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Discovery Loop

https://www.discoveryloop.com/
319•xtreak29•3h ago•186 comments

Zed DeltaDB

https://zed.dev/deltadb
44•ahamez•29m ago•4 comments

Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage

https://blog.fogus.me/llm/born-against.html
39•lladnar•45m ago•22 comments

Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models

https://neon.com/blog/how-castform-neon-beats-frontier-models-on-price-and-efficiency
43•moonikakiss•1h ago•8 comments

Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/next-chapter-ai-momentum/
163•colesantiago•3h ago•318 comments

Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls

https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/atlassian-rovo-exfiltrates-data
51•hackerBanana•1h ago•11 comments

GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2

https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/news/2026-q2.html
31•plaguna•3d ago•8 comments

Phishers are hijacking legitimate cloud infrastructure

https://securelist.com/cloud-platforms-in-phishing/120832/
22•lschueller•2h ago•5 comments

Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod

https://www.hyperprobe.co
25•shailendraht•2h ago•17 comments

Western Sahara

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Sahara
77•brudgers•20h ago•40 comments

The Valley of Webhooks

https://weli.dev/blog/the-valley-of-webhooks/
71•weli•4h ago•31 comments

Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-os/
354•speckx•5h ago•197 comments

Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects

https://github.com/denoland/celld
31•calvinfo•2h ago•1 comments

Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeg8299
71•_____k•5d ago•24 comments

The Entropy of a Markov Chain

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/the-entropy-of-a-markov-chain
70•surprisetalk•5h ago•2 comments

Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness

https://www.campion.edu.au/blog/top-25-aristotle-quotes-on-virtue-knowledge-and-happiness/
126•teleforce•5h ago•41 comments

Microsoft's AI Sales Mostly Come from OpenAI, Disclosures Show

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-05/microsoft-s-ai-sales-mostly-come-from-openai-d...
34•mapping365•1h ago•5 comments

Rubin Observatory's first LSST Camera release: 500k galaxies in the COSMOS field

https://rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-new-window-cosmos-field
58•MarcoDewey•5h ago•5 comments

Building an Advanced Agentic Harness

https://data4sci.com/blog/building-an-advanced-agentic-harness
71•Anon84•5h ago•36 comments

Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01395
14•robin_reala•1h ago•3 comments

Painting with Gaussians

https://yogthos.net/posts/2026-08-03-splat-painter.html
65•yogthos•5h ago•10 comments

Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18

https://www.cnelecar.com/blog/oracle-always-free-arm-limits-cut-2026/
139•iplaypc•4h ago•93 comments

Faster Than Ninja

https://build2.org/blog/faster-than-ninja.xhtml
68•elasticdog•5h ago•26 comments

Position: LLMs Can't Jump

https://openreview.net/challenge?redirect=%2Fforum%3Fid%3DklU4737opt
203•theanonymousone•8h ago•139 comments

Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking

https://www.wired.com/story/a-civilian-plane-crashed-in-new-mexico-was-the-militarys-tech-to-blame/
397•dzdt•8h ago•196 comments

The Law of Jante (2015)

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/02/11/the-law-of-jante/
20•NaOH•1d ago•1 comments

Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system

https://www.righto.com/2026/07/ibm-604-trigger-tube-module.html
35•Jimmc414•5d ago•6 comments

Proxmox VE now available for ARM64

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-virtual-environment-now-available-for-64-bit-arm-arm64....
13•geerlingguy•4h ago•1 comments

TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In

https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/time-serves-ai-bots-a-different-website/
209•vincent_s•6h ago•88 comments

The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You

https://sightlessscribbles.com/disability-dongle/
157•calcifer•4h ago•150 comments
Open in hackernews

Why I'm leaving OpenAI to build telepathy

https://naomibashkansky.com/blog/telepathy/
40•devanshp•2h ago

Comments

nee1r•2h ago
are you specifically focused on non-invasive methods/why? seems like you reach a noise barrier which limits things like this
foolswisdom•55m ago
From the article

> It’s hard to collect enough data using invasive methods. Few people want a chip in their brain! But non-invasive methods are getting much better. The hardware is improving and getting cheaper, though I apologize for being vague about the particularities of our hardware.

agajews•1h ago
exciting! you could imagine brain transcriptions being very high signal RLHF data that could help align models more deeply to human preference.
drivebyhooting•1h ago
You know how a microphone can also serve as a speaker?

