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Hacker News

hnrss.org14 items
• Maths▲ 286

Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI

I wrote recently about how the collection of good, fruitful open problems is now being mined in a non-renewable fashion, leading to the potential scenario of these problems becoming scarce. This may seem unintuitive at first, since the set of possible problems one could ask is infinite. Perhaps the following analogy can help: a country or region can suffer a critical shortage of drinking water while simultaneously being surrounded by a massive ocean. One can easily generate any number of open problems in mathematics at will, such as working out the 10^10^10th digit of pi. But the vast majority of such problems…

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• OpenAI▲ 1212

On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

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• Anthropic▲ 326

I resigned from Anthropic today

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

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• Nishant Josh▲ 241

How to build a printer

If you

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• Meta▲ 434

Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

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• OpenAI▲ 310

ChatGPT Images 2.5

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• Inception Labs▲ 163

Mercury 2.5

Mercury 2.5 is the most capable diffusion LLM on the market. It runs at 1,107 tokens/sec and offers a 40% increase in intelligence over Mercury 2, comparable to cost-optimized frontier…

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• Cloudflare▲ 12

A Biography of Lee Holloway, the Architect of Cloudflare's Technology (Part 1)

Cloudflare's rapid growth as a cloud service is due in part to its many unique technologies. Technologies like Anycast and same-IP access are just a few examples, and it was CTO and…

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• Mathstodon▲ 277

Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI

I wrote recently about how the collection of good, fruitful open problems is now being mined in a non-renewable fashion, leading to the potential scenario of these problems becoming scarce. This may seem unintuitive at first, since the set of possible problems one could ask is infinite. Perhaps the following analogy can help: a country or region can suffer a critical shortage of drinking water while simultaneously being surrounded by a massive ocean. One can easily generate any number of open problems in mathematics at will, such as working out the 10^10^10th digit of pi. But the vast majority of such problems…

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• OpenAI▲ 1208

On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

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• Google▲ 528

AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA

We’re introducing AlphaGenome Atlas, a database predicting the effects of every possible single nucleotide variant in the human genome.

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• The Verge▲ 514

LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby

Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.

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• Meta▲ 416

Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

Meet Muse, Meta's personal AI agent. Learn what it can do across everyday tasks, how it works, and how it helps you get more done.

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• GitHub▲ 379

I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer

A skill to stop your coding agent from burying the answer. ADHD-friendly output. - ayghri/i-have-adhd

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• Manual do Usuário▲ 664

LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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• Techdirt▲ 357

Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support for Merger

We’ve well established how the $111 billion Paramount and Warner Brothers merger is terrible for labor, creatives, consumers, and markets. But the kind of behaviors Paramount…

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• 404 Media▲ 335

DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits

404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any…

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• Twitter▲ 287

I resigned from Anthropic today

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to…

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