Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?
11 by dmitrybrant | 6 comments on Hacker News.
I've always wanted to make a visualization where the speed of light was scaled down to human speeds, so that we could intuit relativistic effects with everyday objects. And here is the first version of it!
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New ask Hacker News story: My Rebuttal to the Anthropic Extinction Event Hype Train
My Rebuttal to the Anthropic Extinction Event Hype Train
3 by hmichaelson24 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
"Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." You may have seen a post like this yesterday from an Anthropic researcher named Jacob Coxon who quit the company in protest over fears that AI may be an extinction level event. These are a few of the quotes I saw surrounding it, and I want to share my own takes on them: 1. "The more senior the people, the more scared they are" This says more about Silicon Valley culture and incentives than anything else. The mythology around AI has taken on a life of its own in the Valley, and the financial and regulatory incentives support it growing. 2. "We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade." Any evidence? Any sort of even implied math behind the 10%? I haven't seen any, only vague illusions to ASI. 3. "Coxon left Anthropic, leaving so much money on the table in spite of the upcoming IPO because he's earnest in his beliefs" First off, earnest doesn't mean correct. And pre-IPO options at Anthropic's current valuation even now aren't exactly a sacrifice, they're still worth an extraordinary amount. I don't believe the martyrdom framing. 4. "Self-improving AI is coming and following the exponential improvement curve" In my opinion, this is a kernel of truth hidden under a mountain of narrative spin. Yes, AI has undoubtedly gotten much better. However, behind every headline such as the Navier-Stokes solution, there is a much more grounded, nuanced, and controversial story than the headline might suggest. 5. "We are approaching the singularity" ...of OpenAI and Anthropic's IPOs The really unfortunate part of these extreme narratives is I believe they are actually counterproductive. It obscures the specific, tangible problems that we can solve in extreme language collapsing nuanced positions into two sides. For example, bioweapons, autonomous weapons systems, AI in critical infrastructure, and large-scale cyberattacks are real risks that deserve serious technical and policy attention right now. When everything is a potential apocalypse, nothing gets fixed.
3 by hmichaelson24 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
"Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." You may have seen a post like this yesterday from an Anthropic researcher named Jacob Coxon who quit the company in protest over fears that AI may be an extinction level event. These are a few of the quotes I saw surrounding it, and I want to share my own takes on them: 1. "The more senior the people, the more scared they are" This says more about Silicon Valley culture and incentives than anything else. The mythology around AI has taken on a life of its own in the Valley, and the financial and regulatory incentives support it growing. 2. "We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade." Any evidence? Any sort of even implied math behind the 10%? I haven't seen any, only vague illusions to ASI. 3. "Coxon left Anthropic, leaving so much money on the table in spite of the upcoming IPO because he's earnest in his beliefs" First off, earnest doesn't mean correct. And pre-IPO options at Anthropic's current valuation even now aren't exactly a sacrifice, they're still worth an extraordinary amount. I don't believe the martyrdom framing. 4. "Self-improving AI is coming and following the exponential improvement curve" In my opinion, this is a kernel of truth hidden under a mountain of narrative spin. Yes, AI has undoubtedly gotten much better. However, behind every headline such as the Navier-Stokes solution, there is a much more grounded, nuanced, and controversial story than the headline might suggest. 5. "We are approaching the singularity" ...of OpenAI and Anthropic's IPOs The really unfortunate part of these extreme narratives is I believe they are actually counterproductive. It obscures the specific, tangible problems that we can solve in extreme language collapsing nuanced positions into two sides. For example, bioweapons, autonomous weapons systems, AI in critical infrastructure, and large-scale cyberattacks are real risks that deserve serious technical and policy attention right now. When everything is a potential apocalypse, nothing gets fixed.
New Show Hacker News story: Show HN: Genotype: language that compiles to idiomatic TS, Rust and Python
Show HN: Genotype: language that compiles to idiomatic TS, Rust and Python
5 by kossnocorp | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN! I just shipped the first public version of a new programming language that I have worked on for the past two years. Its goal is to help synchronize types between TS, Rust, and Python (more to come). Two main use cases are the API client libraries and client-server interop, i.e., a TS web app talking to a Rust server. I focused on making it as flexible as possible but always produced idiomatic types that look and feel like they were carefully crafted by humans. It was a challenge, e.g., I had to test 7 Python versions for every language feature or had to implement Rust literals runtime. It's written in Rust, btw ;-)
5 by kossnocorp | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN! I just shipped the first public version of a new programming language that I have worked on for the past two years. Its goal is to help synchronize types between TS, Rust, and Python (more to come). Two main use cases are the API client libraries and client-server interop, i.e., a TS web app talking to a Rust server. I focused on making it as flexible as possible but always produced idiomatic types that look and feel like they were carefully crafted by humans. It was a challenge, e.g., I had to test 7 Python versions for every language feature or had to implement Rust literals runtime. It's written in Rust, btw ;-)
New Show Hacker News story: Show HN: SimpleW – Lightweight C# Web Server with optional addons
Show HN: SimpleW – Lightweight C# Web Server with optional addons
3 by prodbro | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, I’m the author of SimpleW, an MIT-licensed .NET web server for standalone or embedded applications. I shared it here last year ( https://ift.tt/pZDurWB ). Since then, I’ve rewritten it from scratch, removing the NetCoreServer dependency. The biggest change is the addon architecture: the core stays small, with no third-party dependencies, and you add what you need (JWT, OpenID Connect, automatic Let’s Encrypt certificates, Swagger, Razor, dependency injection, or logging integrations). Even the network engine is replaceable, with an optional io_uring addon for Linux, powered by ioxide. Benchmarks are available on https://http-arena.com . I wanted a server I could understand and modify easily, while keeping extra functionality in separate packages. You can try it by following the quickstart: https://ift.tt/7RKcaBv I’d love feedback on the addon design and what you’d build with it.
3 by prodbro | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, I’m the author of SimpleW, an MIT-licensed .NET web server for standalone or embedded applications. I shared it here last year ( https://ift.tt/pZDurWB ). Since then, I’ve rewritten it from scratch, removing the NetCoreServer dependency. The biggest change is the addon architecture: the core stays small, with no third-party dependencies, and you add what you need (JWT, OpenID Connect, automatic Let’s Encrypt certificates, Swagger, Razor, dependency injection, or logging integrations). Even the network engine is replaceable, with an optional io_uring addon for Linux, powered by ioxide. Benchmarks are available on https://http-arena.com . I wanted a server I could understand and modify easily, while keeping extra functionality in separate packages. You can try it by following the quickstart: https://ift.tt/7RKcaBv I’d love feedback on the addon design and what you’d build with it.