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Advent of Code 2025

https://adventofcode.com/2025/about
311•vismit2000•3h ago•116 comments

Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z

https://www.ryanliptak.com/blog/windows-drive-letters-are-not-limited-to-a-z/
155•LorenDB•3h ago•42 comments

The Thinking Game Film – Google DeepMind Documentary

https://thinkinggamefilm.com
37•ChrisArchitect•53m ago•20 comments

Migrating Dillo from GitHub

https://dillo-browser.org/news/migration-from-github/
115•todsacerdoti•2h ago•75 comments

CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution

https://cachyos.org/
174•doener•6h ago•171 comments

Atlas Shrugged

https://david-jasso.com/2024/04/11/atlas-shrugged/
23•mnky9800n•1h ago•20 comments

Show HN: Boing

https://boing.greg.technology/
580•gregsadetsky•13h ago•105 comments

Show HN: Real-time system that tracks how news spreads across 200k websites

https://yandori.io/news-flow/
148•antiochIst•4d ago•34 comments

Paul Hegarty's updated CS193p SwiftUI course released by Stanford

https://cs193p.stanford.edu/
68•yehiaabdelm•4d ago•9 comments

Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground

https://zigtools.org/blog/zigbook-plagiarizing-playground/
398•todsacerdoti•13h ago•108 comments

Norway wealth fund to vote for human rights report at Microsoft, against Nadella

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/30/norway-wealth-fund-to-vote-for-human-rights-report-at-microsoft-a...
172•saubeidl•3h ago•89 comments

Modern cars are spying on you. Here's what you can do about it

https://apnews.com/article/auto-car-privacy-3674ce59c9b30f2861d29178a31e6ab7
61•MilnerRoute•1h ago•42 comments

All it takes is for one to work out

https://alearningaday.blog/2025/11/28/all-it-takes-is-for-one-to-work-out-2/
667•herbertl•20h ago•306 comments

The Easiest Way to Build a Type Checker

https://jimmyhmiller.com/easiest-way-to-build-type-checker
35•surprisetalk•3d ago•5 comments

RL is more information inefficient than you thought

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/bits-per-sample
85•cubefox•3d ago•24 comments

What's Hiding Inside Haribo's Power Bank and Headphones?

https://www.lumafield.com/first-article/posts/whats-hiding-inside-haribos-power-bank-and-headphones
123•rozenmd•2d ago•43 comments

The space of minds

https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/the-space-of-minds/
48•Garbage•7h ago•15 comments

Show HN: Fixing Google Nano Banana Pixel Art with Rust

https://github.com/Hugo-Dz/spritefusion-pixel-snapper
8•HugoDz•4d ago•1 comments

Meshtastic

https://meshtastic.org/
244•debo_•15h ago•58 comments

Landlock-Ing Linux

https://blog.prizrak.me/post/landlock/
253•razighter777•19h ago•102 comments

The HTTP Query Method

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-method-w-body-14.html
232•Ivoah•4d ago•101 comments

Don't throw away your old PC–it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy

https://www.howtogeek.com/turned-old-windows-pc-into-inexpensive-nas/
78•makerdiety•2h ago•68 comments

Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring Product Designer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/jiga/jobs/Cco7vyK-product-designer-remote-europe
1•grmmph•10h ago

Datacenters in space aren't going to work

https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/
410•mindracer•1d ago•351 comments

Apple Desktop Bus Protocol (2021)

https://www.lopaciuk.eu/2021/03/26/apple-adb-protocol.html
6•dcminter•3h ago•0 comments

Learning Feynman's Trick for Integrals

https://zackyzz.github.io/feynman.html
239•Zen1th•21h ago•31 comments

Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/poll-dramatic-shift-americans-no-longer-see-four-y...
395•jnord•18h ago•627 comments

A new Little Prince museum has opened its doors in Switzerland

https://www.lepetitprince.com/en/events-around-the-world/a-new-little-prince-museum-has-opened-it...
90•gnabgib•15h ago•53 comments

Geothermal Breakthrough in South Texas Signals New Era for Ercot

https://www.powermag.com/geothermal-breakthrough-in-south-texas-signals-new-era-for-ercot/
27•mooreds•2h ago•9 comments

Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/leak-confirms-openai-is-preparing-a...
773•fleahunter•1d ago•680 comments
Open in hackernews

The Thinking Game Film – Google DeepMind Documentary

https://thinkinggamefilm.com
37•ChrisArchitect•53m ago

Comments

DrierCycle•42m ago
AlphaFold is optimization, not thinking. Propaganda 'r us.
aschla•39m ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
DrierCycle•34m ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44203562
dwa3592•36m ago
what is thinking?
DrierCycle•29m ago
Sharp wave ripples, nested oscillations, cohering at action-syntax. The brain is "about actions" and lacks representations.
__patchbit__•28m ago
Creatively peeling the hyper dimensional space in the scope of simplectic geometry, markhov blanket and helmholtz invariance????
fredoliveira•34m ago
Did you watch the documentary? Would probably fare better if you did, because it'd give you the context for the film title.
DrierCycle•27m ago
I'm an hour into it, unconvinced.

The illusion that agency 'emerges' from rules like games, is fundamentally absurd.

This is the foundational illusion of mechanics. It's UFOlogy not science.

fredoliveira•25m ago
Well, two things: it's the last sentence of the film; being on hour into something you're calling propaganda is brave.

Anyways. I thought the documentary was inspiring. Deepmind are the only lab that has historically prioritized science over consumer-facing product (that's changing now, however). I think their work with AlphaFold is commendable.

DrierCycle•16m ago
It's science under the creative boundary of binary/symbols. And as analog thinkers, we should be developing far greater tools than these glass ceilings. And yes, having finished the film, it's far more propagandic than it began as.

Science is exceeding the envelop of paradox, and what I see here is obeying the envelope in order to justify the binary as a path to AGI. It's not a path. The symbol is a bottleneck.

amitport•15m ago
Plenty *commercial* labs frequently prioritized pure science over *immediate* consumer products, but none done so out of charity. Deepmind included.
MattRix•22m ago
Is there a fundamental difference between it and true agency/thought? I’m not so sure.
DrierCycle•18m ago
Agency will emerge from exceeding the bottleneck of evolution's hand-me-down tools: binary, symbols, metaphors. As long as these unconscious sportscasters for thought "explain" to us what thought "is", we are trapped. DeepMind is simply another circular hamster wheel of evolution. Just look at the status-propaganda the film heightens in order to justify the magic.
ChrisArchitect•40m ago
Streaming on YouTube now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d95J8yzvjbQ
ChrisArchitect•35m ago
Hard to discount the impact of AlphaFold in science work but submitting this to a number of film festivals like Tribeca seems a bit AI-washing.
incognito124•35m ago
Watched it a while ago. Made me seriously think about AI and what we should use it for. I feel like all the entertainment use cases (image and video gen) are a complete waste.
jeffbee•18m ago
DeepMind's new weather forecast model is similar in architecture to the toys that generate videos of horses addressing Congress or cats wearing sombreros. The technology moves forward and while some of the new applications are not important, other applications of the same technology may be important.
mattlondon•9m ago
The chatbots and image editors are just a side-show. The real value is coming in e.g. chemistry (Alpha fold etc all), fusion research, weather prediction etc.
dwarfpagent•17m ago
I find it funny that the YouTube link takes you to the film, but like an hour into it.