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OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
594•klaussilveira•11h ago•176 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
901•xnx•17h ago•545 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
22•helloplanets•4d ago•17 comments

How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
95•matheusalmeida•1d ago•22 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
28•videotopia•4d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
203•isitcontent•11h ago•24 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
199•dmpetrov•12h ago•91 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com
313•vecti•13h ago•137 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
353•aktau•18h ago•176 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
355•ostacke•17h ago•92 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
459•todsacerdoti•19h ago•231 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
24•romes•4d ago•3 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
259•eljojo•14h ago•155 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
80•quibono•4d ago•19 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
392•lstoll•18h ago•266 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
7•bikenaga•3d ago•1 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
53•kmm•4d ago•3 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
3•jesperordrup•1h ago•0 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
235•i5heu•14h ago•178 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
46•gfortaine•9h ago•13 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
122•SerCe•7h ago•103 comments

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
136•vmatsiiako•16h ago•60 comments

Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
68•phreda4•11h ago•12 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
271•surprisetalk•3d ago•37 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
25•gmays•6h ago•7 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
1044•cdrnsf•21h ago•431 comments

Zlob.h 100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing lib that is faste and better

https://github.com/dmtrKovalenko/zlob
13•neogoose•4h ago•9 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
171•limoce•3d ago•92 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
60•rescrv•19h ago•22 comments

Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents

https://docs.smooth.sh/cli/overview
89•antves•1d ago•66 comments
Open in hackernews

Beyond Attention: Toward Machines with Intrinsic Higher Mental States

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06257
67•holografix•8mo ago

Comments

quinnjh•8mo ago
This is, intuitively, a really exciting title. Looking forward to reading / seeing similar work.
bwest87•8mo ago
I did a chat with Gemini about the paper, and tldr is... * They introduce a loop at the beginning between Q, K, and V vectors (theoretically representing "question", "clues" and "hypothesis" of thinking) * This loop contains a non linearity (ReLU) * The loop is used to "pre select" relevant info * They then feed that into a light weight attention mechanism.

They claim OOM faster learning, and robustness acro domains. There's enough detail to probably do your own PuTorch implementation, though they haven't released code. The paper has been accepted into AMLDS2025. So peer reviewed.

At first blush, this sounds really exciting and if results hold up and are replicated, it could be huge.

saagarjha•8mo ago
I don't want to dismiss this outright but I'm skimming this paper and pretty skeptical of something that's from a single guy that doesn't appear peer reviewed, spends most of its time talking about actual biology, comes up with a "RELU6" (RELU but minimum value 6), and then pushes detailed review to a future paper.
amelius•8mo ago
He wrote this paper, "Cooperation is All You Need", with a group of people:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.10449

And this paper in an IEEE journal:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.01950

yorwba•8mo ago
Figure 3 B in "Cooperation is All You Need" shows the same score curves as the top left of Figure 6 in "Beyond Attention," so it must be basically the same implementation. Yet that earlier paper is only cited once, in the Acknowledgements section. As far as I can tell, the only mathematical change in this paper is capping the ReLU at 6. But it also adds a bunch of grandiose verbiage ("triadic modulation loops", "awake thought.")

The author is clearly a crackpot. Maybe he wasn't a crackpot when he still managed to publish in peer-reviewed journals, but cognitive decline over time is not exactly unheard of.

frozenseven•8mo ago
Cool insults. But perhaps you can explain why he's wrong?
anothermathbozo•8mo ago
Warrantless and totally spiteful for you to make unqualified claims like “cognitive decline” from skimming two papers. This is shameful.
habinero•8mo ago
I swear, most of the AI "papers" that get posted here are someone screwing around with ChatGPT on ketamine and deciding they're advancing humanity.
ivape•8mo ago
You’ve just discovered the future of a jobless economy. Please write a blog post and I will surely upvote you.

Ketamine is all you need

geeunits•8mo ago
Sat here vibe coding a pure assembly kernel for arm64, APL layer with conceptual memory layout. On my bed, eating a bag of chips, jobless since Jan. Everything but the Ket are mine
ivape•8mo ago
You serious?
geeunits•8mo ago
yasqueen ← {'yes'≡⎕C ⍵}
TeMPOraL•8mo ago
Who knows, but drop the word "vibe" and this is basically the startup culture 15 years ago, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Well, okay, for better historical accuracy, replace APL with API, and the kernel for arm64 thing with Ruby on Rails on a new Macbook, but the point still stands.

ldng•8mo ago
Can the anthropomorphic scam continue unchecked ? Apparently yes.
ImHereToVote•8mo ago
If modeling cognitive processes is a scam, then neuroscience must be the longest-running con in history.
TeMPOraL•8mo ago
Probably as long as non-anthropomorphic idiocy can.

No opinion on this submission, but a more general point. I'm not the one to jump into anthropomorphizing computers, but last year or two of LLM and adjacent research is a constant stream of papers and experiments that totally surprise everyone who refuse to even entertain comparisons between LLMs and people, while being entirely expected and completely not surprising to those who do.

mirekrusin•8mo ago
Results in this paper look way too good, I guess we'll have to wait for peer reviews and replications to see if it's true.
RockyMcNuts•8mo ago
When you stack transformers, don't you get meta-attention and higher mental states?
edflsafoiewq•8mo ago
I don't understand the "Triadic Modulation Loop" block, does anyone else?

Also

> Competing interests: AA has a provisional patent application for the algorithm used in this paper.