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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,854 posts.
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The April Fools joke that might have got me fired
Everyone should pull one great practical joke in their lifetimes. This one was mine, and I think it's past the statute of limitations. The s...
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Don’t let an LLM make decisions or execute business logic
Don’t let an LLM make decisions or implement business logic: they suck at that.
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The case against conversational interfaces
Conversational interfaces are a bit of a meme. Every couple of years a shiny new AI development emerges and people in tech go "This is it! The next computing paradigm is here! We'll only use natural language going forward!". But then nothing actually changes and we continue using computers the way w
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Netflix’s Media Production Suite
Jesse Korosi, Thijs van de Kamp, Mayra Vega, Laura Futuro, Anton Margoline
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Everything is Ghibli
When we got “create anything” and all made the same thing
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JEP draft: Prepare to make final mean final
Issue warnings about uses of deep reflection to mutate final fields. These warnings aim to prepare developers for a future release that ensures integrity by default by restricting final field mutation, which will make Java programs safer and potentially faster. Application developers can avoid both current warnings…
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OpenAI releasing new open model in coming months, seeks community feedback
We’re planning to release our first open language model since GPT‑2 in the coming months. We’re excited to collaborate with developers, researchers, and the broader community to gather inputs and make this model as useful as possible.
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Notes on the Pentium's microcode circuitry
Most people think of machine instructions as the fundamental steps that a computer performs. However, many processors have another layer of ...
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Stop syncing everything
Discover Graft, an open-source transactional storage engine built to solve the challenges of syncing data at the edge. Inspired by lessons from SQLSync, Graft enables lazy, partial, and strongly consistent replication—allowing edge applications to sync only the data they need, exactly when they need it.
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Automating Interactive Fiction Logic Generation with LLMs in Emacs
From the creator of Ten Dollar Adventure, a blog about the experience of writing the book, being a parent, navigating the entrepreneurial high seas, and learning.
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Oracle attempt to hide cybersecurity incident from customers?
Being a provider of cloud SaaS (Software-as-a-service) solutions requires certain cybersecurity responsibilities — including being…
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Turso SQLite Offline Sync Public Beta
Turso Offline Sync is now in public beta. Write to local SQLite databases offline at file speed, then sync push and pull with Turso Cloud when reconnected.
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AI agents: Less capability, more reliability, please
Sergey Filimonov's blog
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Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024)
Why FreeBSD instead of Linux for home servers? Exploring ZFS, jails, stability, and the reasons behind choosing FreeBSD for a home infrastructure.
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Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding Comparison
Google just launched Gemini 2.5 Pro on March 26th, claiming to be the best in coding, reasoning and overall everything. But I mostly care about how the…
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The Egg (2009)
It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was so utterly shattered you were better off, trust me.
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The demoscene as a UNESCO heritage in Sweden
The demoscene has become a national UNESCO-heritage in Sweden, thanks to an application that Ziphoid and me did last year. This has already happened in several European countries, as part of the international Art of Coding initiative to make the demoscene a global UNESCO heritage. I think this makes
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The <select> element can now be customized with CSS
All the same interfaces, sweet new looks.
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Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models (Anthropic)
We describe an approach to tracing the “step-by-step” computation involved when a model responds to a single prompt.
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Fragments of a rare Merlin manuscript from c. 1300
Fragments of a rare Merlin manuscript from the 1200s discovered and digitised in a ground-breaking three-year project at Cambridge University Library.
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How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” -U.S. Constitution, First Amendment.
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Public secrets exposure leads to supply chain attack on GitHub CodeQL
An exposed GitHub token could have been used to launch a supply chain attack on GitHub CodeQL, resulting in source code exposure and repository tampering of CodeQL users.
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Raising Kids to Have an Analog Childhood in a Digital World
Kids were not meant to be brought up in the digital world that exists today as it is incompatible with human neurological development.
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Why is this site built with C
Most of what I have written features in the category of notes-to-self. Mostly on how to do A or B.
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Converting a Go-Kart into a Deathtrap
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Rust Any part 3: we have upcasts
Some good news is coming in Rust 1.86