-ai-023902174.html
1•shlomysh•20m ago•0 comments

Poland lost $230M trying to buy Venezuelan oil with crypto

https://www.ft.com/content/6c387cda-61b0-4396-9353-0d7d99781f9b
4•JumpCrisscross•20m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Yet another argument parser for Zig

https://github.com/gabor-boros/yaap
1•gabor-boros•26m ago•0 comments

Why do we do astrophysics?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10181
2•astrolx•26m ago•0 comments

NATO jets shoot down drone violating Lithuania's airspace

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/15/nato-jets-shoot-down-drone-violating-lithuania-airs...
4•tzmlab•33m ago•0 comments

CSS-Tricks in Limbo

https://vale.rocks/micros/20260915-0135
2•edent•35m ago•0 comments

Vieta's Formula

https://brilliant.org/wiki/vietas-formula/
1•vismit2000•37m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is the real world computational all the way down?

1•baigy•39m ago•1 comments

A Neuroscientist's Theory of Everything

https://nautil.us/a-neuroscientists-theory-of-everything-237851
1•signa11•45m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Steam DNA – your Steam library as a card of the mechanics you play

https://dna.steammaho.com
1•steammaho•46m ago•0 comments

Driscoll's Gave China Its Blueberries; China Swiped the Secret to Growing Them

https://www.wsj.com/business/driscolls-berry-farms-china-competition-b0b49f04
1•geneticdrifts•46m ago•0 comments

Javier Gomez-Serrano – New Math, AI Developments in Fluid Mechanics [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcEefrWrddA
1•nill0•47m ago•0 comments

Trump says AI safety fears a 'hoax' as he rejects calls for greater safeguards

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw980n0nd0qjo
1•chrisjj•48m ago•0 comments

SamplePitcher – Batch pitch audio samples in the browser

https://www.samplepitcher.com/en
1•saulevas•50m ago•0 comments

The Steam Frame Is Important, Even If You Don't Buy One

https://bhmt.dev/blog/frame/
1•Bluestein•50m ago•0 comments

GCC Eliminates Unnecessary Integer Division

https://leetarxiv.substack.com/p/how-gcc-eliminates-unnecessary-integer
1•signa11•50m ago•0 comments

A Blueprint for Keeping Humans in Control of AI

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/blueprint-keeping-humans-control-ai
2•geox•54m ago•0 comments

Disney's Films Used to Look Different

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/disneys-films-used-to-look-different
2•vinhnx•57m ago•0 comments

We abandoned eInk for a segmented LCD after designing our product around it

https://www.reddit.com/r/hwstartups/comments/1w6c6im/why_we_abandoned_e_ink_for_a_segmented_lcd_a...
1•chris_overseas•58m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Shelf, a local-first open-source tab manager for Chrome

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/shelf-—-privacy-first-tab/ooapfnbngihkbfldhleacagkgffj...
1•mirza_rizvi•58m ago•3 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Is the real world computational all the way down?

1•baigy•39m ago
Stephen Wolfram states the entire universe is computational all the way down. Guillermo Rauch recently tweeted: Everything is code.

These may be soundbites. But I've been thinking about how the take-off of spatial intelligence within AI is setting the stage for actually expressing everything as source code.

I recently co-authored a paper on highly programmable 3D. For that, I surveyed quite a bit of the field. Philosophically speaking, when I see the likes of Astra/Fable generating ThreeJS, Blender or CAD objects, I feel this expressiveness can conceivably one day eat everything.

As they improve at synthesizing higher order differentials, their ability to produce unique shapes will improve too. And because code can express form and functionality both, expressing abilities is basically just encoding attributes in the software:

- I.e. when a leg is moved, at its core, it's something like rig['Leg_*_Hip'].rotation = 42° - When a vehicle turns, we're essentially doing something like w.rotation.y = 0.42 rad - When a jello jiggles, it's something like Σ A·e^(−λr)·e^(−decay·τ)·[(1−b) + b·cos(ωτ − kr)] · p̂

Comments

nfujd7•1m ago
Have you seen code that has lasted for more than a few years that is able to handle all the changes around it without crashing? These days code has to be uodated every other hour just to give the apparence of stability.

its a very stupid mechanism if you want to create a scallop that lasts 500 million years surviving every possible change in the envuronment through that period.