Hacker News with Generative AI

SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017) (usenix.org)

63 points by Eridanus2 2 hours ago | 27 comments

Archive of Byte magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975 (archive.org)

22 points by DamnInteresting 2 days ago | 4 comments

Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game (kotaku.com)

141 points by speckx 3 days ago | 92 comments

What are skiplists good for? (antithesis.com)

104 points by mfiguiere 2 days ago | 22 comments

NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers (nist.gov)

320 points by rbanffy 14 hours ago | 138 comments

Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7 (billchambers.me)

524 points by anabranch 19 hours ago | 516 comments

College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)

290 points by gnabgib 16 hours ago | 292 comments

The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker (righto.com)

342 points by NelsonMinar 19 hours ago | 92 comments

Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant? (ycombinator.com)

24 points by modelcroissant 2 hours ago | 10 comments

Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On (vlad.website)

27 points by PaulHoule 3 days ago | 2 comments

Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine (jackpritz.com)

88 points by tyleo 3 days ago | 37 comments

Why Japan has such good railways (worksinprogress.co)

424 points by RickJWagner 23 hours ago | 407 comments

The world in which IPv6 was a good design (apenwarr.ca)

76 points by signa11 8 hours ago | 18 comments

Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702 (eff.org)

74 points by nobody9999 4 hours ago | 6 comments

State of Kdenlive (kdenlive.org)

407 points by f_r_d 23 hours ago | 124 comments

Modern Common Lisp with FSet (common-lisp.dev)

162 points by larve 4 days ago | 19 comments

Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner (isayeter.com)

793 points by yusufusta 22 hours ago | 399 comments

Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 (simonwillison.net)

4 points by pretext 36 minutes ago | 0 comments

It's cool to care (2025) (alexwlchan.net)

19 points by surprisetalk 4 days ago | 9 comments

Metatextual Literacy (jenn.site)

35 points by dado3212 4 days ago | 3 comments

Optimizing Ruby Path Methods (byroot.github.io)

105 points by weaksauce 15 hours ago | 38 comments

Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon (abacusnoir.com)

89 points by agambrahma 12 hours ago | 35 comments

Dizzying Spiral Staircase with Single Guardrail Once Led to Top of Eiffel Tower (smithsonianmag.com)

29 points by bookofjoe 3 days ago | 13 comments

Binary GCD (algorithmica.org)

4 points by tosh 3 hours ago | 0 comments

The seven programming ur-languages (madhadron.com)

7 points by helloplanets 4 hours ago | 0 comments

Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups (sumida-aquarium.com)