Nvidia won, we all lost

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Nvidia has been unable to escape negative headlines since the disastrous launch of the rtx 50 series. the fact that they insist on keeping the 12vhpwr connector around should deter you from considering any card from them that uses it, writes sam taylor jr. he says when “the way it’s meant to be played” slowly turns into “the only way that it doesn’t run like ass” it

My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]

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Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage

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Humans are cursed with visions of perfection, haunted by the gap between their aspirations and abilities, leading to creative paralysis and avoidance. The path to mastery lies in embracing imperfection, learning through doing, and seeing failure as information, not indictment.

The Rise of Whatever

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Paypal has a vested interest in getting other people to buy into the thing, whatever it may be. the llm statistically generated something that sounds like an api that could exist. it produced an answer that was plausible, thorough, informative, relevant, and contained no useful information whatsoever. if you want to write code, you can just ask the computer to do whatever you like, but it's ...

Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean

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Scientists detected a reversal in the ocean circulation of the Southern Ocean, where surface water is being replaced by deep water masses rising to the surface. This change could double atmospheric CO₂ concentrations and have catastrophic global climate impacts.

Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip

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User is rebuilding their homelab, downsizing from 120 TB to 6 TB NAS storage. They reviewed three mini NASes: GMKtec G9, Beelink K100, and ME mini, each with unique features and trade-offs.

Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain

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The user experienced chronic pain for 4 years, affecting multiple body parts, but through introspection and self-discovery, they found a way to recover. They now aim to help others by demystifying chronic pain and sharing actionable strategies for recovery through a series of blog posts.

Larry (cat)

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Larry is a British domestic tabby cat who has served as Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office at 10 Downing Street since 2011. He has lived at 10 Downing Street during the premierships of six prime ministers and is cared for by Downing Street staff.

The first time I was almost fired from Apple

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The author was hired at Apple in 1995 as a graphics engineer and worked on the ColorSync team, creating various color pickers, including an Easter egg that almost got him fired for copyright infringement. He was given a second chance and went on to work at Apple for 20+ years, becoming a cautionary tale for new hires.

Show HN: I AI-coded a tower defense game and documented the whole process

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Tower of Time is a time-traveling tower defense game that combines strategic building with time manipulation mechanics. The game was developed using AI-assisted game development with 95% of the codebase written by Claude Sonnet 4.

Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi?

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The author compared the Intel N100 mini PC to the Raspberry Pi 5, finding the N100 to be 1.5-2x faster in some benchmarks, but less efficient. The author also noted that used Tiny PCs are cheaper than new Raspberry Pi 5s.

Everything around LLMs is still magical and wishful thinking

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A commenter on Hacker News suggests that AI criticism on the platform is driven by developers who lack understanding of current AI tools and technologies. The gap between those who find AI helpful and those who dismiss it as useless stems from a lack of quantifiable descriptions and comparisons of expertise and experiences.

EverQuest

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Everquest was a crazy thing to propose on the face of it, having absolutely nothing to do with anything the studio had done before. the game's growth then slowed down considerably, but still it would peak at 550,000 subscribers in 2005. by the metrics of television, movies, or even other forms of gaming, vanishingly small number of people was nothing. if you want to know more about the ...
The author is annoyed by the increasing number of AI-related Show HN posts on Hacker News, which they believe are low-effort and self-promotional. They used SQL queries to analyze the data and found that AI-related posts have increased significantly, with a notable spike in 2023.

Writing a Game Boy Emulator in OCaml (2022)

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The user created a Game Boy emulator in OCaml called CAMLBOY, which runs in the browser and has a 60 FPS performance on recent smartphones. The user overcame challenges such as implementing medium/large scale code, using advanced OCaml features like GADTs, and optimizing the emulator's performance to achieve the desired speed.

Zig breaking change – Initial Writergate

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Neanderthals operated prehistoric “fat factory” on German lakeshore

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Neanderthals in central Germany 125,000 years ago used water and heat to strip fat from bones, showing advanced nutrition and resource management. They likely used stone or metal containers to boil water, but the exact method is unknown.

Incapacitating Google Tag Manager (2022)

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Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2B

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ChatGPT creates phisher's paradise by serving the wrong URLs for major companies

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Netcraft found that AI chatbots like GPT-4.1 deliver incorrect website addresses 34% of the time, creating an opportunity for scammers. Phishers can exploit this by asking for a URL and buying a fake site to set up a phishing site.

Show HN: Piano Trainer – Learn piano scales, chords and more using MIDI

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Learn to play the piano at your own pace through various modes of practice. Watch the video You'll need to setup Rust and Tauri CLI by following the Getting Started guide here. Contributions are more than welcome. Read the Technical Breakdown here to learn about the codebase. Create a PR pointing to the dev branch. Stable builds will be merged into main.

Kepler.gl

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Kepler.gl is a powerful web-based geospatial data analysis tool. Built on a high performance rendering engine and designed for large-scale data sets.

Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin

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CGI programs were initially used to make websites dynamic and are now surprisingly fast on modern servers, serving 2400+ requests per second. A simple CGI guestbook program was created using Go and SQLite, and the code is available on GitHub for others to use.

WASM Agents: AI agents running in the browser

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The Wasm agents blueprint allows users to write agents as HTML files that can be run in a browser without extra dependencies, using WebAssembly and Pyodide to execute Python code. The blueprint includes demos and instructions for users to test its capabilities and build new applications, with the goal of empowering users to own and control their tools and data.

Ask HN: I want to leave tech: what do I do?

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You're a tech professional looking to leave the industry for a more meaningful career. You have various options such as working in the public sector, tech co-ops, NGOs, or education.

Hymn to Babylon, missing for a millennium, has been discovered

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Enrique Jimenez from LMU has rediscovered a 1000-year-old hymn to Babylon, describing its majesty and inhabitants. The hymn, written around 1000 BCE, provides insights into urban society, women's roles, and coexistence with foreigners.

We're not innovating, we're just forgetting slower

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The author argues that we've mistaken complexity for progress and forgotten how things work, leading to unreliable and hard-to-understand technology.

Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel

Bcachefs filesystem in the kernel has been turbulent. not even a year has gone by since linus threatened to rip it out last time. let users learn about the value of (proper) backups. if something requires the bleeding edge of everything, then it's not suitable for inclusion in stable distributions, says scott mcgraw-davies of gentoo. debian has

Air pollution may contribute to development of lung cancer in never-smokers

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A new study links air pollution and traditional herbal medicines to genetic mutations causing lung cancer in non-smokers. The study found that air pollution increases DNA mutations, particularly in those exposed to high levels of fine particulate matter.

The story behind Caesar salad

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Caesar salad was invented in 1924 by Italian immigrant Caesar Cardini in Tijuana, Mexico, as an improvised dish using leftover ingredients. The original recipe has undergone variations, but its core ingredients remain whole romaine lettuce, garlic croutons, and a tangy dressing made with raw egg, anchovies, and parmesan.

Eight dormant Satoshi-era Bitcoin wallets reactivated after 14 yrs

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Gremllm

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GREMLLM is a utility class for various purposes, allowing method calls and attribute access to decide code execution. It supports wet mode for infinite chaining and interaction, and verbose mode for generated code display.

The US dollar is on track for its worst year in modern history

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The US dollar is on track for its worst year in history, down over 7% and predicted to fall another 10%. A weaker dollar could boost US exports but make imports more expensive, potentially destabilizing the global financial system.

As a Labrador swam by me out to sea his owner said I hope he doesn't meet a seal

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The writer and their partner started sea swimming before the pandemic, where they met a dog named Arthur who swam far out to sea. The writer later saw Arthur playfully interacting with a seal.

LooksMapping

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You created a map rating restaurant attractiveness based on reviewer profiles, highlighting biases and flaws in the model. The map reflects how people judge places by their clientele, a superficial yet common practice.

LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary

Large language models (llms) like chatgpt can generate and revise text with human-level performance. our main analysis focused on 26,657 words with p > 104 in both 2023 and 2024. words like coronavirus, covid, lockdown, and pandemic showed very large excess usages in 2020–2022. our results are consistent with the hypothesis that a large-scale machine learning-based

Prompting LLMs is not engineering

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Prompt engineering is an attempt to reverse-engineer AI models with unknown parameters, resulting in unproven claims of better results. Most claims disappear under rigorous examination, with specific prompts only working for narrow, hyperspecific queries.

Show HN: BunkerWeb – the open-source and cloud-native WAF

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BunkerWeb is a secure web server that integrates with various environments and offers customizable security features. It provides out-of-the-box protection and can be extended with plugins for enhanced security.

Lightfastness Testing of Colored Pencils

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Out of 8 colours tested, 5 were lightfast, 2 landed in the moderate range, and 1 faded heavily. if you want to display your artwork, consider the quality of the pencils you're using - not just their price tag. some colours, especially pinks and neons, are far more vulnerable than others – especially in ceramics. you can identify specific compounds which interact for different results, though ...

White House claims expansive power to nullify TikTok ban and other laws

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Compression Dictionary Transport

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Compression Dictionary Transport reduces HTTP response size by referencing a shared compression dictionary. It achieves greater efficiency than default dictionaries by allowing custom dictionaries for specific resources.

Show HN: AirBending – Hand gesture based macOS app MIDI controller

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AirBending is a MIDI controller that works with any DAW and connects to external hardware and software. It offers customizable gesture-to-music mapping and precise control over parameters.

Is anybody using this private key?

DO NOT SUBMIT YOUR REAL PRIVATE KEY Guys this is just a meme website. Please do not submit your real private key and do not report phishing. Your private key is not safe anymore if someone else has already taken it. Paste your private key below to check if it is already taken.

Tesla's Cybertruck flop is historic. The brand collapse is even worse

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Elon Musk bet big on the Cybertruck. It didn’t emerge from focus groups, mimic successful truck models, or even resemble Tesla’s own—at the time—successful S, X, 3, and Y lines. It was an ...

DRM Panic QR code generator

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A QR code generator for kernel panic data was added to the Linux kernel to simplify debugging. It was written in Rust for memory safety and merged into v6.12-rc1.

When Your Exit Strategy Dream Is My Customer Nightmare

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The author prioritizes direct dialogue and human connections in business, valuing relationships over abstractions and efficiency. They dislike salespeople and prefer to work with individuals who provide services, but have lost trust in a company that prioritizes exponential growth over customer value.

The Amiga 3000 Unix and Sun Microsystems: Deal or No Deal?

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The story of Sun Microsystems allegedly showing interest in the Amiga 3000UX is likely a myth. The timeline and circumstances don't add up, and Sun's focus on SPARC architecture makes a 68k licensing deal improbable.

Lessons from creating my first text adventure

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The author created a text adventure game called Lockout, which took 15 hours to make and 57 hours to fix, and learned that making text adventures is harder than it seems due to technical challenges and the need for a detailed world model. The author also discussed the importance of scope, game design, and parser development in creating a fun and immersive text adventure experience.

Ask HN: Worth leaving position over push to adopt vibe coding?

Company is pushing prompt engineering as primary coding method, prioritizing AI-generated code over manual testing and maintenance. Considering leaving due to concerns about stalled technical growth and potential AI-generated code quality issues.

Can Large Language Models Play Text Games Well? (2023)

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Researchers tested ChatGPT's ability to play text games and found it competitive but lacking in intelligence, failing to construct a world model or infer game goals. This study raises new research questions at the intersection of AI, machine learning, and natural language processing.

Is there a no-AI audience?

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People are pushing back against the forced integration of AI features in software, seeing it as diminishing the concept of opt-in choice. They resent the addition of AI in their daily use software, calling it corporate gaslighting and a push for data collection.

Electronic Arts Leadership Are Out of Their Goddamned Minds

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EA's Battlefield 2042 struggled, prompting a shift to a free-to-play Battle Royale mode and a $400 million budget. The move led to layoffs, including those at the studio handling the single-player campaign.

Valve conquered PC gaming – what comes next?

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Valve Corporation is a private, ultra-private business with a unique corporate structure and revenue model, making it a dominant force in the PC gaming industry. Its Steam platform generates significant revenue through commissions, with estimates suggesting it handles around $10bn in games sales annually.

The Cat's Meat Man: Feeding Felines in Victorian London

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Cat's meat men, itinerant vendors selling cheap offal and horsemeat, became beloved figures in Victorian London, catering to cat owners and earning respect despite their rough lives. A dinner in their honor, chaired by Louis Wain, celebrated their kindness to strays and their role in the cat craze of the early 20th century.

Military leaders aghast as Zuck crashes classified Oval Office meeting

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The Independent is a news outlet that provides unbiased reporting on various topics, including climate change and reproductive rights, without paywalls. The outlet relies on donations to continue sending journalists to cover both sides of the story.

Rust and WASM for Form Validation

The user is creating a web app using Rust and WebAssembly, with a server in Rust and a WASM component for form validation. They are using Rocket as the server framework and want to share the same code across frontend and backend.

Show HN: Fast Thermodynamic Calculations in Python

The python package provides a library for thermodynamic calculations, treating species as ideal gases, and is designed to be portable to GPU frameworks. It supports fluid and elements objects for calculations and equilibrium reactions.

