Hacker News with Generative AI

Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k (systima.ai)
I love LLMs, I hate hype (geohot.github.io)
The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia (economist.com)
Old and new apps, via modern coding agents (wordpress.com)
Don't you mean extinct? (fabiensanglard.net)
Automation Without Understanding (arxiv.org)
Show HN: Shirei, cross-platform GUI framework in native Go (github.com/hasenj)
Can We Understand How Large Language Models Reason? (cacm.acm.org)
Why write code in 2026 (softwaredoug.com)
Against Usefulness (motivenotes.ai)
LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders (larp.website)
The One-Step Trap (In AI Research) (incompleteideas.net)
Why study Diophantine equations? (hidden-phenomena.com)
Understanding the Odin Programming Language (odinbook.com)
Deir El-Medina Strikes (wikipedia.org)
Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty (dakra.github.io)
The power of collaboration: How we can reduce traffic congestion (research.google)
Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring (techcrunch.com)
How to Read More Books (scotto.me)
What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis (github.com)
Morphometrics: Introduction to the Analysis of Shape (geol.umd.edu)
AI boosts research careers but narrow the span of ideas explored: study (ieee.org)
Autoresearch, Claude and Constrained Optimization (elliotcsmith.com)
Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media (pcmag.com)
Unauthenticated RCE in Motorola's MR2600 Router (mrbruh.com)
Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper (ploy.ai)
I Learned to Read Again (magazinenongrata.com)
Abject Praise (infrequently.org)
Satteri: A Markdown pipeline forged in Rust for the JavaScript world (bruits.org)
Croc: Securely transfer files and folders between two computers (github.com/schollz)