THE HACKER NEWS

nicowaltz
6 hours ago
Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models
Jeeves – Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models - PostHog/jeeves...
5 HOURS AGO
ILAMONT
500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
2 DAYS AGO
AIRHANGERF15
Software occlusion culling in Block Game
3 DAYS AGO
PSEUDOLUS
The Beatles have permeated research papers across academic disciplines
3 DAYS AGO
DABINAT
Optimizing x264 settings and per-title ladders
A DAY AGO
SLOWIN
Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
A DAY AGO
JONBAER
Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
A DAY AGO
IBOBEV
Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream
A DAY AGO
P-S-V
Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
2 DAYS AGO
SANCHO-PANZA
When did Google get so weird?
3 HOURS AGO
HIERONYMUSBOSCH
Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2026
rbanffy
4 hours ago
How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent
It slashed electricity losses from 50 to 5 percent
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evakhoury
a day ago
Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display
One of nature's beautiful patterns captured in dancing lights...
rbanffy
3 hours ago
Google ending ChromeOS support two years early
Rise of the Googlebook means ChromeOS users get eight years' support, not a decade...
doener
2 days ago
Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)
Phil Hogan, an IT application architect, estimates that close to 80 percent of the system is original. ...
barry-cotter
6 hours ago
You are no longer invited to dinner
We’re witnessing the death of hosting in America. The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined 70 percent since 1975...
ibobev
2 days ago
Digital Audio on the ZX Spectrum's 1-Bit Beeper
It’s finally time for me to wrap up this ZX Spectrum series, with a look at how to get the simple 1-bit beeper on every Spectrum model to emit high-quality digital audio. The results are qui...
tgluck
5 hours ago
Show HN: Jevstiller – Distill Jev into a local model, with a disagreement bound
September 2026. Every number here is from the benchmarks, and bash experiments/bench.sh --no-record reruns them without an API key....
paimapi
30 minutes ago
DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers
Online sports betting company DraftKings is using AI to target customers who are most likely to place losing bets and respond to gambling promotions. This kind of targeting is a form of onli...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/draftkings-using-ai-supercharge-harms-online-behavioral-advertising
cyfyifanchen
7 hours ago
Show HN: Raven – The harness of harnesses, built for RSI
The Harness of Harnesses • built for RSI: a trusted, persistent, self-evolving multi-agent ecosystem for all-domain collaboration. - EverMind-AI/Raven...
piotrgrabowski
a day ago
Pirating the Pirates
Notes from the underground of film preservation....
luu
2 days ago
Four CHI '26 papers I wish I wrote
In the very first paper session at CHI 2026, I found myself thinking, “I wish I wrote this paper!” And then I found myself thinking that a few times more. Since I’m on the hunt fo…...
nkko
20 hours ago
ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model
7-node ESP32-S3 cluster running a 0.4B LLM via 1.58-bit (BitNet) ternary quantization over SPI daisy-chain - Low-Zi-Hong/ESP32s3-LLM-Cluster...
firelex
21 hours ago
Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms
Fine-tunes of Qwen3.5 and Gemma 4 for zero-shot classification - firelex/jeff...
anon373839
3 hours ago
Where's the "Intelligence Explosion"?
Ramez Naam gives a skeptic’s take on Recursive Self-Improvement....
D2OQZG8l5BI1S06
a day ago
Sonnet 5.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a clear upgrade over Claude Sonnet 5, runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work....
gumby
21 hours ago
Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery
19th century Nature account of 1841 train delayed by geomagnetic storm got year wrong—due to a typo....