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What happens the day after superintelligence?

venturebeat.com Louis Rosenberg 2026-01-03 22:45:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now With the release OpenAI’s Chat GPT-5, the world is one step closer to unleashing a general-purpose superintelligence that can cognitively outperform each of us by a wide margin. As this day nears, I am increasingly worried that we are woefully unprepared for the shockwaves this will send through society — and it’s probably not for the reaso

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Why GPT-5's rocky rollout is the reality check we needed on superintelligence hype

zdnet.com Tiernan Ray 2026-01-03 22:51:00

Dilara Irem Sancar/Anadolu via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways The botched rollout of GPT-5 doesn't suggest superintelligence. GPT-5 represents incremental technical progress. Scholars are debunking AI hype with detailed analyses. Nearly a year ago, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared artificial "superintelligence" was "just around the corner." Also: Sam Altman says the Singularity is imminent - here's why Then, last June, he trumpeted the arrival of superintelligence, writing in a blog pos

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April Fools 2014: The Real Test Driven Development

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-03 21:46:40

Update: APRIL FOOLS! class LinkGeneratorTest(googletest.TestCase): def setUp( self ): self .generator = link_generator.LinkGenerator() def testGetLinkFromIDs( self ): expected = ( 'https://frontend.google.com/advancedSearchResults?' 's.op=ALL&s.r0.field=ID&s.r0.val=1288585+1310696+1346270+' ) actual = self .generator.GetLinkFromIDs(set((1346270, 1310696, 1288585))) self .assertEqual(expected, actual)

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I chose OCaml as my primary language

news.ycombinator.com Xvw 2026-01-03 22:05:05

I started using the OCaml language regularly around 2012, and since then, my interest and enthusiasm for this language have only grown. It has become my preferred choice for almost all my personal projects, and it has also influenced my professional choices. Since 2014, I have been actively participating in public conferences dedicated to programming and software development, where I often express my enthusiasm for OCaml in ways that may be a bit over the top (but always passionate). This has ea

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Here's the final design of the Pebble Time 2 e-paper smartwatch

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-04 03:24:07

Pebble creator Eric Migicovsky and his new company, Core Designs, have been beavering away on new e-paper smartwatches and the team has just revealed the final design of the higher-end model. The Pebble Time 2 has a 1.5-inch, 64-color e-paper screen, with a touchscreen, metal frame, heart-rate monitor and (it's claimed) up to 30 days of battery life. The frame is a bit more curved than on pre-production versions of the Pebble Time 2. The top and bottom buttons on the right side are now angled r

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Pebble Time 2* Design Reveal

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-03 23:40:18

[ 2025-08-13 ] TL;DR Pebble Time 2 Design reveal Available in 4 colourways Final specifications How to change your pre-order from P2D to PT2… Like what you see? You can still pre-order Pebble Time 2 for $225! First off, for those who didn’t catch the news from a few weeks ago - we’ve been able to recover the Pebble trademark! Our new watches will change from being called Core 2 Duo → Pebble 2 Duo, and Core Time 2 → Pebble Time 2. The big news today is that we’re revealing the final desig

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ReadMe (YC W15) Is Hiring a Developer Experience PM

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-04 03:00:37

Be part of building something people love. You want to do work that matters. On a product people care about. Preferably with friends. At ReadMe, you’ll have the autonomy to own your work, the flexibility to be your most effective, and the freedom to learn from mistakes. We’re a startup. There's a lot to be done. But if you want to work with meaning and balance, you’ll love it here. Kirby Carpenito Codenames fiend Ladies of ReadMe Circa Feb. 2020 (There are more of us now!) Gregory Koberger K

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Star Tries to Swallow a Black Hole, Ignites One of the Strangest Supernovas Ever Seen

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2026-01-04 03:25:44

Black holes are dark, menacing objects with gravity so intense that not even light can escape, so you don’t want to mess with them. A recent discovery of one of the strangest supernovas ever observed reveals the tragic story of a star that tried to defy the powerful pull of a nearby black hole but later conceded in an explosive death. A team of astronomers discovered the unusual supernova, dubbed SN 2023zkd, while digging through observations of particularly interesting targets gathered by tele

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The Pandemic Didn’t Actually Spike America’s Anxiety, Study Finds

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2026-01-04 03:40:17

The covid-19 pandemic was a horrific and earth-shattering world event. But it may not have scarred our collective psyche as profoundly as you would think. New research indicates that the pandemic didn’t spike Americans’ overall anxiety. Scientists at the University of Virginia led the study, which examined a decade’s worth of survey data. They found evidence that our anxiety levels didn’t significantly shift in the first years of the pandemic. People’s mental fortitude during the pandemic was p

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Bat colony checks in to hotel; 200 guests check out, unaware of rabies scare

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-04 02:35:15

Health officials in Wyoming are sinking their teeth into a meaty task. Over 200 people who stayed in a hotel in Grand Teton National Park between May and July may have unknowingly been exposed to rabies, according to Wyoming Public Radio. In an announcement on Friday, the National Park Service reported finding evidence of a bat colony in the attic. The discovery was made after there had been at least eight incidents in which guests encountered winged mammals inside the hotel. Now, the Wyoming

