THE HACKER NEWS

pseudolus
8 hours ago
Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity
How Bill Watterson Stuck to His Guns — and Vanished...
2 DAYS AGO
JENSGK
A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time (2022)
8 HOURS AGO
NEILFRNDES
Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness
4 HOURS AGO
MELIHELIBOL
Show HN: cuTile Rust: Safe, data-race-free GPU kernels in Rust
7 HOURS AGO
PALASHAWAS
Making ast.walk 220x Faster
9 HOURS AGO
EDM115
SubQ 1.1 Small
3 DAYS AGO
MCHAV
Show HN: Sabela – A Reactive Notebook for Haskell
19 HOURS AGO
APITMAN
I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer
2 HOURS AGO
FIREFOXD
Please, Use a Link
AN HOUR AGO
LOGICKKK1
Among the large new rockets Amazon was counting on, only Europe has delivered
32 MINUTES AGO
PAULPAUPER
Assume You Will Be Hacked
14 HOURS AGO
_TK_
Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers
32 MINUTES AGO
PAULPAUPER
Assume You Will Be Hacked
jfb
9 hours ago
Running local models is good now
Local agentic coding has gotten great over the past few months
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razin
12 hours ago
Mechanical Watch (2022)
Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works....
alok-g
35 minutes ago
Wolfram Language and Mathematica Version 15, AI Assistant, Symbolic Music, More
AI-related upgrades like the built-in AI Assistant, extended computation-augmented generation and the Wolfram Agent Tools framework. Advances in TimeSeries & Tabular. New categorical data, M...
hn_acker
2 hours ago
The UK's Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is not having a particularly good time of being the UK’s leader. Basically everyone thinks he’s doing a terrible job and it seems unlikely that he’l…...
root-parent
6 hours ago
GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands
With GPT‑NL, TNO - together with SURF and the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) is building an independent Dutch language model and ecosystem. This strengthens the digital autonomy of the...
dzonga
7 hours ago
Stop Using JWTs
Stop using JWTs. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets....
parksb
9 hours ago
But yak shaving is fun (2019)
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...
mrshu
7 hours 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/
rdmuser
14 hours ago
Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2
Here are three true statements about the game of Slay the Spire 2 (in single player): If you pick Neow's Bones in the Underdocks, the random curse is ~54% likely to be Debt.* It is impos...
ambanmba
3 days ago
A Nipkow Disk Mechanical TV Simulator
Physics-accurate Nipkow disk simulation running live in your browser. Baird 30-line, Jenkins 48, German 180-line, CBS Colour....
throwarayes
7 hours ago
Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?
Leadership at the social media giant has been on an AI-fueled rampage through its engineering org. We report what’s happened...
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....
nate
3 days ago
An interview with an Apple emoji designer
0x000xca0xfe
3 days ago
Getting Creative with Perlin Noise Fields
How to make infinite design variations using Perlin noise fields, a simple generative algorithm....
Cider9986
3 days ago
The Manhoff Archives: Color photos of Stalin-era USSR taken by a US diplomat
Stalin's Soviet Union comes to life in full color with the discovery of a long-hidden collection of images....
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....