The user discussed the limitations of language models in understanding context and nuances in questions. They tested various models with a trick question about walking or driving to a 50-meter distant car wash.
Miles Wu, a 14-year-old student, discovered a strong origami pattern called Miura-ori that can hold 10,000 times its own weight. He won a $25,000 prize for his innovation, which could be used to build deployable shelters for emergency situations.
The author built Bluehood, a Bluetooth scanner to track nearby devices and analyze their presence patterns, after learning about a critical Bluetooth vulnerability. The project highlights the importance of understanding what information is leaked by having Bluetooth enabled, even if users have nothing to hide.
Courtsdesk, a digital archive for journalists, is being shut down by the Ministry of Justice due to unauthorized sharing of court information. The move may lead to unreported cases as the platform helped 1,500 reporters track court hearings.
You are logged into [email protected], Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.
The Triforce arcade platform was a collaboration between Sega and Nintendo that used a modified GameCube motherboard to create arcade experiences. The platform had nine games released, including two Mario Kart games, Mario Kart Arcade GP and Mario Kart Arcade GP 2, which featured unique gameplay mechanics and features such as drifting and item reflection.
Introducing the open-weight of the first model in the new qwen3.5 series, namely the qw3.5-397b-a17b. as a native vision-language model, it demonstrates outstanding results across benchmark evaluations, including reasoning and multimodal understanding. to continuously unleash the power of reinforcement learning, we built scalable rl framework that supports models of all sizes - spanning text, ...
Anthropic's Claude Code updated to hide file names in progress output, causing developer backlash for security and audit concerns. Anthropic repurposed verbose mode to show file paths, but developers still want full details.
Discord is working with Persona, a firm backed by Palantir's Peter Thiel, for age verification. The collaboration involves storing user data for up to seven days as part of an experiment in the UK.
Western Digital has sold out of storage capacity for 2026 due to high demand from enterprise customers and AI companies. This shortage is expected to lead to higher prices for consumers.
Researchers created SkillsBench, a benchmark to measure the effectiveness of agent skills in 11 domains. Curated skills raised the average pass rate by 16.2 percentage points, but self-generated skills provided no benefit.
The author reflects on how power and privilege can lead to a lack of effort in writing professional emails, citing examples from Epstein document dumps and the 2014 Sony Pictures hack. They suggest that those in positions of power may not feel the need to maintain a professional tone.
The Internet's anonymity is broken by centralizing communication on closed platforms, allowing governments to identify users and censor content. Using protocols instead of services prevents this, as there's no single entity to compel, making it harder for governments to enforce compliance.
Paragon Solutions briefly exposed its spyware dashboard on LinkedIn, revealing a billion-dollar surveillance empire targeting journalists and ordinary people. The $900 million acquisition of Paragon by a US private equity firm shows who profits from digital insecurity.
User likes transcription apps but dislikes their monthly fees. They want a free alternative with context-aware features and no data storage.
The author is concerned about the rise of coding agents and their potential to make workers addicted to work, citing their addictive nature and the push by tech companies to use them. This could lead to a norm of constant work and erosion of ethics in the industry.
The C language's defer feature is now available in clang-22 and can be used with a workaround in gcc-9 and later. This feature allows for cleanup handling without specific software infrastructure or libraries.
Split keyboards offer ergonomic benefits by separating hands, reducing wrist bending and shoulder tension. Choosing the right keyboard involves considering factors like key count, form factor, and budget, with options ranging from affordable DIY kits to premium, custom-made devices.
The user set up a self-hosted XMPP server using Prosody in Docker for a decentralized messaging solution, enabling federation with other servers and end-to-end encryption with OMEMO. The setup includes DNS records, certificates, and a TURN/STUN server for voice and video calls, and the user recommends running the XMPP Compliance Tester to ensure proper configuration.
The author discusses the limitations of AI-generated summarization tools, particularly in multilingual contexts, and how subtle shifts in system prompts can reshape summaries and influence downstream decisions.
Researchers studied coding agents with context files, finding they reduce task success rates and increase inference cost. Context files should only describe minimal requirements to avoid making tasks harder.
Three of America's largest banks filed 7,474 Labor Condition Applications for foreign workers, mostly at the minimum prevailing wage. The banks use green card sponsorship to lock workers in, giving them little negotiating power.
The author argues that modern web development approaches, particularly those relying on JavaScript-heavy frameworks like React, often lead to performance issues and are not as developer-friendly as claimed. To mitigate these problems, the author suggests defining a performance budget, choosing a suitable architecture and tech stack, setting up code splitting and bundle size tracking, and ...
Short-circuit your phone's camera in real time. Rewire CCD chip pins to glitch, distort, and bend your video feed — then capture one-of-a-kind photos.
The author is concerned about the negative impact of AI on society, citing its potential to automate jobs, create fake content, and lower the barrier to entry for low-quality work, which could lead to a decline in human welfare. The author believes that AI companies should take steps to mitigate these negative effects, such as lobbying for legislation, watermarking AI-generated content, and ...
The MessageFormat Working Group develops an industry standard for localizable message strings, providing a framework for complex features like gender and inflections. The Unicode MessageFormat Standard is a stable part of CLDR, recommended for implementation and adoption.
Docker Sandboxes provides a secure, isolated environment for running AI assistants like NanoClaw, which monitors WhatsApp messages. The shell sandbox type allows users to install and run custom agents, such as Claude Code, in a clean Ubuntu environment with Node.js and other dev tools.
The author argues that building a successful SaaS is futile due to intense competition and walled gardens controlled by large corporations. The future of software lies in high-touch enterprise sales, not independent SaaS development.
The author questions the brain-centric view of human nature and behavior, suggesting that human consciousness is distributed throughout the body, with organs like the gut and heart having their own intelligence and sensory systems. The author proposes that we should consider the entire body as a complex, interconnected system rather than focusing solely on the brain.
WebMCP is a JavaScript interface that allows web developers to expose app functionality as "tools" for agents and assistive technologies. It enables collaborative workflows where users and agents work together within the same web interface.
Arm designs are licensed to manufacturers who produce chips, earning Arm upfront fees and royalties. Over 300 billion chips built on Arm designs have been shipped worldwide.
Robert Duvall, a 95-year-old actor, died at home with no other details given. He won an Academy Award for best actor in the 1983 film "Tender Mercies" for his portrayal of a country star.
The user analyzed Show HN posts and found a significant drop in performance in 2025, possibly due to the software job market decline or AI-driven shallow content. The top performing topics in 2025 were DIY Hardware IoT Projects and Document Ingestion and Retrieval, while AI-related topics underperformed despite their increased frequency.
The author is a pessimist about AI, arguing that its benefits are largely reserved for the privileged, while its harms are widespread and devastating, including enabling bullying, harassment, and the exploitation of vulnerable groups. To be an AI optimist, one must be privileged, ignoring the costs of AI to others, including job displacement, environmental degradation, and the exacerbation of ...
Wero is an instant money transfer service allowing 24/7 payments from bank accounts with no card or IBAN required. It's available in Europe with major banks in Belgium, France, and Germany, and expanding to more countries.
Picol is a 500-line C interpreter that supports Tcl-like features, including interpolation, procedures, and variables. It's a simple and understandable example of writing a parser and interpreter, useful for learning how to write a Tcl interpreter.
The author revived their 1981 text-based game Arctic Adventure using AI, adding graphics and features with Claude Code. The new version, Arctic Adventure 2026, is a collaborative effort between the author and Claude Code, with the AI generating most of the code and artwork.
Tempus-Word was a visionary word processor ahead of its time in the 1990s, but its demise followed Atari's market decline. It still runs on emulators, but its outdated technology makes it less compatible with modern systems.
Reuben P. Box's daily diaries document forest management and life in northern California from 1927 to 1945. The digitized diaries are hosted by DreamHost in partnership with the Stirling City Historical Society.
User suggests "Suicide Linux" where incorrect commands trigger rm -rf /, and proposes alternatives like verbose flags or random file deletion to make it a game or educational tool. User clarifies autocorrect is optional in Linux and did not create the "Suicide Linux" package.
Apple's iOS 27 update will focus on cleaning up the operating system's internals for better battery life and performance. It will also include AI improvements and interface tweaks, with a new iPhone and iPad release expected in the coming weeks.
PlanetScale migrates large databases without downtime, using a process that involves taking a consistent non-locking snapshot of the data, replicating changes throughout the migration, and running a VDiff to verify data correctness. This allows for a seamless transition to the new system.
Researchers found that pink noise may reduce restorative REM sleep and interfere with sleep recovery, contradicting its widespread use as a sleep aid. Earplugs were found to be significantly more effective in protecting sleep against traffic noise, suggesting they may be a safer alternative.
The -fbounds-safety model ensures bounds checking for pointers by performing explicit or implicit bounds checking and provides various annotations such as __counted_by, __sized_by, and __ended_by to express bounds information. The model also provides default bounds annotations for ABI-visible pointers and non-ABI visible pointers, and allows programmers to control the default annotation using macros.
Implemented distributed system for software engineering with strong module boundaries and high test cadence. Coalescer with Gemini was implemented but ran only once due to performance issues and requires daily cron job for optimal results.
Wildex is an app that identifies plants and animals using your camera, allowing you to collect and track species in your area. It features leaderboards, quests, and educational facts to encourage exploration and learning.
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To test for concurrency issues, a barrier can be used to synchronize concurrent operations and force the exact interleaving of operations, making the test deterministic and not probabilistic. A barrier test should pass with a lock and fail without it to prove that the lock is doing the work, and should be used to catch regressions in the code.
The author suggests delaying the salary discussion in job interviews to focus on other aspects of the job. They recommend responding with a range based on industry standards or expressing uncertainty about the job's details.
Build apps by stacking simple blocks, no coding required. Publish instantly with a user-friendly platform for entrepreneurs and developers.
This open textbook covers maths, computing, and AI from the ground up, focusing on intuition and real-world context. It's available on GitHub as the Maths, CS & AI Compendium by Henry Ndubuaku.
