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The maths you need to start understanding LLMs

Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors

Rug pulls, forks, and open-source feudalism

Speeding up Unreal Editor launch by not spawning unused tooltips

Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works)

Novel hollow-core optical fiber transmits data faster with record low loss

Developing a Space Flight Simulator in Clojure

GLM 4.5 with Claude Code

The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years

What Is the Fourier Transform?

Purposeful animations

Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features

Making a font of my handwriting

Meschers: Geometry Processing of Impossible Objects

MentraOS – open-source Smart glasses OS

My Own DNS Server at Home – Part 1: IPv4

Museum of Color

I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf

I ditched Docker for Podman

ML needs a new programming language – Interview with Chris Lattner

How much power does Visual Look Up use?

Sparrow: C++20 Idiomatic APIs for the Apache Arrow Columnar Format

Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy

Show HN: Writing Arabic in English

Protobuffers Are Wrong (2018)

The Old Robots Web Site

Show HN: Open-sourcing our text-to-CAD app

Interview with Japanese Demoscener 0b5vr

Apertus 70B: Truly Open - Swiss LLM by ETH, EPFL and CSCS

Freeway guardrails are now a favorite target of thieves

Gym Class VR (YC W22) Is Hiring – UX Design Engineer

Quantum Mechanics, Concise Book

I kissed comment culture goodbye

Mac Clones History: A Tale of Poor Margins and Bad Timing

Why Language Models Hallucinate

How big are our embeddings now and why?

All of our lives overlap in the Network Of Time

European Commission fines Google €2.95B over abusive ad tech practices

Nest 1st gen and 2nd gen thermostats no longer supported from Oct 25

SQL needed structure

Show HN: Swimming in Tech Debt

America Surrenders in the Global Information Wars

Decoding UTF-8. Part III: Determining Sequence Length – A Lookup Table

AP reporting calls into question why and how Israel attacked a Gaza hospital

A sunscreen scandal shocking Australia

Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others

Poisoning Well

Realtek RTL8127 10GbE PCIe cards and M.2 modules are starting to show up

I'm absolutely right

I have two Amazon Echos that I never use, but they apparently burn GBs a day

Making the most of a dumb fax switcher box in the old days

PlateShapez – Tool for generating adversarially perturbed license plate overlays

Fantastic pretraining optimizers and where to find them

Vetinari's Clock (2011)

Show HN: Inception: Automatic Rust Trait Implementation by Induction

Debugging Rustler on Illumos

Rearchitecting GitHub Pages (2015)

A computer upgrade shut down BART

Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector

Rasterizer: A GPU-accelerated 2D vector graphics engine in ~4k LOC

Development speed is not a bottleneck

Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo

What Is the Fourier Transform?

Leptos

LLM Visualization

Age verification doesn’t work

30 minutes with a stranger

Should we revisit Extreme Programming in the age of AI?

Forking Chrome to render in a terminal (2023)

Jonathan's Space Report

Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks

API Blueprint

The repercussions of a typo in C++ & Rust

A PM's Guide to AI Agent Architecture

Building Supabase-Like OAuth Authentication for MCP Servers

Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available

Supercharger for Business – Tesla

Melvyn Bragg steps down from presenting In Our Time

Action was the best 8-bit programming language

Deluxe Paint on the Commodore Amiga

We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that

io_uring is faster than mmap

Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

WiFi signals can measure heart rate

Building a WASM compiler in Roc (series)

X Design Notes: Unifying OCaml Modules and Values

Type checking is a symptom, not a solution

I should have loved electrical engineering

Data modeling guide for real-time analytics with ClickHouse

Removing yellow stains from fabric with blue light

Why RDF is the natural knowledge layer for AI systems

Étoilé – desktop built on GNUStep

Le Chat: Custom MCP Connectors, Memories

Launch HN: Slashy (YC S25) – AI that connects to apps and does tasks

At least 475 workers detained in major ICE raid at US Hyundai factory

What If OpenDocument Used SQLite?

