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tosh
17 hours ago
Claude: System Prompts
See updates to the core system prompts on [claude.ai](https://claude.ai) and the [Claude iOS app](https://anthropic.com/ios) and [Claude Android app](https://anthropic.com/android)....
5 HOURS AGO
WALRUS01
The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding
16 HOURS AGO
MAYOP100
Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering
4 DAYS AGO
ABELANGER
Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?
4 DAYS AGO
MOOREDS
The Marvelously Inventive Life of Mária Telkes (2023)
4 DAYS AGO
SBULAEV
Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane
4 DAYS AGO
SAMCLEMENS
Archie G. Norcross' Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22)
4 DAYS AGO
YAREALLY
The deep history behind the Road to Nowhere inside the Great Smoky Mountains
bilsbie
6 hours ago
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
Friday’s big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba’s Qwen research lab. I’ve been looking forward to this one: 27B is an …
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forhappy
5 hours ago
Prolly: A content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees
Prolly is a content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees. It gives applications immutable snapshots, cheap branching, structural sharing, efficient diffs and merges, sync primitives, ...
terranivium
7 days ago
Show HN: Vocal Slice – Cut audio by selecting text, fully on-device
Transcribe voice recordings locally, then cut precise clips by selecting text. Word-accurate, source-quality, fully offline....
lermontov
2 days ago
Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life
What to call this Anton Chekhov, whom I first encountered in 1988? The Master, perhaps—of vision, decency, modesty, and industry, and, one might hope, in the old game of love....
ibobev
4 days ago
SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX
If you used PCs in the 90s, you probably remember the 'Intel Inside MMX' stickers. This article explores Intel's major attempt at bringing SIMD instructions to mainstream desktop CPUs....
theanonymousone
11 hours ago
Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome
Buf is proud to announce the first fully-featured, production-grade LSP server for Protobuf. The Language Server Protocol is the standard API for integrating language support into your favor...
zacharyozer
9 hours ago
Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+
OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI....
bananaboy
8 days ago
Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of “Solar Realms Elite” (2013)
In 1990, Amit Patel created the BBS door game "Solar Realms Elite." In his other life he has worked with programming languages, scientific equipment, data analysis, visualization, geological...
https://breakintochat.com/blog/2013/02/18/amit-patel-creator-of-solar-realms-elite/
txrx0000
3 days ago
Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware
George Hotz's comma.ai eGPU dock ships with open-source ASM2464PD firmware: $249 for the dock, $799 with a Radeon RX 9060, and it works on a normal PC....
matt_d
5 days ago
A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem
Tarski's high school algebra problem asks whether every true identity concerning addition, multiplication, and exponentiation of positive integers follows from a list of 11 elementary identi...
brod_ie
6 days ago
Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama
New research has uncovered how a London estate agent used immersive cosmorama displays to give wealthy buyers a Victorian-era virtual preview of luxury homes decades before photography or th...
tartoran
3 hours ago
If Meta loses this trial, Instagram and Facebook could change forever
Thirty US states have sued Meta to force an overhaul of its platforms for young users....
hruvhwe
11 hours ago
Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
Reasoning scores climb while per-token compute drops. Labs are stripping world knowledge out of models, and I think that's the right trade....
evakhoury
2 days ago
A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs
NB: This isn’t about crypto. I don’t care about crypto....