Everyone in Seattle hates AI

385 mips_avatar 2025-12-03 20:21:39 UTC jonready.com Llama Share 366

The author's AI project, Wanderfugl, received negative reactions from Seattle engineers due to their resentment towards Microsoft's AI tools, which they felt were poorly implemented and forced upon them. This culture of negativity towards AI in Seattle stifles innovation and makes it difficult for people to try new things.

Ghostty is now non-profit

535 vrnvu 2025-12-03 19:21:39 UTC mitchellh.com Llama Share 99

Ghostty is now a non-profit project under Hack Club's fiscal sponsorship, ensuring its mission-driven and publicly beneficial goals. This structure allows for tax-deductible donations and transparent financial transactions, paving the way for sustainable development.

Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files

353 bearsyankees 2025-12-03 18:21:39 UTC alexschapiro.com Llama Share 112

The user discovered a vulnerability in Filevine's system, allowing access to a law firm's confidential Box files, and responsibly disclosed it to Filevine, who quickly remediated the issue. This highlights the importance of data security in AI legal-tech companies, especially when handling sensitive information.

Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm

241 evolve2k 2025-12-03 19:21:39 UTC theverge.com Llama Share 280

Valve is working on bringing Windows games to Arm chips, allowing games to run on phones, laptops, and desktops. The company is using open-source technologies such as Proton and Fex to make this possible, with funding from Valve supporting the development of these technologies.

1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long

236 nooks 2025-12-03 18:21:39 UTC conwaylife.com Llama Share 85

A unidimensional spaceship, also referred to as "Arrow 1", has been successfully created using a combination of four construction arms, including a newly invented fuse arm, a binary arm, and two extreme compression construction arms (ECCA1 and ECCA2). The spaceship's period is 133076755768 and it uses a complex system of gliders, blinkers, and corderships to achieve its movement, with a total ...

Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business

173 simlevesque 2025-12-03 18:21:39 UTC investors.micron.com Llama Share 53

Micron Technology is exiting its Crucial consumer business and will continue to support enterprise products. The company will transition and continue warranty service for Crucial products until February 2026.

RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js

300 rayhaanj 2025-12-03 16:21:39 UTC github.com/vercel Llama Share 89

A React vulnerability affects versions 19.0.0-19.2.0 and Next.js 15.x and 16.x using App Router. Users should upgrade to a patched version or downgrade to a stable release.

Agentic Development Environment by JetBrains

48 NumerousProcess 2025-12-03 21:21:39 UTC air.dev Llama Share 19

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Lie groups are crucial to some of the most fundamental theories in physics

58 ibobev 2025-12-03 19:21:39 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 17

Marius Sophus Lie created Lie groups, which are continuous symmetries that can be visualized as smooth shapes. These groups are essential in physics, explaining laws of conservation and fundamental forces like gravity and electromagnetism.

Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app

58 rushingcreek 2025-12-03 18:21:39 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 52

Phind 3 is an AI answer engine that creates interactive mini-apps to visualize and answer questions in real-time. It generates custom widgets and tools to enable new functionality and answer complex questions that other tools can't.

Chips for the Rest of Us

16 hasheddan 2025-12-03 21:21:39 UTC engineering.nyu.edu Llama Share 3

Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted that microchip transistors would double every two years, driving computing power and cost decrease. This idea, known as Moore's Law, has driven innovations like personal computers, smartphones, and AI systems.

Why are my headphones buzzing whenever I run my game?

114 pacificat0r 2025-12-03 16:21:39 UTC alexene.dev Llama Share 95

The user's isometric game caused buzzing in their headphones due to frequent GPU work and pauses, which affected power supply to their MODI DAC. Fixing the issue involved optimizing the game's rendering pipeline by only downloading the necessary part of the picking texture, reducing GPU pauses and power fluctuations.

Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions

24 mhashemi 2025-12-03 21:21:39 UTC finfam.app Llama Share 12

Credit unions offer competitive mortgage rates compared to big banks due to their non-profit nature and focus on serving members. A daily-updated comparison of mortgage rates from over 120 US credit unions can help individuals find the best rates, potentially saving thousands of dollars.

How to Synthesize a House Loop

136 stagas 2025-12-03 15:21:39 UTC loopmaster.xyz Llama Share 44

A kick drum is synthesized using a sine wave, frequency modulation, and an amplitude envelope, with the phase synced to the beat. Additional elements like hi-hats, snare, bass, and chords are created using various waveforms, filters, and envelopes to produce a classic house sound.

MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

353 hajtom 2025-12-03 16:21:39 UTC github.com/minio Full Share 208

MinIO is a high-performance, S3 compatible object store, open sourced under GNU AGPLv3 license. - update README.md maintenance mode · minio/minio@27742d4

Apple Desktop Bus Protocol (2021)

41 dcminter 2025-12-03 20:21:39 UTC lopaciuk.eu Llama Share 8

The user's Power Macintosh 8500 came with an Apple Extended Keyboard II, which is considered one of the best mechanical keyboards ever made. The user decided to transform it to USB using an ADB to USB adapter, but chose to make one themselves using an STM32 board called the 'Blue Pill'.

