🗣️ Post 1: Beyond Meat is headed to Chapter 11 bankruptcy

As posted by: geox  |  🔥 Points: 14

🔗 https://www.thestreet.com/restaurants/beyond-meat-is-headed-to-chapter-11-bankruptcy

💬 Summary

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🗣️ Post 2: Ask HN: What's Going on with AI Psychosis?

As posted by: hhh  |  🔥 Points: 8

🔗 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44855226

💬 Summary

I am seeing more and more people spiraling in their personal lives that aren't doing great, and turning to ChatGPT for comfort, insight, or investigation and it feels like so many of them are slowly spiraling into some sort of psychosis, and I see it continuously on social media seeing new people fully parting from reality to believe what the computer tells them.

It feels like we've achieved something thought impossible, and in 3 years it's spiraled into 75% 'do my work for me', 15% personal issues (and a subset going into this delusional group), and 10% gooning...

I'm surprised we aren't starting to see more push on the major labs in trying to fight this problem... We got a mention of it with sycophancy in the GPT-5 announcement, but not much else really.

It feels like this is going to be an increasing problem, but I don't even know where to start with getting my friends and family to even think twice about what comes out of the machine.

🗣️ Post 3: 1400 Years Old Digital Checksum for Humans to Consider

As posted by: lbensaad  |  🔥 Points: 3

🔗 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44860711

💬 Summary

# 1400 Years Old Digital Checksum for Humans to Consider

A 1400-year-old text appears to implement the same error-detection principles we use in modern computing—without requiring any extra space for the checksum data.

## The Challenge

Imagine you're tasked with designing an integrity verification system for a text that must:

• Survive 1400+ years of manual copying
• Work without any additional metadata or checksums
• Be verifiable by humans with basic arithmetic
• Be impossible to forge or replicate accidentally

Sounds impossible? Meet the Quran.

## The Structure

The Quran consists of 114 chapters, each containing a variable number of verses, for example, chapter 1 has 7 verse, chapter 2 has 286 verses, chapter 3 has 200 verse. The total number verses in all the book is 6,236 verses. What's remarkable is how this seemingly random structure creates a self-verifying mathematical pattern.

## The Checksum Algorithm

Consider Q the set of all chapters, each chapter as a pair (c, v) where c is the chapter number and v is its verse count. We have |Q| = 114, notice that for Q:

• ∑v = 6236 for all chapters in Q (which is the total verses in the entire book, 7+286+200+...+5=6236)
• ∑ c =6555 for all chapters in Q (which is the sum of all chapter numbers 1+2+...+114=6555)

Now partition all 114 chapters into two sets:

• Set A: Chapters where (c + v) % 2 == 0 (even parity: both c and v are even or both are odd)
• Set B: Chapters where (c + v) % 2 == 1 (odd parity: one of the is even the other is odd)

### The Results Are Statistically Impossible

1. Perfect Balance: |A| = |B| = 57 chapters each, eventhough verse counts for eatch chapter seems random
2. Verse count VS chapter number: The sum of all verses in A equals the sum of all chapter numbers in B
3. The Kicker:
   • In subset A, ∑ (c + v)= 6236 = ∑v in Q (this is a the ckecksum for the total verses in the entire book)
   • In subset B, ∑ (c + v)= 6555 = ∑ c in Q (this is the checksum for total chapter numbers in the entire book)

## Why This Matters

This is not just numerology. It's a structural checksum that:

• Uses the content itself as the error-detection mechanism
• Requires zero additional storage overhead
• Makes corruptions, such as removing or adding verses, immediately detectable
• Cannot be reproduced by chance

Modern checksums add extra bits to detect transmission errors. This ancient text embedded the checksum into its very structure—the number of verses per chapter is the checksum.

## The Computer Science Angle

We're looking at what appears to be:

• Self-verifying data structure: The organization proves its own integrity
• Zero-overhead error detection: No additional space required
• Distributed redundancy: Multiple mathematical relationships cross-verify
• Human-readable algorithm: Verifiable with pen and paper

For a text predating computers by 1400 years to demonstrate these principles suggests either:

1. Extraordinary mathematical sophistication in 7th century Arabia, or
2. Something more profound at work

## The Challenge

Whether you're a believer or skeptic, the mathematical structure is undeniable and worth investigating. The full patterns would be impressive even for modern human let alone a text from the medieval period.

For the curious: The complete mathematical analysis reveals patterns involving the number 7, "public keys" based on letter frequencies, and geometric relationships.

What's your take? Coincidence, ancient mathematical genius, or something else entirely?

🗣️ Post 4: Vectorless: open-source PDF chatbot without RAG

As posted by: richardmeng  |  🔥 Points: 3

🔗 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44860698

💬 Summary

Open-sourcing "Vectorless", a new PDF chatbot without embedding vectors.

Github Repo: https://github.com/roe-ai/vectorless-chatbot

Demo app: https://vectorless-chatbot.vercel.app/

How it works:

1. Select best docs – Feed the LLM high-level descriptions + doc names. It picks which docs to use.
2. Select best pages – The Agent goes through the doc pages and pulls out the most relevant pages for your question.
3. Gather and answer – Agent takes all the relevant pages from step 2 and gives you the final answer.

Advantages

1. It's more predictable than vectors. You can tell the Agent exactly how you want to analyze your files.
2. You can ask abstract questions like: “How does NVIDIA compare to AMD in terms of risk?”
3. You can ask aggregate questions like: “How many questions in this SOC 2 report are marked negative?”
4. It supports multimodal questions and documents by nature.

Disadvantages

1. To work in a scalable setup, step 1 relies on high quality metadata over the documents.
2. Step 2 can be wasteful if the user asks a simple follow-up question, the context can be reused.
3. Slower than vector search chat.

How it will scale:

1. We envision a structured metadata retrieval via text to SQL to locate the paths of documents based on the user's questions at step 1.
2. Step 2 can be improved by caching. We envision when a document is queried once, a table of content can be stored, evolved, and leveraged as future questions come in.

🗣️ Post 5: Code Web Chat – Connect VS Code with Free Chatbots

As posted by: robertpiosik  |  🔥 Points: 3

🔗 https://github.com/robertpiosik/CodeWebChat

💬 Summary

Code Web Chat A versatile AI pair programming tool connecting VS Code with free chatbots. With emphasis put on context management, it delivers accuracy, predictability, speed and cost efficiency unmatched by IDE or terminal based coding agents. CWC is designed for real-world programming, saving you sanity, money and time. ✅ Initializes 15+ chatbots hands-free ✅ Intelligently applies chat responses ✅ Includes all the essential API tools 🫡 100% free and open source With CWC you can: Step into the new era of AI-assisted coding: granularly select folders and files, type something and pick "edit format" instructions (whole/truncated/diff), initialize new chat or send an API request and integrate multi-file changes. Get accurate code completions using the selected context with SOTA reasoning...

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