Can this technology also do text to thought?

chasd00•24m ago
sure would be cool to transfer memories. Then we'd be able to download how to fly a helicopter.pdf right to our brains like in the matrix.
goatlover•12m ago
Pretty sure that also involves tuning your motor control in your hand and arm. It's like thinking a download into your brain would make you a successful athlete.
sam-cop-vimes•59m ago
Hmm...how do you stop private thoughts from reaching the LLM? Suddenly you can be prosecuted for thinking the "wrong" thoughts?
pbjerkeseth•42m ago
Yeah, this whole area of UX scares me. Silent speech techniques could strike a balance, but it seems obvious it wont stop there - consider what a state actor would do if they could skip interrogation altogether?

Unfortunately I think this is inevitable because as a species we perform a steady march toward collective desires for items of science fiction, so start your adversarial double-think practice now.

dudefeliciano•14m ago
Is it really collective desire or are these products being pushed upon us? And why does it always have to be the dystopic "destroying human nature and society as we know it" science fiction and not the utopic "everyone lived happily ever after" science fiction? Or does it just feel that way to me?
podgietaru•38m ago
"My AI just sent my boss a 12 paragraph screed because I thought about how much I hate him"
amoe_•58m ago
I'd like to think that actually-existing-telepathy would be a more transformative technology than something that simply allows people to do their existing work more conveniently.
foobarian•57m ago
If it doesn't work try thinking in Russian
cormorant•49m ago
Never mind "how could this go wrong". How could this go right?
Razengan•45m ago
Simple, think about going right
robterrell•29m ago
For some reason your comment reminded me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky-uzsw0kqw
yunnpp•27m ago
Up and to the right, to be more specific. Transcend your one-dimensional thinking, Razengan.
rvz•46m ago
Translation:

"I am a former-OpenAI employee and looking for investors to fund my AI startup."

nyxtom•44m ago
As though we haven't done enough already to manipulate the mind, now we can have a neural model dictate our thoughts for us.
goatlover•9m ago
We can finally have ads in our dreams like Futurama.
mcfdoesdev•43m ago
My thoughts being beamed to a frontier model where they are monetizable (and used for training) is terrifying.
gorgolo•21m ago
They will also want to beam back the response straight back into your brain one day.
dudefeliciano•18m ago
it's in the article, around 2030 the device should be able to write and "make changes to the brain: hear audio, or tell the brain to use more calories" ...and later she envisions chatGPT becoming an extension of the brain like a sixth sense.
prerok•10m ago
The future is Borg.
goatlover•17m ago
No worries, I'm sure there won't be Flock cameras reading your thought crimes as you drive/walk by.
mbgerring•41m ago
So is it just that these are people who haven’t personally experienced well-intentioned technology turning into a living nightmare? Watching the optimism and then collapse of Web 2.0 was a formative experience for me. I’m 38. Is this just naivete? What is this?
dudefeliciano•27m ago
well she is only 23 so naivete would make sense, although it looks like she held some AI safety roles so...
symfoniq•19m ago
In the same way that “Anthropic” apparently means misanthropic, we can probably add “AI safety” to the list of newspeak.
codeduck•26m ago
It's called being insulated from the immediate consequences of their actions and hubris.
baron3dl•26m ago
Inevitablism, a fundamentalist belief system that resolves every moral hazard with an appeal to the inevitable. "we can't let someone else do this first"
soco•22m ago
"I will kill you now since you're dying anyway so just hand me all your money"
podgietaru•40m ago
"In a couple years"

In a couple years?! Get over the technical hurdles, do you think PEOPLE will be ready to telepathically talk to a computer in A COUPLE OF YEARS?

deadbabe•39m ago
vim already exists
hiAndrewQuinn•35m ago
secret counterexample. people have been failing to learn vim for literal decades
the_sleaze_•24m ago
Upon trying it for the first time more than 60% of people never exit - that's just great retention!
soco•19m ago
You mean 60% have still not discovered :q!
recursive•17m ago
Every time I accidentally start vim, I just buy a new computer.
Apocryphon•12m ago
Probably in our lifetime

https://youtu.be/jroQCyWwEgE

RobertDeNiro•36m ago
This is doomed to fail. Dry EEG electrodes basically only capture noise.
andrethegiant•35m ago
Visit from CIA in 3, 2, 1...

