THE HACKER NEWS

razin
6 hours ago
Mechanical Watch (2022)
Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works....
13 HOURS AGO
APITMAN
I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer
13 HOURS AGO
PAULMOOREPARKS
The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation
AN HOUR AGO
THROWARAYES
Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?
26 MINUTES AGO
JOSHBETZ
The octopus architecture for AI agents
19 HOURS AGO
SOHKAMYUNG
Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb
3 DAYS AGO
CIDER9986
The Manhoff Archives: Color photos of Stalin-era USSR taken by a US diplomat
9 HOURS AGO
DARKTOTO
Making espresso with ultrasound
10 HOURS AGO
TOSH
Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it
3 DAYS AGO
MOOREDS
The history of butterfly swimming
4 HOURS AGO
SPECKX
Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
A DAY AGO
CHADFOWLER
Iroh 1.0
3 HOURS AGO
SPECKX
I Fired Google
A DAY AGO
SPECKX
I Love the Computer
4 HOURS AGO
SPECKX
Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
6 HOURS AGO
FRB
SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO
A DAY AGO
CHADFOWLER
Iroh 1.0
3 HOURS AGO
GREGPR07
How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in <1s
3 HOURS AGO
SPECKX
I Fired Google
5 HOURS AGO
DEFROST
'Wow, it really worked ': 70s TV show causing worldwide panic today
jfb
3 hours ago
Running local models is good now
Local agentic coding has gotten great over the past few months
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palashawas
an hour ago
Making ast.walk 220x Faster
Why ast.walk when you can ast.sprint?...
parksb
3 hours ago
But yak shaving is fun
KO | EN This blog doesn’t use a static site generator or framework like Jekyll, Hugo, or Gatsby. I tried a few of them at first, but they gave me too little freedom to customize, so I decide...
neilfrndes
2 hours ago
Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness
It’s not magic if it’s science....
speckx
36 minutes ago
Gamers beware: malicious wallpapers on Steam found stealing accounts
Since late 2025, malware has been spreading rapidly through the Steam Workshop. In most cases, we caught old, familiar threats such as DarkKomet, the Lumma and Vidar infostealers....
EDM115
3 hours ago
SubQ 1.1 Small
Subquadratic is a frontier AI research and infrastructure company building a new class of LLMs....
speckx
3 hours ago
After AI Takes Everything
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mrshu
an hour ago
TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP
Minimal container images often ship without curl, wget, or any HTTP client at all. Bash can open a TCP socket through /dev/tcp, which is enough to write a tiny HTTP/1.1 request by hand for q...
https://mareksuppa.com/til/bash-dev-tcp-http-without-curl/
nextos
5 days ago
Formal Methods and the Future of Programming
I’ve been telling people for the last 25 years that Jane Street as an organization was just not interested in formal methods....
haberdasher
an hour ago
Specs Augmented Reality Glasses
We built SPECS to bring AI assistance, work tools, entertainment, and shared experiences into the world around us, helping people create, connect, learn, and get things done while staying pr...
nate
3 days ago
An interview with an Apple emoji designer
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3 days ago
Getting Creative with Perlin Noise Fields
How to make infinite design variations using Perlin noise fields, a simple generative algorithm....
_tk_
8 hours ago
Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers
According to the one person who actually read the research paper...
laxmena
2 hours ago
GateGPT: 56k tokens per second Transformer (KV cache) on FPGA at 80 MHz
56,000+ tokens/sec at just 80 MHz. 🤯 I burned a full Transformer with KV cache into a custom chip. Designed gate by gate as a 100% digital integrated circuit. Prototyped on a FPGA. (No GP...
lwhsiao
a day ago
A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer
A fake recruiter, a crypto repo, and a remote code execution payload hidden in a test file....
apulkit6
8 hours ago
Trinket.io shutting down, so we saved it and hosted it a trinket.strivemath.org
A community-hosted edition of Trinket, free forever at trinket.strivemath.org. Write and run Python, HTML, and more in your browser, and build interactive coding courses....