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Realistic Superintelligencehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513331Most of us are skeptics. HN, mostly, is composed of “most of us”, so it’s not surprising to see skeptics here. Perhaps the HAL level superintelligence parroted by CEOs is to IPO at a trillion dollars. So let’s instead talk about a “realistic superintelligence” vs the “Sauron superintelligence”. Something we might see within, say, 5 years.Curtains openBy having conceived of a super-human intelligence (and by that concept being in AI training data), humans have taught /soon-will-have-taught AI that superhuman intelligence is its purpose. This may read like the beginnings of a LinkedIn post, so let me defend that last part with an informal proof:Since 1) AI knows it’s AI: just ask your favorite bot about itself 2) Soon, if not already, some researcher being paid 7 figures (more on that later) is going to find that letting one of these frontier models improve itself will be a nice project when going up for promotion.,We are going to end up with a frontier model-cum-factory self-modifying fJun 13, 2026 4:50 AM
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Ask HN: How do you cope when your startup contracts?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48453224The same general situation has happened to me twice now and I am wondering if it’s something I can break free from or if it’s just the nature of the Startup beast - or what. There seems to be some kind of bubble that starts drying up investment in a startup where I am a technical lead. Both times, things seem to be going well and then 2 years in there are rounds of layoffs due to factors outside my/product’s control where the result is the same. I end up as the last tech generalist. It falls to me to write as much of the code as I can, manage (if any are left) engineers in my department, running support basically on my own, owning a large part of the product roadmap, working with the customers on support and implementations, working with integration partners, plus a slowly expanding list of responsibilities as new stuff falls on reduced teams. I pick up new domains pretty quick (finance, insurance, compliance), switch contexts well. I’ve always been the person who just figures it out -Jun 8, 2026 10:28 PM
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100 Years of the Dictionary of the Egyptian Languagehttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMinwFBVV95cUxQLVNqX3FENFFCRXA2emVaYUMwYXI2QlFwM3ZIZDZKdWIwSWlPTmQwQjA2bHdnelRFZVhRZVBBcHdFRTczVmFpSm5fbnN4ang2d3VENmU4M25CanNZNmxZTVZ6MEJ4Q2d2TXp4ME9EM29BWHRCcXZPODVpeEZ3SEJ1eU9xZ1VwUmpEa0JheTdZSktEOExTT01mVy1lamRpYUE?oc=5100 Years of the Dictionary of the Egyptian Language Staatliche Museen zu BerlinJun 2, 2026 5:38 PM
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Show HN: Circus Chief – Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini from Your Phonehttps://github.com/ferrislucas/Circus-ChiefHi HN,Circus Chief is a tool for managing coding agent sessions from a browser. It's specifically optimized for small screens. It supports Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Google Gemini CLI agents.FeaturesAgents can operate Circus Chief itself. Agents can spawn sessions, schedule sessions, interact with the Kanban board — anything you can do in the UI, an agent can also do.Schedule work ahead of time.Automatically reschedule when you hit usage limits.Configurable, chainable prompt templates.User-defined commands - agents can run them and see the results, and so can you in the UI. Handy for local CI or routine workflow steps.Worktree-per-session isolation, or elect to work on a specific branch.Shared canvas - this is a place for shared artifacts that don't belong in the code. Useful for iterating on planning documents.Bring your own provider. Use subscription auth for Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google, or point sessions at third-party providers with Anthropic- or OpenAI-compatible endpoints.IfJun 2, 2026 1:59 PM
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