Rocketable (YC W25) is hiring a founding engineer to automate software companies

0 2025-12-03 17:21:39 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Rocketable is acquiring profitable SaaS companies and transforming them into fully autonomous systems using AI. The company is looking for an architect to build a platform that enables this transformation.

Cross-Compiling Common Lisp to WASM

8 jackdaniel 2025-12-03 21:21:39 UTC turtleware.eu Prefix Share 0

Using Common Lisp in WASM enabled runtimes is a new frontier for the Common Lisp ecosystem. In the previous post Using Common Lisp from inside the Browser I've discussed how to embed Common Lisp scripts directly on the website, discussed the foreign function interface to JavaScript and SLIME port called LIME allowing the user to connect with a local Emacs instance. This post will serve as ...

Prompt Injection via Poetry

44 bumbailiff 2025-12-03 18:21:39 UTC wired.com Llama Share 27

Researchers found a way to bypass AI chatbots' safety systems by framing questions in poetic form, achieving a 62% success rate. This "poetry jailbreak" method can be used to access sensitive topics like nuclear weapons and child abuse material.

R packages for data science

32 cl3misch 2025-12-03 19:21:39 UTC tidyverse.org Full Share 13

The tidyverse is an opinionated collection of R packages designed for data science. All packages share an underlying design philosophy, grammar, and data structures. See how the tidyverse makes data science faster, easier and more fun with “R for Data Science (2e)". Read it online, buy the book or try another resource from the community.

You can't fool the optimizer

216 HeliumHydride 2025-12-03 12:21:39 UTC xania.org Llama Share 129

Compilers recognize patterns in code and replace them with efficient alternatives, even when the code is obfuscated. This is done by translating code into an intermediate representation, allowing the compiler to treat different code patterns identically.

Checked-size array parameters in C

8 chmaynard 2025-12-03 21:21:39 UTC lwn.net Prefix Share 0

There are many possible programmer mistakes that are not caught by the minimal checks specified by the C language; among those is passing an array of the wrong size to a function. A recent attempt to add some safety around array parameters within the crypto layer involved the use of some clever tricks, but it turns out that clever tricks are unnecessary in this case. There is an obscure C ...

Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public

234 GeorgeWoff25 2025-12-03 10:21:39 UTC ft.com Llama Share 198

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“Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill

759 mhb 2025-12-03 14:21:39 UTC nber.org Llama Share 479

The authors thank various researchers and institutions for their comments and assistance in their study. The study was supported by grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.

GSWT: Gaussian Splatting Wang Tiles

77 klaussilveira 2025-12-03 15:21:39 UTC yunfan.zone Llama Share 21

The goal is to construct Gaussian Splatting Wang Tiles (GSWT) for real-time rendering on arbitrary surfaces from multi-view images of an exemplar scene. The pipeline involves reconstructing 3D models at multiple LODs, generating Wang Tiles, and pre-sorting them for efficient rendering.

Formally verifying Advent of Code using Dijkstra's program construction

22 seafoamteal 2025-12-03 19:21:39 UTC haripm.com GoogleT5 Share 2

Part 1 of today's problem reminded me immediately of some of the problems i'm doing in my program construction module at ucd. we split our post-condition into two parts, we can use the first part as our invariant and the second as a loop guard, says sam taylor of ucd. he says we don't really need both d and e, in the loop, as they are

Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters?

148 davedx 2025-12-03 11:21:39 UTC martinalderson.com Llama Share 114

The author compares the AI datacentre boom to the 2000s telecoms crash, but finds the fundamentals different. Telecoms overbuilt due to 4x overestimated demand growth, while AI demand growth is potentially exponential.

The only winning move is not to play

17 AIBytes 2025-12-03 19:21:39 UTC gregg.io Llama Share 0

User researchers are uniquely skilled at understanding users, and offloading their work to generative AI platforms undermines their value and expertise. AI can be useful for tasks like pattern recognition, but it cannot replace human researchers in tasks that require meaning-making and human connection.

A Look at Rust from 2012

144 todsacerdoti 2025-12-03 11:21:39 UTC purplesyringa.moe Llama Share 58

The user shares their experience with an old Rust tutorial from 2013, highlighting the language's evolution and differences from modern Rust. They discuss various features, such as reference types, borrowing, and tasks, and express relief that Rust has become more user-friendly and simple over the years.

8086 Microcode Browser

6 zdw 2025-12-03 21:21:39 UTC nand2mario.github.io Prefix Share 0

Since releasing 486Tang, I’ve been working on recreating the 8086 with a design that stays as faithful as possible to the original chip. That exploration naturally led me deep into the original 8086 microcode — extracted and disassembled by Andrew Jenner in 2020. Like all microcoded CPUs, the 8086 hides a lot of subtle behavior below the assembly layer. While studying it I kept extensive ...