THE HACKER NEWS

vanpra
8 hours ago
How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer
How listening broadly turns everyday problems into useful project ideas....
11 HOURS AGO
IBOBEV
Kodak DC50 now usable on the Apple II
9 HOURS AGO
0MEGION
AI and Infrastructure Engineering
8 HOURS AGO
TCHALLA
Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?
9 HOURS AGO
ALLISDUST
The Vibe Tax
18 HOURS AGO
HENRYAJ
The Sloppification of Peptides
12 HOURS AGO
MDP2021
Coconut oil jet fuel matches kerosene's efficiency in engine tests
AN HOUR AGO
BILLYBUCKWHEAT
Former OC actor Ben McKenzie on crusade to take down 'stupid' cryptocurrency
8 HOURS AGO
TIBERIUM
Training AI to Paint with Code
21 HOURS AGO
TAUBEK
Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed
21 HOURS AGO
ZX41ZDBW
JIT Compiling Code in 5μs
4 HOURS AGO
MURFALO
Wrong antibody used in over 50 cell aging studies
17 HOURS AGO
RAYBB
I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes
A DAY AGO
SIR_TWIST
I dream of quieter computing
21 HOURS AGO
ZX41ZDBW
JIT Compiling Code in 5μs
A DAY AGO
FINBARR
AI Chip Architectures
4 HOURS AGO
MURFALO
Wrong antibody used in over 50 cell aging studies
A DAY AGO
RZNICOLET
I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025)
17 HOURS AGO
RAYBB
I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes
9 HOURS AGO
IBOBEV
I turned Unix talk from 1983 into the interface for my AI
schlarpc
5 hours ago
Everything I own, owned
Turning Claude loose on the firmware of five USB and WiFi peripherals, and finding a command shell in a microphone, a defeatable webcam activity LED, and unauthenticated memory writes over the network.
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campuscodi
14 hours ago
Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware
Kaspersky expert has discovered new Android malware designed to serve ads and build a proxy botnet. It's delivered through legitimate software for DoFun head units....
the-mitr
11 hours ago
Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling
Two pieces crossed my feed recently, both about Sal Khan and the AI tutoring revolution that wasn’t. The first was Matt Barnum’s reported piece in Chalkbeat, where Khan himself acknowledged ...
bookofjoe
9 hours ago
Explain it to me like I'm ten
In 2012, the creator of the xkcd cartoon Randall Munroe unveiled Up Goer Five — a detailed diagram of the Saturn V rocket, annotated using only the most common 1,000 (sorry, “ten hundred”) w...
tosh
13 hours ago
What Is a Harness?
An agent harness is a piece of software that provides an environment for an AI model to operate within....
porridgeraisin
6 hours ago
Implementation of GPT-2 in pure CMake
Implementation of the GPT-2 model in pure CMake. Contribute to AlpinDale/gpt2.cmake development by creating an account on GitHub....
simonebrunozzi
7 hours ago
Rural Village in Spain Is Welcoming Digital Nomads with Open Arms
As Spain's major cities struggle with overtourism, 8,000 rural villages are at risk of total depopulation. Can remote workers help bridge the gap?...
soheilpro
2 hours ago
Migrating a Synology NAS to a UniFi UNAS Pro 8 with Robocopy, SMB Multichannel
I’ve had a Synology NAS for a very long time, and recently I started moving its ......
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/migrating-a-synology-nas-to-a-unifi-unas-pro-8-with-robocopy-smb-multichannel-and-surprising-performance-traps
root-parent
7 hours ago
Decoding silent reading from non-invasive EEG
Non-invasive decoding of inner speech faces a fundamental data problem: a corpus pairing brain activity with a person's spontaneous inner monologue cannot be collected, and the available pro...
hugodan
7 hours ago
Declarative WebGPU with S-Expressions
WebGPU wiring you can ship and share...
oogali
5 hours ago
Parallel development without the headaches using Git worktree
Git worktree, run multiple branches in parallel directories to juggle features, hotfixes and testing without stashing or constant checkouts....
dbreunig
8 hours ago
Fable and the end of the free lunch
There’s some talk today about how agentic coders are balking at Anthropic’s pricing and adopting alternatives. I was reminded of a thought I had in the weeks following Fable’s release: the f...
bookofjoe
5 hours ago
The planet now has more trees than it did 35 years ago (2018)
Tree cover loss in the tropics was outweighed by tree cover gain in subtropical, temperate, boreal, and polar regions....
Brajeshwar
13 hours ago
Death to px, long live ch
Pixels are a lie. Even if you think you're drawing something with "pixel perfect" accuracy, your monitor is lying to you. There is no grid of platonically perfect squares. In CSS, pixels ar...
andsoitis
a day ago
To become a better writer, read as much as you can
I’m obsessed with the craft of writing. I write every day, I read about the craft often, and in my......
pantelisk
4 hours ago
I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me
How Varkos was built: a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with you, follows complex instructions and evolves through shared experiences....