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Revisiting the Singularity

io84 — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:50:23 +0000

Article URL: https://magicnumbers.io/2026/10/28/revisiting-the-singularity/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50276645

Points: 1

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New comment by io84 in "Notes from the Frontier Reading List"

io84 — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:48:55 +0000

A buddy and I are settting up an AI-focused reading group in Dublin, Ireland. Goal is to be more thoughtful about how we navigate whatever-comes-next, singularity or otherwise.

Curious to hear if we're missing good texts that meet the brief.

(and of course... any local HN users who might want to join, please do)

Notes from the Frontier Reading List

io84 — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:48:55 +0000

Article URL: https://app.notion.com/p/Notes-from-the-Frontier-3ed3da1e76558070ba0bd1c3125aae43?source=copy_link#3ed3da1e765580c58b4dd39a7fc959af

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50153888

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by io84 in "Game of Life – But Multiplayer, Hypermedia and Python"

io84 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:50:10 +0000

Nice. The five-tile paint cursor is an excellent design choice, much easier than the single-tile default you get on apps like Golly etc.

What’s the Hypermedia reference? On mobile your About button is unclickable.

New comment by io84 in "AI Model Groupthink"

io84 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:30:08 +0000

Interesting result - I wonder you were capturing consensus or agreeableness towards what the user (or in this case: a group chat of robots) is proposing. I think non-agreeableness can be a very valuable trait.

AI Model Groupthink

io84 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:08:38 +0000

Article URL: https://magicnumbers.io/2026/10/06/ai-model-groupthink/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996542

Points: 29

# Comments: 9

New comment by io84 in "A warning about 'model welfare'"

io84 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:03:32 +0000

I’m sympathetic to OP but think this is a hopeless battle.

1 - The commercial demand for anthropomorphised models is already immense, pre AGI.

2 - There is an intellectual hunger to engage with robot minds on questions of sentience. This too will grow with AGI.

I expect that tension of godlike minds that seem to be biddable and ownable like slaves is going to leak back into human-to-human morality, regardless of where we land on how we treat AI.

There’s an interesting academic group in the UK already focused on the model welfare debate, they seem to lean in favour of AI rights. No affiliation: https://www.prism-global.com/

New comment by io84 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

io84 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 22:02:42 +0000

Simple recommendation app that asks 10+ AI models for the top options for whatever you’re looking for, and it pools the results to give you the overall top three:

https://top3.best/

I mainly built it to explore which areas have model consensus and which have diversity of opinion.

New comment by io84 in "Trezor's email provider has been breached"

io84 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:19:41 +0000

Their devices have never been [known to be] remotely breached, but still…

2022: Their Mailchimp account breached

2024: Their support ticket portal breached

2025: Support contact form sent phishing via official auto-replies

Aug 2026: Shipping partner ShipMonk breached

Sep 2026: Email provider breached

Anything Trezor knows about you should be considered thoroughly compromised.

New comment by io84 in "Health benefits of Tai Chi"

io84 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:52:33 +0000

Yes, all of the links seem to go through to shopping funnels, even to get a PDF. I’m not seeing any freely downloadable resources. This is basically just an ad.

New comment by io84 in "The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons"

io84 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:58:57 +0000

A new and growing fear I have is that AI cuts off some of the most well-trodden pathways to intellectual growth. Every time the AI solves a problem that I would not have been able to efficiently solve alone, it has replaced an interaction that previously would have happened with a mentor/supervisor/code reviewer. This is faster for the person seeking the micro-assistance, but there is a flipside: fewer human-to-human acts of mentorship and shared problem solving. We lose a lively ingredient of team formation, expert formation, and a source of joy for all involved. As this scales up it feels plausible that we end up with a wider deagradation of intellectual standards. I like the Cognitive Comons framing.

New comment by io84 in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

io84 — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:17:07 +0000

The very same - he writes about that elsewhere on the site.

Using Vision Language Models to Index and Search Fonts

io84 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 09:51:33 +0000

Article URL: https://lui.ie/guides/semantic-search-fonts

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44644990

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by io84 in "Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic"

io84 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 09:44:28 +0000

"In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes" _in a microniche techno-linguistic community, at a time and choosing of the swirling AI clouds_

New comment by io84 in "Build Your Own Color Search Engine"

io84 — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:57:36 +0000

How to create a semantic search engine for colors (or anything else) using Supabase and an embedding provider such as OpenAI or Mistral

Build Your Own Color Search Engine

io84 — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:57:36 +0000

Article URL: https://lui.ie/guides/semantic-search-colors

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44456365

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by io84 in "Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed"

io84 — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 08:58:28 +0000

"You need a Claude account to use this artifact"

This could be a phenomenal growth loop for Anthropic.

New comment by io84 in "Models.dev"

io84 — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 09:57:40 +0000

The Model Id column alone makes this a useful resource for me, thank you!

Every time I need to enter a model id into code I am amazed at how hard it is to find something so simple and important on the providers' websites.

New comment by io84 in "Yes I Will Read Ulysses Yes"

io84 — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 07:00:05 +0000

I had a few tries at Ulysses in my 20s and always abandoned it.

I tried it again aged 38 and I found it flowed much more easily. The protagonist Leopold Bloom, who I remembered as an old man from earlier attempts, was relatable. It turns out Bloom is exactly 38.

I find side notes too disruptive when reading so my crutch for the middle was to skim a short chapter summary before a starting each new chapter. This let me enjoy the dreamlike qualities of the text without needing to catch every reference.

New comment by io84 in "The drawbridges come up: the dream of a interconnected context ecosystem is over"

io84 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:15:38 +0000

I wonder if that’s a dictation artefact