THE HACKER NEWS

surprisetalk
4 days ago
We see something that works, and then we understand it
“We see something that works, and then we understand it.” (Thomas Dullien) It is a deeper insight than it seems. Young people spend years in school learning the reverse: understanding happen...
A DAY AGO
MUSE900
EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"
3 HOURS AGO
OKEY
LLMorphism: When humans come to see themselves as language models
5 MINUTES AGO
S4I
Doctors Just Staged the Quietest Coup in American History
4 DAYS AGO
RSECORA
The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962
3 DAYS AGO
BENBREEN
Cooking the Hashish Cookbook
AN HOUR AGO
NDR42
"openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn
42 MINUTES AGO
HIANDREWQUINN
Replacing a 3 GB SQLite db with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binary
4 DAYS AGO
RAWGABBIT
America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy
imtomt
8 hours ago
Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning
MacOS Web Server written entirely in ARM64 assembly - imtomt/ymawky
image
cuechan
18 hours ago
Zed Editor Theme-Builder
Build and customize themes for Zed....
_alternator_
a day ago
A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
We are all having to keep revising upwards our assessments of the mathematical capabilities of large language models. I have just made a fairly large revision as a result of ChatGPT 5.5 Pro,...
speckx
4 days ago
I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up
Starting a long-form history of Visual Basic on EvilGeniusLabs.ca. Chapter 1 covers the BASIC dynasty Microsoft had been running since 1975, the California developer Microsoft bought to put ...
mgh2
3 hours ago
Gen Z Resentment Toward AI Grows as Adoption Stagnates and Workplace Fears Mount
Walton-GSV-Gallup survey finds young people are feeling angrier about AI, cautious about integrating AI in the classroom ...
AuthorizedCust
6 hours ago
Scouting's Real Crisis Is Not Marketing. It Is Decades of Neglect.
When the Boy Scouts of America, recently rebranded as Scouting America, gathers in Dallas May 11-15 for its National Annual Meeting, its leaders will confront a crisis that messaging cannot ...
marcingas
17 hours ago
Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms
Almost Clojure written in Go. Contribute to nooga/let-go development by creating an account on GitHub....
gmays
8 hours ago
Gemini API File Search is now multimodal
Updates to the Gemini API File Search tool makes building efficient, multimodal file retrieval systems easier for developers....
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/expanded-gemini-api-file-search-multimodal-rag/
rbanffy
a day ago
LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate
Large Language Models (LLMs) are poised to disrupt knowledge work, with the emergence of delegated work as a new interaction paradigm (e.g., vibe coding). Delegation requires trust - the exp...
thatxliner
13 hours ago
Show HN: Rust but Lisp
Rust but LISP. Contribute to ThatXliner/rust-but-lisp development by creating an account on GitHub....
vmg12
16 hours ago
Surfel-based global illumination on the web
Can we use WebGPU to compute real-time global illumination with surface patches called surfels? Does it look good enough? Is it fast enough? And can we finally construct viable compute-heavy...
ggallas
18 hours ago
CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers
If you run a server with cPanel or WHM, you need to read this carefully. On May 8, 2026 — just ten days after the cPanel CVE-2026-41940 authentication bypass was used to compromise 44,000 we...
kohlschuetter
3 days ago
The Serial TTL connector we deserve
Goodbye dangling Dupont pins, hello Julet E-Bike connector. I have them now everywhere, from my router to my servers....
anonymousiam
2 days ago
Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
The company that decides whether you're a bot now also requires you run its software to prove otherwise....
Cider9986
13 hours ago
France moves to break encrypted messaging
France's parliament just endorsed the one idea every cryptographer on earth has already debunked and they're calling it a compromise....