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pxx
4 hours ago
The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures
In a recent episode of President Curtis , the President struggles with opening a door on two separate occasions. These doors don't work beca......
A DAY AGO
CHMAYNARD
Go Concurrency Distilled
2 DAYS AGO
BOOKOFJOE
Finally, A True Blue Rose Exists
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JPWALSH234
Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things
13 HOURS AGO
PAPERGIRL
Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI
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JANDEBOEVRIE
On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted
3 DAYS AGO
PSEUDOLUS
Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike
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THEANONYMOUSONE
Tells of a Slop UI
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PARASITID
Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas
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PWG
Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC
gmays
an hour ago
Ember-1
Ember-1 is a new specialized model from Fireworks Research that delivers Kimi K3’s quality with 40% fewer tokens.
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gmays
4 hours ago
Fragment of oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey
Archaeologists excavating in the ancient Hittite capital of Hattusha have uncovered a fragment of the world's oldest peace treaty, signed around 1269 B.C....
pptadversary
a day ago
Faster prompt lookup drafting in llama.cpp
Four changes to the n-gram caches of llama.cpp make drafting up to 41.6x faster, load the static cache up to 23.5x faster, and lower peak memory up to 2.65x....
franze
12 hours ago
Show HN: Trail – new kind of logic game
A generated logic puzzle that gets a little harder every level. Free on the web and on the App Store....
handfuloflight
2 days ago
Walgit: A Git server that is one binary in front of an object store
walgit with a GitHub Enterprise Server facade — git over smart HTTP from an object-store bucket - rgodha24/walgithub...
AareyBaba
2 days ago
The Cartesian Hand: In-Hand Manipulation with All-Linear Fingers
Building discovery machines that learn, act, and collaborate by discovering how the world works. Research in embodied intelligence, robotics, AI, and machine learning....
ClydeN
a day ago
Video CDs Break Windows Explorer
There is an odd bug in Windows related to Video CDs . To reproduce it: Insert a Video CD (if you don't have one, you can download this fi......
zzzeek
3 hours ago
There are no "rogue" AI agents
Identifying them as such only lets companies like OpenAI off the hook....
https://eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/there-are-no-rogue-ai-agents
ibobev
2 days ago
C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake
Word sizes, strange machines, and why <strong>int</strong> was never meant to mean 32 bits. C's flexible integer types were how the language achieved portability in a world of 12, 18, 36, an...
Qision
2 days ago
PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
An open-source Android app to let you browse YouTube and other services freely. - InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe...
BinRoo
a day ago
The Greatest Pun in JavaScript
JavaScript's ${{ name }} looks like a Mustache template but parses as an object literal inside a tagged template literal. The pun behind Helicone's prompt tag....
shenli3514
a day ago
DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)
Large-scale agentic training and evaluation with large language models (LLMs) rely on isolated, stateful execution environments in which models inspect repositories, invoke tools, execute co...
matt_d
14 hours ago
The internet discovers TLA+. Now what?
A practical introduction to TLA+, why it matters for agentic coding, and how AI could take formal verification from models to machine-checked proofs and ultimately to verified software....
momentmaker
3 days ago
A searchable library of forgotten public-domain film clips from 1915 onward
Search, watch, and download public-domain archival footage by the shot....
geox
2 days ago
Promising discoveries about the potential for life on one of Saturn’s icy moons
Planetary scientists from Freie Universität Berlin have published two new studies with promising discoveries about the potential for life on Enceladus....
yu3zhou4
9 hours ago
"As a Language Model": Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice
Large Language Models (LLMs) tend to add disclaimers like "I'm just an AI" when asked about something related to themselves. The self-reports from such responses are used in debates about AI...