> Imagine some future event even more powerful

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyake_event

Reminds me of: Man’s Search for Meaning (1946) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27s_Search_for_Meaning

Was rereading that last year. Recommend it to anyone who hasn't.

Sorry, nitpick: 720kB DD 1.44MB HD

It's funny that we've always called them "1.44 MB" disks when they actually hold 1440 KiB, which is 1.41 MiB or 1.47 MB.

"1.44" is a horrible mix of binary kilo and decimal mega which makes no sense.

With the GNU Units program, I have this defined in my ~/.units: "floppyMB 1000 KiB"

Is it useful? Perhaps not, but you can use it to translate "1.2 floppyMB", "1.44 floppyMB" into other units.

Probably because they have 2880 sectors.

++1

:))

> Today we're launching Twin publicly, after a 1-month beta where users deployed more than 100,000 fully autonomous agents. We're also announcing a $10M seed round led by LocalGlobe.

So... 20%?

You could add a Max Headroom to the hn link. You might reach real time by interspersing freeze frames, duplicates, or static.

And, just like that, Max Headroom is back: https://lemonslice.com/try/agent_ccb102bdfc1fcb30

That.. is not Max Headroom.

Can you help us make him? What's the right voice? https://lemonslice.com/hn

I wonder how it would come across with the right voice. We're focused on building out the video layer tech, but at the end of the day, the voice is also pretty important for a positive experience.

1) yes on Max Headroom. we are on it. 2) it already is real time...?

Whoops! Mistook the "You're about to speak with an AI."-progress bar for processing delay.

I wonder if we should make the UI a more common interface (e.g. "the call is ringing") to avoid this confusion?

It's a normal mp4 video that's looping initially (the "welcome message") and then as soon as you send the bot a message, we connect you to a GPU and the call becomes interactive. Connecting to the GPU takes about 10s.

Makes sense. The init should be about 10s. But, after that, it should be real time. TBH, this is probably a common confusion. So thanks for calling it out.

Website has problems, NYT version: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/science/archaeology-neand...

Thanks, we've switched to that from https://archaeologymag.com/2026/01/430000-year-old-wooden-to... and put a couple extra links in the toptext.

That is paywalled. Try https://archive.ph/mHlUT

Recommend mods change it to this (or parent)

Combining Pareto and Murphy might result in 4 hours head start for the thief though.

Related: "Data on AI-related Show HN posts"

Original title: "Data on AI-related Show HN posts More than 1 in 5 Show HN posts are now AI-related, but get less than half the votes or comments."

6 months ago, 155 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44463249

Would have looked further, but scroll wheel finger cramped. Keyboard nav would be great.

Enabling the browser's scrollbar would also be good.

You’ve set up artificial selection in idea-space with yourself as the designer. What if AI could learn the rules of coherence from examples instead?

Even if coherence is learned implicitly, choosing a language, model, or representation already defines a bounded idea-space. The bias doesn’t disappear, it just moves into data and architecture. So my question isn’t whether coherence should be explicit or learned, but whether absolute exploration of an abstract idea-space is possible at all once any boundaries are imposed.

Guess absolute exploration hits the heat-death limit. You are hinting at a Drake-equation for bounded idea-space to guide AI: anchors x pressures x connectors x depth. Shift the boundaries for novelty.

Yeah, that’s a good way to put it. Absolute coverage feels like heat death, but changing the factors changes the space itself. That’s the part I’m still stuck on.