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Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/nov/03/ai-godfather-geoffrey-hinton-better-off-without-ai
22•alkyon•55m ago

Comments

jjgreen•46m ago
The scene is bleak, silent, desert-like with a few dead trees bleached white by unfiltered UV. Nothing moves. In the distance a cave, and from that cave

... no shit Sherlock

bluebarbet•23m ago
9 minutes. Was that enough time to read the article?
catchnear4321•22m ago
Did you look at it? It wasn’t that long.
ionwake•17m ago
I personally feel reading the article before commenting affects the purity of my vibe before posting
librasteve•13m ago
vibe comments!
dude250711•42m ago
We should have not left the trees. You cannot disrupt banking and power if they do not exist. Checkmate!
feverzsj•24m ago
AI winter has arrived.
yewenjie•2m ago
Said AI "experts" for the last 10 years.
librasteve•12m ago
modern day Mary Shelley
perarneng•12m ago
We are not but we need a better approach, https://www.ethicalacceleration.org
xnx•9m ago
This is a bit like Rudolf Diesel saying maybe we're better off without airplanes. The field has long since left this guy behind.
throwthrowuknow•3m ago
> we fail to manage the risks and … have a huge gap between rich and poor, huge cultural problems, massive unemployment, just society being torn apart

ok boomer

Kitty 0.50

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/changelog/#
151•porridgeraisin•2h ago•76 comments

Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux

https://www.mindstudio.ai/blog/linux-nvidia-rtx-spark-laptop
94•novaRom•2h ago•49 comments

Told to reboot a server, it destroyed systemd, destroyed containers, ran random

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/59060
24•jstanley•34m ago•10 comments

Verification Is Not Knowledge: Science needs more than answers

https://blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/verification-is-not-knowledge
53•ersinesen•2h ago•26 comments

RTX 5090 Street Prices Top $9k as Nvidia GPU Costs Climb

https://aroundprague.cz/en/news/us/rtx-5090-street-prices-top-9-000-as-nvidia-gpu-costs-climb
12•teleforce•16m ago•7 comments

Milkman – The Better Alternative to Postman

https://milkman.dev/
33•jplunien•2h ago•35 comments

Jelly Sheet

https://mrdoob.github.io/codevember-2026/01/
268•memalign•7h ago•69 comments

Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/smtdswd1h2w4
70•kevcampb•1h ago•42 comments

Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time

https://blog.nns.ee/2026/11/02/renault-hack/
837•xx_ns•1d ago•323 comments

The lost malloc()

https://napcakes.nekoweb.org/posts/malloc/
57•matt_d•3h ago•15 comments

Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot

https://neufangled.com/
620•nharada•18h ago•204 comments

The Internals of PostgreSQL

https://www.interdb.jp/pg/index.html
289•ibobev•13h ago•23 comments

Show HN: Uncracked City, detective game where you question LLM suspects that lie

https://uncracked.city
73•passkey1510•13h ago•24 comments

C++26 Disapproved

https://andreasfertig.com/blog/2026/11/cpp26-dis-failed-how-does-cpp-survive/
316•thatxliner•10h ago•208 comments

Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)

33•jameslk•1h ago•8 comments

Distinct cellular and genetic differences in colorectal cancer in young patients

https://www.dana-farber.org/newsroom/news-releases/2026/study-reveals-distinct-cellular-and-genet...
75•gmays•7h ago•24 comments

Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels

https://hackertv.org
348•dsalzman•1d ago•68 comments

Giant canyon on Mars is still tectonically active

https://lamont.columbia.edu/news/giant-canyon-mars-still-tectonically-active-today
94•gmays•9h ago•15 comments

Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/fujifilm-to-boost-tape-production-5x-as-ai-fuels-archivin...
480•bookofjoe•1d ago•204 comments

Japan's Jimi 'Mundane' Halloween Costumes of 2026

https://spoon-tamago.com/japan-jimi-mundane-halloween-costumes-2026/
196•zdw•2d ago•32 comments

Arrows to arrows, categories to queries (2025)

https://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/arrows-to-arrows/
58•firstbase•8h ago•2 comments

Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/3/qwen-can-interpret-model-weights/
640•theanonymousone•17h ago•188 comments

Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/nov/03/ai-godfather-geoffrey-hinton-better-off-without-ai
24•alkyon•55m ago•13 comments

Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3

https://webkit.org/blog/18541/introducing-adaptive-dark-mode/
445•paddingtone•13h ago•231 comments

How I use AI (Oct 2026)

https://ben.stolovitz.com/posts/how-use-ai-oct-2026/
182•citelao•17h ago•209 comments

Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data

https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues/14370
1313•sidgarimella•17h ago•447 comments

We're training a Figma-fluent editing model

https://www.figma.com/blog/training-a-figma-fluent-editing-model/
123•gmays•3d ago•55 comments

There is no posttraining data commons

https://openathena.ai/blog/there-is-no-posttraining-data-commons/
79•lukasschwab•20h ago•22 comments

The Little Book of Generative AI Foundations: An Intuitive Mathematical Primer

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29713
348•ibobev•13h ago•55 comments

Why Clip Art Was Everywhere Until It Wasn't [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfLlpxE6AYM
42•surprisetalk•22h ago•18 comments