10 Years of Let's Encrypt

167 SGran 2025-12-09 19:46:29 UTC letsencrypt.org Llama Share 57

Let's Encrypt issued its first publicly-trusted certificate in 2015 and has since become the largest certificate authority, protecting over 900 million websites. The nonprofit's goal is to make HTTPS encryption prevalent, which has increased from below 30% to around 80% globally.

Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 years from now

1085 keepamovin 2025-12-09 15:46:29 UTC dosaygo-studio.github.io Full Share 460

PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance

241 fsflover 2025-12-09 17:46:29 UTC digitalpublicgoods.net Llama Share 36

The solution submitted various repositories and content sources for evaluation. Ricardo Torres reviewed PeerTube and found it to meet the DPG Standard.

Mistral Releases Devstral 2 (72.2% SWE-Bench Verified) and Vibe CLI

348 pember 2025-12-09 15:46:29 UTC mistral.ai Llama Share 164

Mistral AI releases Devstral 2, a 123B-parameter open-source coding model, and Devstral Small 2, a 24B-parameter model, both permissively licensed to accelerate distributed intelligence. Devstral 2 achieves 72.2% on SWE-bench Verified, while Devstral Small 2 scores 68.0%, with both models being highly cost efficient.

If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?

167 sramsay 2025-12-09 17:46:29 UTC stephenramsay.net Llama Share 189

The author, a programmer and professor, discusses the rise of "vibe coding" where AI models write code, and while it's convenient, it takes away the fun and satisfaction of writing code by hand. The author proposes the idea of a "vibe-oriented programming language" that would be designed specifically for AI models to write code, but questions whether this would be a step forward or a step ...

Handsdown one of the coolest 3D websites

242 razzmataks 2025-12-09 16:46:29 UTC bruno-simon.com Llama Share 69

This user's portfolio is a 3D world built with Three.js library, showcasing their skills and work. It includes devlogs on their YouTube channel and open-source code on GitHub.

Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain

269 freshrap6 2025-12-09 15:46:29 UTC repebble.com Llama Share 274

The user invented Pebble Index 01, a small ring with a button and microphone that records thoughts and sends them to the user's phone for note-taking, reminders, and review. The ring is customizable, private, and has a long battery life, and it can be pre-ordered for $75 with a price increase to $99 after March 2026.

So You Want to Speak at Software Conferences?

52 speckx 2025-12-09 18:46:29 UTC dylanbeattie.net Llama Share 11

To take your public speaking to the next level, figure out what success means to you and be realistic about the work involved. Start by giving talks at local user groups, community conferences, and meetups, and then submit to bigger conferences once you have a track record of delivering good talks.

Donating the Model Context Protocol and Establishing the Agentic AI Foundation

69 meetpateltech 2025-12-09 17:46:29 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 30

We're donating the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation for open collaboration and neutrality. MCP has achieved 10,000+ active servers, adoption by popular AI products, and official SDKs with 97M+ monthly downloads.

Kaiju – General purpose 3D/2D game engine in Go and Vulkan with built in editor

121 discomrobertul8 2025-12-09 15:46:29 UTC github.com/kaijuengine Llama Share 51

Kaiju is a Go-based game engine using Vulkan for 2D/3D rendering, aiming for simplicity and high performance. It achieves 5,400 FPS on a black background and cube, and 2,712 FPS with a complete game, outperforming Unity.

LLM from scratch, part 28 – training a base model from scratch on an RTX 3090

410 gpjt 2025-12-09 09:46:29 UTC gilesthomas.com Llama Share 96

The user attempted to train a GPT-2 small sized base model on their own hardware using the Hugging Face FineWeb-series datasets and achieved a level of performance almost as good as the original in just over 48 hours. They used the Chinchilla heuristic to determine the optimal number of tokens to train for, which resulted in a 3.2B token training run that could be completed in 44 hours using ...

We Need to Die

11 ericzawo 2025-12-09 20:23:29 UTC willllliam.com Llama Share 1

The author opposes the idea of removing death as a natural part of life, feeling that it's essential for human existence and motivation. They believe that death provides a deadline that drives people to pursue their goals and desires.

Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Designer

0 2025-12-09 17:46:29 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Clearspace is building a mobile app to protect human attention by filtering network traffic based on natural language rules. They're seeking a lead designer to create pixel-perfect designs for the Clearspace platform across multiple devices.

The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating point chip, reverse-engineered

25 elpocko 2025-12-09 18:46:29 UTC righto.com Llama Share 9

The 8087 floating-point coprocessor, introduced in 1980, significantly improved performance for applications like AutoCAD and flight simulators. Despite its complex design and initial skepticism, the 8087 became a huge success and its floating-point system remains influential in modern computers.

My favourite small hash table

88 speckx 2025-12-09 15:46:29 UTC corsix.org Llama Share 17

The user discusses a hash table design called Robin Hood open-addressing with linear probing and power-of-two table size, which stores 64-bit integers as key-value pairs. The design includes lookup, insertion, removal, and iteration functions, and can be extended for non-randomly distributed keys and larger key-value pairs.

Launch HN: Mentat (YC F24) – Controlling LLMs with Runtime Intervention

24 cgorlla 2025-12-09 16:46:29 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 21

Cyril from CTGT launched Mentat, an API that gives developers deterministic control over LLM behavior. It uses feature-level intervention and graph-based verification to fix hallucinations and enforce policies in highly regulated industries.

