THE HACKER NEWS

subract
8 hours ago
How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works
A visual explanation of how threshold secret sharing lets any k of n shares recover a secret....
7 HOURS AGO
TANELPODER
Performance of Rust Language [pdf]
5 DAYS AGO
BORATANRIKULU
Show HN: Write your BPF programs in Go, not C
8 HOURS AGO
TANTARA
Show HN: OpenBrief – Local-first video downloader/summarizer
8 HOURS AGO
KNEENEX
Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files
AN HOUR AGO
DOWNBAD_
Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? (2007)
20 HOURS AGO
RBANFFY
IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry
15 HOURS AGO
GARYGAO
Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage
5 DAYS AGO
CHRSW
CPPL: A Circuit Prompt Programming Language
9 HOURS AGO
PATRICK-GHETEA
Riscrithm – An intuitive RISC-V assembler and optimizer coded in Go
signa11
7 hours ago
Using AI to write better code more slowly
A lot of people seem convinced that the point of AI coding is to write low-quality code as fast as possible. Spew out barely-passable slop, open massive PRs, and merge them unvetted. Ship it! But t…
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Cider9986
12 hours ago
Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout
Below are the servers with the new mitigation applied....
hhs
3 days ago
Dehydration's role in learning and memory
How do we learn to remember? At the most fundamental level, it’s all about chemicals and electricity. Beyond their roles in diet and nutrition, calcium and magnesium work as ions, or charged...
rbanffy
12 hours ago
California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash
SteamOS could still be affected...
rmason
10 hours ago
A successful Japanese trial of a ramjet engine designed for Mach‑5 aircraft
A team of engineers from Japan has completed a successful ground combustion trial of a ramjet engine designed for a Mach‑5 hypersonic aircraft....
Cider9986
2 hours ago
Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes
A truly bizarre situation on Motorola phones has led to the software hijacking the Amazon app to inject an affiliate......
brazukadev
4 hours ago
Does anybody like React?
Does anybody actually like React? A cherry-picked collection of React (and React-tainted) criticism....
rbanffy
11 hours ago
Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training
Norway’s National Library is developing a large language model (LLM) that understands the Norwegian ......
https://www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/05/22/norways-2-petabytes-of-huawei-flash-storage-and-llm-training/5244910
thatxliner
10 hours ago
Hacker News front page as a site
A newspaper-style front page for Hacker News....
jxmorris12
3 days ago
The Lottery – Shirley Jackson (1948)
Fiction, from 1948: “The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions; most of them were quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around.”...
adchurch
12 hours ago
Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers
Weave Jobs...
eigenBasis
4 days ago
A Comma and a Question Mark
I’ve been using a terminal for more than two decades now, building muscle memory for find flags and git commands....
NaOH
5 days ago
Everyone Against Us (2023)
In this exclusive adaptation of his new book, a former public defender describes what it’s like advocating for the accused — and recounts the injustices he witnessed....
Lihh27
10 hours ago
Yoti age checks share facial photos and device fingerprints with third parties
New cybersecurity research indicates that one of the world's leading age verification providers collects and shares highly sensitive personal data—including facial photos and device fingerpr...
romanhn
3 hours ago
Waymo suspends all freeway rides over safety issues
The pause comes after the robotaxi company also recalled thousands of vehicles to address issues where some drove into flooded roadways they couldn’t traverse....
_____k
13 hours ago
Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing
Operations chief Andrew Macdonald said he's not seeing proportional productivity gains from increasing AI costs within Uber....