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news.ycombinator.com 20d ago

Ask HN: What's the simplest way for me to get my AMEX data agentically?

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www.palmier.io 1mo ago

Palmier – a free video editor built for AI

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news.ycombinator.com 1mo ago

Ask HN: Who's Solving GTM Agentically?

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media.defense.gov 3mo ago

DoD's 2026 National Defense Strategy [pdf]

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modemworks.com 4mo ago

Quartz: A signet-based proof-of-personhood system

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news.ycombinator.com 6mo ago

Ask HN: Is it even possible to stop Google Calendar spam?

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news.ycombinator.com 7mo ago

Ask HN: How to noise cancel out a specific annoying sound?

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geeksinthewoods.substack.com 7mo ago

Attention Lottery: DeepSeek, Sparse Attention, and the Future of AI Cognition

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www.nytimes.com 7mo ago

Goodbye, Price Tags. Hello, Dynamic Pricing

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www.nytimes.com 8mo ago

If You Tell ChatGPT Your Secrets, Will They Be Kept Safe?

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web.archive.org 8mo ago

For Gen Z-Ers, Work Is Now More Depressing Than Unemployment

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solidprint3d.ie 8mo ago

Plastic Bag Recycling into 3D Printer Filaments

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www.youtube.com 8mo ago

Dov Charney on Vice (Former American Apparel CEO) [video]

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www.youtube.com 9mo ago

BS? Sunflower Bioelectricity Translated into 432Hz Music for Stress Reduction

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www.nytimes.com 9mo ago

Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs with Robots

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www.youtube.com 9mo ago

Arcade Themes vs. Japanese Musicians (late 70s) [video]

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www.thefp.com 9mo ago

How to Save All the Lonely People

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www.thefp.com 9mo ago

The Consulting Crash Is Coming

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sfstandard.com 9mo ago

San Francisco became the ultimate '996 City'

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news.ycombinator.com 11mo ago

Ask HN: Who's Built a FREE AI SOC2 Generator?

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www.cloudchef.co 11mo ago

AI Chef

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Tell HN: Private Equity Scam – Asks for Rev#s+Fees

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

Timewave Zero – Software Made by Terence McKenna

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: LinkedIn removes your profile as precaution?

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

The art of sound: Ep1 David Byrne

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www.microsoft.com 1y ago

Breaking Down the Infinite Workday

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

Opening the Doors of Creativity [video] (1990)

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: Any AI-powered PM tools exist for SaaS founders?

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

4 Hours Alan Watts Lectures For Bedtime

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

Senate Hearing on AI / Sam and Friends

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Om Malik has died 26 days ago

why do i get downvoted for asking the poster to share more about the advice he received?? why is this a net negative. im so confused.

Claude Opus 4.8 2 months ago

Just to confirm - you did not generate this plan/orchestration/harness - it did all that on its own?

Has no one yet found a way to vibe-code this into a viable self-service solution?

and yes I do understand there is a IRL-auditing authority piece to all of this too.

Perhaps there this is a play here in the market to create a new auditing firm that 99% automates all this for startups? sans fraud certs of course.

1. Its all in your head. 2. Lead with your heart and instincts- nurture this and the magic happens. 3. Dont take any negative reactions personally- they may be "somewhere" else dealing with shit in their head. But the "wave" you sent them will do its job anyway. 4. The level of creativity that can be applied to this problem is endless! For example.. the idea of them coming to you (harder than going to an existing group/event) but has its benefits.

Experiment that worked for me : I now live in Buenos Aires , and missed playing ultimate frisbee.. so i posted around in various expat groups and craigslist.. "Ultimate Frisbee en Palermo! Beginners wanted - Experts welcomed" link to a youtube explainer vid.

Experiment 2: random street portraits with phone or digital handheld camera - followed up with a "who are you?" existential question (off record)

5. Always say thank you

I'm starting to host bi-weekly after work soirees.

It's simple. Anyone you meet casually and get a nice vibe from - just invite them - you will see their face light up like they won a lottery...cause they did - your lottery.

Tell them that you're hosting a special gathering with interesting people you've recently met ( that way everyone starts from 0 )

bonus points: Make sure that your list is as balanced as possible with as many different types of humans ( age/gender/race/education/talent/interests ) add your weights into any criteria as you see fit, but keep in mind the more the blend the spicier the magic and the more you will grow.

