THE HACKER NEWS

speckx
20 hours ago
The map that keeps Burning Man honest
The event's Leave No Trace principle isn't just a promise — it's measured, mapped, and made public....
10 HOURS AGO
FOLTIK
GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094
16 HOURS AGO
WSLH
Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard
15 HOURS AGO
THM
AI slop is killing online communities
2 DAYS AGO
ZKNILL
How to make SSE token streams resumable, cancellable, and multi-device
11 HOURS AGO
HHS
Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect
18 HOURS AGO
SPECKX
I want to live like Costco people
10 HOURS AGO
HHS
Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study
7 HOURS AGO
ARMOR1AI
Claude Code CVE-2026-39861:sandbox escape via symlink
11 HOURS AGO
HERBERTL
Let Me Convince You to Be Prolific
3 DAYS AGO
NAOH
Tools in the Grass: Raising the next generation of crafts person
4 DAYS AGO
ATILIMCETIN
RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust
10 HOURS AGO
ANOTHEREVAN
Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love
19 HOURS AGO
SURPRISETALK
The Self-Cancelling Subscription
3 DAYS AGO
NAOH
Tools in the Grass: Raising the next generation of crafts person
2 DAYS AGO
HAUNTER
Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
4 DAYS AGO
ATILIMCETIN
RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust
A DAY AGO
STEVEHARING1
ZAYA1-8B matches DeepSeek-R1 on math with less than 1B active parameters
10 HOURS AGO
ANOTHEREVAN
Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love
A DAY AGO
OWALERYS
GovernGPT (YC W24) Is Hiring Engineers to Build Thinking Systems in Montreal
stefanpie
11 hours ago
Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
Homework may have to wait.
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bsuh
17 hours ago
Agents need control flow, not more prompts
Thesis: reliable agents tackling complex tasks need deterministic control flow encoded in software, not increasingly elaborate prompt chains If you’ve eve......
instagraham
16 hours ago
Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text
Turning Claude's thoughts into text...
berlianta
19 hours ago
AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields
Discover how AlphaEvolve optimizes algorithms for genomics, quantum physics, global infrastructure, and more to accelerate scientific progress and solve real-world challenges....
timvisee
3 days ago
A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings
A closed-form autoencoder: PCA encoder + quadratic Ridge decoder. On FiQA it gives 4× compression of mxbai-embed-large-v1 at -0.85 p.p. NDCG@10, +2.73 p.p. over PCA. No SGD, no neural networ...
peter_d_sherman
5 hours ago
Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE
A modern, self-hosting Object Pascal compiler built for the 2020s. Zero legacy, full ARC, and unified UTF-8. - graemeg/blaise...
tamnd
18 hours ago
DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal
DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal. Contribute to antirez/ds4 development by creating an account on GitHub....
cemsakarya
2 days ago
Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered
The original 1881 serial ended in chapter fifteen with the puppet hanging dead from an oak tree. Italian children wrote in begging the author to continue. He resumed reluctantly. What follow...
https://storica.club/blog/pinocchio-in-italian/
razorbeamz
3 hours ago
Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2
Press release of Nintendo Co., Ltd....
rustoo
2 days ago
Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school
Under new guidelines caning will only be used as a punishment for male students aged nine and above as a ‘last resort’...
HieronymusBosch
18 hours ago
Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview
New details about what we found, and how agentic harnesses are now able to reproduce real bugs and dismiss false positives....
LAsteNERD
2 days ago
Los Alamos and the long path to detecting neutrinos
Neutrinos forced physicists to rewrite the Standard Model. From solar mysteries to dark matter, Los Alamos experiments help reveal why these particles still matter....
jruohonen
14 hours ago
Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found
AI hallucinations were found in the Department of Home Affairs' revised white paper on citizenship, immigration and refugee protection....
gmays
9 hours ago
GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs
OpenAI doubled per-token prices with GPT-5.5 but the model is less verbose. We measured real usage to see the net cost impact....
snide
14 hours ago
Creating for a niche
The joys of a small, passionate audience...
wojtczyk
a day ago
Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989
TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989. Contribute to wojtczyk/trust development by creating an account on GitHub....