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What's Your Curl Type? (2025)

wired.com Kat Merck 2026-01-02 15:00:00

Like, for instance, how to brush them. My mother has straight hair and didn't quite understand how to deal with my curls when I was a child, so she would deal with unruly hair the only way she knew how: by brushing it. As a result, I look like a poodle in nearly every one of my elementary school photos. According to Syed, brushing and combing curly hair is OK—but only when the hair is wet. Unsurprisingly, pin-straight Type 1 hair is the easiest to comb or brush. However, Type 4 hair is not four

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Pennsylvania attorney general's email, site down after cyberattack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-04 08:25:59

The Office of the Pennsylvania Attorney General has announced that a recent cyberattack has taken down its systems, including landline phone lines and email accounts. As Attorney General Dave Sunday revealed on social media on Monday, the office staff is currently working to restore affected services and investigate the incident with the help of law enforcement authorities. "The network that hosts the Office of Attorney General's systems is currently down, meaning the office's website is offli

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This website is for humans

news.ycombinator.com Sophie Koonin 2026-01-04 06:19:53

8 August 2025 Walking past a bus stop yesterday I saw an advert for Google’s AI search. The person in the ad had pointed their phone’s camera at a bowl of ramen, and the AI result explained how to reproduce it at home. How does it know? Because it’s trained on all the ramen recipes that multiple recipe authors spent hours, weeks, years perfecting. Generative AI is a blender chewing up other people’s hard work, outputting a sad mush that kind of resembles what you’re looking for, but without an

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Sam Altman Reportedly Launch Rival Brain-Chip Startup to Compete With Musk’s Neuralink

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2026-01-04 06:45:49

The rivalry between Sam Altman and Elon Musk is about to get weirder. Until now, the two have been fighting over whose company has the most advanced AI models. But soon, they could be battling to prove who makes the best brain chip implants. The Financial Times reported, citing unnamed sources, that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is working on co-founding a new brain chip startup called Merge Labs. The company will develop what is known as a brain-computer interface (BCI). BCIs work by implanting tiny

Topics: altman brain company musk openai

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Pebble’s smartwatch is back: Pebble Time 2 specs revealed

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-01-04 08:28:04

Eric Migicovsky, the original creator of the Pebble smartwatch, on Wednesday showed off the new designs for the upcoming watch, now known as the Pebble Time 2. Although the company originally branded its new watches as the Core 2 Duo and Core Time 2 when it first announced its plans to return to the market in March, Migicovsky says the company has since been able to regain the Pebble trademark. That means the new watches will instead be called the Pebble 2 Duo and the Pebble Time 2. Migicovsk

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GPT-5 was meant to cut choices, but OpenAI just added multiple modes - why?

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2026-01-04 11:55:08

Lance Whitney / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways GPT-5 now offers four different modes. You can still choose Auto to let ChatGPT determine how to respond. New choices add complexity to a model that was supposed to be simple. With the recent release of GPT-5, OpenAI touted its new model as a more efficient one that decides on its own how best to respond to your queries. Gone were the array of different modes that forced you to direct the AI based on whether you wanted a qui

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Website Is for Humans

news.ycombinator.com Sophie Koonin 2026-01-04 12:19:53

8 August 2025 Walking past a bus stop yesterday I saw an advert for Google’s AI search. The person in the ad had pointed their phone’s camera at a bowl of ramen, and the AI result explained how to reproduce it at home. How does it know? Because it’s trained on all the ramen recipes that multiple recipe authors spent hours, weeks, years perfecting. Generative AI is a blender chewing up other people’s hard work, outputting a sad mush that kind of resembles what you’re looking for, but without an

Topics: ai people recipe result website

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This Is the New Pebble Smartwatch, and Yes, It’s Now Called Pebble Again

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2026-01-04 12:39:55

After more than a decade, the Pebble smartwatch is back, and it already looks enticing for those of us who can’t be bothered with today’s health data-obsessed, sensor-filled, and all-too-weighty wearables. The company behind the revitalized watch shared its final designs for what’s coming, and it may be the simple smartwatch we’ve been missing since 2016. Last month, original Pebble designer Eric Migicovsky reported that his new company, Core Devices, was able to recover the Pebble trademark, m

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Amazon launches same-day delivery of meat, eggs, produce in more than 1,000 cities

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2026-01-04 17:52:55

An independent contractor wearing a protective mask and gloves loads Amazon Prime grocery bags into a car outside a Whole Foods Market in Berkeley, California, on Oct. 7, 2020. Amazon is rolling out same-day delivery of fresh foods to more pockets of the U.S. as it looks to encourage shoppers to add meat and eggs to their order while they're browsing its sprawling online store. The company announced Wednesday it's bringing the service to more than 1,000 U.S. cities and towns, including Raleigh

