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AI is not a normal technology

https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/ai-is-not-a-normal-technology
8•theahura•1h ago

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streetcat1•1h ago
AI can do anything that it was trained on based on humans. As soon as humans are not involved, AI will have nothing to train on, and hence, the rate of improvement will approch zero, and the AI will collapse.
Rover222•27m ago
what a dumb thing to keep repeating at this point
jazzpush2•19m ago
Just ignoring all the recently solved math problems human, huh?
tacomonstrous•16m ago
If you understood how they were solved, you'd see that you're only bolstering the point you were responding to.
needfish•59m ago
I wish AI could do my chores. Laundry, folding clothes, dishes, cleaning... That would be nice.
Founderarcstone•41m ago
one day soon, right?
georgemcbay•33m ago
> I wish AI could do my chores. Laundry, folding clothes, dishes, cleaning... That would be nice.

Sorry, AI only does the fun stuff.

Off to the silica sand mines with you and the rest of the meat bags to keep the AI well fed.

Rover222•26m ago
this will of course happen in a few years...
dd8601fn•16m ago
Won’t matter. Most of us won’t have paychecks to buy it with.

Kidding (…kinda).

arcanemachiner•22m ago
If it does that, you should hope it can also stand in bread lines for you too.
myko•20m ago
literally the only thing i want out of ai ^^^^

that said, it is fun generating code with them

Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/fable-solves-cyphral-distich
519•u1hcw9nx•5h ago•231 comments

Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

https://www.atomic14.com/2026/09/13/why-is-google-still-serving-dodgy-ads
624•iamflimflam1•9h ago•297 comments

Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)

https://spaceships.treybastian.com/
34•zdw•3d ago•13 comments

Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs

https://community.signalusers.org/t/registration-without-a-phone-number/2222?page=10
102•Cider9986•5h ago•49 comments

Open-Source AI and Open Models Reading List

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/open-source-ai-reading-list
29•simonpure•2h ago•1 comments

Julia 1.13 highlights

https://julialang.org/blog/2026/09/julia-1.13-highlights/
168•eigenspace•3d ago•12 comments

Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/munJKF7iWMsWJLAH2/astra-and-fable-still-hack-on-simple-variants-o...
388•Levitating•12h ago•177 comments

Data collected by cars and sold to third parties

https://www.theverge.com/column/994172/your-car-is-selling-your-data
324•bookofjoe•13h ago•165 comments

Show HN: Is It Greg?

https://github.com/antoineleclair/is-it-greg
22•antoineleclair•48m ago•6 comments

Apple's Dimensional Drawings

https://developer.apple.com/accessories/dimensional-drawings/
26•herbertl•2h ago•2 comments

Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003)

https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/
67•walrus01•6h ago•8 comments

AI is not a normal technology

https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/ai-is-not-a-normal-technology
11•theahura•1h ago•16 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

96•david927•9h ago•207 comments

Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/12/automattic-confirms-mullenweg-has-returned-as-ceo-after-attempt...
57•ilamont•6h ago•110 comments

The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire

https://www.katjahoyer.uk/p/the-gdr-and-vietnam-from-fake-coffee
34•NaOH•3d ago•7 comments

Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi

https://honisoit.com/2022/03/writing-a-better-reality-the-case-for-optimistic-sci-fi/
8•andsoitis•2h ago•3 comments

The Coming War on General Computation (2011)

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Computation
54•gregsadetsky•2h ago•13 comments

Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust

https://bensimms.moe/reverse-engineering-scooter/
393•vinhnx•3d ago•90 comments

Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260910-00/?p=112689
213•ibobev•14h ago•49 comments

Making Startups Powerful

https://paulgraham.com/powerful.html
168•tosh•12h ago•76 comments

I build a mechanical watch face: a real gear train for a watch with no gears

https://myday24.com/blog/how-a-mechanical-watch-face-is-built/
16•tomasslavicek•3d ago•7 comments

CUDA for AMD on Windows

https://github.com/Speedstu/CUDA-for-AMD-Windows
142•chiassedu80•12h ago•72 comments

The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence

https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07228
5•rasengan0•1h ago•0 comments

"Chilling" warning or overreaction? AI bioweapons report divides experts

https://www.science.org/content/article/chilling-warning-or-overreaction-ai-bioweapons-report-div...
10•sbulaev•2h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Exploring the intersection of prediction markets and social media

https://www.thevidmarket.com/
3•ryanpere2298•1h ago•0 comments

Why is privacy so hard?

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/why-is-privacy-so-hard/
32•andsoitis•5h ago•33 comments

Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace

https://aprilnea.me/en/blog/reverse-engineering-claude-code-antspace
62•rzk•2d ago•14 comments

The contagion of fear

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/the-contagion-of-fear/
155•elffjs•4h ago•119 comments

Bad code is kudzu

https://vickiboykis.com/2026/09/01/bad-code-is-kudzu/
42•surprisetalk•3d ago•13 comments

Necker, 1832: "An optical phænomenon on viewing a figure of a geometrical solid"

https://zenodo.org/records/1430991
7•akkartik•2d ago•1 comments