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aray07
15 hours ago
Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs
The docs said 1.0–1.35x more tokens. On real content, I measured 1.47x....
4 DAYS AGO
ATOMFINGER
Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language
9 HOURS AGO
GKAMRADT_
Arc Prize Foundation (YC W26) Is Hiring a Platform Engineer for ARC-AGI-4
16 HOURS AGO
HN_ACKER
Ban the sale of precise geolocation
3 DAYS AGO
WESPISER_2018
I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months
16 HOURS AGO
ZDW
Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage
4 DAYS AGO
CIDER9986
Webloc: Analysis of Penlink's Ad-Based Geolocation Surveillance Tech
27 MINUTES AGO
RIFFRAFF
"Liberation Day" at OpenAI as multiple senior executives announce leaving
7 HOURS AGO
TAIKON
How to Host a Blog on a Subdirectory Instead of a Subdomain (2025)
meetpateltech
15 hours ago
Claude Design
Today, we’re launching Claude Design, a new Anthropic Labs product that lets you collaborate with Claude to create polished visual work like designs, prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more.
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louiereederson
3 days ago
Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025)
There is an extremely important question about the near-future of AI that almost no-one is asking. We’ve all seen the graphs from METR showing that the length of tasks AI agents can perfor...
seanieb
13 hours ago
Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock
Instantly disable Touch ID and lock your Mac with one click or keyboard shortcut. - paniclock/paniclock...
arkadiyt
11 hours ago
"cat readme.txt" is not safe if you use iTerm2
Turning "cat readme.txt" into arbitrary code execution in iTerm2....
evakhoury
14 hours ago
Spending 3 months coding by hand
ai is here. so i'm spending 3 months coding the old way...
binsquare
13 hours ago
Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines
Tool to build & run portable, lightweight, self-contained virtual machines. - smol-machines/smolvm...
unsuspecting
8 hours ago
Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution
Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, behaviour and other traits....
cybermango
12 hours ago
All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)
When the Apollo astronauts returned from the Moon, the dust that clung to their spacesuits made their throats sore and their eyes water. Lunar dust is made of sharp, abrasive and nasty parti...
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/The_toxic_side_of_the_Moon
hjconstas
3 days ago
Making Wax Sealed Letters at Scale
Wax seal mailing service for custom wax sealed letters. We print, seal with your logo, and mail via USPS First Class for weddings and bulk outreach....
evakhoury
2 days ago
Generating a color spectrum for an image
Walkthrough of building the Chromaculture Spectrimage analyzer that extracts and displays the color composition of an uploaded image....
prismatic
2 days ago
Ben Lerner's Big Feelings
The acclaimed writer of cerebral autofiction returns with his strangest and most moving novel yet....
mellosouls
3 days ago
Connie Converse was a folk-music genius. Then she vanished
She made stunning, forward-thinking songs in the 1950s, but was barely known – and aged 50, she disappeared. Now, with a new re-release of her music, she's recognised as a trailblazer....
osnium123
2 hours ago
The FBI Director Is MIA
Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences....
PaulHoule
a day ago
Solitaire simulator for finding the best strategy: Current record is 8.590%
Contribute to dacracot/Klondike3-Simulator development by creating an account on GitHub....
bryanrasmussen
21 hours ago
Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in the same photo (2010)
Today’s post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. Lincoln’s funeral procession passing the Roosevelt Mansion in New York City (Cou…...
AlexC04
5 days ago
Average is all you need
LLMs will make more of your average stuff. And that's OK. Here's how average SQL beats fancy attribution models when your agent writes the queries....