The only thing I would actually want this for would be a dream logger. Extremely invasive and quite dangerous otherwise.

mosura•11m ago
There is probably good money in upgrading the polygraph security clearance ritual for the 21st century.

It doesn’t even really need to work of course.

cdrnsf•35m ago
I thought this was a parody when I opened it.
m4ck_•35m ago
Maybe I’m just demented but i feel like the first time I interface with chatgpt via telepathy it’s going to see my thoughts when the guy in the cube behind me farts or chews loudly, and send the FBI.

What a terrible idea.

gverrilla•32m ago
> My AI is a natural extension of me. It feels like a sixth sense and another limb. I wonder about a problem, feel as though I’m literally surfing the web, see glimpses of the websites, get flashes of intuition about the problem, and ultimately derive the answer. It feels fun! My brain is like the Flash. Because of write tech, my thinking is the fastest it's ever been even when I turn my AI off.

I read "race conditions" all over this vision.

baron3dl•31m ago
who holds the copyright on the transcriptions of my thoughts read by this hardware? what license to those do you impose through EULA? what privacy controls need to be invented to prevent literal thought police?
dudefeliciano•13m ago
if you get an earworm you will have to pay royalties
ACCount37•31m ago
> non-invasive

Dead in the water.

It's like an omlette. Can't make a neural interface worth a damn without cracking open a few skulls.

jjtheblunt•11m ago
> Can't make a neural interface worth a damn without cracking open a few skulls.

I immediately thought, ironically, your neurology wrote that with a computer and HN humans' neurologies read it with computers.

platevoltage•28m ago
I can't wait for this tech to be incorporated into corporate productivity trackers that seem to be getting more popular.
nullorempty•27m ago
From the article.

>Thought-to-text, aka telepathy

No, that's not telepathy. I'd leave the term alone. Consider it to be reserved for... well... telepathy!

morkalork•25m ago
Why I'm Leaving OpenAI to build the Torment Nexus
yunnpp•25m ago
> In a couple years, the main way we'll talk with our AIs is with our thoughts. They will not be a super-smart automated intern or coworker that you desperately try to keep up with. They will be a natural, joyful extension of you.

Ah, yes, very joyful indeed.

Also, fuck those interns! They're just too smart to keep up with.

Animats•19m ago
Probably more useful for interrogation than coding.

Under current US law, can people entering the US be subjected to mind-reading?

lantry•17m ago
- telepathic communication with your computer

- still annoyed by AI-speak

What a bold vision!

slumpt_•15m ago
I don't think I've ever been so viscerally revolted by the vision of a company.
voiper1•12m ago
> My GPT-7 agent... I become .... annoyed at the AI-speak in its first paragraph

When we have GPT-7 it will still do AI-speak?!

elephantstripes•12m ago
Thanks, I hate this.
goatlover•11m ago
Like Edward Teller wanting to develop hydrogen bombs while Oppenheimer was trying to prevent an arms race from starting.
Aurornis•18m ago
> Watching the optimism and then collapse of Web 2.0

What collapse of web 2.0?

Technically the website we're on is web 2.0 because we're interacting as users.

I don't think it's naiveté on their part to want to build new things. I think you're just jaded and hyperfocusing on the negatives.

dag100•3m ago
With some technologies, the negatives are so severe it is difficult to see how they outweigh the positives. Mind-control technology is quite frankly just asking to be abused. It's the ultimate relinquishment of power - you reveal your entire hand to someone else AND let them do what they want with it. I honestly don't understand how some people are so optimistic that they think this technology won't be misused in ways that massively overshadow the good that could be done with them.
kleiba2•18m ago
To me, this reads as an attempt to raise easy investment money.
mosura•13m ago
I think this is actually marginally less evil than Meta Tribe. The whole neuro space is dangerous and while people go on about “AI safety” the world will trend towards this madness.

And this will provoke “well we need to regulate AI then”. No, you need to regulate poking around in people’s brains without asking them before that becomes normal.

wuschel•6m ago
"Die Gedanken sind frei..." - can someone guess them? A truly dystopian question.

It is been 10 years ago when I looked through some research in that area. Back then it was the problem to get enough good signal. Has the situation changed radically here for non-invasive electrodes or portable detectors?

I understand that the approach would be to turn weak signal, context, and LLM based signal processing into useful human computer interaction. For everything else, I have the feeling we are still in speculative territory.