#Synthetic
I have a vague recollection of a book that I believe was required reading during high school. Maybe I’m misremembering or maybe it’s been memoryholed. 🤷‍♂️ I’m going to enjoy my synthetic gin and do my 2-minute hate against Goldstein.
November 12, 2025 at 8:02 AM
People dislike synthetic content but it will likely be harder and harder to tell, leading to misleading purchases. Like social slop, at one point you start feeling icky and it becomes easier to just switch to a more « trustful » platform. I’m pretty sure my kids have this generational agility.
November 12, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Short-term: this is bad news across all media because of discoverability. Also, it seems inevitable that GenAI content will meet some degree of success and amplify hits replication, leading to a glut of synthetic content.

I believe that in current trend is seeded an alternative distribution.
November 12, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 7:15 AM
And it turns out that synthetic fragrances are in FUCKING EVERYTHING.
November 12, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Yeah, having had to handwash clothes due to lack of washer/dryer that wasn't contaminated with synthetic fragrances means if I never have to handwash again it will be too soon.

Some folks genuinely can't do communal laundry. Not with how detergents are currently formulated.
November 12, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Fabio Falcioni, Elena Orlova, Timothy Heightman, Philip Mantrov, Aleksei Ustimenko: Benchmarking Simulacra AI's Quantum Accurate Synthetic Data Generation for Chemical Sciences https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07433 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.07433 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.07433
November 12, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Show HN: CellARC Measuring Intelligence with Cellular Automata CellARC, a synthetic benchmark for abstraction and reasoning is built from multicolor 1D cellular automata (CA). Each episode has five...

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CellARC: Measuring Intelligence with Cellular Automata
We introduce CellARC, a synthetic benchmark for abstraction and reasoning built from multicolor 1D cellular automata (CA). Each episode has five support pairs and one query serialized in 256 tokens, enabling rapid iteration with small models while exposing a controllable task space with explicit knobs for alphabet size k, radius r, rule family, Langton's lambda, query coverage, and cell entropy. We release 95k training episodes plus two 1k test splits (interpolation/extrapolation) and evaluate symbolic, recurrent, convolutional, transformer, recursive, and LLM baselines. CellARC decouples generalization from anthropomorphic priors, supports unlimited difficulty-controlled sampling, and enables reproducible studies of how quickly models infer new rules under tight budgets. Our strongest small-model baseline (a 10M-parameter vanilla transformer) outperforms recent recursive models (TRM, HRM), reaching 58.0%/32.4% per-token accuracy on the interpolation/extrapolation splits, while a large closed model (GPT-5 High) attains 62.3%/48.1% on subsets of 100 test tasks. An ensemble that chooses per episode between the Transformer and the best symbolic baseline reaches 65.4%/35.5%, highlighting neuro-symbolic complementarity. Leaderboard: https://cellarc.mireklzicar.com
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November 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Show HN: CellARC Measuring Intelligence with Cellular Automata CellARC, a synthetic benchmark for abstraction and reasoning is built from multicolor 1D cellular automata (CA). Each episode has five...

Origin | Interest | Match
CellARC: Measuring Intelligence with Cellular Automata
We introduce CellARC, a synthetic benchmark for abstraction and reasoning built from multicolor 1D cellular automata (CA). Each episode has five support pairs and one query serialized in 256 tokens, enabling rapid iteration with small models while exposing a controllable task space with explicit knobs for alphabet size k, radius r, rule family, Langton's lambda, query coverage, and cell entropy. We release 95k training episodes plus two 1k test splits (interpolation/extrapolation) and evaluate symbolic, recurrent, convolutional, transformer, recursive, and LLM baselines. CellARC decouples generalization from anthropomorphic priors, supports unlimited difficulty-controlled sampling, and enables reproducible studies of how quickly models infer new rules under tight budgets. Our strongest small-model baseline (a 10M-parameter vanilla transformer) outperforms recent recursive models (TRM, HRM), reaching 58.0%/32.4% per-token accuracy on the interpolation/extrapolation splits, while a large closed model (GPT-5 High) attains 62.3%/48.1% on subsets of 100 test tasks. An ensemble that chooses per episode between the Transformer and the best symbolic baseline reaches 65.4%/35.5%, highlighting neuro-symbolic complementarity. Leaderboard: https://cellarc.mireklzicar.com
arxiv.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Jarett Dewbury, Chi-en Amy Tai, Alexander Wong: Cancer-Net PCa-MultiSeg: Multimodal Enhancement of Prostate Cancer Lesion Segmentation Using Synthetic Correlated Diffusion Imaging https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07816 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.07816 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.07816
November 12, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Georg Rottenwalter, Marcel Tilly, Christian Bielenberg, Katharina Obermeier: Advancements in synthetic data extraction for industrial injection molding https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08117 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08117 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.08117
November 12, 2025 at 6:29 AM
As soon as a robot has purposes, and actions, “synthetic personality” emerges. Personality should not be artificially programmed IMO.

One of my robots sometimes fails to properly dock, and I always find it nestled up against the nearby robot.
Apparent personality problem.
November 12, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Dek, a young Yautja who is exiled to the planet Genna to prove his worth by hunting Kalisk. He forms an unlikely alliance with Thia, a damaged synthetic whose team was destroyed by Kalisk.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 6:08 AM
"Yes, the synthetic minds are sending me subliminal messages through my TV to turn me gay."

"Mmhmm, and they were sent by Sam Bankman-Fried?"

"Exactly, you understand! Thank god."
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 AM