Agentic AI Foundation

5 thinkingkong 2025-12-09 20:03:29 UTC block.xyz Prefix Share 1

Today, the industry is making a pivotal choice. Block, Anthropic, OpenAI, and other leaders in AI are launching the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) to ensure agentic AI develops as an open, collaborative ecosystem. Agentic AI refers to artificial intelligence systems that can take initiative, make decisions, and act independently to achieve goals with minimal human direction. The AAIF is a ...

"The Matilda Effect": Pioneering Women Scientists Written Out of Science History

32 binning 2025-12-09 18:46:29 UTC openculture.com Llama Share 5

Women scientists like Dr. Lise Meitner and Alice Augusta Ball made significant contributions to their fields but were often overlooked and denied recognition. Their work was often attributed to male colleagues, leading to the "Matilda effect" where women's contributions are erased from history.

30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness

134 sjoblomj 2025-12-09 09:46:29 UTC jorsys.org Llama Share 85

WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness was released in 1995 with improved graphics and features like naval and aerial combat, and Fog of War. It received enthusiastic reviews and helped fuel the RTS boom of the late 1990s, becoming one of the best games of 1995.

Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns

142 henwfan 2025-12-09 11:46:29 UTC algodrill.io Llama Share 86

NeetCode helps students master LeetCode problems through guided steps and fill-in-the-code drills to turn solutions into automatic recall. This approach is used by top students at universities like UC Berkeley and Georgia Tech to land offers at FAANG+ companies.

AWS Trainium3 Deep Dive – A Potential Challenger Approaching

52 Symmetry 2025-12-09 14:46:29 UTC newsletter.semianalysis.com Llama Share 17

Amazon launched Trainium3 general availability and announced Trainium4 at AWS re:Invent, marking a significant step in their custom silicon history and progress in AI competitiveness. Trainium3 features improved performance, a new native PyTorch backend, and a massive shift in software strategy, while Trainium4 will use 8 stacks of HBM4 and achieve 4x the memory bandwidth and 2x the capacity ...

The Joy of Playing Grandia, on Sega Saturn

157 tosh 2025-12-09 10:46:29 UTC segasaturnshiro.com Llama Share 100

The Saturn is experiencing a renaissance due to dedicated translator teams unlocking Japanese titles for new audiences. Grandia, a text-heavy RPG, is one such title that has been translated for the Saturn, offering a story-driven experience with 3D environments and a complex combat system.

Agentic QA – Open-source middleware to fuzz-test agents for loops

17 Saurabh_Kumar_ 2025-12-09 18:46:29 UTC news.ycombinator.com Full Share 5

I built this because I watched my LangChain agent burn ~$50 in OpenAI credits overnight due to an infinite loop. It's a middleware API that acts as a 'Flight Simulator'. You send it your agent's prompt, and it runs adversarial attacks (Red Teaming) to catch loops and PII leaks before deployment.

Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending

108 bgwalter 2025-12-09 15:46:29 UTC finance.yahoo.com Llama Share 121

Apple's stock has surged 35% since June as investors question AI spending by tech giants, viewing Apple's cautious approach as a strength. Apple's market capitalization has reached $4.1 trillion, making it the second biggest weight in the S&P 500.

Show HN: Detail, a Bug Finder

36 drob 2025-12-09 17:46:29 UTC detail.dev Llama Share 15

The user tested Detail, a powerful AI tool, which found multiple high priority bugs in their code, including some that could have caused significant issues. They highly recommend Detail for fast moving teams adopting agents and serious about maintaining a high quality bar.

Transformers know more than they can tell: Learning the Collatz sequence

91 Xcelerate 2025-12-09 11:46:29 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 33

Transformers learn the long Collatz step in a sequence of discrete steps, where specific classes of input are learned and predicted with high accuracy. The learning pattern is independent of the base and corresponds to a deep mathematical property of the Collatz sequence.

Constructing the Word's First JPEG XL MD5 Hash Quine

89 luispa 2025-12-09 12:46:29 UTC stackchk.fail Llama Share 17

A Hash Quine is a program that prints its own cryptographic hash, and the user created a JPEG XL image that displays its own MD5 hash using MD5 collision blocks and a prediction tree. The image can be modified to encode any 128-bit pattern by swapping the MD5 collision blocks.

Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?

593 embedding-shape 2025-12-09 16:46:29 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 339

User thinks LLM-generated comments on HN are distracting and want to discuss updating guidelines to limit them. They prefer human conversation and think LLM responses should be restricted or discouraged.

Tutorial 48: my museum collections kit

5 surprisetalk 2025-12-09 19:46:29 UTC svpow.com Prefix Share 0

I was on the road for most of August, September, and October, and in particular I made a ton of museum collections visits. When I visit a museum collection, I bring a specific set of gear that helps me get the photos, notes, and measurements that I want. All of this is YMMV — I’m not trying to predict what will work best for you, but to explain what has worked for me, and why. I’m reasonably ...

How private equity is changing housing

80 harambae 2025-12-09 17:46:29 UTC theatlantic.com Llama Share 170

The US housing crisis is caused by multiple factors including restrictive zoning codes, high interest rates, and expensive labor. Corporate ownership of homes, particularly in low-income neighborhoods, is exacerbating the crisis by pushing up rents and displacing families.