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subset
10 hours ago
Old and new apps, via modern coding agents
I have been interested in machine-assisted ways to do and teach mathematics from as far back as 1999, when I started coding several applets in Java 1.0, both for my complex analysis and line...
4 HOURS AGO
HSN915
Show HN: Shirei, cross-platform GUI framework in native Go
3 DAYS AGO
COMPILER-GUY
Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring
5 HOURS AGO
GREGSADETSKY
Croc: Securely transfer files and folders between two computers
7 HOURS AGO
ZAIKUNZHANG
AI boosts research careers but narrow the span of ideas explored: study
6 HOURS AGO
GMAYS
Autoresearch, Claude and Constrained Optimization
15 HOURS AGO
COSMTREK
Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase
5 DAYS AGO
JAMIEBEACH
An agent in 100 lines of Lisp
systima
2 hours ago
Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k
Claude Code vs OpenCode token overhead measured at the API boundary. Out-of-the-box baselines, instruction file weight, MCP schema tax, subagent multipliers, and cache-write behaviour.
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root-parent
4 hours ago
Automation Without Understanding
Two developments are unfolding at once: artificial intelligence systems have begun to produce genuine research-level mathematics, and the United States is weakening the pipeline that produce...
brryant
3 hours ago
Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper
We hold frontier models to a high bar, and for four months nothing beat Claude Opus. GPT-5.6 did. Here's the migration guide we wish we'd had....
Tomte
an hour ago
Neocities: Create your own free website
Create and surf awesome websites for free....
supo
3 hours ago
Against Usefulness
In a Brooklyn warehouse, a man handed me a piece of paper that was a running computer program....
softwaredoug
2 days ago
Why write code in 2026
A bunch of reasons to write code in 2026...
silcoon
5 hours ago
How to read more books
My method for reading more...
georgex7
2 hours ago
I Learned to Read Again
On the journey from books to screens and back...
https://substack.magazinenongrata.com/p/how-i-learned-to-read-again
Bender
24 minutes ago
Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity
Consumption rose another 10% while restrictions on most new grid connections remained around Dublin...
jhoho
20 hours ago
What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis
What xAI Grok Build CLI actually sends to xAI - a wire-level analysis (grok 0.2.93) - grok-build-cli-wire-analysis.md...
thunderbong
10 hours ago
Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media
If scrolling feels more exhausting than entertaining, you're not alone. I feel the same way, and a recent study backs up the sentiment: Social media is losing its fun factor....
genericlemon24
5 days ago
Abject Praise
Until Apple's boot is removed from the web's face, you never have to hand it to them....
HPMOR
a day ago
Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring
Sixtyfour is a data enrichment platform that lets companies generate powerful, custom datasets at scale. Our customers—recruitment firms, data labeling companies, and growth teams—use our pl...
g42gregory
2 hours ago
6 months to live for open models
The most serious test to date of open source AI’s viability is happening right now....
nothrowaways
32 minutes ago
SpaceX built to separate retail investors from their money
SpaceX stock drops 28% post-IPO as investor George Noble warns of insider selling and inflated valuation....