The Long Lines system, a network of microwave towers, connected the US from 1951 to the 1990s, revolutionizing communication and television broadcasting. It was eventually replaced by fiber optics and satellite systems after AT&T's breakup in 1984, leading to its abandonment and repurposing.
Lossless Context Management (LCM) outperforms Claude Code on long-context tasks by decomposing symbolic recursion into deterministic mechanisms. LCM is implemented in Volt, a production-level coding agent that handles user sessions and context control.
The user describes their experience with decompiling Nintendo 64 games using Claude, a coding agent, and how they evolved their workflow to improve progress. They discuss various tools and techniques used, including function similarity scoring, skills, hooks, and model routing, to overcome challenges and achieve significant decompilation progress.
Americans can resist the Trump administration by targeting tech companies and firms enabling ICE with a month-long national economic strike. This strike should focus on companies like Instagram, which provides services to ICE and has outsized influence over the national economy.
Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary. Just for fun. - GitHub - nineties/planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary. Just for fun.
This package uses Luxor.jl to draw LSystems, a set of rules that define recursive patterns, introduced by Aristid Lindenmayer in 1968. The package has a drawLSystem() function and allows for external functions to be defined and used within the LSystem.
Hokusai's 103 sketches for The Great Picture Book of Everything were rediscovered in 2019 after being lost for over a century. The British Museum acquired the sketches, which showcase Hokusai's wide range of subjects, including mythical beings, historical figures, and landscapes.
FFF.nvim is an opinionated fuzzy file picker for Neovim that provides a comprehensive typo-resistant search experience with a dedicated Rust backend runtime. It offers features like live grep search, git integration, and customizable highlight groups, and can be configured through various options and settings.
The user created a golf simulator to visualize golf course architecture using strokes-to-hole calculations, expanding on Mark Broadie's strokes gained approach. The simulator maps show where holes are difficult or easy, highlighting strategic design features and potential hazards.
The app is a single Python server with a 3-pane UI rendering .org files from a notes directory. It lacks authentication and encryption, requiring trusted networks.
Shutaro Ida, a longtime Castlevania and Bloodstained developer, has died at 52 after battling cancer. He spent decades shaping influential action-platformers and was working on Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement at the time of his passing.
The user successfully created a device that can display 8-bit grayscale video over RF at 400x300 pixels using a microcontroller and a CRT TV, and also implemented audio using FM modulation. They designed a PCB for the device and plan to add features such as digital and analog inputs and outputs, and will share the project's sources once the boards are confirmed to work.
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Google DeepMind published a paper on a transformer-based chess model trained on Stockfish 16, claiming it plays at human Grandmaster level. However, the model's strength is comparable to or surpassed by open-source Leela Chess Zero project.
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Electrons in a 2D Coulomb gas experience pairwise repulsion and are confined by an external potential, with energy given by a 2D log-gas Hamiltonian. The minimum-energy state is a Fekete configuration, approximated by minimizing the Hamiltonian.
DHS sent hundreds of subpoenas to tech companies for user info on anti-ICE accounts. Companies like Google and Meta complied, but ACLU argues this is a tool to suppress speech.
A large review suggests intermittent fasting may not help people who are overweight or obese lose weight, but it could still improve overall health through other changes. The researchers say more evidence is needed to confirm the effects of intermittent fasting on weight loss and overall health.
The author argues that Docker Swarm is a viable alternative to Kubernetes for container orchestration, offering simplicity and cost-effectiveness without sacrificing functionality, and that the industry's emphasis on Kubernetes is driven by profit rather than need. The author provides a detailed comparison of Swarm and Kubernetes, highlighting the complexity and overhead of Kubernetes and ...
The author describes the development of Atari's Digital Vector Generator, which was used in games like Asteroids and Lunar Lander, and explains how it works, including the use of a DAC, sample-and-hold circuit, and state machine. The author also discusses the design of the Vector Generator processor, which is a stored-program computer with a state machine, and how it can be modified to add ...
Venezuela’s oil reserves are massive, but not all crude is created equal.
We implemented type-based alias analysis in our Toy Optimizer to improve load-store forwarding by considering object types and offsets, allowing us to cache results and invalidate stale information. This approach provides higher precision than offset-only invalidation with a small incremental analysis cost bump, making it suitable for JIT compilers and improving code quality.
A professor discusses the nature of open problems in mathematics, stating that some are open due to fear rather than difficulty. They propose sharing unsolved problems with students to encourage problem-solving.
The user found an old article about 1982 telecine color correction and described the Rank-Cintel color control room with joysticks for blacks, mids, and highlights.
Before digital editing, film was transferred to tape using analog devices like Rank or flying-spot scanners, which doubled frames for 24fps to 30fps conversion. Early formats included 2" quad videotape, 1" C-type, and Beta SP, with film-chain projectors used for early television broadcasts.
The user uses tsonic to create an Express-like app in TypeScript, compiling it to a native binary. They define routes and middleware as async functions with the 3-argument signature (req, res, next).
The Kraft brothers, Jack and Harold, invented the vortex mixer in 1958 to solve a major challenge in mid-century science: mixing fluids quickly and efficiently. Their invention, patented in 1962, revolutionized laboratory work and is now a common tool in biology labs worldwide.