Hacker News: achristmascarlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=achristmascarlHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:09:05 +0000<![CDATA[How Fear and Social Pressure Are 'Overarming' the U.S.]]>Article URL: https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/06/how-fear-and-social-pressure-are-overarming-us

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]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:46:55 +0000https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/06/how-fear-and-social-pressure-are-overarming-usachristmascarlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48402052https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48402052<![CDATA[New comment by achristmascarl in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"]]>Whether or not LLMs are conscious, it does now seem possible to build conscious systems with LLMs as the key enabling component.

Many of the goalposts offered here and elsewhere, like embodiment or emotions, can be and have been emulated or approximated and built around an LLM, with the LLM acting as outsourced intelligence (or cognition, or reasoning, or some other better term). Will this system be conscious? Who knows. It certainly won't be human. But I suspect much of the concern around AI being conscious has less to do with whether an LLM itself is conscious and more to do with the fact that we are now capable of building potentially conscious systems, and the limits to what those potentially conscious systems are capable of keep expanding as the capabilities of LLMs grow.

Also, is "Claude" an LLM? I know Claude Opus 4.8 is an LLM, but Claude is simply a label that Anthropic chose for a series of products and services, many of which are LLMs. Anthropic itself describes Claude as "a next-generation AI assistant" [0]. Right now, we use Anthropic's "Claude" LLMs through various channels, but nothing's stopping them from tacking on various systems to try and make Claude a conscious entity.

[0] https://www.anthropic.com/news/introducing-claude

]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:25:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399141achristmascarlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399141https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399141<![CDATA[Modos Flow: A paper-like monitor for reading, writing, and focused work]]>Article URL: https://www.crowdsupply.com/modos-tech/modos-flow

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313193

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]]>Thu, 28 May 2026 18:19:09 +0000https://www.crowdsupply.com/modos-tech/modos-flowachristmascarlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313193https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313193<![CDATA[New comment by achristmascarl in "Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust""]]>I wonder if the publicity around this AI-driven rewrite will function as a (unintentional, or perhaps intentional) far-reaching nerd snipe that results in Rust developers flocking to the project to identify and fix issues.

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 20:25:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153371achristmascarlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153371https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153371<![CDATA[Crying Salute Emoji]]>Article URL: https://github.com/achristmascarl/crying-salute

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]]>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 07:00:48 +0000https://github.com/achristmascarl/crying-saluteachristmascarlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47728204https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47728204<![CDATA[Too much dietary salt linked to new cases of heart failure]]>Article URL: https://news.vumc.org/2026/03/24/too-much-dietary-salt-linked-to-new-cases-of-heart-failure/

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]]>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:04:38 +0000https://news.vumc.org/2026/03/24/too-much-dietary-salt-linked-to-new-cases-of-heart-failure/achristmascarlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543513https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543513<![CDATA[New comment by achristmascarl in "Americans Are Now a Target for ICE"]]>https://archive.is/t8sbd

]]>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 05:03:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47294576achristmascarlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47294576https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47294576<![CDATA[Mr. Markov's Merry-Go-Round]]>Article URL: https://blog.carl.so/posts/mr-markovs-merry-go-round/

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]]>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 17:41:56 +0000https://blog.carl.so/posts/mr-markovs-merry-go-round/achristmascarlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102894https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102894<![CDATA[Pinterest fired 2 engineers who built an internal layoff tracker]]>Article URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pinterest-ceo-fires-engineers-internal-tracker-layoffs/

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]]>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:00:18 +0000https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pinterest-ceo-fires-engineers-internal-tracker-layoffs/achristmascarlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46902516https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46902516<![CDATA[Data Brokers Can Fuel Violence Against Public Servants]]>Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/how-data-brokers-can-fuel-violence-against-public-servants/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46872190

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]]>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:28:59 +0000https://www.wired.com/story/how-data-brokers-can-fuel-violence-against-public-servants/achristmascarlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46872190https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46872190<![CDATA[New comment by achristmascarl in "Redditors Are Mounting a Resistance Against ICE"]]>https://archive.is/Jvk83

]]>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:53:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781636achristmascarlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781636https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781636<![CDATA[Redditors Are Mounting a Resistance Against ICE]]>Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/redditors-are-mounting-a-resistance-against-ice/

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]]>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:51:51 +0000https://www.wired.com/story/redditors-are-mounting-a-resistance-against-ice/achristmascarlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781602https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781602<![CDATA[New comment by achristmascarl in "Palantir Defends Work with ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti"]]>https://archive.is/9bnLC

]]>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:46:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781536achristmascarlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781536https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781536<![CDATA[AI programs used by Heber City [Utah] police claim officer turned into a frog]]>Article URL: https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/summit-county/how-utah-police-departments-are-using-ai-to-keep-streets-safer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545245

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]]>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:22:19 +0000https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/summit-county/how-utah-police-departments-are-using-ai-to-keep-streets-saferachristmascarlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545245https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545245<![CDATA[The rise of deepfake cyberbullying poses a growing problem for schools]]>Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/deepfake-ai-school-cyberbullying-takeaways-bf65455142a088824d3571a727d9a8c7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355095

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]]>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:51:20 +0000https://apnews.com/article/deepfake-ai-school-cyberbullying-takeaways-bf65455142a088824d3571a727d9a8c7achristmascarlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355095https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355095<![CDATA[Most Top-Achieving Adults Werent Elite Specialists in Childhood, New Study Finds]]>Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/science/elite-high-performance-adults-children-sports-study-ae8d6bed

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]]>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:09:27 +0000https://www.wsj.com/science/elite-high-performance-adults-children-sports-study-ae8d6bedachristmascarlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46318771https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46318771<![CDATA[Is Vibe Coding Safe? Benchmarking Vulnerability of Agent-Generated Code]]>Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.03262

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46194269

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]]>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:29:33 +0000https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.03262achristmascarlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46194269https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46194269<![CDATA[New comment by achristmascarl in "A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up with Nothing but a Zip Code"]]>https://archive.is/EgEkS

]]>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:48:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46153563achristmascarlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46153563https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46153563<![CDATA[New comment by achristmascarl in "A nationwide internet age verification plan is sweeping Congress"]]>https://archive.is/P0VLH

]]>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:14:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46114843achristmascarlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46114843https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46114843<![CDATA[If the AI bubble does burst, taxpayers could end up with the bill]]>Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2025-11-ai-taxpayers-bill.html

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]]>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 21:36:00 +0000https://phys.org/news/2025-11-ai-taxpayers-bill.htmlachristmascarlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45932474https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45932474