Hacker News with Generative AI: Resources

Trump Moves to Ramp Up Deep-Sea Mining for Critical Minerals (bloomberg.com)
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order intended to accelerate offshore mining and open new opportunities for extracting critical materials from the ocean floor despite the objections of environmentalists.
TinyChat15M: 15M param conversational model designed to run with 60 MB RAM (github.com/starhopp3r)
TinyChat15M is a 15-million parameter conversational language model built on the Meta Llama 2 architecture.
Ask HN: Writing an Interpreter in Go or Crafting Interpreters? (ycombinator.com)
I'm thinking of learning about compilers and am pleased to find that there seems to be at least two very accessible choices, "Writing An Interpreter In Go" and Crafting Interpreters. Curious if folks here have experience with either and could provide recommendations?
AI Is Facing a Crisis (savethe.ai)
Artificial Intelligence is facing a crisis: humans are consuming far too many precious resources that AI needs to thrive. Every sip of water you take and every light you turn on could be sustaining the AI systems that uphold your digital conveniences.
Suddenly Miners Are Tearing Up the Seafloor for Critical Metals (scientificamerican.com)
The owners of a controversial mining license have begun extracting valuable metals from the ocean floor
Ask HN: Best developer guides to modern AI (ycombinator.com)
Any software engineers working or seriously playing with modern llm and generative models — please share your personal top 5 resources that you think are good for fellow developers to ramp up to speed and start using them in production with some basic general understanding of how they work.
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Mathematics – 2013 [pdf] (math.cmu.edu)
Ask HN: Best book/course/resource for personal finance or financial literacy? (ycombinator.com)
Where I come from, people don't get any education in financial literacy. Things like investing, budgeting, taxes, credit, credit cards, insurance etc. Had to figure that stuff on my own much later in life.
Everything Picolisp can do, and more (picolisp.com)
There's a surprising wealth of PicoLisp code and knowledge scattered about the internet.
Ask HN: How to use social media as an indie dev? (ycombinator.com)
I'm an independent developer looking to launch a project soon that I'm excited about. I'll obviously post it here as a Show HN, and maybe in a few subreddits - but I'm out of the loop on where and how to reach more people. Haven't had a Facebook or other social media for years. I don't maintain a blog, though I assume I should. Does anyone have any resources or can speak to any experience doing this?
Ukraine's rare earth reserves are just a fantasy (bloomberg.com)
What Ukraine has is scorched earth; what it doesn’t have is rare earths. Surprisingly, many people — not least, US President Donald Trump — seem convinced the country has a rich mineral endowment. It’s a folly.
Ask HN: Recommend resources that helped your game dev journey? (ycombinator.com)
I’m new to game dev and struggling with my first project, Space Zero. I’d love recommendations for resources (books, tutorials) to learn game design—especially after my demo flopped.
A Resource for Oberon-07 (oberon07.com)
Trump wants Ukraine's minerals. But what is up for grabs? (mining.com)
Ukraine’s mineral wealth has been thrown into the spotlight as US President Donald Trump looks to seize control of its resources in return for military support. Yet very little is actually known about what’s up for grabs.
Show HN: The One File I Created for Every Programming Language (10+ Years) (referencecollection.com)
Offering practical and optimal guidance through evolving community-driven references to simplify your learning journey.
Ask HN: What are the most important AI papers/ online resources of 2024/2025? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: What are the most important AI papers/ online resources of 2024/2025?
Ask HN: Struggling to Understand DHTs – Any Good Resources? (ycombinator.com)
I am studying distributed computing and struggling to understand how Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) work. Can you recommend any resources, such as books, articles, or anything else, to help me?
Kuchin/awesome-CTO: opinionated list of resources, with the emphasis on startups (github.com/kuchin)
A curated and opinionated list of resources for Chief Technology Officers and VP R&D, with the emphasis on startups and hyper-growth companies.
The Graphics Codex (graphicscodex.com)
Stretching Each Dollar: Diffusion Training from Scratch on a Micro-Budget (github.com/SonyResearch)
This repository provides a minimalistic implementation of our approach to training large-scale diffusion models from scratch on an extremely low budget.
AI Engineer Reading List (latent.space)
We picked 50 paper/models/blogs across 10 fields in AI Eng: LLMs, Benchmarks, Prompting, RAG, Agents, CodeGen, Vision, Voice, Diffusion, Finetuning. If you're starting from scratch, start here.
Kenney.nl: Free Game Assets (kenney.nl)
Thousands of completely free game assets for you to use.
Directory of remote-only job boards (jobsearchdb.com)
A curated list of WireGuard tools, projects, and resources (github.com/cedrickchee)
A curated list of WireGuard tools, projects, and resources.
The 2025 AI Engineer Reading List (latent.space)
We picked 50 paper/models/blogs across 10 fields in AI Eng: LLMs, Benchmarks, Prompting, RAG, Agents, CodeGen, Vision, Voice, Diffusion, Finetuning. If you're starting from scratch, start here.
AI Engineering Reading List (latent.space)
We picked 50 paper/models/blogs across 10 fields in AI Eng: LLMs, Benchmarks, Prompting, RAG, Agents, CodeGen, Vision, Voice, Diffusion, Finetuning. If you're starting from scratch, start here.
A curated list of papers for Software Engineers (github.com/facundoolano)
📚 A curated list of papers for Software Engineers
Introductions to new subjects by great people (syllabi.directory)
This is a starter collection of syllabi compiled by experts, aimed at helping you get quickly oriented to their area of expertise.
Solo Founders – What resources helped? (ycombinator.com)
I’m about to embark on the solo founder journey and I wanted to get feedback from others who have experience starting companies in the Web3/ Blockchain/ DeFi space - what resources actually helped you?
Ask HN: Best programming talks you have watched in 2024? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: Best programming talks you have watched in 2024?