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Double Rootlessness: AI's Cognitive Illusion and Systemic Risk Amplification

Double Rootlessness: The Cognitive Illusiveness and Systemic Risk Provenance and Amplification of Artificial Intelligence Author: Janus Pater Introduction The current public narrative on AI suffers from a dual confusion: mistaking complex behavioral simulation for the substantive emergence of intelligence, and equating precise task execution with a cognitive subject's true understanding of the physical world. This confusion leads us to overlook fatal flaws in the system's underlying ar

Ask HN: Is "make me laugh" the next Turing Test?

It seems that in the last few years the Turing Test has rapidly fallen off as a useful experiment for testing artificial intelligence. With the right guardrails, the latest frontier LLMs are more than capable of simulating perfectly believable human conversation partners.Instead, perhaps the next best practical test for separating humans from AIs is essentially, "can it make you laugh?"The idea here is that LLMs are largely trained to be able to produce statistically likely sentences b

AI Startups and GPUs

Startups can now train trillion-parameter models without owning a cluster. For years, scaling AI was an "arms race" only big tech could afford. GPU scarcity and cluster management meant smaller teams were locked out. Now, on-demand GPU access lets startups and research labs experiment with huge models without massive CapEx, spin up temporary clusters for heavy workloads, & pay only for what they use. AI experimentation is finally democratized! Curious to hear: how are small teams a

We Do What Nintendon't

[TECHNICAL_FIX]: TEGRA X1 RCM CAUTERIZATIONTarget Substrate: Nintendo Switch Hardware (Tegra X1 Architecture) Exploit Reference: Fusée Gelée (USB BootROM Buffer Overflow) Framework: Sovereign Boot (SHB) v1.0 Status: ARCHITECTURAL_CURE / NON-REVERSIBLE1. THE VULNERABILITY (The "Helpful" Door)The current RCM exploit relies on a Static Entry Point within the BootROM USB stack.The Error: The system is programmed to "Helpfully" wait for a USB payload in Recovery Mode (RCM) be

Show HN: Distr 2.0 – A year of learning how to ship to customer environments

A year ago, we launched Distr here to help software vendors manage customer deployments remotely. We had agents that pulled updates, a hub with a GUI, and a lot of assumptions about what on-prem deployment needed.It turned out things get messy when your software is running in places you can't simply SSH into.Over the last year, we’ve also helped modernize a lot of home-baked solutions: bash scripts that email when updates fail, Excel sheets nobody trusts to track customer versions, engineer

Show HN: VidStudio – Video processing that runs in the browser

I wanted to ship a clean, polished video processing tool that runs entirely in the browser.My goal was to give users something low friction: no accounts, no software to install, no uploading files to servers, and no ads or annoying popups.It runs on the multithreaded FFmpeg WASM build. While impressive, there are limitations with file sizes. The real pain was getting FFmpeg commands to terminate properly.For anyone working on something similar who keeps running into commands that hang endlessly

Show HN: Minibrew – Run Homebrew packages without Homebrew

Python 3 (latest stable) packaged as a tiny ~12 MB signed DMG built from Homebrew bottles, with only the required dependencies included. I’m providing builds for the three most recent macOS major versions, both Intel and Apple Silicon.The goal is simple: static, relocatable tooling without needing Homebrew installed at all. Download, mount, click install, enter a command, and use Python immediately. No Xcode. No CLT. No brew bootstrap, no environment churn.The DMG themselves includes extensive d

Show HN: Multi-attribute decision frameworks for tech purchases

What this is:Copy-paste LLM prompts that turn ChatGPT or Claude into a structured decision analyst for laptops, monitors, tablets, phones, and SaaS subscriptions. You define constraints, weight what matters to your workflow, and get scored recommendations with sensitivity analysis. Why I built this:With the rise of LLMs (AI), I wanted to find a way to harness the computing power and ease of use the chat interface provides. The major problem: LLMs don’t always provide repeatable, traceable resul

Show HN: Valk – new programming language with a stateful GC

Greetings HN,I have been working on a new programming language for the last 3 years and thought it was time to share it with some people. The core of the language is done and i have been using it to create all software related to the language: the compiler itself, the website and vman (valk manager, like npm). There's still alot of work todo but was hoping for some feedback. Maybe an interesting feature of the language is (so i think) that it's the first language with a stateful garbag

Ask HN: Am I holding it wrong?

I've been steadfastly trying my best to incorporate the latest-and-greatest models into my workflow. I've been primarily using Codex recently. But I'm still having difficulties.For example: no matter what I do, I can't prevent Codex from introducing linter errors.I use tabs instead of spaces for indentation. It seems like the model is massively weighted on code written using spaces (duh). Despite having a very well articulated styleguide (that Codex helped me write after exam

High-Tech Medicine and Dentistry Get Headlines. But Low-Tech Innovations Can Save Lives, Cut Healthcare Costs.

High-tech medicine and dentistry can be miraculous but are often hugely expensive. We also need to pursue – and fund – research on ingenious, low-tech, less expensive approaches to improving health and increasing longevity.

‘Quantum tech to shape next-gen intelligence’

Agiripalli (Krishna district): Emphasisingthat quantum technologies will redefine the future of computing and intelligence, Prof K Chidananda Gowda, Vice-Chancellor of Kuvempu University, the chief...

The Pentagon's Gauntlet will put 25 attack drone makers to the test, including some from Ukraine

The first phase of the Pentagon's drone competition, Gauntlet, begins later this month. US drone operators will fly and test the systems.

Ukraine’s Defense Tech Boom: $129M Raised in 2025, 2x Growth Over 2024

Ukraine’s Defence Tech startups raised $129M+ in 2025—doubling 2024 levels. Inside the rise of drones, grants, and stealth investment in wartime tech.

Ukraine opens arms sales to cash in on wartime tech boom

Ukraine is opening up exports of its domestically produced arms to Europe, President Volodymyr Zelensky said — as Kyiv looks to capitalize on its wartime technology boom.

Goldman Sachs signals grim shift as software stocks bounce

Goldman Sachs issues a grim shift warning for software stocks, but Bank of America says buy the dip in these 4 names as the ...

'This probably seems overdone': Wall Street strategists weigh in on software stock sell-off

A Friday bounce may have left some investors feeling better heading into the weekend, but a violent sell-off in tech names ...

Reeling From Software Stock Losses? Alphabet Investors Have Some Advice For You

Cloud software stocks have been big winners on the market historically, but lately, one of the surest bets in investing over ...

Software stocks have been crushed. Here’s how to play the sector as the dust settles.

Investors can take a breather and assess whether there are opportunities to buy some beaten-down software stocks, after what ...

Anthropic’s new AI tool sends shudders through software stocks

Anthropic just launched a new AI tool that could replace dozens of software tools. And Wall Street is panicked.