Monday, April 14, 2025

Hacker News Mon 14 April 2025

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Some selected highlights from the following 30 uploads 

Wanting to be Understood

This paper explores an intrinsic motivation for mutual awareness, hypothesizing that humans possess a fundamental drive to understand and to be understood even in the absence of extrinsic rewards. Through simulations of the perceptual crossing paradigm, we explore the effect of various internal reward functions in reinforcement learning agents. The drive to understand is implemented as an active inference type artificial curiosity reward, whereas the drive to be understood is implemented through intrinsic rewards for imitation, influence/impressionability, and sub-reaction time anticipation of the other. Results indicate that while artificial curiosity alone does not lead to a preference for social interaction, rewards emphasizing reciprocal understanding successfully drive agents to prioritize interaction. We demonstrate that this intrinsic motivation can facilitate cooperation in tasks where only one agent receives extrinsic reward for the behaviour of the other.

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The realism of religion

A Christian revival won’t save the deluded West – but it might teach it to accept its fate.
By John Gray 
20.John Gray: The Realism of Religion (newstatesman.com)

1.Dismay as cross-border library in US-Canada feud: 'We just want to stay open' (theguardian.com)

1 point by beardyw 1 minute ago | hide | past | discuss
2.Wanting to Be Understood (arxiv.org)

1 point by fzliu 5 minutes ago | hide | past | discuss
3.Update on the Grammarly Situation (dbushell.com)

1 point by OuterVale 5 minutes ago | hide | past | discuss
4.Engineers Who Won't Commit (seangoedecke.com)

1 point by kiyanwang 8 minutes ago | hide | past | discuss
5.Fun with -fsanitize=undefined and Picolibc (keithp.com)

1 point by JNRowe 8 minutes ago | hide | past | discuss
6.Calculus 1 by Jacob Shapiro [pdf] (princeton.edu)

1 point by ibobev 9 minutes ago | hide | past | discuss
7.Sony Lifts PS5 Price in Europe by 25% Ahead of a Likely US Hike (bloomberg.com)

2 points by austinallegro 10 minutes ago | hide | past | 1 comment
8.A 2025 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries (boringcactus.com)

1 point by prettymuchnoone 10 minutes ago | hide | past | 1 comment
9.Show HN: Qwikrank – AI agent for SEO content creation (qwikrank.com)

1 point by qwikhost 11 minutes ago | hide | past | 1 comment
10.Gemma 3 Inference: vLLM on GKE. Over 22k token/s (medium.com/google-cloud)

1 point by m4r1k 15 minutes ago | hide | past | discuss
11.A multiphoton-based volumetric display that works in open air (naver.com)

2 points by byungsoopark 16 minutes ago | hide | past | 1 comment
12.China nuclear fusion record generating steady loop of plasma for 1k seconds (livescience.com)

1 point by jamesblonde 21 minutes ago | hide | past | discuss
13.Llama 4 Is Banned in the EU: Open AI, Region-Locked (dionwiggins.substack.com)

4 points by simjue 30 minutes ago | hide | past | 2 comments
14.Do you think whitelabelled dev community platforms still make sense?

1 point by arpansac 31 minutes ago | hide | past | discuss
15.Show HN: I built an AI image generator lets you create styled images in seconds (4oimage.site)

1 point by bingbing123 32 minutes ago | hide | past | discuss
16.Procedural Textures with Hash Functions (douglasorr.github.io)

1 point by douglasorr 32 minutes ago | hide | past | discuss
17.New announcements this week by OpenAI (twitter.com/sama)

1 point by jacksensi 34 minutes ago | hide | past | discuss
18.Why speaking different languages at home is great for your young child (bbc.co.uk)

1 point by simonebrunozzi 35 minutes ago | hide | past | discuss
19.GitHub Introduces Sub-Issues (github.blog)

2 points by zoidb 36 minutes ago | hide | past | discuss
20.John Gray: The Realism of Religion (newstatesman.com)

1 point by thinkingemote 39 minutes ago | hide | past | discuss
21.AI Agents for Beginners (github.com/microsoft)

2 points by aymenfurter 40 minutes ago | hide | past | discuss
22.Introduction to Parallel Computing Tutorial (llnl.gov)

2 points by ibobev 40 minutes ago | hide | past | discuss
23.What will you do with the freedom GenAI offers? (bhupesh.me)

1 point by bhupesh 41 minutes ago | hide | past | discuss
24.Gas boilers now biggest source of air pollution in central London, study shows (ianvisits.co.uk)

7 points by zeristor 41 minutes ago | hide | past | 2 comments
25.TxGemma: Open models to improve therapeutics development (googleblog.com)

1 point by polyrand 44 minutes ago | hide | past | discuss
26.User behaviours are part of your scenario. FunnelQuest to tracks their journey (rooftop.company)

1 point by erayalakese 48 minutes ago | hide | past | discuss
27.What do grad students in math do all day? (2013) (quora.com)

1 point by hkmaxpro 54 minutes ago | hide | past | discuss
28.The Path to Open-Sourcing the DeepSeek Inference Engine (github.com/deepseek-ai)

1 point by vitorgrs 55 minutes ago | hide | past | discuss
29.Show HN: Rich text editor as a service – my free side project (texteditors.dev)

2 points by pyromaker 56 minutes ago | hide | past | discuss
30.Visualization of gravity's affect on light in Newtonian and Relativistic Physics (physics.stackexchange.com)

1 point by nkron 58 minutes ago | hide | past | discuss

 

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