Russia targets WhatsApp and pushes new 'super-app' as internet blackouts grow

Show HN: Vapor – A notepad that fades away as you type

The Boring Future of GenAI

Type-safe and user-friendly error handling in Swift 6

Andromeda, JavaScript Runtime in Rust

Hydrovoltaic Energy Harvesting from Nut Shells

A programmable display using microfluidics [video]

Lava RGB

Reverse engineering Solos smart glasses

Inverting the Xorshift128 random number generator

Liquid Cooling Exhibits

Fiber Concurrency

Linux – Recreating old problems with new tools

Lit: a library for building fast, lightweight web components

U of Oregon student who reported privacy lapse placed under investigation

Eels are fish

AR Fluid Simulation Demo

New knot theory discovery overturns long-held mathematical assumption

How we built an interpreter for Swift

Heap-based buffer overflow in Kernel Streaming

A high schooler writes about AI tools in the classroom

What is it like to be a bat?

Evolving the OCaml Programming Language (2025) [pdf]

Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

Speeding up PyTorch inference on Apple devices with AI-generated Metal kernels

Classic 8×8-pixel B&W Mac patterns

Using AI to perceive the universe in greater depth

The wall confronting large language models

Age Simulation Suit

How to Build a High-Performance UR5 Inverse Kinematics Solver with IK-Geo

UK Electricity Generation Map

Baby's first type checker

Airbus B612 Cockpit Font

Rocketships and Slingshots

Building the most accurate DIY CNC lathe in the world [video]

I ditched Spotify and set up my own music stack

Ubuntu Failed to download Linux-firmware

Wal3: A Write-Ahead Log for Chroma, Built on Object Storage

Comic Sans typeball designed to work with the IBM Selectric typewriters

Kernel-hack-drill and exploiting CVE-2024-50264 in the Linux kernel

The Color of the Future: A history of blue

When can I reuse this calendar?

Unix Conspiracy (1991)

Saquon Barkley is playing for equity

Thunk: Build Rust program to support Windows XP, Vista and more

How to build vector tiles from scratch

Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself

Show HN: A roguelike game that runs inside Notepad++

Farewell to Meshnet

AI not affecting job market much so far, New York Fed says

Say Bye with JavaScript Beacon

16-inch softball

John Coltrane's Tone Circle

The Anatomy of a Mach-O

OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps

ICPC 2025 World Finals Results

William James at CERN (1995)

Poor man's bitemporal data system in SQLite and Clojure

VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model

Tesla Wants Out of the Car Business

Amazon RTO policy is costing it top tech talent, according to internal document

A Random Walk in 10 Dimensions (2021)

U.S. Department of War

Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor – Version 1.1

We're Joining OpenAI

Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources

Evidence that AI is destroying jobs for young people

Morse Code Translator

Launch HN: Risely (YC S25) – AI Agents for Universities

A Website Is a Room

Finding thousands of exposed Ollama instances using Shodan

'World Models,' an old idea in AI, mount a comeback

IRHash: Efficient Multi-Language Compiler Caching by IR-Level Hashing

Understanding Transformers Using a Minimal Example

How many SPARCs is too many SPARCs?

Eternal Struggle

Voyager – An interactive video generation model with realtime 3D reconstruction

The Mighty Simplex

Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up

A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code

Neovim Pack

Minesweeper thermodynamics

[Bruce Schneier's] Latest Book: Rewiring Democracy

ReMarkable Paper Pro Move

Interrupts – The Heartbeat of a Unix Kernel

Magic Lantern Is Back

I made a drive to store files like 40 years ago –.but for ants [video]

CauseNet: Towards a causality graph extracted from the web

SQLite's File Format

The hand-drawn hits that Hollywood isn't making

Two Valuable Satellites Are in 'Perfect Health.' They May Be Scrapped

Launch HN: Datafruit (YC S25) – AI for DevOps

You're Not Interviewing for the Job. You're Auditioning for the Job Title

Hollow Knight: Silksong causes server chaos on Xbox, Steam, and Nintendo

Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python (2023)

Tufte CSS

Experimental Hook-and-Loop Attachment System for Walls and Floors

Berg's Card Sorting Task

The staff ate it later

AI Induced Psychosis: A shallow investigation

Lisp interpreter with GC in <750 lines of Odin (and <500 lines of C)

6NF File Format

Lively Linear Lisp (1992) [pdf]

IBM and AMD to Develop Quantum-Centric Supercomputing

This blog is running on a recycled Google Pixel 5 (2024)

The 16-year odyssey it took to emulate the Pioneer LaserActive

Run Erlang/Elixir on Microcontrollers and Embedded Linux

How to Give a Good Talk

Hard-nosed sheriff who inspired 'Walking Tall' killed his wife, inquiry says

Interview with US Digital Service's First Administrator

Amazonq.nvim: Official AWS AI Assistant Plugin for Neovim

Abstract Machine Models (2022)

