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RyeCombinator
5 hours ago
Lines of code got a better publicist
A case against measuring AI-assisted engineering by code volume and other vanity metrics instead of outcomes....
5 DAYS AGO
SNEELA
Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)
3 DAYS AGO
TOMTE
How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math
4 HOURS AGO
GTP
MapComplete: Maps about various topics which you can contribute to
A DAY AGO
FREEJOE76
Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows
3 DAYS AGO
RBANFFY
SVG-Line: Better Status Bars for Emacs – Charlie Holland's Blog
9 HOURS AGO
ROBIN_REALA
Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles
AN HOUR AGO
LAYER8
Galaxy-killing wind discovered in the early universe
3 HOURS AGO
LEETVIBECODER
Show HN: Open-source API Key server written in Go by Ory
4 HOURS AGO
ZEIDJ
Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration
10 HOURS AGO
TRUEDUKE
Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't
2 HOURS AGO
CWNYTH
Omniglot: The Online Encyclopedia of Writing Systems and Languages
10 HOURS AGO
TRUEDUKE
Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't
mikemcquaid
4 hours ago
Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0
Today, I’m proud to announce Homebrew 6.0.0. The most significant changes since 5.1.0 are a new tap trust security mechanism, the new faster, smaller, default internal Homebrew JSON API, sandboxing on Linux, better defaults informed by our user survey, many brew bundle improvements, improved performance and initial support for macOS 27 (Golden Gate).
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jeremy_k
an hour ago
Software Is Made Between Commits
From the Zed Blog: Agents turned the conversation into the real source of our software. DeltaDB is the version control built for it....
neilfrndes
2 hours ago
Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time
Solar supplied 12.8% of US electricity in May even as Trump boosts coal over clean energy...
boulos
2 hours ago
Waymo Premier
As we scale and bring our fully autonomous ride-hailing service to more people across the globe, we continue to refine the Waymo experience and deliver more for our riders. You spoke, and we...
doener
3 hours ago
Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future
Today we present Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring, our anniversary release. Discover all the new features and get started with the new Nextcloud Hub....
yogthos
4 hours ago
Open Reproduction of DeepSeek-R1
Fully open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1. Contribute to huggingface/open-r1 development by creating an account on GitHub....
MBCook
2 hours ago
FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL
Contribute to icitry/FPS.cob development by creating an account on GitHub....
rarisma
6 hours ago
Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails
Anthropic said users ‘should have visibility into the safeguards we have in place, and why.’ ...
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/948280/anthropic-claude-fable-invisible-distillation-guardrail
rough-sea
2 days ago
Show HN: Claw Patrol, a security firewall for agents
Security firewall for agents. Contribute to denoland/clawpatrol development by creating an account on GitHub....
andrewstuart
5 days ago
Discovery of Cold War-era rare Eastern Bloc computers in a German hangar
In 2006, CHM curators traveled to Germany to follow a lead on an abandoned collection of historical computing artifacts. In a three-story warehouse, they found a real-world timeline of compu...
deadgopher
a day ago
Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time
A senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry told New Scientist that a test took place two years ago involving fully autonomous drones set to destroy anything in a given area, with conf...
timr
a day ago
Oh good, screwworms are back (2025)
You say you want to know more about the horror bug that we eradicated only to discover it is making a comeback? You are in luck....
tzury
6 hours ago
Global population movements from 1990 to 2023
Modelling with artificial-intelligence tools has filled gaps in migration data, revealing detailed global population movements from 1990 to 2023....
rbanffy
4 hours ago
Thermodynamics rules future orbital data centers
Shedding heat will require ingenious new designs...
agentifysh
12 hours ago
OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users
OpenAI is reportedly mulling drastic price cuts to its AI models, as it looks to woo consumers from rival AI company Anthropic, the WSJ reported on Wednesday....
pavel_lishin
3 hours ago
Car headlights don't have to be this blinding
Car bulbs don’t have to be this blinding....