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jsomers
3 days ago
Can you reverse engineer our neural network?
A lot of “capture-the-flag” style ML puzzles give you a black box neural net, and your jobis to figure out what it does. When we were thinking of creating ou......
6 HOURS AGO
OZGUNE
Ubicloud (YC W24): Software Engineer – $95-$250K in Turkey, Netherlands, CA
20 HOURS AGO
TIN7IN
What Claude Code chooses
3 DAYS AGO
BENBREEN
The history of knocking on wood
11 HOURS AGO
NOAHKAY13
Parakeet.cpp – Parakeet ASR inference in pure C++ with Metal GPU acceleration
4 HOURS AGO
CMSEFTON
Dyson settles forced labour suit in landmark UK case
4 DAYS AGO
VINHNX
An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published
4 DAYS AGO
VALYALA
Understanding the Go Runtime: The Memory Allocator
4 DAYS AGO
SRIRAM_IYENGAR
Show HN: AS Level Chemistry Lab Simulator
qwertox
16 hours ago
Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI
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evakhoury
3 days ago
An interactive intro to quadtrees
An interactive exploration of quadtrees. Start with brute-force spatial search, build recursive space partitioning step by step, then use it for point lookups, range queries, nearest-neighbo...
Aissen
5 hours ago
Breaking Free
In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it. The report shows how this phen...
LAC-Tech
4 days ago
Reading English from 1000 Ad
The past was not as foreign as we think....
nnx
37 minutes ago
We deserve a better streams API for JavaScript
The Web streams API has become ubiquitous in JavaScript runtimes but was designed for a different era. Here's what a modern streaming API could (should?) look like....
moultano
11 hours ago
The Hunt for Dark Breakfast
With a theoretical model of breakfast, can we derive the existence of “dark breakfasts,” breakfasts that we know must exist, but have never observed?...
nxobject
3 days ago
The quixotic team trying to build a world in a 20-year-old game
Stories and lessons learned from an impossibly large community modding project....
edent
4 hours ago
F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026
Nominations are now open for this year’s appointments to the F-Droid Board of Directors! We are looking to select up to four volunteer directors to serve for......
https://f-droid.org/2026/02/26/board-of-directors-nominations.html
mpweiher
6 hours ago
Working on Pharo Smalltalk: BPatterns: Rewrite Engine with Smalltalk Style
The rewrite engine is an absolutely brilliant invention by John Brant and Don Roberts, introduced with the Refactoring Browser (see  “A Refa......
alexmolas
19 hours ago
What does " 2>&1 " mean?
To combine stderr and stdout into the stdout stream, we append this to a command: 2>&1 For example, the following command shows the first few errors from compiling main.cpp: g++ main...
surprisetalk
4 days ago
The Origins of Agar
First introduced into laboratories in 1881, agar remains indispensable as a culture medium....
sxmawl
20 hours ago
Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor
Create, cut, and compose videos with AI right in your browser. Cardboard handles the mundane edits so you can focus on storytelling....
paultendo
2 days ago
I rendered 1,418 confusables over 230 fonts. Most aren't confusable to the eye
confusable-vision renders every TR39 confusable pair across 230 macOS system fonts and measures visual similarity with SSIM. 96.5% of confusables.txt is not high-risk, but 82 pairs are pixel...
NaOH
4 days ago
I baked a pie every day for a year
Vickie Hardin Woods was worried she would lose her identity when she retired. Instead, she came up with a plan that made her feel more creative, connected and valued than ever...
speckx
a day ago
This time is different
3D TV, AMP, Augmented Reality, Beanie Babies, Blockchain, Cartoon Avatars, Curved TVs, Frogans, Hoverboards, iBeacons, Jetpacks, Metaverse, NFTs, Physical Web, Quantum Computing, Quibi, Smal...
hiisthisthingon
2 days ago
Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules
Google spent over a decade telling developers that Google API keys (like those used in Maps, Firebase, etc.) are not secrets. But that's no longer true....