%CPU utilization is a lie

AI is going great for the blind (2023)

With AI Boom, Dell's Datacenter Biz Is Finally Bigger Than Its PC Biz

EmbeddingGemma: The Best-in-Class Open Model for On-Device Embedding

Cache

Humanoid robots were a sci-fi dream. Suddenly they're everywhere

Anthropic raises $13B Series F

Physicists create a time crystal that humans can see

Glow-in-the-dark houseplants shine in rainbow of colours

Ask HN: Looking for headless CMS recommendation

The Little Book of Linear Algebra

Mangrove Restoration Frustration (2021)

This Page Is a Quine (2021)

Using your phone on toilet may give you hemorrhoids: study

A Top Secret Seal Team 6 Mission into North Korea Fell Apart

Cognitive load is what matters

Warp Code: the fastest way from prompt to production

The thousands of atomic bombs exploded on Earth (2015)

Electromechanical reshaping offers safer eye surgery

If AI agents take the jobs, who buys the stuff?

Zola: One-stop static site engine

Python has had async for 10 years – why isn't it more popular?

Chicago has the most lead pipes in the nation

The Theoretical Limitations of Embedding-Based Retrieval

Nintendo Switch 2 Dock USB-C Compatibility

UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost

GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work

Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig

CocoaPods trunk read-only plan

One of Britain's largest stocks of second-hand books ever amassed

Why Rewriting Emacs Is Hard

What Is Complexity in Chess?

Removing Guix from Debian

Lessons from building an AI data analyst

Tesla’s autonomous driving claims might be coming to an end [video]

How Tesla surrendered its dominance of Australia’s EV market

330+ data teams share what's working (and what's not)

MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline

Simple design changes can make bat boxes safer

Evaluating Agents

Indices, not Pointers

Who Owns, Operates, and Develops Your VPN Matters

Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand (2023)

Google was down in eastern EU and Turkey

Sodium-ion battery maker Natron closes shop

Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war

PFP: A Probabilistic Functional Programming Library for Haskell (2006)

Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website

Half an year on Alpine: just musl aside

Keyboards from my collection (2023)

WinBoat: Run Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration

Apertus 8B and 70B – a new open multilingual LLM from Switzerland

Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts

Show HN: I built FlipCards – a flashcard app with variations to improve learning

Updating restrictions of sales to unsupported regions

“This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone”

Hitting Peak File IO Performance with Zig

Take something you don’t like and try to like it

The Power of Confidence and why it is the most important trait and skill

The buyer-pull and seller-push theories of sales

Show HN: A Map of All YC Companies (5,300 Startups by Batch and Location)

Floquet effects unlock graphene's potential for future electronics

Show HN: Moribito – A TUI for LDAP Viewing/Queries

Introduction to Writing Good Puzzle Hunt Puzzles

Implementing a Foil Sticker Effect

UK's largest battery storage facility at Tilbury substation

1TB Raspberry Pi SSD on sale now for $70

Static sites enable a good time travel experience

Bear is now source-available

.gitignore Everything by Default

The Wetware Crisis: The Thermocline of Truth (2008)

SAP splashes €20B on Euro sovereign cloud push

Next.js is infuriating

3D QR Codes

Sharing a mutable reference between Rust and Python

Amazon must face US nationwide class action over third-party sales

Launch HN: VibeFlow (YC S25) – Web app generator with visual, editable workflows

FreeDroidWarn

HS Student Builds AI Pipeline to Discover 1.5M Lost Space Objects

Show HN: A small browser game (PC only) built with Phaser 3

Ultrasound system for precise neuromodulation of human deep brain circuits

Physically based rendering from first principles

Kruci: Post-mortem of a UI library

High-level visual representations in the human brain are aligned with LLMs

Show HN: Tallyit.co/coparents – Split costs with your baby dady

Existence Is Evidence of Immortality

Hledger 1.50

'Almost unimaginable': these ants are different species but share a mother

Show HN: LightCycle, a FOSS game in Rust based on Tron

Still Asking: How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really? [pdf]

OpenAI announces AI-powered hiring platform to take on LinkedIn

The Rust Innovation Lab

Coalition for Metabolic Health Launches with $50M

Effective learning: Rules of formulating knowledge (1999)