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Roko's Basilisk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk
7•mudil•59m ago

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mackenzie_drysd•40m ago
Is there anything that makes this argument less ridiculous than Pascal's wager?
Razengan•24m ago
I swear these "thought experiments" just like Fermi's Paradox etc are so ridiculous once you look past the surface level. Like Baby's First Philosophy
fwlr•36m ago
It is interesting to note that “your wealth profile being tied to OpenAI’s stock price” exerts remarkably similar directional pressures as the Basilisk would if it were real.

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude

https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/117412868905734653
1•nobody9999•6m ago•0 comments

CalVer 26.0: 10th Anniversary Edition

https://sedimental.org/calver_26.html
2•mhashemi•8m ago•2 comments

AI-Powered Plasma Cutting

https://www.deldiosglasshouse.com/stuff-weve-made/ai-g-code
1•cjemmott•11m ago•1 comments

I built a simple app for cooking steak

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.akshatpandey.steaktimer&hl=en_US
1•vedicashcapcut•14m ago•2 comments

Arena Allocators in C

https://eliasebner.com/blog/guides/arena-allocators-in-c/
1•dimonomid•15m ago•0 comments

Karpathy on Learning

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1756380066580455557
2•sonabinu•15m ago•1 comments

The Controversial Class That MIT Is Paying a Professor Not to Teach

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/us/mit-professor-michel-degraff-palestine-course.html
3•mikhael•17m ago•0 comments

Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers

https://nanolathe.gg
2•jttnr•18m ago•0 comments

"Natural deploy" build your own self hosted orchestration framework

1•Akilan1999•21m ago•0 comments

NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect

https://www.nyc.gov/main/click-to-cancel
1•gregsadetsky•21m ago•0 comments

Solar 'traffic controller' for apartments takes top Australian design award

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/09/amazing-piece-of-technology-solar-traffic-con...
1•DamonHD•23m ago•0 comments

We're unlocking the biggest mysteries of the clitoris

https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/were-finally-unlocking-the-biggest-mysteries-of-the-c...
11•Vaslo•26m ago•1 comments

Show HN: RugShield 402 – DEX honeypot simulator via HTTP 402 on Base

https://github.com/ak10082247-max/rugshield-402
1•kurox_real•31m ago•0 comments

57B tokens and nothin' on – a jq rewrite

https://nial.se/blog/57-billion-tokens-and-nothin-on/
3•nialse•33m ago•0 comments

Canada's employment surprisingly shrinks in September, jobless rate inches up

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canadas-employment-surprisingly-shrinks-september-jobless-...
1•frank_clover•33m ago•0 comments

Gossip Girl for Literature

https://gutenberg-ten.vercel.app/
1•aithena•33m ago•0 comments

A quick way to visit a random page on MDN

https://kevinkipp.com/blog/random-mdn-page/
1•Velocifyer•34m ago•0 comments

List of Top Ideas and Articles

https://manket16.github.io/idea-atlas/
1•Manket1610•37m ago•0 comments

Abandoning functionalism: Some intuition pumps (2024)

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/6cc9y3rwSBRWsquBs/abandoning-functionalism-some-intuiti...
1•eatitraw•38m ago•0 comments

Japan Turns to Ukraine's Battle-Tested Drone Killers, Signs Deal with SkyFall

https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/japan-turns-to-ukraines-battle-tested-drone-killers-sign...
3•Teever•38m ago•0 comments

How Diablo drew its sprite shadows

https://glebm.github.io/share-glebm-com/diablo_sprite_shadows.html
1•glebm•39m ago•0 comments

Salty.im – A decentralised, self-hosted, secure, private messaging platform

https://salty.im/
1•gurjeet•40m ago•0 comments

YouTuber builds 'Flock-like' camera to track police vehicles, gets police visit

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/canadian-youtuber-builds-flock-like-cam...
22•ljf•42m ago•12 comments

Thirty Years That Shaped Postgres Architecture

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/19204-thirty-years-that-shaped-postgres-architectu...
2•aquastorm•43m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vocafy – Listen to Vocaloid songs by producer, from the original videos

https://vocafy.kkweb.io/en
1•piro0919•45m ago•0 comments

Crawlable – We audited 50 top web apps for AI crawler readability

https://usecrawlable.com/research/ai-search-readability-index
1•shahidsaleem•46m ago•1 comments

Michael I. Jordan on AI: "Superintelligence is science fiction"

https://www.di.ens.fr/~fbach/MJordan_ITW_Liberation_English.html
3•haltingproblem•46m ago•1 comments

Ario – auditing AI memory and self-claims as structure, not trust

https://zenodo.org/records/23132717
2•xx47•46m ago•1 comments

Can Wearables Track Blood Pressure Without the Cuff? I Tested Them

https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/blood-pressure-monitoring-rings-watches-98949dde
1•brandonb•47m ago•0 comments

Electron-gpui: Run GPUI windows inside Electron apps

https://github.com/biw/electron-gpui
2•biwills•48m ago•0 comments