THE HACKER NEWS

theanonymousone
5 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...
5 DAYS AGO
BROD_IE
Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama
5 DAYS AGO
MATT_D
A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem
3 DAYS AGO
TXRX0000
Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware
4 DAYS AGO
ABELANGER
Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?
6 DAYS AGO
PDET
Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work
4 DAYS AGO
YAREALLY
The deep history behind the Road to Nowhere inside the Great Smoky Mountains
A DAY AGO
FELIXBRAUN
Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)
8 HOURS AGO
KARAKORAM
GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost
32 MINUTES AGO
WERTYK
Anthropic CEO says the way for AI to win over the public is to cure cancer
A DAY AGO
DGELLOW
Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter
A DAY AGO
ERIDANUS2
Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (2018)
A DAY AGO
DGELLOW
Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter
13 HOURS AGO
RISKONE
AI Coding Without the Vibes
tosh
11 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).
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ropbear
an hour ago
Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing
It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. The idea ...
ghuntley
3 hours ago
The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later
Writings on software correctness, AI, formal verification, and other technical topics....
aweful
4 days ago
2,085 Tests, and None of Them Opens the Front Door
I read all 22 repositories in my ecosystem and counted every test I had written. Then I counted how many of them could fail a deploy. The second number is the post. Here is what my tests are...
evakhoury
2 days ago
A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs
NB: This isn’t about crypto. I don’t care about crypto....
hruvhwe
4 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....
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
3 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....
https://pikuma.com/blog/programming-intel-pentium-mmx-simd
wiradikusuma
5 days ago
Asus Bike Booster
ASUS Oxiis E250G1 transforms any bike with 500W peak boost, 50 km eco range, app control, fast USB-C charging, and easy install now for riders...
mayop100
10 hours ago
Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering
This creates a defining product-design challenge: inventing how people and teams work with AI that does real work, not merely chats. We're looking for a Head of Design Engineering to own tha...
gist
2 hours ago
Stop Turning every purchase into a tip request
Digital tip screens asking 20%, 25%, and 30% have turned customer gratitude into a guilt tip, raising the question: when did gratitude become 30%?...
samclemens
4 days ago
Archie G. Norcross' Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22)
Circular maps custom-made for the fire towers that once dotted the American wilderness....
lentil_soup
8 hours ago
The weekend is 100 years old
In 1926, Henry Ford gave his employees both Saturdays and Sundays off – and the two-day chunk of time to party, pray or simply do nothing was born. Now it’s changed beyond recognition...
sbulaev
4 days ago
Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane
A high-quality, pristine monolayer cuprate superconductor with a single CuO2 plane is fabricated and used to identify two quantum critical phenomena emerging between the Mott insulating phas...
healsdata
2 hours ago
Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe
A new survey of 1,000 young adults in the US found that nine of the top tech executives are deeply loathed....
yitchelle
4 days ago
In the Shadow of the (Berlin) Wall
Thalia Gigerenzer on the Treptow family who lived literally in the shadow of the Berlin Wall… on Slow Travel Berlin...