2071
Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop
...so I vibe-coded a tool for finding more of them
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,798 posts.
2072
The Beam Engine
See how a beam engine works through interactive 3D figures exploring steam, pressure, Watt's condenser, valves, linkages, and the governor.
2073
Spatial languages: Writing code in 2D
Writing code in 2D: a spatial programming language with vertical operands, quantum uncomputation puzzles, and a 3-bit adder in a single 2D expression.
2074
Back to Kagi
A reflection on returning to Kagi after trying some alternatives including the much worse search engine called Google.
2075
How My Images Are Dithered
Hello there! This is my personal website and it is allergic to SEO.
2076
What's Under Your Feet in New York City?
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] New York City is unlike any other city in the United States. It’s the most densely populated area in the country by far, absolutely packed with buildings, business, homes, and people. But for all that you can see walking the str
2077
Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns
I like supporting local businesses but it's so disheartening to see the increasing use of genAI in their branding/marketing/etc. Yuck yuck YUCK!!!
2078
The startup's Postgres survival guide
A guide to preventing Postgres from toppling over.
2079
So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe
I am equally unsurprised and upset
2080
10 REM"_(C2SLFF4
That is the first line of the 80s microcomputer BASIC game The Wizard's Castle initially written for the Exidy Sorcerer platform.
2081
Marimo now runs in PyCharm
Bring reactive notebooks into your Python projects, without leaving your IDE
2082
Never Enough
Comparison is the thief of joy.
2083
LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps
The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one’s television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes less than a month after researchers found that more than 42 percent of games and other apps available for download on LG’s…
2084
It's a shame what's happened to radio
Why I wouldn't enjoy returning to radio as a disk jockey.
2085
Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
Kimi K3 matches Fable 5 on SWE tasks (92.4% vs 92.6%) at up to 50x lower cost on Fireworks. See where each model wins and how routing beats both.
2086
"Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok
Four frontier models, a blank canvas, and colored pencils. We tracked every stroke, dollar, and output as they tried to draw the Mona Lisa.
2087
A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample
The notorious Jacobian conjecture can be formulated concretely over the complex numbers as follows. Conjecture 1 (Jacobian Conjecture) Let $latex {F:{\bf C}^n \rightarrow {\bf C}^n}&fg=000000$ …
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OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation
OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.
2090
Firefox Containers Preview
Today, we’re excited to announce the Preview of Containers in Firefox version 153, which lets you keep separate parts of your online life (work, shopping
2091
Laguna S 2.1
Today we’re releasing Laguna S 2.1, a significant step forward in our development of models that pursue longer horizon work and make effective use of reasoning.
2092
Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
We’re introducing new Gemini models, including Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber.
2093
Claude Is Not a Compiler
Or: the difference between vibe-coding and vibe-engineering.
2094
Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
This case involves Apple’s handling of user-uploaded files hosted in private iCloud storage. Instead of adopting PhotoDNA to scan hosted files for CSAM, Apple created its own proprietary alternative, NeuralHash, which apparently wasn’t as good. So Apple U-turned on its...
2095
Why Are There No Empires in Age of Empires? (2019)
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2026125 points118 commentsHistory & Retro Computing details
At long last, Relic Entertainment has announced that Age of Empires 4 is coming. Strategy gamers rejoice! I am excited – I played the first one back in ’98 (I may be dating myself here)…
2096
GDID Windows – Cut the tracker that follows you even under VPN
The GDID helped catch a hacker despite his VPN. I set up a VM to see if it can be neutralized: what works, what doesn't, and the scripts to stop it from ...
2097
git's –end-of-options Flag
The git flag I assumed was an LLM hallucination
2098
New US homeownership measure puts people first
An alternative way of calculating the homeownership rate tells us how many individuals own their homes—something the most commonly used metric fails to track
2099
Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot
Enjoy Emacs and its built-in language server (LSP) superpowers, for JVM languages. Let's walk through basic language setups, specialized workspace configuration handling, and dive deep into some advanced JSON-RPC and advice-based workarounds for Scala (Metals) and Kotlin that make development truly seamless from Emacs…
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Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge
Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.