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The AI Pascal's Wager

https://ploum.net/2026-10-01-pascal_wager.html
3•frizlab•1h ago

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richardbarosky•41m ago
Ha, I thought it was going to be the bet of trying to move as fast as possible with high volumes of AI generated code where the hope is that the AI itself will simply advance so rapidly as to make otherwise "maintainability challenged" code something that doesn't need to be considered.

Man Killed After Bag Gets Stuck in Subway Doors, Police Say

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/nyregion/subway-backpack-dragging-death.html
1•whack•3m ago•0 comments

RexaDB: Modern Database Studio

https://www.rexadb.app
1•handfuloflight•6m ago•0 comments

Check a cold-chain shipment from its logger CSVs and get a signed, offline-verif

https://paywall.bsvkey.com/credits
2•PDRGenerator•7m ago•0 comments

Justice for CSS

https://www.wired.com/story/justice-for-css/
1•yathern•13m ago•0 comments

RIP, Vector Database

https://turbopuffer.com/blog/rip-vector-database
2•shenli3514•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Testbox – A fast test runner with zero dependencies

https://github.com/dhuan/testbox
1•dhuan_•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I wanted a better way to read about OpenAI DevDay 2026

https://yntk.cloud/2026-openai-devday/
1•mutant•17m ago•0 comments

Appeal of Surveillance Tech CEO's Meritless Lawsuit Against Journalist Fails

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/victory-california-appeals-court-refuses-revive-surveillanc...
2•hn_acker•20m ago•2 comments

Hutter Prize – Compressing Human Knowledge

http://prize.hutter1.net
1•NKosmatos•21m ago•1 comments

Bill Gates on the Dangers of AI

https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/08/bill-gates-dangers-ai/688418/
3•thunderbong•21m ago•2 comments

CVE-2026-86950: An in-the-wild iOS bug with a possible WhatsApp zero-click path

https://calif.io/research/the-great-glyph-grift
1•ni5arga•24m ago•0 comments

Ban Kids from Social Media and They'll Chat in Public Radio Podcast Comments

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/30/ban-kids-from-social-media-and-theyll-just-chat-in-public-rad...
1•hn_acker•26m ago•2 comments

LLM library that builds itself, a converter for nearly every file

https://medium.com/@vektormemory/vektor-v1-9-8-b023b9b8a654
1•vektormemory•27m ago•0 comments

Thinking Before Thinking: Scaling Agentic Inference Through Meta-Reasoning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38147
1•matt_d•29m ago•0 comments

Factory CEO just accused his VC board advisor of spying for Cognition

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/factory-ceo-just-accused-his-vc-board-advisor-of-spying-for-cog...
3•reenorap•32m ago•0 comments

Model with metacognitive guidance identifies zero-click full-chain RCE in BlueZ

https://twitter.com/autopoiesislab/status/2083221810171224416
1•car•33m ago•0 comments

AI as a Compiler: Compiling Triton kernels without the Triton compiler

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.36800
1•matt_d•33m ago•0 comments

The data center buildout, county by county

https://pressaudit.org/blog/datacenters
1•SLHamlet•34m ago•1 comments

Can Agents Design Libraries for Agents?

https://gabeorlanski.github.io/posts/library-design-bench/
1•matt_d•37m ago•0 comments

Scott Aaronson interview, on the impact of AI on science and mathematics [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjgc9Hs5GKs
1•calf•37m ago•1 comments

How many hats are in the world?

https://hat.observer/
1•civilchaos•38m ago•0 comments

Context Language Models (CLMs)

https://github.com/facebookresearch/context-language-models
1•handfuloflight•40m ago•0 comments

Apple's first employee: The remarkable odyssey of Bill Fernandez (2014)

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/apples-first-employee-the-remarkable-odyssey-of-bill-fernandez/
1•bananaboy•41m ago•0 comments

Configurable Indent Levels?

https://github.com/psf/black/issues/378
2•jerlendds•45m ago•0 comments

EDG C++ Compiler is open source

https://github.com/edgcpp/compiler
5•zx2c4•46m ago•0 comments

The Scientific Case for Being Less in Touch with Your Friends

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/opinion/friendship-frequency-interaction.html
1•gumby•50m ago•0 comments

Google figures out how to watermark AI-designed proteins

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/google-figures-out-how-to-watermark-ai-designed-proteins/
3•gumby•52m ago•1 comments

Readable Regular Expressions for JavaScript/TypeScript, Inspired by Emacs' Rx

https://rahuljuliato.com/posts/emacs-rx-in-typescript
1•RahulMJ•56m ago•1 comments

Building big things in the U.S. is hard. A Senate deal aims to fix that

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/09/30/building-big-things-us-is-too-hard-senate-deal...
2•scythe•59m ago•0 comments

OpenJDK vs. GraalVM vs. Eclipse Temurin vs. Semeru Java Performance

https://www.phoronix.com/review/openjdk-graalvm-temurin-semeru
1•ejboy•59m ago•0 comments