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Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock

https://colo.to/nvidia-stock-narrative.html
326•Eric_Gullichsen•3h ago•155 comments

Thinking Fast and Slow in AI: The Role of Metacognition

https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01834
31•teleforce•1h ago•2 comments

Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain

https://www.nissan-global.com/EN/INNOVATION/TECHNOLOGY/ARCHIVE/E_POWER_GEN3/
30•mroche•2h ago•34 comments

Ember-1

https://fireworks.ai/blog/ember-1
399•gmays•11h ago•198 comments

When did Google get so weird?

https://sancho.bearblog.dev/google-weird/
990•sancho-panza•9h ago•536 comments

Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?

https://www.quora.com/Did-the-ENIAC-have-a-BIOS/answer/Alan-Kay-11
96•midnightfish•9h ago•33 comments

Deterministic Concurrency [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25x0UuSCKuU
9•surprisetalk•2d ago•0 comments

There is more to code review than (automatable) detection

https://www.adaptivecapacitylabs.com/2026/08/24/there-is-more-to-code-review-than-automatable-det...
97•utiiiD•1d ago•54 comments

Goodbye to the Hard Parts That Never Mattered

https://jakegoldsborough.com/blog/2026/goodbye-to-the-hard-parts-that-never-mattered/
17•JumpCrisscross•3h ago•6 comments

The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026

https://shnatsel.github.io/state-of-simd-rust-2026/
114•verdagon•2d ago•23 comments

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025)

https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/
25•evakhoury•10h ago•6 comments

Don't couple your Go code to GitHub

https://iain.rocks/blog/dont-couple-your-go-code-to-github
189•birdculture•12h ago•91 comments

Self-Hosting on the Dark Web

https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/self-hosting-on-the-dark-web/
107•mooreds•9h ago•34 comments

Microsoft drops Copilot+ branding from its new laptops

https://www.tomshardware.com/tablets/microsoft-surface/microsoft-quietly-drops-copilot-branding-f...
33•anthuswilliams•2h ago•15 comments

Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi

https://loficities.com/
201•safaelmali•10h ago•88 comments

What I did at Recurse Center

https://thill.me/2026/09/11/what-i-did-at-rc.html
91•bingden•10h ago•25 comments

Was Silent Reading Unusual During Augustine's Time?

https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=4341
18•ryanscio•3h ago•1 comments

Guitar amp and effects pedal built on the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.06

https://github.com/dashersw/coyopedal
38•arbayi•2d ago•16 comments

Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM

https://github.com/deepfates/imp
62•mpweiher•9h ago•6 comments

In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/science/motel-science-discovery.html
225•danso•14h ago•84 comments

Oral history of John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1Xn3030IvM
62•Rochus•11h ago•15 comments

Previously unheard recordings of John Coltrane, captured by Frank Tiberi

https://www.jazzwise.com/content/news/john-coltrane-centenary-celebrations-see-impulse-records-re...
78•gregsadetsky•2d ago•28 comments

Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/09/27/replacing-the-old-battery-on-rechargeable-bike-lights/
150•surprisetalk•15h ago•83 comments

Lunar Terminator Paradox

https://notes.secretsauce.net/notes/2026/09/27_lunar-terminator-paradox.html
57•dima55•8h ago•41 comments

TabPFN and TabICL vs. tuned XGBoost: the model that doesn't train won 14/14

https://efraingaray.com/en/blog/tabpfn-vs-xgboost/
7•EfrainGaray•2h ago•3 comments

Research finds 485 chemicals in US pesticide products linked to breast cancer

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/26/breast-cancer-us-pesticide-products
74•Teever•3h ago•22 comments

Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)

https://asawicki.info/articles/writing_efficient_cpp_code.php
141•ibobev•2d ago•87 comments

The Cartesian Hand: In-Hand Manipulation with All-Linear Fingers

https://generalroboticslab.com/cartesian_handv1
74•AareyBaba•1d ago•11 comments

A New Experiment Meta-Strategy

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/a-new-experiment-meta-strategy
18•surprisetalk•2d ago•0 comments

Fragment of oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/we-have-found-traces-of-peace-thousands...
76•gmays•14h ago•10 comments
Open in hackernews

Thinking Fast and Slow in AI: The Role of Metacognition

https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01834
31•teleforce•1h ago

Comments

jannyfer•54m ago
> submitted Oct 5 2021

(In case people miss that before discussion)

bbor•36m ago
This is still a great paper, but it's missing the second axis of the quadric -- if the only two options are thinking fast or thinking about thinking, that leaves no room for thinking slow yet deliberately, AKA selfconsciousness. See https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4280/pg4280-images.html for details

I do wonder if any of these folks ever got a chance to try this at one of the big labs, tho...