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What to Do When Critical Open Source Projects Go End of Life

news.ycombinator.com Bill Doerrfeld 2026-01-01 10:02:57

Ninety-eight percent of organizations use open source software (OSS) regularly, according to the Linux Foundation. Open source is pervasive. It’s embedded into the fabric of most applications we use in our daily lives. But it’s getting harder to keep up the pace of OSS version deprecations and end-of-life (EOL) cycles. “The life cycle for open source versions is definitely shortening,” Aaron Frost, co-founder and CEO at HeroDevs, which offers long-term support for deprecated open source, told T

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I'm Worried It Might Get Bad

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-04 17:25:48

I'm starting to worry things might get very bad, very soon. Not like in a year or two, but maybe in a few months. As in spontaneous recession type of thing. In the US mostly, but perhaps globally. It sounds irrational to me as well as I think it or type it. But I can't shake the feeling, so I want to try to write it all down to see how rational it looks on paper. A list of things that are troubling me In no real order, here are the various things I'm stressing about. I know a ton of reall

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Hisense Shrinks Its Giant TV, but It Still Costs a Mint

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-04 16:00:00

Ty Pendlebury Editor TV and home video editor Ty Pendlebury joined CNET Australia in 2006, and moved to New York City to be a part of CNET in 2011. He tests, reviews and writes about the latest TVs and audio equipment. When he's not playing Call of Duty he's eating whatever cuisine he can get his hands on. He has a cat named after one of the best TVs ever made.

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Samsung Takes on Supersized Rivals With 115-Inch Micro-LED Backlit TV

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-04 16:57:02

Ty Pendlebury Editor TV and home video editor Ty Pendlebury joined CNET Australia in 2006, and moved to New York City to be a part of CNET in 2011. He tests, reviews and writes about the latest TVs and audio equipment. When he's not playing Call of Duty he's eating whatever cuisine he can get his hands on. He has a cat named after one of the best TVs ever made.

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Pebble reveals Time 2’s refreshed metal design, shares specifics about the display

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-04 22:26:08

Core Devices TL;DR Pebble has revealed the design of its upcoming Time 2 smartwatch. Like the older Pebble Time Steel, the Time 2 also comes with a stainless steel body and metal buttons. It features a 1.5-inch colored e-paper display and is expected to start shipping in January 2026. The beloved barebones Pebble smart fitness trackers are set for a comeback in 2025 after more than eight years of being discontinued. Back in January this year, Pebble’s founder and ex-CEO Eric Migicovsky annou

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A year after Altman said superintelligence was imminent, GPT-5 is all we get?

zdnet.com Tiernan Ray 2026-01-04 22:25:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Botched rollout of GPT-5 doesn't suggest superintelligence. GPT-5 represents incremental technical progress. Scholars are debunking AI hype with detailed analyses. Nearly a year ago, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared artificial "superintelligence" was "just around the corner." Also: Sam Altman says the Singularity is imminent - here's why Then, last June, he trumpeted the arrival of superintelligence, writing in a blog post: "We have recentl

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Hisense 100UX TV Is a 100-Inch Mini-LED for $19,999

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-04 22:00:00

Ty Pendlebury Editor TV and home video editor Ty Pendlebury joined CNET Australia in 2006, and moved to New York City to be a part of CNET in 2011. He tests, reviews and writes about the latest TVs and audio equipment. When he's not playing Call of Duty he's eating whatever cuisine he can get his hands on. He has a cat named after one of the best TVs ever made.

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OpenAI, cofounder Sam Altman to take on Neuralink with new startup

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-04 22:08:33

OpenAI and its cofounder Sam Altman are preparing to back a company that will compete with Elon Musk’s Neuralink by connecting human brains with computers, heightening the rivalry between the two billionaire entrepreneurs. The new venture, called Merge Labs, is raising new funds at an $850 million valuation, with much of the new capital expected to come from OpenAI’s ventures team, according to three people with direct knowledge of the plans. Altman has encouraged the investment and will help

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Here’s a look at the final Pebble Time 2 design

theverge.com Victoria Song 2026-01-04 22:01:57

is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. Now that Pebble is Pebble again, we’re getting an official look at the new Pebble Time 2 that’ll ship to customers later this year. (We got a sneak peek back in March, but those were preliminary designs.) The designs were posted today by Core Devices CEO Eric Migicovsky on his blog and YouTube. The Time 2 will come in four colors, th

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Apple dismisses Elon Musk’s claims that App Store favors OpenAI over other AI apps

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2026-01-04 22:13:46

In Brief Apple has rejected Elon Musk’s accusations that its App Store is biased against AI apps that compete with OpenAI. “We feature thousands of apps through charts, algorithmic recommendations and curated lists selected by experts using objective criteria,” the BBC quoted Apple as saying. The response comes after Musk threatened to sue Apple via xAI, claiming the iPhone maker was “behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store.

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You can pick ChatGPT's older AI models again

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-05 03:15:49

ChatGPT will now allow you to choose between several GPT-5 variants and previous OpenAI models. In a post on X, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has revealed that the chatbot's model picker now comes with three GPT-5 choices: Auto, Fast and Thinking. He said most "will want Auto," which is most likely the standard version that's already a reasoning model. But users will be able to choose the fast-responding version or the Thinking version that implies it delivers longer, more comprehensive answers if they

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