THE HACKER NEWS

nandakishor_ml
13 hours ago
I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago
Evaluates typed decisions (choice, score, noul) over 100+ languages in a single forward pass with calibrated probabilities. Outperforms TypeSafe Jev....
7 HOURS AGO
AWALIAS
Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring for OrioleDB
A DAY AGO
JANDREWROGERS
Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar over 'Little Red Dots'
7 HOURS AGO
ERWALD
I think you should almost never use AI to write
5 HOURS AGO
JONBAER
Microsoft director: AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
A DAY AGO
F311A
Saving another 100TB of RAM
2 DAYS AGO
OHJEEZ
The first new cat species discovered in 100 years
A DAY AGO
MAXALL4
How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip
2 DAYS AGO
SUCCINCT_IDEAS
Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (2021)
5 HOURS AGO
THEANONYMOUSONE
Open Weights Are Good. Open Source Is Better
theanonymousone
2 hours ago
How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013)
The basic formula for Hacker News ranking has been known for years , but questions remained. Does the published code give the real algorithm...
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samizdis
3 days ago
Deodands put a price on objects that caused death
Deodands put a price on objects that caused death, sometimes providing compensation to bereaved families....
gslin
4 hours ago
ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression
Tools for generating deep fake photographs are proliferating with greater ease of use and prominence in pop culture. Image authentication tools can defeat these deceitful developments by ver...
ksec
10 hours ago
Tin: full-text search for Postgres
TIN is a fast, full-featured, full-text search index for Postgres...
PaulDavisThe1st
2 days ago
Compiler-style optimization for drawing via Skia
Rasterization is the process of determining the color of every pixel drawn by an application. Powerful rasterization libraries like Skia, CoreGraphics, and Direct2D put exceptional effort in...
frabonacci
8 hours ago
Show HN: CUA-S1 – A System One Model for Computer Use
Scale computer-use 2.0 with open-source drivers, cross-OS fleets, and benchmarks for training, evaluation, and data generation. - trycua/cua...
stuart78
3 days ago
Suzanne Ciani's Buchla Cookbook
ECHO is an online, open access, peer-reviewed journal that exists to share creative work and understanding in the common space at the intersection of music, thought and technology....
benswerd
9 hours ago
Brood War Bench
Which model wins at Brood War? Results, recordings, costs, and game-by-game analysis of Codex, Claude, and Grok across 171 matches....
https://bw.swerdlow.dev/report
rndsignals
2 days ago
New evidence for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun's tomb
Geophysical survey yields ‘tantalizing’ data that could point to Nefertiti’s burial place — but it’s too early to draw definitive conclusions....
nsoonhui
17 hours ago
GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher
Scienceblogs.de, a German science blogging portal, includes a relatively famous list of 50 unsolved ciphers, which range from cryptograms published by serial killers to the famous Voynich ma...
joeriddles
2 days ago
How to Write with an LLM
Two rules keep an LLM from pasteurizing your writing: never take a word it suggests, and never let it encourage you. Then hand it all the tedious work....
num42
17 hours ago
If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it
[This is a guest post by Grant Sanderson. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] A sentiment echoing throughout the mathematics communi...
evacchi
3 days ago
You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles
Git packfiles were designed for mmap and local disk, so pulling one object out of a bucket means guessing at a byte range. I wrote a new format instead. ...
randomImmigrant
3 days ago
Ctenophores: Wonders of Biology
Comb jellies are helping answer fundamental questions in biology, from how the earliest nervous systems evolved to how bioluminescence works....
HenryNdubuaku
2 days ago
Show HN: Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash
A foundation model for mobile, wearables, robots, smart home, automotive and microcontrollers. One 8-29 MB binary that beats models 10x its size on mobile tool calls and matches 2-3x bigger ...
synack
a day ago
Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug
Differential photon-emission microscopy localized debug enable register activity and narrowed the laser search before SWD-guided injection set the two bits required to restore Secure debug o...