1081
RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree
We tested RTK (Rust Token Killer) with Claude Code on Fable 5.0, and OpenCode with DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 on Terminal-Bench 2.1.
New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,792 posts.
1082
1083
Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?
Some thoughts on Astra and newfangled long-horizon models.
1084
Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace
Full stack developer, open sourceror, serial entrepreneur.
1085
Nine coding harnesses vs. your laptop
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
1086
OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes release included a Lean 4 formal proof
When OpenAI released their proof that solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations can blow up in finite time, they also released a formal proof in Lean 4.
1087
1088
OpenAI Agents API
Build durable cloud agents with a managed Codex harness.
1089
The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire
New stories from the East German specialists behind this Cold War project
1090
The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac
A WebGPU shader on an untrusted site can hang a Mac's graphics, making the desktop UI unusable until a restart is forced. All the victim needs to do is click a link. This issue reproduces cross-browser on MacOS, but not other OSes.
1091
Creativity is the new moat
AI makes it fast and easy to copy what’s already out there—but your competitive edge could learn a little something from web history
1092
JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation
Improve startup and warmup time by making optimized native code for an application instantly available when the HotSpot Java Virtual Machine starts. Achieve this by compiling application code to native code in a training run, storing the native code in the AOT cache for use in subsequent production runs. If the…
1093
Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026
Case studies from threat actors disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven areas of harm, from cyber operations to biological misuse.
1094
I have a theory that software drives people insane
I have a little pet theory that software drives people insane. Not in the "wash your hands every thirty minutes like Howard Hughes" kind of way, but more ...
1095
Silicon Valley is transforming the military-industrial complex? (2024)
Anthropologist Roberto González (Professor, San José State University) examines how America’s military-industrial complex has been rapidly expanding from the Capital Beltway to Silicon Valley. Although much of the Pentagon’s budget is spent on conventional weapons systems, the Defense Department has increasingly…
1096
Neki – Sharded Postgres
Neki, sharded Postgres by PlanetScale, is now available in platform preview.
1097
Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra
Today we’re introducing SWE-2, our most advanced coding model yet. SWE-2 delivers highly competitive agentic coding performance across multiple effort…
1098
Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables
Speaking of being on the internet and finding things that make you go, “Hey! It’s not just me!” I scrolled across this skeet from Tyler Gaw : I just dug to the…
1099
AI Is Breaking This Thing We Call Trust
AI-generated work can look finished without being understood. That uncertainty erodes trust, slows reviews, and leaves colleagues doing the missing work.
1100
Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
Coding agents changed what it costs to build mobile apps twice. Here’s why Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin.
1101
Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B
Bending Spoons S.p.A. (NASDAQ: BSP) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Miro at an enterprise value of $1.355 billion.
1102
Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
By now it’s no surprise that Rust is of strategic importance to Microsoft. From bold mission statements when Azure CTO Mark Russinovich outlined our future strategy for native code, to millions of dollars invested by Microsoft into supporting the Rust Project, over the following years. Watch Mark’s keynote from last…
1103
Julia 1.13 highlights
Highlights of the Julia 1.13 release.
1104
1105
What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?
It's random, really.
1106
I think I hate the internet
I’ve just finished reading Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams and was equally parts shocked and unsurprised by the events she witnessed at Facebook / Met...
1107
Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust
I reverse engineered the hardware and firmware of my Egret GT E-Scooter. I describe how I got in, analysed communication between components, and reverse engineered firmware. I speak about writing custom firmware for the display unit.
1108
Training a 3.8B LLM to 0.384 CORE for $998
A 3.8B model pretrained from scratch to 0.384 CORE on 65B tokens in 43 hours, for $998.
1109
Getting 50 GB/S Back from the Apple Neural Engine
An RTL performance erratum in the Apple M3 Neural Engine throttles DRAM weight streaming throughput down to 17–19 GB/s from the nominal 45–60 GB/s, whenever the total weight size is an integer multiple of 1 MiB, which currently affects 7 of ANEMLL ’s 15 models. Avoiding the problematic path in the kernel DMA engine's…
1110
Factoring RSA 260
How Devin and a Cognition researcher built the world’s highest-performance GPU lattice siever, to make factoring numbers 10x cheaper than the previous…