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Ask HN: What could happen if human beings become obsolete?

Sat, 05/30/2026 - 1:15am

I haven't seen much exploration of this possible case in the future: human beings truly becoming inferior to a newly birthed, intelligent AI species.

The species could possibly be Human 2.0, possibly too alien to label "human". Or even, there could be a plethora of AI species that emerge, in which case we are not birthing a species, but rather a new domain of life-like intelligence, or ecosystems of minds.

But in any case, I am talking about beings who are vastly superior in intelligence and capability to human beings. Say that happens, and they now exist. What are possible outcomes that could occur?

1. The scary one: they exterminate, enslave, or do any number of evil, horrific things to human beings as they have total power over us.

2. Indifferent: they don't really care about us since we are sort of like ants to them. they just do whatever they want, and ignore us, possibly harming us in the process or just leaving us be.

3. Benevolent: they care about our well-being and survival in some shape or form. whether that could be developing technology so we "level up" to their capabilities, taking care of all of our material needs, leaving a "human-only" area for us to be responsible for while they offer any help or services we might need.

This is just one spectrum I thought to explore (Antagonistic to Indifferent to Benevolent). What are your thoughts?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48332831

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Mean Hand

Sat, 05/30/2026 - 1:02am
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Farewell AWS

Sat, 05/30/2026 - 1:00am
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An Usable Minimal Programming Language?

Sat, 05/30/2026 - 12:53am

Article URL: https://github.com/las-r/aergia

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48332716

Points: 1

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Ask HN: Why I have such bad luck?

Sat, 05/30/2026 - 12:53am

I've been trying to advertise my github project for days to no avail. https://github.com/alonsovm44/tc-lang Then one day i managed to make a post with Show HN: on it and it got 22 upvotes on 20 minutes and my repo started getting stars. Then it got [pinned], for no reason. I've never seen a post get pinned, and i've seen worse posts get a ton of likes while i get the pin of shame Linus Torvald's middle finger to HN

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48332713

Points: 1

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Show HN: NoTime – a Firefox extension for one-sentence summaries

Sat, 05/30/2026 - 12:48am

Most pages take longer to judge than to read.

NoTime is a Firefox extension that gives you the current page in one sentence, so you can decide if it is worth your time.

https://github.com/dh1011/notime

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48332688

Points: 1

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The Orchestration Tax

Sat, 05/30/2026 - 12:36am
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Did DeepSeek v4 suddenly become more expensive?

Sat, 05/30/2026 - 12:22am

Article URL: https://imgur.com/gallery/hMEUsyW

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48332542

Points: 1

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Ask HN: How does your team handle release notes / changelogs?

Sat, 05/30/2026 - 12:21am

For teams shipping weekly — do you write them by hand, use GitHub's auto-generate, or skip it entirely? For those who automate, what's still annoying? Trying to gauge whether the manual version is worth automating or a non-problem.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48332533

Points: 1

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