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apitman
an hour ago
The Session You Cannot take with you
Inference APIs are filling sessions with encrypted reasoning, hidden search results, opaque compaction, and encrypted subagent messages. A growing form of lock-in....
11 HOURS AGO
ROBIN_REALA
CodePen 2.0
14 HOURS AGO
JAVAEEEEE
The Economic Benefit of Refactoring
4 DAYS AGO
JSSFR
Bad Apple but It's Traceroute
6 DAYS AGO
TNISONOFF
2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026
10 HOURS AGO
CGORLLA
Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it
11 HOURS AGO
AREIBMAN
We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447
15 HOURS AGO
MARINOSELIADES
Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools
14 HOURS AGO
GMAYS
Why DNA damage from smoking and UV rays cause cancer in some but not others
4 DAYS AGO
GHUROO1
Destroying a Community with a Gigantic "Clogged Vacuum Cleaner"
13 HOURS AGO
PATRICKHULIN
Solving poker in custom WebGPU kernels
6 DAYS AGO
KARAKORAM
How to Mount a Balcony Awning (2025)
16 HOURS AGO
NOTAROBOT123
RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020)
13 HOURS AGO
PATRICKHULIN
Solving poker in custom WebGPU kernels
17 HOURS AGO
JJGREEN
Are We Stuck with Lean?
6 DAYS AGO
KARAKORAM
How to Mount a Balcony Awning (2025)
4 DAYS AGO
SILENN
Show HN: Optimize and serve models with Fable quality at half the cost
haipothetical
26 minutes ago
The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing it
Grey swans are foreseeable risks most investors miss. Grey Swan Signals tracks market stress across volatility, valuations, credit, liquidity, & bank health in one place.
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Sandman
3 days ago
Does Speaking to Agents Like Cavemen Save 65% of Tokens? We Test
A paired A/B benchmark of the token-compression skill Caveman on Claude Code, run on SkillsBench: does it actually save tokens, and does it degrade AI agent output quality? Advertised saving...
NaOH
3 days ago
The American Grilled Cheese Sandwich Essay (2024)
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where David and I travel the world on wings made of bread, chronicling Wikipedia’s List of Notable......
ernestrc
7 hours ago
Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free
Rune 1.1 makes Rune free for personal use and adds a perpetual commercial license, a workspace symbol index, first-class Python support, an Emacs editor, and substantial improvements to SSH ...
navs
9 hours ago
Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English
Agent skill: make LLMs write docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English — no AI slop - AminBlg/SimpleEnglish...
ai2027
13 hours ago
Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
From feet to fingertips — we are teaching robots intelligent whole-body control, fine dexterity, and teamwork to complete a broad range of complex tasks....
MobiusHorizons
5 hours ago
The Religion of Speed
At some point, “moving fast” stopped being a practical concern and became a moral position. You see it damn near everywhere now. How fast can we ship this......
tomzorz
12 hours ago
Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub
Stacked pull requests break large changes into small, reviewable pull requests. They’re an ordered series of pull requests that each represent focused layers of your change. With stacks, you...
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-stacked-pull-requests-are-now-in-public-preview/
ibobev
13 hours ago
Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up
New calculations seem to have put a 25-year-old particle physics puzzle to rest. But they’ve also created a clash with other experimental results....
surprisetalk
6 hours ago
Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations
In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation ...
dickfickling
10 hours ago
UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions....
sciences44
3 days ago
Memo-1: A 6502 computer built from scratch, using a Minitel as its terminal
A simple 6502 based computer. Contribute to MemoireMorte/Memo-1 development by creating an account on GitHub....
george_rose25
12 hours ago
Rise Reforming (YC S26) Is Hiring
We’re looking for a process engineer with 5+ years of experience in scaling catalytic technologies to pilot and beyond. You will play a central role in designing, constructing, and commissio...
crescit_eundo
16 hours ago
Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?
A battery technology that’s getting a lot of attention is solid-state batteries, lithium-ion batteries that replace the liquid electrolyte with a solid material....
alberto-m
21 hours ago
Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry...
KraftyOne
10 hours ago
Making Postgres queues scale
Lessons learned from scaling Postgres-backed durable queues for users running tens of billions of workflows per month....