Old and new apps, via modern coding agents by Terry Tao

256 subset 2026-07-12 12:43:39 UTC terrytao.wordpress.com Qwen Share 66

A mathematician successfully migrated 1999 Java applets to JavaScript via AI, reviving tools like honeycomb and Besicovitch set visualizers with minimal bugs. They also created new interactive visualizations for special relativity and the Gilbreath conjecture using AI, finding the process efficient and low-risk for supplementary educational tools.

How to Read More Books

38 silcoon 2026-07-12 15:47:39 UTC scotto.me Qwen Share 9

Replace screen time with reading, use an e-reader, read in daily moments, mix genres, and avoid distractions. Set goals, build a library, track progress, and avoid speed reading/summaries to deepen understanding.

AI Boosts Research Careers but Flattens Scientific Discovery

84 zaikunzhang 2026-07-12 13:43:39 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Qwen Share 66

AI enhances individual scientists' productivity and career progression but narrows research diversity, risking homogeneity. Balancing personal incentives with collective scientific exploration is vital to prevent stifling innovation.

Understanding the Odin Programming Language

87 AlexeyBrin 2026-07-12 12:43:39 UTC odinbook.com Qwen Share 24

Understanding the Odin Programming Language teaches basic to advanced Odin concepts, emphasizing design rationale and practical examples, endorsed by Odin's creator and praised for clarity. Karl Zylinski, an experienced game developer and educator, updates the book with language changes and offers insights into low-level programming.

A no-brainer for protecting your brain

24 saikatsg 2026-07-12 15:43:39 UTC economist.com Qwen Share 6

Alzheimer’s, a feared dementia, erodes identity and self-trust, as described by Terry Pratchett, who likened it to "unwinding" and isolation. The government’s inadequate response fails to address its devastating impact.

Don't You Mean Extinct?

19 zdw 2026-07-12 15:43:39 UTC fabiensanglard.net Qwen Share 5

Technological shifts, like CGI in the 90s and AI today, disrupt industries but offer growth through adaptation. Programmers must evolve by mastering tools like LLMs, leveraging resources such as Karpathy's tutorials and Raschka's book, to stay relevant amid automation and code review advancements.

Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty

141 signa11 2026-07-12 09:43:39 UTC dakra.github.io Qwen Share 21

Ghostel is an Emacs terminal emulator using libghostty-vt, offering modern VT features like Kitty protocols, rich underlines, and OSC 8 hyperlinks. It integrates with Emacs via Elisp and a Zig-native module, supporting shell commands, password prompts, and TRAMP remote terminals.

Unauthenticated RCE in Motorola's MR2600 Router

54 MrBruh 2026-07-12 12:43:39 UTC mrbruh.com Qwen Share 16

The author discovered an unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in Motorola's MR2600 router, exploiting a flawed firmware validation process and authentication bypass in its CGI/SOAP handlers. Despite public disclosure due to Motorola's lack of response, the vulnerability impacts exposed devices, underscoring risks from outdated firmware and inadequate security checks.

Vint Cerf, a “father of the Internet”, is retiring

224 compiler-guy 2026-07-12 04:43:39 UTC techcrunch.com Qwen Share 129

Vint Cerf, co-creator of TCP/IP and retiring Google VP, emphasized standardized protocols for AI agent interoperability at a conference, while panelists discussed open-source sustainability and challenges in AI centralization. His legacy includes pioneering internet protocols and advocating for structured communication over natural language ambiguity.

Gina Gallery of International Naive Art

22 o4c 2026-07-12 13:43:39 UTC ginagallery.com Qwen Share 10

GINA Gallery, founded in 2003, is the world's largest international institution dedicated to Naïve Art, featuring over 100 artists from 30+ countries. Its diverse collection showcases the genre's global expressions through cultural traditions and individual artistic styles.

