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mustaphah
6 hours ago
Study: Self-generated Agent Skills are useless
Agent Skills are structured packages of procedural knowledge that augment LLM agents at inference time. Despite rapid adoption, there is no standard way to measure whether they actually help...
4 HOURS AGO
FOUR_FIFTHS
Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox
8 HOURS AGO
YICHAB0D
Neurons outside the brain
3 DAYS AGO
HANDFULOFLIGHT
Ghidra by NSA
12 HOURS AGO
HENRYNDUBUAKU
Show HN: Maths, CS and AI Compendium
9 HOURS AGO
SURPRISETALK
Privilege is bad grammar
3 DAYS AGO
TRANSPUTE
Chiplets Get Physical: The Days of Mix-and-Match Silicon Draw Nigh
15 HOURS AGO
TOSH
planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary
14 HOURS AGO
HAREL
Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database
17 HOURS AGO
TODSACERDOTI
MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings
colinprince
2 hours ago
Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse
Detectives desperate to locate a 12-year-old, seen abused online, found a surprising lead.
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zachlatta
6 hours ago
Show HN: Free Alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue
Free and open source alternative to Wispr Flow / Superwhisper / Monologue / etc - zachlatta/freeflow...
tartoran
an hour ago
Facing a demographic catastrophe, Ukraine is paying for troops to freeze sperm
The law funds troops who want to freeze their eggs or their sperm, as Ukraine's population plummets....
lirbank
7 hours ago
Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers
Synchronization barriers let you test for race conditions with confidence....
VorpalWay
3 hours ago
AI is destroying Open Source, and it's not even good yet
Over the weekend Ars Technica retracted an article because the AI a writer used hallucinated quotes from an open source library maintainer. The irony here is the maintainer in question, Scot...
ssgodderidge
13 hours ago
What your Bluetooth devices reveal
Building Bluehood, a Bluetooth scanner that reveals what information we leak just by having Bluetooth enabled on our devices....
lorisdev
3 hours ago
Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI
My Plasma task switcher was a second too slow, so I built - and shipped - my own in Zig, without actually knowing Zig, using AI tools....
max-m
6 hours ago
Rise of the Triforce
During the rapid technological advancements of the early 1990s, the video game industry was on the cusp of a massive addition - another dimension. With console shenanigans like the Super FX ...
https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2026/02/16/rise-of-the-triforce/
TMWNN
3 days ago
DBASE on the Kaypro II
CP/M and dBASE were industry giants with everything to lose, and they did. For a time they were the power couple to beat....
dvrp
21 hours ago
Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files
You are logged into jeevacation@gmail.com, Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release....
knackers
9 hours ago
The long tail of LLM-assisted decompilation
After rapid advances thanks to one-shot decompilation, progress on the Snowboard Kids 2 decompilation began to falter. This post explores the workflow evolution, tooling improvements, and fu...
scoofy
10 hours ago
Building a model that visualizes strategic golf
A way to actually see the ideas hidden in golf course architecture....
turth
11 hours ago
Show HN: Simple org-mode web adapter
A simple view into your org roam notes with editing, backlinks, and rendered math. - SpaceTurth/Org-Web-Adapter...
speckx
14 hours ago
Running My Own XMPP Server
Notes from setting up Prosody in Docker for federated messaging, with file sharing, voice calls, and end-to-end encryption....
patrikcsak
3 days ago
Looks: A Halide Mark III Preview
Today launched a public preview of Halide Mark III, the next generation of our flagship photography app. It's still a work in progress, but we're ready to start sharing what we've worked on ...
righthand
12 hours ago
UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment
Discord have belatedly confirmed that they're working with Persona, an identity detection firm backed by a fund directed by Palantir chairman Peter Thiel....