Hacker News with Generative AI

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things (simonwillison.net)

275 points by bilsbie 7 hours ago | 116 comments

The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf] (ischool.berkeley.edu)

159 points by ronbenton 6 hours ago | 69 comments

AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64 (meanhamster.com)

55 points by erickhill 5 hours ago | 6 comments

A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better” (rvembedded.com)

441 points by Narishma 13 hours ago | 233 comments

Claude: System Prompts (claude.com)

611 points by tosh 18 hours ago | 246 comments

Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network (reticulum.network)

75 points by sudo_cowsay 7 hours ago | 16 comments

Rhombus 1.1 is now available (racket-lang.org)

51 points by spdegabrielle 6 hours ago | 18 comments

Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter (lowtechlab.org)

151 points by Bluestein 6 days ago | 37 comments

Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of “Solar Realms Elite” (2013) (breakintochat.com)

44 points by bananaboy 8 days ago | 9 comments

Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye” (science.org)

31 points by gumby 6 hours ago | 2 comments

How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024) (support.google.com)

72 points by dt3ft 3 days ago | 35 comments

SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX (pikuma.com)

102 points by ibobev 4 days ago | 42 comments

Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence (2012) (wolfram.com)

38 points by surprisetalk 6 days ago | 3 comments

Strong gravitational lensing and microlensing of supernovae (2024) (epfl.ch)

7 points by andsoitis 4 hours ago | 0 comments

Gmail might partially be to blame for receiving emails from other Sean Conners (conman.org)

26 points by dmarto 3 hours ago | 32 comments

The AI Credit Resale Economy (vectoral.com)

263 points by mlenhard 16 hours ago | 107 comments

Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome (buf.build)

138 points by theanonymousone 12 hours ago | 90 comments

MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent (math-ai-org.github.io)

82 points by homarp 12 hours ago | 26 comments

Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+ (techcrunch.com)

273 points by zacharyozer 10 hours ago | 193 comments

Prolly: A content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees (github.com/crabbuild)

23 points by forhappy 5 hours ago | 0 comments

Red queen hypothesis – A new way forward for self-improving AI (cam.ac.uk)

37 points by hardlianotion 10 hours ago | 5 comments

Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video] (youtube.com)

62 points by tobr 1 day ago | 16 comments

Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga (nnamgreb.de)

104 points by emptybits 4 days ago | 13 comments

Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee (reuters.com)

182 points by root-parent 9 hours ago | 84 comments

Show HN: Vocal Slice – Cut audio by selecting text, fully on-device (vocalslice.com)

9 points by terranivium 7 days ago | 3 comments

Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life (commonreader.wustl.edu)

83 points by lermontov 2 days ago | 22 comments

$12B of US ratepayers' money wasted on a modeling mistake in PJM (semianalysis.com)

8 points by _delirium 1 hour ago | 1 comments

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker (mozilla.org)

611 points by pentagrama 18 hours ago | 251 comments

St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core (wptv.com)

180 points by toomuchtodo 15 hours ago | 132 comments

Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers (ycombinator.com)

389 points by stagas 13 hours ago | 104 comments