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Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM

The author argues that while large language models are useful tools, the reflexive suggestion to "ask an LLM" instead of…

This slushie machine was a lifesaver during NYC’s heat wave

Last weekend’s brutal NYC heat wave had me craving a frozen drink almost every afternoon.

RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch

RISCBoy is an open-source portable gaming console designed from scratch, featuring a RISC-V compatible CPU, graphics…

OpenAI Forked Git on GitHub

OpenAI has forked the Git repository on GitHub, creating its own copy of the open-source version control system.

I used to love Claude, but the latest models are slowly ruining it

A longtime Claude user expresses frustration with the AI chatbot's increasingly defensive and preachy behavior in recent…

Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem

Hello HN!I'm the author of Ant, a JavaScript ecosystem built around a runtime with its own JavaScript engine.

Wealthy AI workers send San Francisco house prices soaring

Wealthy AI workers in San Francisco are driving up property prices dramatically, with the median house price rising 19%…

Show HN: Sqlsure – deterministic semantic checks for AI-generated SQL

Sqlsure is a tool that performs deterministic semantic checks on AI-generated SQL queries to catch logical errors that…

The Chinese Voice Actor Forced to Prove He's Human

Chinese voice actor Shen Anyu has been forced repeatedly to prove he is human after AI copies of his voice spread widely…

How to Hide from Killer Drones

ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files

Amazon S3 Files and ZeroFS both provide POSIX filesystem interfaces backed by object storage, but differ fundamentally…

AI 2040 and the Cult of Intelligence

The author argues that AI safety advocates overestimate intelligence's transformative power, confusing theoretical…

Who manages the agents?

A emerging "technical clergy"—AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic—controls frontier AI systems and decides which…

Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?

A Hacker News user reports that Google Search appears to poorly index AT Protocol-related information compared to other…

Prefer Strict Tables in SQLite

SQLite's strict tables enforce rigid column typing by adding the STRICT keyword to table definitions, preventing common…

BLISS

# BLISS Summary BLISS is a system programming language developed at Carnegie Mellon University in 1970 by W. A. Wulf, D.

Smart glasses without a camera? Even Realities bets productivity beats recording everyone

The glasses are targeted at people who might be constantly in meetings, giving presentations, and traveling to countries…

Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox

A writer tasked with producing an entire 64-page summer reading supplement—work that previously required dozens of…

Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom

Nvidia-backed neocloud companies CoreWeave and Nebius are experiencing rapid growth in AI infrastructure demand from…

Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring

Sixtyfour, a Y Combinator-backed data enrichment platform, is hiring an Operations Associate to create custom data…

Show HN: Orbit – AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects

Orbit is a new iPhone and iPad app that uses augmented reality to track and display over 15,000 satellites, planets,…

Show HN: Earth Game – An offline CLI for turning life goals into quests

Earth Game is an offline CLI tool that helps users manage life goals as quests, with features for tracking current…

UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction

UPI (Unified Payments Interface) processes over 2,272 crore transactions monthly—more than any other real-time payment…

Show HN: Reame – a CPU inference server that gets faster as it runs

Reame is a CPU-based LLM inference server designed for resource-constrained hardware like shared vCPUs and ARM boxes,…

Apple Sues OpenAI Over Trade Secret Theft ‘at Every Level’: Here’s What Is Known Till Now

Apple filed a 41-page complaint against OpenAI in the U.S.

We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput

ClickHouse Managed Postgres scaled PgBouncer's throughput by 4x by running multiple PgBouncer processes (one per CPU…

OpenAI bets on families as ChatGPT goes deeper into households

ChatGPT is hiring a dedicated product manager to build experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults, according…

Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch

CodeCrafters is a free learning platform that teaches programming through hands-on projects where users build real…

Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1965) [pdf]

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