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Mistral Medium 3.5
Introducing Mistral Medium 3.5, remote coding agents in Vibe, plus new Work mode in Le Chat for complex tasks.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,939 posts.
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The Day the Telnet Died
On January 14, 2026, global telnet traffic observed by GreyNoise sensors fell off a cliff. A 59% sustained reduction, eighteen ASNs going completely silent, five countries vanishing from our data entirely. Six days later, CVE-2026-24061 dropped. Coincidence is one explanation.
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The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI
An update to Brooks's Law in the age of AI.
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Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career
I don’t think there’s compelling evidence that using AI makes you less intelligent overall. However, it seems pretty obvious that using AI to perform a task…
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Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption
Today we're excited to showcase HEIR, the latest powerful tool added to our Private Computing Toolkit. HEIR is an open source compiler that unlocks cryptographically-sec…
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How to survive boiling water
A probiotic paradox
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What shall I teach my son?
Yesterday, the title The End of Education by Neil Postman called to me from my bookshelf, whispering that it might be the right book at the right time. It was. Published in 1995, it was surprisingly appropriate balm for the soul of a confused programmer and soon-to-be father.
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Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously
Pion is the platform we built to run our autonomous businesses. Today we are opening it up so many more people can experiment with autonomous businesses, and here is why.
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How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown
breakdown of the architecture behind Linear's speed: local-first sync, MobX observables, instant first loads, and a keyboard-first design.
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Cloudflare crawl endpoint
Browser Rendering's new /crawl endpoint lets you submit a starting URL and automatically discover, render, and return content from an entire website as HTML, Markdown, or structured JSON.
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Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider
Two Amazon engineers swapped Claude Sonnet 4.6 for a decision model in one of the world's biggest internal ticketing systems.
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Doing nothing at work
Many engineers should be doing less work. I don’t necessarily mean producing less code or fewer changes, but literally working fewer hours in the day. When they…
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Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes
[ thank you to claude fable 5.1, holden saberhagen, gabriel kammer, andres erbsen, alice mckean, and tristan wylde-larue for comments on this post ]
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How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?
I think it’s important to be very Canny when someone makes a claim that supports a company’s large valuation.
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The case for physical media ownership
An overview of physical media ownership, streaming shutdowns, content removals, and the limits of digital licenses.
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Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996?
A fun experiment where I back-port all the improvements we've made to chess engines over the last 30 years and run it on a 1996 Pentium Pro to see what we could have done if only we knew more at the time.
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An Alien Mind
Jakub Pachocki reflects on increasingly capable AI and the challenge of keeping it aligned. He calls for stronger safeguards and international coordination.
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Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates
Explore two room-temperature antiferromagnetic semiconductor candidates found by Claude Opus 5.5 agents, with calculations, code and caveats.
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Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs
We benchmarked computer use against auto-generated API endpoints on the same admin panel. 53 steps and 551k tokens vs 8 calls and 12k tokens.
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The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
I was poking around in my ~/.cache/ folder using OmniDiskSweeper when I spotted something interesting. The OpenAI Codex desktop app (since rebranded to just ChatGPT) has 1.7GB of stuff in …
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Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You
An atlas of the vibrance of the real world
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Show HN: How I topped the HuggingFace open LLM leaderboard on two gaming GPUs
ML, Biotech, Hardware, and Coordination Problems. Sometimes I write about hard problems and how to solve them.
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How fast is N tokens per second really?
Every local-LLM benchmark reports throughput: "47 tok/s on an M3," "180 tok/s on a 4090," "500 tok/s on Groq." Unless you've actually watched tokens stream at those rates, the numbers are hard to internalize. This is the rendering.
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Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are our most advanced live dialogue models yet, built for natural conversation.
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Claude is a space to think
Claude will remain ad-free. We explain why advertising incentives are incompatible with a helpful AI assistant.
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Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay
The Nobel Peace Prize 2026 was awarded to Navanethem Pillay "for her efforts to promote peace and international law"
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Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool
We've all heard people say that Qwen is near-Opus level, but I have receipts and am here to be transparent with you.
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Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
In the mid-90s the coolest thing to buy for a PC, besides the incredibly expensive Intel Pentium , was a CD-ROM drive . With their capacity of 640 MiB (three times the storage of PC HDD at the time), CDs allowed enthusiasts to step into a world of multimedia, made of high-resolution 640x480 256 colors palette-indexed…
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