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Re:How Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy? on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @12:41AM (#50161441)
We know so little. We perceive and conceive things only to the extent that our minds and senses allow us to. Maybe there’s much more to reality than we can comprehend, and our current human capabilities simply aren’t advanced enough to perceive it yet. A few hundred years ago, we didn’t even know that microbes existed or that the light spectrum extended beyond what our eyes could see. And that’s what makes the future so exciting!
Re:NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect on Monday October 12, 2026 @02:38AM (#50052173)
The website is too good to be a government site, it looks cool and snappy
Re:Ink and Switch Interactive Homepage on Friday September 25, 2026 @08:58AM (#49844023)
I did not understand why this was cool until i tried holding and dragging it!
Re:Nokia Design Archive (2025) on Friday September 25, 2026 @08:02AM (#49843439)
I still remember sitting on my mother’s lap and using a Nokia flip phone in the late 2000s. She was teaching me how to use it, and the camera was so cool. When you flipped it open, there was this huge camera right in the middle on the other side of the screen. It looked so futuristic back then. And those oval-shaped phones with rounded edges too. So nostalgic.
This is so cool, i am going to try this with my friends, i will let you know about the experience.
Re:AI Robots – When will they be in our homes on Monday September 14, 2026 @05:05AM (#49693940)
The purpose of building humanoid robots is actually very simple: we want machines to feel lively and familiar.

We are not the best creatures at performing every possible job, yet we are so interested in building humanoid robots. Instead, we could build specialized robots for each job and create ways for them to integrate seamlessly into an ecosystem that includes humans and other robots.

A cooking robot, for example, doesn't necessarily need to look humanoid. It could be a completely autonomous kitchen with no hands at all, while another robot could have some kind of interface or mechanism that allows it to integrate with and interact with the kitchen.

I appreciate that the site also shows examples of this approach. But even then, we keep building humanoid robots because, deep down, they feel more alive. Seeing something that looks like a person working gives us a strange sense of joy and satisfaction.

Funny how much of robotics is driven not just by what is practical, but by what feels alive to us.

Re:Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid) on Monday September 14, 2026 @04:52AM (#49693838)
The game is pretty confusing i still do not understand how to play this the right way a guide there would make it good.
Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native on Saturday September 12, 2026 @09:34AM (#49672175)
What is really going on, why suddenly every single company is just saying we going to go native? I mean they are working fine as it is
Re:Fuck it, make it anyway on Saturday September 12, 2026 @09:32AM (#49672158)
Completely agree with you mate. But the biggest issue if we say we wont use AI, we are going to be left behind, the speed at which things are moving is just so unimaginable and i really feel like my mind is just crashing out every time i am being reminded of this
Re:Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h? on Thursday September 10, 2026 @01:30AM (#49638785)
That is also very much possible, we can never know. Or maybe we can in the future. Only time can tell
Re:Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h? on Thursday September 10, 2026 @01:15AM (#49638707)
This is awesome. I always think about this. As humans, we are very limited in what we can perceive and experience. A higher form of entity could have a completely different way of viewing nature and the world.

Just a thought experiment for you guys: imagine a bacteria that survives inside humans. It doesn't even know what a human is. For the bacteria, its entire world is simply the environment in which it lives. It doesn't know that we are living beings actively trying to maintain ourselves and survive.

Now, suppose a harmful bacteria enters our body, makes us sick, and we take medicine that kills all of them. From the bacteria's perspective, it could look like a natural disaster or some unexplained event in which they all suddenly get wiped out. They have no idea that a living being called a human actively tried to eliminate them using something called medicine, which was engineered specifically to kill them.

Similarly, what if our world, or nature itself, is part of some higher-level entity that we simply exist within? What if the reason for our deaths, natural calamities, and other events is something completely beyond our perception? Whatever we do, we may never be able to understand what is actually happening at that level, just as bacteria may never be able to understand that humans exist.

One thing that could potentially support this idea is self-regulation. We see self-regulating systems throughout nature, and these patterns seem to repeat at different scales. We ourselves are self-regulating organisms, and nature also has countless cycles and mechanisms that regulate themselves.

Maybe these patterns continue at scales we cannot perceive. We can observe certain things at the scale of humans, but we still don't fully understand what happens at the nano scale or on the scale of the universe. Perhaps there are higher levels of organization and self-regulation that we simply don't have the ability to perceive yet.

Re:AI Has a Discovery Problem on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @02:47AM (#49622193)
This is very true, but I don't think this is an AI-only problem. It is fundamentally a human problem.

