Don't be a meat proxy

You're frustrated with relying on AI output in conversations and code reviews, feeling it lacks value and understanding. The effort of reading, validating, and writing a response in your own words is what adds value.

Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

Qwen Studio offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.

More German than many Germans

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The author, a Turkish immigrant, had a positive experience living in Germany, finding a friendly flatmate and a supportive work environment. He eventually became a German citizen after a 14-month process, feeling a sense of belonging and contributing to the society.

Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF

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San Francisco as one giant isometric pixel painting — the city's real 3D geometry redrawn tile by tile by a fine-tuned image model.

Karpathy’s Pelican

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Opus 5 generated 5500 lines of code to procedurally render the Lord of the Rings story with a 1M token budget. This example showcases LLMs' potential for creating hyper-custom worlds, but also highlights their limitations in auditing and perceiving multimodal content.

Rust project goals: Immobile types and guaranteed destructors

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Let types opt out of being moved or forgotten, enabling scoped spawn, async drop, and pin-by-default We propose to introduce new traits that describe what operations are possible on a type. Today Rust assumes all types can be moved (relocated in memory) and forgotten (via mem::forget). We will introduce traits like Move and Forget that make these capabilities explicit, allowing types to opt ...

AI migrated legacy COBOL programs to Java, bugs included

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Researchers developed the "Locksmith Loop" method to test legacy COBOL programs migrated to Java. This method uses mocks, iterative search, and mutations to achieve nearly complete coverage and validate the generated Java code.

CP/M-386 – CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M‑68K

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CP/M-386 BDOS is compatible with CP/M-68K 1.3 and CP/M 2.2, with added extensions for direct video access and high-resolution timing. It can be built on NetBSD, FreeBSD, and most recent Linux distributions, including CentOS, Fedora, and Ubuntu.

Show HN: ssh ssh.place

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The canvas is wider than your terminal, so scroll to pan around. shift+←/→ jumps a whole screen. This canvas is color only. The server turns down anything with a character in it, so you cannot write text here. Draw something instead. Your cooldown is tied to your SSH key, so reconnecting will not reset it. This page only reads the canvas. It changes over SSH and nowhere else.

Convergence is not enough

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Getting into trouble with data representations in Automerge.

Why we write our own C and C++ inference engines

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LocalAI's C++ ports of certain models offer significant footprint savings and comparable performance to their Python counterparts. These ports, such as vllm.cpp and depth-anything.cpp, achieve parity with the original models in terms of output and throughput.

Show HN: A Handwritten Blogging Platform

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Autoregressive Language Model on the 6502 Processor

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The user trained a tiny Mamba-based autoregressive language model and ran it on a BBC Micro from the 80s using a custom inference engine, generating text with a vocabulary of 26 letters and a space character. The project demonstrated the importance of mechanical sympathy in designing ML models, considering hardware constraints, and showed that a Mamba-based model can run inference on 8-bit ...

Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM

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Kakehashi is a tool that runs Darwin CLI tools natively on Linux aarch64 by translating BSD syscalls and mapping a freestanding libSystem. It aims to provide a cost-effective alternative to running Darwin tools on macOS, with a focus on correctness and performance, and is suitable for use in CI environments.

Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management

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The user read an article by Brennan Kenneth Brown about Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) and found it to be misleading. The user argues that Brennan's article fails to critically examine the effectiveness of PKM systems and tools like Obsidian.

Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust

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Developers are struggling to trust AI tools due to their unpredictability and lack of transparency, which can lead to broken processes and decreased productivity. To build trust, teams need to establish a more deliberate and explicitly-defined workflow that preserves human judgment and provides the right context for AI agents.

SwiftUI After 7 Years

Why Book Corners won't sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap

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Book Corners initially planned to contribute user-submitted libraries back to OpenStreetMap, but discovered that the process would require significant documentation, licensing, and operational responsibilities. Due to these costs, Book Corners has decided to suspend the contribution process, prioritizing its core purpose of helping people discover and share little free libraries.

Read the novels and forget everything else

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Patrick O'Brian, a renowned author, was exposed as a liar who fabricated his biography, including his Irish childhood and naval experience. Despite this revelation, his Aubrey-Maturin novels continue to be widely read and admired for their historical accuracy, witty dialogue, and vivid descriptions of 19th-century life.

The myth of Snow Leopard

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Snow Leopard was a 2010 Mac OS X version focused on refining the system, improving efficiency, and fixing bugs. Its promise of stability and polish has become a lasting myth, with people still referencing it for quality of life improvements and stability.

RFC 9851: TLS 1.2 is in Feature Freeze

TLS 1.3 fixes known deficiencies in TLS 1.2 and its use is growing due to improved security. TLS 1.2 will only receive urgent security fixes and no new features will be added.

Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences

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Norway's salmon farming industry has grown into a global behemoth, but it's facing ecological and ethical concerns due to pollution and poor fish welfare. The industry is now grappling with the consequences of its success, including declining oxygen levels and increased disease in fish.

The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)

The computational theory of mind (CTM) suggests that the mind is a computational system similar to a Turing machine, which can process information and make decisions. This theory has been influential in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, but it has also faced criticisms and challenges, such as the need to explain how mental computation interfaces with sensory inputs and motor outputs.

How the words we teach English language learners changed

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The General Service List (1953) and the New General Service List (2023) track changes in everyday English vocabulary, showing a shift from tangible, physical words to abstract concepts and ideas. The 2023 list reflects a more systemic, connected world, with words like mortgage, corporation, and climate, and a greater emphasis on precision and abstract thinking.

Òrbites – Connection and constellation puzzle game

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Juga a Òrbites, un joc de puzzles de connexions: completa les boles, supera reptes i comparteix el teu resultat.

Show HN: Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door

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A Creaky Door for Framework 12 laptops has been created, filtering optimized for its hinge stiffness. Download the executable from the releases tab, or clone the repo and run with cargo, noting potential dynamic linking issues on non-Fedora distros.

My personal AI benchmark: “Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw”

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One prompt, every model: generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw. Each model gets three tries a month. An AI drawing benchmark.

Cro – elegant reactive services in Raku

This tool supports various body types and has an asynchronous API for responses and bodies. It also helps with web sockets, integration tests, and tracing for debugging.

Show HN: NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark

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To use Nix on DGX Spark, you can either use DGX Spark playbooks with Nix on DGX OS or install NixOS with the DGX Spark module.

When transit passes were designed by hand (2022)

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The Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company produced colorful transit passes from 1930s to 1960s with unique hand lettering and designs. About 300 of these passes are now in the Archive's collection, showcasing the city's commitment to civic design and visual appeal.