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tosh
13 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)....
5 DAYS AGO
BROD_IE
Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama
11 HOURS AGO
TOOMUCHTODO
St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core
7 DAYS AGO
PDET
Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work
AN HOUR AGO
GRADUS_AD
Physicists discover a hidden gluon structure inside protons
4 DAYS AGO
SAMCLEMENS
Archie G. Norcross' Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22)
4 DAYS AGO
YAREALLY
The deep history behind the Road to Nowhere inside the Great Smoky Mountains
5 HOURS AGO
GHUNTLEY
The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later
4 HOURS AGO
ROPBEAR
Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing
11 HOURS AGO
LENTIL_SOUP
The weekend is 100 years old
bilsbie
2 hours ago
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
Friday’s big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba’s Qwen research lab. I’ve been looking forward to this one: 27B is an …
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evakhoury
2 days ago
A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs
NB: This isn’t about crypto. I don’t care about crypto....
theanonymousone
7 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...
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....
bananaboy
8 days ago
Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of "Solar Realms Elite"
In 1990, Amit Patel created the BBS door game "Solar Realms Elite." In his other life he has worked with programming languages, scientific equipment, data analysis, visualization, geological...
hruvhwe
7 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....
walrus01
2 hours ago
The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding
In court documents, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and others shared which words they used to target grants....
ibobev
4 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
matt_d
5 days ago
A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem
Tarski's high school algebra problem asks whether every true identity concerning addition, multiplication, and exponentiation of positive integers follows from a list of 11 elementary identi...
txrx0000
3 days ago
Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware
George Hotz's comma.ai eGPU dock ships with open-source ASM2464PD firmware: $249 for the dock, $799 with a Radeon RX 9060, and it works on a normal PC....
OuterVale
2 hours ago
Webmaster a Manifesto for Everyone
I'm reclaiming the title of 'webmaster' as the multidisciplinary creator who designs, develops, writes, and advocates for their own corner of the web and will save the world. Tracing the his...
abelanger
4 days ago
Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?
Almost every notable managed Postgres provider bundles a connection pooler, giving us a strong hint that connection management is a product problem rather than a user problem....
felixbraun
a day ago
Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)
Solitary work, creativity and larval ideas...
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...
charleswcho
an hour ago
Show HN: Continuum – Financial simulations for DIY multimillionaires
Model your equity, taxes, and long-run net worth. Free take-home pay and state-relocation tax calculators; Pro adds saved scenarios and deep equity modeling....
Eridanus2
a day ago
Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (2018)
I was inspired by Tom Scott’s excellent video and links here where he talks about a particular type of “Inogon” light used to guide ships through channels or harbours. The patent …...