There are so many things happening around us, and one of the biggest things that separates people is knowledge. A non-technical person who puts in the effort to learn technology becomes a technical person. The only way to become good at something is to actually do it and practice.

Someone who still doesn't know what AI is also doesn't know what is possible in the world today. My mom is a good example. She comes up with a lot of ideas and tells me about them on calls. Recently I told her, "Just tell ChatGPT. It can probably build a lot of what you need." But even that sentence isn't enough for her to understand what I mean, because she doesn't yet have a mental model of what AI can actually do. She simply isn't aware of its capabilities.

I'm going home in a few days and will be staying with her for a couple of weeks. I'm actually going to try an experiment: teach her some of these tools and see what happens. Can someone with essentially no technical background learn to use AI effectively and actually build something meaningful within a few weeks?

She already has a good job and doesn't really need to become technical, so there is no practical necessity for her to do this. But I think it would be a fascinating experiment.

Re:Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @12:43AM (#49621103)
Yes, you are right. If someone reaches a point where they feel that their situation is so bad that they have to die because of it, then reporting the adviser, switching advisers, escaping to another place, completely starting a new life, or whatever other option life presents could potentially make their life much better, and in some cases even be life-changing. I mean, what worse could happen by trying these options than ending your life? If someone has the courage to make such a drastic decision as ending their life, you could also help them muster the courage to completely restart their life instead.
Re:Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @12:02AM (#49620770)
I think you're misunderstanding what I'm advocating for. I'm not saying people should be forced to run an endless marathon regardless of how badly they're suffering. I'm saying that when someone is suffering that badly, we should help them rather than let suicide become the way they escape from it.

I'm not blaming people for the circumstances they're in or saying their suffering isn't real. I'm questioning the environment that teaches people what to do when they reach that point. Different people go through incredibly difficult situations and develop different ways of coping. My point is that ending your life shouldn't be one of those ways.

If someone is so exhausted that they feel they can't continue, the answer should be to help them, change their circumstances where possible, and help them find another way through it. Otherwise, what is the point of helping someone who is suicidal in the first place?

The goal isn't to force people to keep suffering. The goal is to help them stop suffering without ending their life.

Just my perspective on this: A PhD student at my university recently died by suicide, and it made me realize that the way most of us cope or escape from difficult situations is shaped by what we consume, what we experience, and what we constantly see others doing.

For most of us, that escape mechanism can be something else instead of taking such a drastic decision. If we can make sure people don’t grow up believing that suicide is even a way to cope with what has happened to them, we could significantly reduce the number of suicides.

We only have one life. There’s no respawn. This world has so much to offer, and once we’re gone, we won’t get to experience any of the good things that are still ahead of us.

So why not keep going?

Re:My Feed, My Way on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @03:35AM (#49606823)
The damage is already done for most people who already use it. Whenever I go to a restaurant and see friends, families, and couples together, I feel sad that instead of talking to each other, they’re all watching TikToks or reels. On a bus or train, barely one or two people are actually doing something other than watching something online.

At least, hopefully, this rule helps future generations. People’s brains are so addicted that they can’t even focus for 10 minutes straight. On top of that, I see moms giving their toddlers mobile phones while they eat or whenever they need to get something done. People should really start considering how social media affects us in the long term.

It is ambitious, and that’s what makes this so much fun to think about. Even starting a colony on Mars would be so cool.
I really like seeing new aerospace companies, and i really hope humans go interstellar by 2050
Re:Intellectual Fly Is Open on Sunday September 06, 2026 @08:42AM (#49586007)
You are right in every sense, but it seems you used llm to write this post, lol!
Re:Map: England in 1086 on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @03:15AM (#49532832)
One interesting thing I noticed: most of the slaves were from the southern regions of the UK.
Re:Solving the Flat Cube on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @03:12AM (#49532802)
How is it called a cube if it is flat?
Re:Salad Theory on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @03:09AM (#49532781)
Never thought someone would actually spend time applying math to salads and creating theorems out of them. Appreciate the effort put into this.
80 years if career? Is that even possible? I mean if that is true definitely he was good at his job that his employer did not want him to leave or he was really really loving his job that he was the best at it.
You can expand it to animal identification system , it would be really cool to see that.
Re:How I Design with AI on Friday August 28, 2026 @01:59PM (#49482213)
Thanks for sharing this, mate.

Lately, I’ve been trying to design some websites completely using AI as side projects, and all I’ve gotten is disappointment at how AI-ish the websites can look and how easily people get repelled just by seeing them.

Never thought of this , actually enjoyed learning it. Now it is time to surprise my friends.