Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension

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Engineers using AI-assisted development can produce code quickly but struggle to understand it. This creates cognitive debt that can lead to system failures and maintenance costs.

Obsidian Sync now has a headless client

Obsidian Sync offers a headless client for syncing vaults without the desktop app, useful for automated workflows and CI pipelines. It uses end-to-end encryption and supports config syncing and file creation time preservation.

Techno‑Feudal Elite Are Attempting to Build a Twenty‑First‑Century Fascist State

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The US is drifting toward a 21st-century form of fascism driven by an oligarchic techno-feudal elite that concentrates power and shields itself from accountability. This system is characterized by elite impunity, surveillance, and concentration camps, with the government increasingly operating as a lawless force.

Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD)

Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access

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Over the past week, we saw reports from Gemini CLI users experiencing account disruptions. These were the result of a series of Antigravity bans rolled out to address violations of the Antigravity ...

The happiest I've ever been

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The author became a youth basketball coach in January 2020 to fill a void in his life. Coaching brought him happiness and confidence, allowing him to help kids and be in control.

Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust

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Implementing a subset of the Wolfram Language for CLI scripting and notebooks, focusing on speed and efficiency. Woxi runs faster than WolframScript with Rust-based implementation and supports a subset of Wolfram Language functions.

New evidence that Cantor plagiarized Dedekind?

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Demian Goos, a mathematician and journalist, discovered a lost letter from Georg Cantor's estate that proved Cantor's famous 1874 paper on infinity was an act of plagiarism. The letter, believed to be lost during World War II, showed Cantor had collaborated with Richard Dedekind on the paper.

Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages

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Upload a scientific PDF and get back a shareable, interactive web page that explains it in plain language.

Werner Herzog Between Fact and Fiction

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Werner Herzog's book The Future of Truth is a disappointing collection of repurposed passages and anecdotes that fail to provide insight into his concept of ecstatic truth. The book's failure to achieve its goal suggests that Herzog may not want to understand what he means by "ecstatic truth" in order to preserve the need to quest after it.

"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Dow

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Anthropic refused to work with the US government due to concerns over mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, while OpenAI's Sam Altman pledged its tech for these purposes. This move has sparked backlash against OpenAI, with many users unsubscribing from its services.

Ghosts'n Goblins – “Worse danger is ahead”

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Famitsu magazine's charts show Ghosts'n Goblins was the #1 game in Japan and UK in 1986. The game's home versions, developed by Elite Systems, were well-received in the UK, with the Commodore 64 version praised for its faithfulness to the arcade original.

The whole thing was a scam

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Altman signed a deal with Amodei after publicly supporting him, while rejecting similar terms from Anthropic due to campaign contributions. This move was seen as punitive and favoring Amodei over Anthropic.

How Long Is the Coast of Britain? (1967)

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747s and Coding Agents

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A Belgian pilot shared his wistful thoughts about flying the 747, feeling no improvement after 20 years. He now works at an AI lab and feels like a pilot, relying on coding agents to implement features, but worries about losing skills and knowledge.

We Will Not Be Divided

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Google and OpenAI employees can sign a letter anonymously or publicly, with verified signatures displayed. The letter aims to find common ground on AI misuse, with signatures manually reviewed by one person for authenticity.

Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 GGUFs

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Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 quantization outperforms leading methods, preserving accuracy in LLMs. It now supports all models, including non-MoEs, with custom-tailored quantization schemes.

From Noise to Image – interactive guide to diffusion

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A diffusion model navigates a vast space of possible images to produce coherent results by starting with random noise and gradually removing it. The model uses a prompt's embedding space as a compass to guide its journey, with the guidance scale controlling how strongly it follows the prompt.

'Play like a dog biting God's feet': Steven Isserlis on György Kurtág at 100

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I vividly remember my first meeting with György Kurtág. It was 40 or so years ago at the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, Cornwall. I was sitting in the dining hall there, when a man with grizzled hair and an unusually fervent countenance came up to me and, with barely any introduction, started talking about my pizzicato playing in a performance he’d heard of the Schubert ...

The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers

The history of software development shows a pattern of tools promising to simplify creation and eliminate the need for programmers, but ultimately creating new categories of work and demand for specialized developers. Despite the hype, the fundamental challenge of translating human intent into correct, efficient, and maintainable software remains unchanged, and human skills such as ...

OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading

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OpenAI fired an employee for using confidential information on prediction markets, including Polymarket, violating company policies. Suspicious insider trades on Polymarket and other platforms have been flagged, raising concerns about insider knowledge being used for personal gain.

Stop Burning Your Context Window – How We Cut MCP Output by 98% in Claude Code

Context Mode compresses tool outputs by 98% and reduces context window consumption by 72%. This allows users to work 6x longer before context degradation, increasing session time from 30 minutes to 3 hours.

The Future of AI

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The speaker argues that we are raising a new species with AI, which lacks millions of years of evolution and biological hardware for empathy, and therefore we need to install morality in AI from scratch, but this is a difficult task that may be mathematically impossible. The speaker believes that the real problem is not AI itself, but rather our own human limitations, such as our inability to ...

Khamenei Dead

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The Life Cycle of Money

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The fiscal and monetary authority determines the size and composition of government spending. the fed purchases treasury securities from the market, which indirectly finances government spend a higher interest rate if the debt would otherwise require higher rates of interest - daniel g. hoffman argues this is not permanent, but as long as the fed maintains credibility, the treasury is ...

The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran

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US and Israel launched a massive military campaign in Iran targeting its ballistic missiles and missile launchers. The attack follows weeks of US-Iran negotiations over Iran's nuclear program and threats from President Trump.

OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network

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Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data

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User data is at risk when passkeys are used for encryption, not just authentication.

Show HN: Tomoshibi – A writing app where your words fade by firelight

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A dark screen with a small flame appears when opened, displaying typed text that fades over time. The text can be edited but not corrected, forcing the user to move forward.

Don't trust AI agents

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NanoClaw uses container isolation to ensure AI agents are untrusted and can't access each other's data. Its architecture contains the damage when agents misbehave, providing hermetic security through mount restrictions and filesystem isolation.