One Billion Cells – Another Multiplayer Demo with Clojure

So many cells

A Rust-TypeScript integration

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a rust typescript integration. Contribute to beeeeep54/rust-typescript development by creating an account on GitHub.

The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long

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Honey is resistant to spoilage due to its low water content and acidity, making it difficult for bacteria and microorganisms to survive. Its unique chemistry and production process, involving evaporation and enzyme action, contribute to its remarkable shelf life.

The ITTAGE indirect branch predictor

Modern CPUs can accurately predict bytecode-dispatch indirect jumps due to improved branch predictors. A branch predictor like TAGE uses a table of historical data to make predictions, adapting to errors and learning patterns over long distances.

How to get started with Old English poetry

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Old English poetry has more to offer than just Beowulf, with various genres like elegiac, riddle, and wisdom poems. Five lesser-known poems, such as The Battle of Maldon and The Wanderer, showcase the depth and beauty of Old English poetry.

Fictional K-pop bands zoom to top of US music charts

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KPop Demon Hunters, a Netflix movie, has topped US music charts with its fictional bands Saja Boys and Huntr/x. The film's soundtrack and songs have beaten real-life K-pop groups, including BTS and Blackpink.

Who is Soham Parekh, the serial moonlighter Silicon Valley can't stop hiring?

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Soham Parekh is a serial moonlighter who works at multiple startups simultaneously, deceiving companies about his location and availability. He has been fired from several companies, including Playground AI and Antimetal, after his deceit was discovered.

Open Source and FPGA Maker Board for Networking

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Private Island Networks Inc. is sponsoring university efforts for students working with their open source networking stack in network security, privacy, and machine learning. Students must have professor support and submit a project proposal through the provided form or email.

Google says "not a security vulnerability", quickly fixes without attribution

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Fsync reduces performance but is absolutely mandatory for ct logs, which must not lose data in the face of events like power failures. the 'independent paths" architecture makes this impossible by design.' when my private security report was made public without my consent, specifically to frame it as an invalid report, it was "fixed" within hours. if you were simply implementing andrew’s ...

Why are there no good dinosaur films?

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The author praises Jurassic Park for its blend of history and fantasy, making dinosaurs feel real and awe-inspiring. Spielberg's discipline and unique tone set the film apart from its imitators, making it the only good dinosaur movie.

Man goes viral after working for four startups at the same time

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Soham Parekh, a software engineer, admitted to working at multiple startups simultaneously due to financial necessity. He claimed to have held up to four jobs at once, earning $30,000 to $40,000 per month, before signing a deal to work at one company.

Kubernetes is a symptom, not a solution

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The author believes Kubernetes is a major obstacle to innovation in cloud computing due to its fundamentally flawed concept of componentization, which leads to complexity and fragility. The author advocates for a shift towards better abstractions, such as WASI and WebAssembly, to create more reliable and predictable systems that allow developers to focus on solving real problems.

The messy reality of SIMD (vector) functions

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The article discusses SIMD functions, which are functions that process multiple data elements per function call, and how to declare and use them effectively using compiler pragmas and attributes. It also explains how to provide a custom vectorized implementation of a scalar function using vector intrinsics and how to handle limitations and caveats of SIMD functions in practice.

America Is Killing Its Chance to Find Alien Life

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NASA's funding is being slashed by almost a quarter, threatening its ability to search for alien life and maintain its current responsibilities. This could lead to the US losing its advantage in space science and potentially allowing other countries to make the discovery first.

Show HN: Tinykv – Minimal file-backed key-value store for Rust

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Paper Shaders: Zero-dependency canvas shaders

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This code imports shaders from @paper-design/shaders-react and uses them to create visual effects. It can be used as a background texture or masked with shapes and text.

How to render a mesh gradient using RBF interpolation

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A tool that connects everyday work into one space. It gives you and your teams AI tools—search, writing, note-taking—inside an all-in-one, flexible workspace.

What is going on in Unix with errno's limited nature

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When will ad tech measurement not be a mess of fraud?

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The private agent memory fallacy

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Portable AI memory wallets aim to give users control over their digital profiles, but face technical, economic, and security challenges. Effective regulation is needed to ensure accountability and automated safeguards for AI agent memory.

'It's too late': David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost

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David Suzuki believes humanity has lost the fight against climate change and is in deep trouble due to politics and economics being disconnected from reality. He urges local communities to prepare for severe natural disasters by assessing their resources and capabilities.