THE HACKER NEWS

headalgorithm
5 hours ago
Hacker News but for Independent Blogs
Independent blog posts, ranked by the community. Good stuff bubbles up. The rest pops....
A DAY AGO
RAZIN
Mechanical Watch (2022)
3 DAYS AGO
CIDER9986
The Manhoff Archives: Color photos of Stalin-era USSR taken by a US diplomat
jfb
a day ago
Running local models is good now
Local agentic coding has gotten great over the past few months
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alok-g
13 hours ago
Wolfram Language and Mathematica version 15
AI-related upgrades like the built-in AI Assistant, extended computation-augmented generation and the Wolfram Agent Tools framework. Advances in TimeSeries & Tabular. New categorical data, M...
ascarshen
9 hours ago
Semiclassical Gravity Efficiently Solves NP-Complete Problems
Assuming the gravitational field is classical and that it couples to quantum fields via the semiclassical Einstein field equations, we show that the weak-field dynamics of a massive and non-...
jensgk
2 days ago
A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time (2022)
It helped popularize the interactive computing paradigm we take for granted today....
mrshu
20 hours ago
TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP
Minimal container images often ship without curl, wget, or any HTTP client at all. Bash can open a TCP socket through /dev/tcp, which is enough to write a tiny HTTP/1.1 request by hand for q...
root-parent
18 hours ago
GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands
With GPT‑NL, TNO - together with SURF and the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) is building an independent Dutch language model and ecosystem. This strengthens the digital autonomy of the...
parksb
a day ago
But yak shaving is fun (2019)
KO | EN This blog doesn’t use a static site generator or framework like Jekyll, Hugo, or Gatsby. I tried a few of them at first, but they gave me too little freedom to customize, so I decide...
presspot
2 hours ago
U.S. Science Is in Chaos
How did we get here?...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/americas-compact-between-science-and-politics-is-broken/
lwhsiao
2 days ago
A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer
A fake recruiter, a crypto repo, and a remote code execution payload hidden in a test file....
nate
4 days ago
An interview with an Apple emoji designer