The power of collaboration: How we can reduce traffic congestion

9 raahelb 2026-07-12 15:43:39 UTC research.google Prefix Share 4

Vehicle transportation underpins much of modern life, enabling the movement of goods and people, productivity, and economic growth. However, the costs are high: drivers spend an average of 2.6 years of their life on the road, and private cars and vans now account for around 10% of global CO2 emissions. Hence, the efficient use of transportation networks is of paramount importance. Can road ...

Why study Diophantine equations?

8 mb1699 2026-07-12 15:54:39 UTC hidden-phenomena.com Prefix Share 1

← back One of the central goals of number theory is to find integer solutions to polynomial equations -- this is called the study of Diophantine equations. This might seem a strange goal, so let's take a step back and ask what the point of mathematics is. The aim of mathematics is to look for hidden structures in mathematical objects. I envision this as similar to the role of an author: ...

Satteri: A Markdown pipeline forged in Rust for the JavaScript world

25 nateb2022 2026-07-12 11:43:39 UTC satteri.bruits.org Full Share 5

Sätteri puts flexible JavaScript plugins on top of a fast Rust Markdown / MDX engine. Best of both worlds.

Lessons from the Vasa Shipwreck

16 bookofjoe 2026-07-12 12:43:39 UTC ft.com Full Share 10

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Ditching Zotero for a Text File

39 speckx 2026-07-12 11:43:39 UTC atthis.link Qwen Share 27

The user adopts BibTeX as a minimalist, portable reference manager, utilizing plain-text files and UNIX tools for efficient organization via keywords and notes. This approach bypasses GUI platforms, ensuring flexibility, version control, and seamless academic workflow integration.

Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase

130 cosmtrek 2026-07-12 06:43:39 UTC github.com/cosmtrek Qwen Share 54

Mindwalk visualizes coding sessions as interactive night maps, showing agent activity via glowing file interactions (read/edit) in Tree/Terrain views. A local Go tool parses logs, installs securely, and serves a UI with playback, touch states, and session analysis.

Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh

312 tionis 2026-07-11 22:43:39 UTC iroh.computer Qwen Share 72

Mesh LLM enables distributed GPU pooling for OpenAI-compatible APIs, offering control, cost efficiency, and peer-to-peer networking via iroh, avoiding centralized cloud lock-in. It splits models across devices, supports private/public deployment, and uses decentralized QUIC connections for seamless, scalable inference.

Morphometrics: Introduction to the Analysis of Shape

4 num42 2026-07-12 15:43:39 UTC geol.umd.edu Prefix Share 0

Key Points: •Morphometrics is the quantitative study of form. There are many available morphometrics to study form and its change with ontogeny, evolution, taphonomy, etc. •Principal Components Analysis (and its close cousing Principal Coordinates Analysis) are the real workhorse methods in morphometrics, summarizing multiple variables at once. •Morphospaces are the expression of quantified ...

Protobuf-py: Protobuf for Python, without compromises

110 ming13 2026-07-12 05:43:39 UTC buf.build Qwen Share 29

protobuf-py is a Python-native Protocol Buffers library with full spec support, Pythonic API, and Rust acceleration, offering faster real-world performance than Google's C-based upb while avoiding runtime dependencies and global state. It addresses longstanding issues in Python Protobuf tooling by generating readable, typed code and preserving spec compliance without sacrificing usability.

Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom

339 adletbalzhanov 2026-07-11 17:43:39 UTC io-fund.com Qwen Share 144

Neoclouds like CoreWeave and Nebius grow via hyperscaler demand for AI infrastructure, leveraging Nvidia GPUs and optimizing compute utilization. However, rapid expansion relies on high debt and circular financing with Nvidia, risking sustainability amid cash flow gaps and macroeconomic pressures.

Show HN: Skillscript – A declarative, sandboxed language for tool orchestration

6 sshwarts 2026-07-12 13:43:39 UTC github.com/sshwarts Prefix Share 6

AI agents are mostly transient. Every routine task is re-derived from prose reasoning. The agent that summarized a thread yesterday will summarize one tomorrow by reasoning from scratch about how to summarize threads, burning frontier inference on a procedure with a known shape, a known output format, and known failure modes. The waste compounds in three directions: cost (every routine ...

