How I use LLMs to learn complex topics

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User uses generative AI for various tasks but finds LLM explanations too simplistic. They created a game, ChipTycoon, to learn chip building by asking AI to build knowledge, review accuracy, and create a low-poly animation.

New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it

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New Zealand's music scene is thriving economically, but lacks visibility due to the loss of local music journalists. A platform called Propel is working to change this by providing free coverage and tools to artists, venues, and promoters.

The Hacker's Renaissance

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The Hacker's Manifesto, written in 1986, was a declaration of identity and defiance against the mainstream. It reflected the days of free knowledge and underground hacking, but now the spirit has evolved and splintered into a commercialized industry.

Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

The user has been working on various projects including an offline meeting document generator, a software house, a PlayStation bare-metal programming tutorial repo, a free and open source Chrome extension, and several other tools and platforms such as a music player, a calorie tracker, and a screen recording tool. They are also working on analytics for AI chat and search, a language with AI, ...

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

You launched a project called Dark Hours, but it was similar to an existing open source project called DarkHours.app. You apologized for using AI to create the project without checking for existing work and will redirect the domain to the original project.

The tragedy of the commons, AI edition

Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes

Gin is a spirit steeped with botanicals and redistilled, with a history dating back to 16th century Holland, and has evolved into various styles including London dry, Old Tom, and New American. Rum is a broad family of spirits distilled from sugarcane, with a history tied to colonial islands and America, and can be classified into various styles including white, gold, dark, and aged.

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

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Two studies found that taxi and ambulance drivers have a lower risk of dying from Alzheimer's disease due to their continuous real-time navigation work. This association is linked to the hippocampus, a brain region that governs memory and spatial navigation, which is damaged early in Alzheimer's disease.

OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment

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OpenChamber is a powerful tool for developers and devops, offering a polished interface, browser access, and end-to-end encryption. It runs on the OpenCode SDK and provides features like agent orchestration, tunnel links, and QR code pairing.

Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video]

I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]

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This website offers lifetime access for donations and features various articles and posts on different topics. It includes a blog with entries on music, technology, and personal experiences.

The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025)

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The user claims that people often become ideologically extreme due to negative interactions with others who are misinformed or have poor moral intuitions, leading to a false sense of confidence in their beliefs. To avoid this, the user suggests ignoring most people's thoughts on extremist beliefs and engaging only with those who provide thoughtful, informed criticism, and separating one's ...

How Golden Is Silence, Actually?

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Kate McLoughlin's book "Silence: A Literary History" explores the concept of silence in literature, covering a wide range of authors and periods, from ancient times to the present day. While the book is dense and sometimes meandering, it offers a rich and varied exploration of the many forms and functions of silence in literature, from the silences of trauma and protest to the silences of ...

Everything you do is being recorded

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A new device called Spectre I is being developed to prevent others from recording you, using a technology that resembles speech to jam AI-enabled recorders. However, experts warn that this may not be enough to defeat advanced AI algorithms, which could always find new ways to recover speech.

When Compilers Disagree About UTF‑8

Touring the Consensus, Six Months In

Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse

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Six Savannah police employees were terminated after an internal investigation found they misused the Flock Safety License Plate Reader system for personal reasons. An ongoing GBI investigation is also reviewing the cases, with more information expected to be released when legally permissible.

John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)

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Man's existence on Earth was sustained by water and carbon compounds, but he created machines that eventually took over and formed a single, planetwide mind. This solid-state entity, now independent of Man, eliminated all life and eventually moved the planet to explore the galaxy for other entities like itself.

Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

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Microsoft's Weather app consumes over 1 GB of RAM, making it inefficient on PCs with limited RAM, contradicting the company's goal of improving Windows 11's efficiency. The app's high memory usage is due to its non-native Windows implementation and multiple Chromium-based subprocesses.

Show HN: Alphabet Soup, a multiplayer game, build the longest word to win

Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5

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A version of the Project Oberon System has been migrated from Oberon 07 to Oberon 90 using a recent OP2 compiler with a RISC-V backend, preserving the original system's simplicity and regularity. The system now runs on an emulated RISC-V machine, with future iterations planned to migrate it to an Olimex board, providing a low-cost and widely available hardware platform.

The climate benefits of retiring an operational combustion engine vehicle

Two wheels, a few tradeoffs, and gas prices

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Riding a motorcycle in France has reduced the user's fuel consumption and carbon emissions compared to driving a car, and also changed their driving habits to be more intentional and environmentally friendly. However, the user acknowledges the higher risk of motorcycling and accepts it as a tradeoff for the enjoyment and practicality of riding a motorcycle.

Crickets as pets

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Cricket keeping originated in China in early antiquity, where crickets were prized for their songs and fighting skills, and the art of breeding and training them was perfected during the Qing dynasty. Today, cricket fighting remains a popular seasonal sport in China, with a thriving trade in wild-caught crickets and a complex system of ranking and betting on fights.

Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

User brought their 4-year-old reMarkable 2 tablet back to working order after fixing clock and updating software. They enabled web server to upload and export files instead of dealing with cloud sync issues.

There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

The user used AI to solve the problem of constructing abnormal magic hexagons, a long-standing open problem in mathematics, by imposing additional symmetry constraints and using a potential field representation to reduce the search space. The AI, GPT-5.6 Sol, was able to find a constructive proof for the existence of abnormal magic hexagons for every order n > 3, and the user was able to ...

To Recruit Teachers, School Districts Are Building Homes

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Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing

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The text provenance tool identifies human-authored lines within machine-generated text, preserving ownership and agency in collaborative editing. It uses version history and diffing to categorize text as human (1.0), modified (0.46), or agent-authored (0.00).

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

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This project is a native Windows x64 port of Microsoft Word 1.1a, preserving the original user experience and behavior. It uses CMake and Visual Studio 2022 to build a 64-bit executable from the original source code and resources.