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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

Customer Update on Simplenote

Simplenote Forums Support Customer Update on Simplenote Customer Update on Simplenote staff-lynn · Staff · September 5, 2025 at 6:09 pm Copy link Add topic to favorites We appreciate your continued use of Simplenote and the support of our community over the years. Simplenote is no longer in active development, and while the app remains available, only…

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

Everything Changes, and Nothing Changes

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Software engineers are adapting to a revolution where AI writes most code, but fundamentals like productivity and team coordination remain key. Strong engineers will focus on taste, intuition, and architecture, as AI handles individual lines of code.

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 ...

More Cows, More Wives

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Marriage customs vary widely across cultures, with some societies practicing monogamy, polygyny, or other forms of marriage, often driven by factors such as resource management, wealth, and social status. The evolution of marriage has been shaped by factors like farming, inequality, and changes in wealth and inheritance, leading to diverse forms of marriage and relationships around the world.

A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification

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California requires operating system providers to implement age verification for users. This law, Assembly Bill No. 1043, aims to provide a signal regarding a user's age bracket to applications available in a covered application store.

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.

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

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US and Israel launch strikes on Iran, as Trump says ‘massive’ campaign underway

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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.

Latency numbers every programmer should know

This text lists various latency numbers for different operations such as memory reference, network latency, and disk access. The numbers range from nanoseconds for memory access to milliseconds for network latency and disk access.

Show HN: SplatHash – A lightweight alternative to BlurHash and ThumbHash

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SplatHash encodes images into 16 bytes and decodes them into 32x32 previews in 0.067 ms. It optimizes for decoding, running once at upload and every page load.

OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation

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OpenAI raises funds in a new round, partnering with Amazon and Nvidia for infrastructure development. The company plans to use the funds to scale AI infrastructure and meet growing demand.

What AI coding costs you

The user is concerned that over-reliance on AI in coding can lead to cognitive atrophy, burnout, and a loss of skills, as well as a pipeline of senior engineers drying up due to lack of hands-on experience. They argue that AI should be used as a tool to augment human capabilities, not replace them, and that developers should be encouraged to stay cognitively engaged and maintain their skills ...

OpenAI – How to delete your account

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To delete your OpenAI account, submit a request through the Privacy Portal or within ChatGPT directly, and confirm by typing your account email and 'DELETE'.

Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers

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The challenge is to build the smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers with >= 99% accuracy using a held-out 10K test set, with constraints on architecture, training, and inference. The current smallest model has 36 parameters, achieved using hand-coded weights and ALiBi compression with a 2-layer decoder.

No Bookmarks

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The author has a unique habit of not using bookmarks, instead relying on their memory to recall the page they left off. This quirk forces them to read attentively and remember their place in the book.

Cash issuing terminals

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The United States is shifting away from cash and towards electronic payments, with cards and other forms of digital transactions dominating everyday commerce. The history of ATMs began with token-based machines in the 1960s, which evolved into modern online ATMs in the 1970s with the introduction of IBM's System/360 and the 2984 Cash Issuing Terminal.

Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years

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Croatia is officially free of landmines after a 31-year effort that cost 208 lives and 1.2 billion euros. The country has removed 107,000 mines and 407,000 pieces of unexploded ordnance.

Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment

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The user is exploring Bootc and OSTree for managing Linux systems, finding them to be a modern and efficient solution for deployment and updates. They successfully deployed Fedora Silverblue on a server using Bootc and OSTree, and set up a CI/CD pipeline to automate updates and ensure consistency between the image and the deployed system.

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.

Show HN: Reclaim Flowers – A 2D physics-based "Digital Altar" protocol

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