Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | zhouyisu's commentslogin

I have also tried to upgrade home lamps. But instead of "smart", I choose simplicity. Using MDNS (local network discovery protocol) and a minimal HTTP interface, I made lamps discoverable and controllable offline via a basic Android App. No central servers, subscriptions, or cloud dependencies.

The result is pure freedom. Setup: plug in and connect to Wifi, done. Control: install app, join home network, control lamps anywhere in the house. Automation: A lightweight, customizable app handles everything.

The app polls locally for available lamps, which works flawlessly for 5-10 devices.

Security might be a problem, but since everything lives behind a firewall, I’m comfortable with the tradeoff.


I did similar for my lights, I just have a cronjob on my router that runs "sunwait" utility to pause until sunset, then uses curl to hit the "power on" endpoint of my $15 sonoff switch flashed with tasmota.

Manual on/off is just a URL shortcut in my chrome bookmark bar.

Basic but does what I want, turns light on when it starts to get dark, and simple bookmark on my laptop and phone to toggle power on/off manually.


A funny insight about Platonism (if it's not funny, treat this as a bad joke)

I think aka "∅" therefore I know I thought aka "{∅}" therefore I know I knew I have thought aka "{{∅}}"

and ...

boom! The entire Math system is imported. (BTW, limitations known as "computation theory" is also introduced)

So maybe we are actually mathematical being on a manifold named as "real world". To me it is more concise and profound than "philosophy". As we are real, so do all mathematical objects.


Now this is on github. (What would AI assistant system respond after trained on these instructions?)


Maybe some logic honeypot would be good, such as a infinite content paging list with some random trigger hidden at pages with non-sense titles. When one IP hits these triggers, it is automatically banned.

Bots will trigger it by walking through all pages, but real human would not click in since the paging is non-sense and titles are non-sense.


Yeah, but I don't want to ban bots. Also, they are not actively crawling anything, but rather mirroring the content on demand. At least that's my observation so far... thanks anyways.


Read your bible v.s. ask loki for explanation


How could we know if it found the key ingredient or it was pretending that?


Does it really matter? If it eventually gets basic logic right and can do research/correction of it's own mistakes - it'll be insanely valuable tool even if it doesn't have consciousness as we do.


We would know based on whether it was actually correct on a wide variety of topics or if it was wrong. Right now it is obviously wrong about a lot of basic things.


I'd like to see what instruction could let ChatGPT output such invention.


One solution could be:

If you volunteered to be acknowledged as a genius, you must open your status. You wear special shakles which is salient and observable to everyone paying the resources directly or indirectly. You shouldn't be allowed to physically protect yourself to your surroundings or you lose the genius status. (or under some absolute physical restraint or suffering verifiable by everyone). Everyone could challenge you at court with sound evidences, which is judged by random sampled jury group by laws well established in future.

With that I could trust to give them "life long resources" to give us "prophecy".


What the fuck is wrong with you?

"You shouldn't be allowed to physically protect yourself to your surroundings or you lose the genius status. (or under some absolute physical restraint or suffering verifiable by everyone)."

We've already effectively given people life long resources for nothing more than exiting the correct vagina. And you seem to want to make it legal to effectively freely harass nerds.


I changed my mind. Give all same kind UBI is better idea. Otherwise "shakled genius" may find a way to jailbreak and cast wisdom of revenge on everyone else.


Automated founders, automated managements, human battery, dream making machines. Welcome to the MATRIX.


A interesting deduction:

By making quantum computer, we are making us into Schrödinger’s Cat. Which entangles our destiny to a quantum possibility.

Such as a highly sophiscated military quantum computer which decides war and peace on quantum computing.

It must be very fun to observe us from a Alien Species's angle.


Quantum computing is a means to avoid checking wrong solutions en route to solving certain types of problems. Seems very unlikely for this kind of decision to ever depend on a quantum computer.


Consider applying for YC's Fall 2025 batch! Applications are open till Aug 4

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: