My AI skeptic friends are all nuts

2266 tabletcorry 2025-06-02 21:09:53 UTC fly.io Llama Share 2786

The author, a seasoned software developer, argues that LLMs are a game-changer in coding, reducing tedious work and freeing developers to focus on important tasks. They claim that LLMs can produce mediocre code, but that's still better than humans writing mediocre code.

Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts

836 gregorywegory 2025-06-02 14:24:54 UTC github.com/cloudflare Llama Share 508

This library is a Cloudflare Workers implementation of the OAuth 2.1 protocol with PKCE support, allowing for secure authorization of API endpoints. It stores token information in a Workers KV namespace and provides methods for querying and updating client registrations, as well as handling token exchanges and errors.

If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued

825 weltview 2025-06-02 08:59:37 UTC betterthanrandom.substack.com Llama Share 353

Being useful means delivering tasks efficiently, making you indispensable in the short term, but not necessarily shaping the company's direction. Being valued means contributing to strategic conversations, helping shape the company's direction, and having opportunities for growth and advancement.

How to post when no one is reading

645 j4mehta 2025-06-02 04:01:00 UTC jeetmehta.com Llama Share 252

Successful creators spend years producing content in obscurity before gaining fame. Focus on creating what you like, not what you think others will like, to sustain motivation and produce better work.

Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello

499 henryball 2025-06-02 09:47:48 UTC github.com/kanbn Full Share 217

The open source Trello alternative. Contribute to kanbn/kan development by creating an account on GitHub.

Ask HN: How do I learn robotics in 2025?

393 srijansriv 2025-06-02 12:58:10 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 98

You want to create something accessible, but tech giants dominate the conversation. Start by deciding its purpose, then design and build it with the help of resources like Hugging Face and The Robot Studio.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)

365 whoishiring 2025-06-02 15:01:18 UTC news.ycombinator.com GoogleT5 Share 440

Acrolinx is looking for experienced full-stack engineers. dragonfly technology is building the future of bitcoin payments and need frontend engineers to join our fully remote team. limitless' vision is to free the human mind from its biological limits. low-level knowledge of swift and swiftui would be particularly helpful. benefits outside of the united states vary by country. please state ...

Show HN: I build one absurd web project every month

286 absurdwebsite 2025-06-02 19:52:46 UTC absurd.website Llama Share 66

ABSURD.website creates absurd products and services with a new project every month. They offer unusual services like a waving cat for marketing and solving puzzles for customers.

Japanese scientists develop artificial blood compatible with all blood types

276 Geekette 2025-06-02 21:44:37 UTC tokyoweekender.com Llama Share 64

Japanese scientists led by Hiromi Sakai have developed artificial blood that can be used by patients of any blood type, with a shelf life of up to five years. Small-scale human trials have shown promising results, with plans to move to efficacy and safety trials by 2030.

Show HN: A toy version of Wireshark (student project)

261 lixiasky 2025-06-02 15:20:13 UTC github.com/lixiasky Llama Share 72

Vanta is a lightweight network analyzer that reconstructs protocol-level flows and extracts structured activity from captured data. It's a personal project created by an undergraduate student as a response to universities standing up for international students.

Typing 118 WPM broke my brain in the right ways

172 b0a04gl 2025-06-02 19:48:36 UTC balaji-amg.surge.sh Llama Share 221

The author increased typing speed from 60 WPM to 118 WPM by focusing on accuracy and slowing down, rather than rushing. They attribute this improvement to a daily 5-minute typing exercise on Keybr, which also improved their focus, discipline, and overall coding skills.

Whatever happened to cheap eReaders?

159 blenderob 2025-06-02 11:28:28 UTC shkspr.mobi Llama Share 307

The author is puzzled by the lack of affordable eReaders despite Moore's law driving down electronics costs. They believe four main factors contribute to this: low demand, eInk screen patents, Android restrictions, and the need for content sales to subsidize hardware.

MonsterUI: Python library for building front end UIs quickly in FastHTML apps

158 indigodaddy 2025-06-02 20:41:24 UTC answer.ai Llama Share 50

MonsterUI simplifies web app development by providing pre-styled components and smart defaults in pure Python. It builds upon FastHTML and uses modern libraries like Tailwind and FrankenUI to deliver modern, beautiful components.

Snowflake to buy Crunchy Data for $250M

156 mfiguiere 2025-06-02 20:01:49 UTC wsj.com Full Share 60

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Show HN: Penny-1.7B Irish Penny Journal style transfer

148 deepsquirrelnet 2025-06-02 15:49:08 UTC huggingface.co Llama Share 76

A 1.7 billion-parameter language model, Penny-1.7B, was fine-tuned to emulate 19th-century prose from the Irish Penny Journal. It uses GRPO to generate authentic Victorian-era diction while retaining general reasoning ability.

ThorVG: Super Lightweight Vector Graphics Engine

148 elcritch 2025-06-02 10:31:57 UTC thorvg.org Llama Share 47

Thor Vector Graphics is an open-source library for vector-based scenes and animations, offering lightweight efficiency and adaptability for various applications. It supports SVG, Lottie animations, and multiple raster engines, ensuring seamless adoption across systems.

Younger generations less likely to have dementia, study suggests

147 robaato 2025-06-02 15:42:31 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 148

People born in more recent generations are less likely to have dementia at a given age than earlier generations, especially women. This trend is attributed to factors such as increased education, better healthcare, and lifestyle changes.

The Princeton INTERCAL Compiler's source code

143 surprisetalk 2025-06-02 01:54:33 UTC esoteric.codes Llama Share 46

A new book, "Forty-Four Esolangs," will be released on Sept 23, 2025, featuring the original INTERCAL-72 compiler source code. INTERCAL, created in 1972, is considered the first esolang, intentionally subverting conventional programming language design for parody and play.

The Unreliability of LLMs and What Lies Ahead

132 talhof8 2025-06-02 16:36:46 UTC verissimo.substack.com GoogleT5 Share 158

When a system can't be trusted to work consistently, its real-world utility collapses. we'll map the core characteristics of each approach to assessing their effectiveness and value - and how they can be aligned with each other if they choose to do so. failure modes compound with task length in ways that exceed typical human error patterns, says sam taylor, daniel mcnair

CVE 2025 31200

125 todsacerdoti 2025-06-02 18:58:47 UTC blog.noahhw.dev GoogleT5 Share 31

Apple released a patch on april 16, 2025, for cve-2025-31200. the bug allows an attacker to overwrite an array's value if it is larger than 0xffcf. sam taylor, an author of this blog post, says the vulnerability can be exploited in ios 7.1 and later. to find out how to exploit this bug, he recommends using binary n

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025)

125 whoishiring 2025-06-02 15:01:18 UTC news.ycombinator.com GoogleT5 Share 382

Arron is a design-minded engineer passionate about creating elegant, smart, and simple digital experiences that delight users. he is open to both full-time roles and contract work from africa - if the work can be done remotely from anywhere! raigo has 10+ years of experience, including 7+ focused on web and mobile application design & development. she is looking for an experienced, hands-on ...

How reliable are MicroSD cards?

121 edent 2025-06-02 06:00:38 UTC old.reddit.com Llama Share 42

User needs to register or sign in with developer credentials and ensure a unique User-Agent string to access the application. Alternatively, they can try resetting to default User-Agent or file a ticket for assistance.

Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property?

117 austinallegro 2025-06-02 19:15:43 UTC rte.ie Llama Share 323

Drone delivery services are increasing in urban areas but concerns over privacy breaches, noise, and property rights are growing. A proposed solution is to develop legislation defining the height of private property ownership in air space, allowing for air space sharing platforms and designated drone corridors.

TradeExpert, a trading framework that employs Mixture of Expert LLMs

113 wertyk 2025-06-02 10:25:51 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 136

TradeExpert is a novel AI framework using Large Language Models to analyze financial data from various sources and make predictions or decisions. It outperforms existing benchmarks in stock movement prediction and trading through its mix of expert approach and General Expert LLM.

Conformance checking at MongoDB: Testing that our code matches our TLA+ specs

109 todsacerdoti 2025-06-02 21:50:15 UTC mongodb.com Llama Share 63

The author and colleagues experimented with conformance checking techniques, including trace-checking and test-case generation, to ensure that MongoDB's implementation matched their TLA+ specifications. They learned valuable lessons, including the importance of writing realistic and complex specifications, and the need for continuous testing and synchronization between code and specs.

ReasoningGym: Reasoning Environments for RL with Verifiable Rewards

102 t55 2025-06-02 09:27:26 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 27

Reasoning Gym is a library for reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards, offering over 100 data generators across various domains. It generates virtually infinite training data with adjustable complexity for continuous evaluation.

Largest punk archive to find new home at MTSU's Center for Popular Music

86 gnabgib 2025-06-02 22:29:30 UTC mtsunews.com Llama Share 9

Middle Tennessee State University's Center for Popular Music is acquiring the world's largest punk record collection, the Maximum Rocknroll archive, with 60,000 vinyl records and documents. The archive will make the Center the epicenter for punk research and exploration, opening it to a new audience of researchers and visitors.

Is “The Phoenician Scheme” Wes Anderson's Most Emotional Film?

86 prismatic 2025-06-02 04:05:26 UTC newyorker.com Llama Share 122

Wes Anderson's "The Phoenician Scheme" is a violent action film with a comedic tone, following the story of a ruthless industrialist. The film explores themes of family, identity, and redemption through its protagonist's journey.

After 25 Years, Linux Format Magazine Is No More

80 AdmiralAsshat 2025-06-02 13:29:26 UTC omgubuntu.co.uk Llama Share 42

Linux Format magazine is closing after 25 years due to the economics of print publishing in a digital age. The magazine's publisher, Future, hasn't given a reason for the closure, but circulation figures have likely dropped significantly since 2014.

Decorative Text Within HTML

79 tobr 2025-06-02 17:26:02 UTC shkspr.mobi Llama Share 5

A single class can be over-encumbered with many things, but a more modular approach is to have separate classes with their own CSS. This can be made more readable by using underscore spacing and comments within values.

Computer science has one of the highest unemployment rates

76 zdgeier 2025-06-02 10:23:08 UTC newsweek.com Llama Share 126

Computer science has a 6.1% unemployment rate despite being a popular major. Experts say the field has been oversold, with too many graduates and not enough jobs, leading to low wages and high debt.

Show HN: Agno – A full-stack framework for building Multi-Agent Systems

76 bediashpreet 2025-06-02 01:18:40 UTC github.com/agno-agi Llama Share 19

Agno is a framework for building high-performance agentic systems with features like reasoning, multi-modal input/output, and advanced multi-agent architecture. It provides tools for creating agents with specific roles and instructions, and teams of agents can be used to handle complex tasks and scale performance.

LFSR CPU Running Forth

73 izabera 2025-06-02 03:35:07 UTC github.com/howerj Llama Share 15

The project is a 16-bit CPU written in VHDL for an FPGA using a Linear Feedback Shift Register (LFSR) instead of a Program Counter. It runs at 151.768MHz and occupies 27 slices.

Disaster awaits if we don't secure IoT now

71 mdp2021 2025-06-02 17:44:28 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 74

Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure and IoT devices are growing, causing physical-world damage. Implementing defense in depth, including basic cybersecurity hygiene and a Root of Trust, can help prevent attacks.

Beyond the Black Box: Interpretability of LLMs in Finance

67 ashater 2025-06-02 11:16:06 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 12

Large Language Models in finance face challenges due to complexity and lack of transparency. Mechanistic interpretability addresses these issues by understanding and modifying LLM behavior, ensuring AI systems remain ethical and compliant.

How can AI researchers save energy? By going backward

63 pseudolus 2025-06-02 02:29:45 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 44

Michael Frank researched reversible computing to reduce energy waste in computers. This approach, which runs calculations forward and backward, could save orders of magnitude of power.

Euro execs mull use of US clouds

62 rcarmo 2025-06-02 06:49:00 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 88

UK IT leaders are concerned about data sovereignty due to geopolitical developments, with 84% worried about accessing and controlling their data. 82% would consider switching from US tech firms to gain more control over data location and governance.

Show HN: MBCompass – Android Compass App

61 nativeforks 2025-06-02 03:58:58 UTC github.com/mubaraknative Llama Share 38

MBCompass is a simple, ad-free compass app built with Jetpack Compose for Android. It's free and open-source under the GNU General Public License.

TPDE: A Fast Adaptable Compiler Back-End Framework

60 npalli 2025-06-02 01:17:54 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 15

Researchers created TPDE, a compiler framework that adapts to existing code representations in SSA form, reducing compilation time by 8-24x. TPDE enables fast compilation and portability to different architectures while maintaining run-time performance.

Teaching Program Verification in Dafny at Amazon (2023)

59 Jtsummers 2025-06-02 22:03:50 UTC dafny.org Llama Share 20

The teaching material introduces Dafny as a programming language and a proof assistant, focusing on program verification and providing a complementary perspective on the subject. The curriculum is organized into three parts: Dafny as a programming language, Dafny as a proof assistant, and program verification in Dafny.

War and Wilderness: British Soldiers in Revolutionary America

59 diodorus 2025-06-02 06:04:34 UTC historytoday.com Llama Share 40

British and Hessian soldiers suffered greatly in the American Revolutionary War due to the harsh environment, including swamps, alligators, and diseases like malaria. The soldiers' experiences in America had a lasting impact on their physical and mental health, with many struggling to adjust to life back home.

Arcol simplifies building design with browser-based modeling

57 joeld42 2025-06-02 16:16:11 UTC arcol.io Llama Share 27

Arcol simplifies building design with browser-based modeling for seamless team collaboration. It streamlines the design process with real-time collaboration, automation, and data-driven decisions.

Yet another tmux cheat sheet

57 alvinunreal 2025-06-02 06:30:30 UTC tmuxai.dev Llama Share 3

A tmux cheat sheet provides essential commands for session control, window switching, and pane splitting. It helps manage multiple windows, panes, and clients in a single session.

Is It JavaScript?

55 todsacerdoti 2025-06-02 05:45:25 UTC blog.jim-nielsen.com Llama Share 53

The author questions the phrase "It's Just JavaScript" as it often implies a project is approachable due to using JavaScript. However, JavaScript can be non-standard and require specific knowledge of runtime conventions.

Reducing Cargo target directory size with -Zno-embed-metadata

52 todsacerdoti 2025-06-02 13:36:40 UTC kobzol.github.io Llama Share 14

A new Rust compiler flag -Zembed-metadata=no reduces target directory size by avoiding metadata duplication. It saves disk space, especially in release mode, and is now available in nightly Rust.

Ask HN: What do you spend your money on?

52 blahaj 2025-06-02 12:45:46 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 101

Two individuals with high incomes discuss their spending habits and priorities, focusing on essential expenses and charitable donations. They share their financial goals and challenges, including saving for a home, traveling, and pursuing side projects.

Show HN: Fast Random Library for C++17

52 GeorgeHaldane 2025-06-02 11:09:45 UTC github.com/dmitribogdanov Full Share 58

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Show HN: I built an AI Agent that uses the iPhone

52 rounak 2025-06-02 02:37:35 UTC github.com/rounak Llama Share 13

An iPhone agent using OpenAI's gpt-4.1 model performs tasks across multiple apps like a human user. It uses Xcode's UI testing harness to interact with apps and the system without jailbreaking.

The Universal Tech Tree

50 mitchbob 2025-06-02 18:25:56 UTC asteriskmag.com GoogleT5 Share 31

A historical tech tree shows the non-linearity of technological history. the tree doesn't tell us much about tech diffusion, says sam taylor of civilization. he says the game promotes the idea that technological progress is linear, deterministic, and teleological. "tech trees" can be used to help us understand the world around us, but they're not the only way to do so," daniel

Show HN: System Prompt Learning – LLMs Learn Problem-Solving from Experience

47 codelion 2025-06-02 07:29:02 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 12

User built a system for LLMs to learn problem-solving strategies over time, inspired by Andrej Karpathy's 'third paradigm'. The system improves performance by 8.6-6.67% on math benchmarks and creates transparent strategies.

Mesh Edge Construction

44 atomlib 2025-06-02 15:23:01 UTC maxliani.wordpress.com Llama Share 1

The user presents three algorithms to compute the edges of a polygonal mesh, with the goal of increasing efficiency, and introduces a novel algorithm called the "minor valence" algorithm that achieves linear complexity. This algorithm iterates over the topology, accumulating candidate major indices to compare against and producing new edges, and is shown to be faster than previous solutions ...

0.9999 ≊ 1

36 zoidb 2025-06-02 06:54:45 UTC lcamtuf.substack.com Llama Share 110

The debate about 0.9999... being equal to 1 is ongoing, with some arguing it's not due to misunderstanding of infinite decimal expansions.

A Hidden Weakness

35 serge-ss-paille 2025-06-02 14:39:18 UTC serge-sans-paille.github.io Llama Share 1

The Android platform defines different API levels, and some symbols are only available starting with a given API version, requiring a combination of compiler checks and runtime checks to ensure compatibility. A bug in the Firefox build system was fixed by temporarily changing the default visibility when including Android system headers to avoid weak symbols being marked as hidden.

Our production Ruby on Rails stack

34 hbroadbent 2025-06-02 11:06:50 UTC attendlist.com Llama Share 6

AttendList uses a vanilla Ruby on Rails stack with PostgreSQL, Redis, and Sidekiq for attendance tracking in Google Meet. It incorporates various gems for authentication, testing, styling, and analytics.

Google DMARC Policy Changes?

32 flajr 2025-06-02 12:39:55 UTC news.ycombinator.com Full Share 9

Hello, does anyone know about recent Google/Gmail DMARC changes? I noticed new field "DMARC" in the "Show original" message overview and caused for the message with valid DKIM and SPF to be delivered to Spam. No such field exist in the interface for older messages, so this is something fresh.

Twain Dreams

30 samclemens 2025-06-02 17:25:55 UTC harpers.org GoogleT5 Share 17

Mark o'mara: in 175th anniversary of harper's, could some kind of twain revival be afoot? he says homage unmistakable, with shaggy hair and mustache. but chapter in which huck decides to go to hell rather than betray jim is crucial, naysayers say. twains knew her, she says. "simultaneous

Taurine Revisited

30 Tomte 2025-06-02 16:52:44 UTC science.org Llama Share 6

Researchers found taurine may promote leukemia development by driving glycolysis and cell growth. Taurine transport inhibitors may be a potential therapy for leukemia, but taurine supplementation could potentially increase AML risk.

Awesome-ArXiv: curated tools for discovering and working with ArXiv papers

30 artnitolog 2025-06-02 09:29:02 UTC github.com/artnitolog Llama Share 1

A curated list of tools, libraries, and resources for discovering, reading, and working with papers from arXiv includes various platforms, datasets, and APIs for searching, summarizing, and analyzing scientific research. These tools range from semantic search engines and research assistants to browser extensions and datasets for training and evaluating abstractive summarization models on ...

Rethinking PostgreSQL Storage

25 furkansahin 2025-06-02 07:11:00 UTC ubicloud.com Llama Share 16

Cloud storage was built around old hardware, but NVMe SSDs are now faster, cheaper, and more reliable. Local NVMe SSDs deliver major performance benefits for PostgreSQL databases, making them a better default than cloud storage.

AI-first – We're just 6 months away from AGI

23 rednafi 2025-06-02 07:52:35 UTC revontulet.dev Llama Share 48

The author compares the current AI world to The Matrix, where AI is omnipresent but its capabilities are exaggerated. They question the effectiveness of AI tools like LLMs and AI code editors, citing examples where they failed to deliver expected results.

Silicon Valley wants to help me make a superbaby

20 user72343432754 2025-06-02 02:06:04 UTC sfstandard.com Llama Share 11

A couple's DNA was analyzed by two startups, Nucleus and Orchid, yielding vastly different polygenic risk scores for their future child. The inconsistent results highlight the unregulated and potentially misleading nature of genetic testing services in the US.

Understanding Consistency in Databases: Beyond the Basics

17 jgeraert 2025-06-02 09:34:26 UTC medium.com/@lucas01 Llama Share 4

The user discusses the limitations of traditional transactional scope in CRUD operations and proposes using isolation levels and locking strategies to solve issues like non-repeatable reads and duplicated updates. They provide a Spring Boot/Java example using REPEATABLE READ isolation and optimistic locking to restore consistency with better performance.

Swift at Apple: Migrating the Password Monitoring Service from Java

15 amichail 2025-06-02 22:54:50 UTC swift.org Llama Share 1

Apple's Password Monitoring service was rewritten in Swift, resulting in a 40% increase in performance and improved scalability, security, and availability. Swift's efficiency and safety features enabled a 85% reduction in code lines and a 40% throughput gain with latencies under 1 ms.

Curtis Yarvin's Plot Against America

15 pseudolus 2025-06-02 13:08:35 UTC newyorker.com GoogleT5 Share 4

John avlon: neo-reactionary computer whiz, dubbed "court philosopher of the thiel-verse" he says yarvin's ideas about racial hierarchy, conspiracy theories, democracy aren't sane. but his ideas are transgressive, and obfuscated by u.s. media, media censors, says author e

AI didn't kill Stack Overflow

14 kunwon1 2025-06-02 14:42:50 UTC infoworld.com Llama Share 5

Stack Overflow's decline mirrors the rise of ChatGPT, but AI was the last straw in a site that had already lost its human element. The site's reputation system, once a strength, became oppressive and stifled community interaction.