An agent in 100 lines of Lisp

210 jamiebeach 2026-07-12 01:43:39 UTC thebeach.dev Qwen Share 63

The author revisits Lisp's role in 1990s symbolic AI, now experimenting with its code-as-data feature to build a minimalist AI agent that dynamically generates and executes tools via recursion, contrasting modern fixed-agent frameworks. This approach mirrors human learning through memory-driven skill rehydration, suggesting Lisp's enduring relevance in agent design.

Xbox 'OG' Adventures

34 davikr 2026-07-12 09:43:39 UTC mamoniem.com Qwen Share 5

The user ported their game engine to the original Xbox as a personal project, overcoming challenges like adapting modern C++/Vulkan to outdated tools, converting assets through multiple formats, and using legacy SDKs. They prioritized official documentation and original toolchains over homebrew solutions, emphasizing technical hurdles in supporting obsolete hardware.

RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch

190 mariuz 2026-07-11 22:43:39 UTC github.com/wren6991 Qwen Share 26

A Gameboy Advance-inspired RISC-V processor in Verilog for iCE40-HX8k FPGA, supporting RV32IMC and compliance tests. Requires RISC-V toolchain setup, simulation with ISIM, and PCBs for prototyping.

Autoresearch, Claude and Constrained Optimization

4 gmays 2026-07-12 14:43:39 UTC elliotcsmith.com Prefix Share 0

You don't need to look far to find claims that folks have been using AI to do the work of dozens of people. I tend to be skeptical of any claim that discusses improvements without evidence. I decided to take that skepticism and put it to work. This had a minor overlap with the whole 'loops' discussion on X but that's coincidental. Over the last few weeks I have put together a ...

Handsum: An LQIP Image File Format

38 dmit 2026-07-12 06:43:39 UTC nigeltao.github.io Qwen Share 5

Handsum is a DCT-based LQIP format offering fixed-size thumbnails (48-147 bytes) for predictable storage and fast loading, outperforming Blurhash/Thumbhash in quality at similar sizes while simplifying JPEG-like compression. Its fixed-byte design streamlines database storage and decoding, balancing efficiency with visual fidelity for low-res previews.

TK, or the secret to effortless writing (2024)

9 Tomte 2026-07-12 15:59:39 UTC atthis.link Prefix Share 0

You're pounding away at the keyboard, words coming freely, the next sentence building effortlessly on the last. And then it hits: what comes next? The right adjective, uncertainty on how to tie two paragraphs together, a forgotten fact or figure. You could sit and ponder the question, lose all momentum, your train of thought, the deadline inching closer, or you could use an approach I ...

Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem

310 theMackabu 2026-07-11 20:43:39 UTC antjs.org Qwen Share 142

Ant uses Hono for isolated module initialization without an HTTP server, enabling 40x faster package installation and secure execution via VM sandbox. It leverages ants.land registry with npm protocol support, offering ESM compatibility and cross-manager package management.

I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front)

99 c-c-c-c-c 2026-07-12 00:43:39 UTC triapul.cz Qwen Share 37

This document explains how to draw on 9front using various input devices like mice, tablets, and touchscreens, focusing on the paint(1) program for digital art creation. It covers techniques for image manipulation, file conversion to formats like PNG, and methods for sharing artwork via external drives or network connections.

Relm – local LLMs as base-R objects, with interpretability

5 grauk 2026-07-12 13:43:39 UTC github.com/vadale Prefix Share 0

R-ebirth aims to make R a first-class environment for scientific research on data and AI — mechanistic interpretability ("AI neuroscience"), machine learning including topic modelling, and the life sciences — while staying simple for researchers. It is delivered as relm: an R package with a Rust native core that embeds a patched llama.cpp, exposing local LLMs (loading, generation, ...