If they want to bring a special friend ( great! but just say one for now ) Lubricate with some light wine/beers/alcoholic beverages (dont worry most will bring their own ) .. add some nice chill-house ambient music .. and let the magic begin.

Become the change you seek, it's intoxicating.

“The degradation is subtle. The missing insights are rare, deferred, and distributed. Everyone notices a tenfold speed improvement; few notice the disappearance of an idea that might have changed the world.”

— funny correlation — this is the story of humanity’s biological, psychological, and philosophical evolution as well.

this is no difference.. History doing its thing again. Same Darwinian optimization, just swapped out the substrate. Silicon moves faster than carbon, which means we're speed-running toward some endpoint we can't quite see yet. Maybe we still get to choose architectural diversity before everything locks in. Or maybe we're already too late and just don't know it yet. To what final end?

Some uncanny correlations:

Biological Evolution: Just as DeepSeek's sparse attention sacrifices rare token connections for computational efficiency, biological evolution has consistently pruned "expensive" cognitive capabilities that didn't offer immediate survival advantage. The human brain operates on roughly 20 watts, an engineering marvel achieved through ruthless optimization. We lost the ability to synthesize vitamin C, to regenerate limbs, to perceive ultraviolet light, not because these capacities were useless, but because maintaining the metabolic infrastructure for rarely-used functions was too costly in ancestral environments where caloric scarcity was the norm. The neurological pathways that might have enabled eidetic memory or synesthetic cross-modal perception were likely discarded in favor of "good enough" pattern recognition optimized for predator avoidance and social navigation. Every human today is the descendant of ancestors whose brains kept the top-k survival-relevant features and let the outliers die in the attention lottery of natural selection.

Psychological Evolution: Our cognitive architecture exhibits the same sparse attention dynamics the article describes. Confirmation bias, the availability heuristic, and attentional blindness are not bugs but features, Bayesian priors that let us operate in real-time by ignoring the vast majority of sensory and conceptual space. We don't process all possible interpretations of a social interaction; we route attention to the handful that match our existing mental models, discarding the weak signals that might reveal we've misunderstood someone entirely. The psychological research on "inattentional blindness" (the invisible gorilla experiments) reveals that humans already run on learned sparsity, we literally cannot see what falls outside our predictive frame. The rare insights that change lives often come from those improbable, low-priority connections our brains almost filtered out: the shower thought, the hypnagogic flash, the accidental conversation with a stranger. Optimizing for cognitive efficiency means most humans spend their lives in a "tenfold speed improvement" of habitual thinking, never noticing the transformative ideas their sparse attention mechanisms prevented from ever reaching consciousness.

Philosophical Evolution: The history of thought reveals how philosophical paradigms function as civilizational sparse attention mechanisms, collective cognitive shortcuts that determine which questions a culture deems worth asking. The mechanistic worldview of the Enlightenment achieved extraordinary predictive power by treating nature as clockwork, but it systematically ignored (rendered computationally irrelevant) questions about consciousness, teleology, and qualitative experience. Logical positivism declared vast domains of human concern literally meaningless because they couldn't be empirically verified, a top-k selection rule for acceptable philosophical inquiry. Each dominant paradigm is a trained router deciding which intellectual pathways get attention and which get pruned. We celebrate the speed improvements: from Aristotelian physics to Newtonian mechanics in centuries, from Newtonian to relativistic in decades, from relativistic to quantum field theory in years. But the article's warning applies: we may never notice the metaphysical frameworks, the "ideas that might have changed the world," that were filtered out because they didn't fit the salience patterns of the prevailing epistemic architecture. The philosophical sparsity we inhabit isn't consciously chosen; it's the inherited result of centuries of optimizing for ideological efficiency, leaving vast regions of conceptual space unexplored because our collective attention mechanisms never computed those connections in the first place.

I too have made this choice with my family.. and its one hell of a positive force-factor. My mom immigrated from Kiev, with nothing and a dream for her son to have a better life in NYC. Im now taking the same risks as a 5-time entrepreneur..now living in Buenos Aires as a single dad. Enjoy the ride - its short - live your dream - steer your ship or it will be steered for you.