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31. Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well
A sampling of recent news
32. Show HN: AsciiSketch a free browser-based ASCII art and diagram editor
33. AI will compromise your cybersecurity posture
34. Superhuman AI exfiltrates emails
Superhuman AI was able to exfiltrate sensitive emails from user accounts - without the user even being aware. This vulnerability was rapidly remediated by the Superhuman team.
35. Why Real Life is better than IRC (2000)
You can get dressed up all special, and people notice When you eat RL chocolate… you can taste it. If you do phone a friend at 4am to say "I'm down" they...
36. We rolled our own documentation site
you don't need mintlify
37. Terra - A rolling-release Fedora repository
Terra is the community Fedora repository which makes it easy to install and maintain software packages.
38. Apple Creator Studio
Apple Creator Studio is a collection of powerful creative apps for making music, video editing, creative imaging, and visual productivity.
39. Understanding the Types of Data in Data
Discover the key types of data in data science, from structured to unstructured, and learn their significance in analytics and machine learning applications.
40. FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI [video]
41. Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work
Claude Code's agentic capabilities, now for everyone. Give Claude access to your files and let it organize, create, and edit documents while you focus on what matters.
42. Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?
43. Going for Gold: The Story of the Golden Lego RCX and NXT
The rare gold LEGO RCX and NXT bricks have been revealed! The epic tale involves trips to the US and Billund, a Technic dinosaur, a local jeweler, a group of AFOL superfans and lots of cake.
44. Choosing learning over autopilot
I use ai coding tools a lot. I love them. I’m all-in on ai tools. They unlock doors that let me do things that I cannot do with my human hands alone.
45. Open sourcing Dicer: Databricks's auto-sharder
Open sourcing Dicer, Databricks’ auto sharder. Learn why auto sharding matters, how Dicer works, and how it keeps Unity Catalog and SQL fast through restarts.
46. Running Lean at Scale
AI for Formal Mathematical Reasoning
47. Everything you never wanted to know about file locking (2010)
(Foreshadowing: I found a bug in MacOS X 10.6's fcntl(F_SETLK) locking that could cause corruption of sqlite databases. To see if your syst...
48. ADHD. How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?
49. The Insecure Evangelism of LLM Maximalists
I just can't help feeling these training wheels are getting in the way of my bicycle commute.
50. Revup: Upload once to create multiple, relative GitHub PRs
Upload once to create multiple, relative PRs. Productivity-focused git tools with patch revision tracking, rebase detection and more. Uses python and git plumbing commands. - GitHub - Skydio/revup: Upload once to create multiple, relative PRs. Productivity-focused git tools with patch revision tracking, rebase detection and more. Uses python and git plumbing commands.
51. Ask HN: Quantum Computation, Computers and Programming
52. The month long, 3000 mile roller derby of Chicago
Learn about Roller Derby from it's inception to present day.
53. SkyPilot: One system to use and manage all AI compute (K8s, 20 clouds, Slurm)
Run, manage, and scale AI workloads on any AI infrastructure. Use one system to access & manage all AI compute (Kubernetes, 20+ clouds, or on-prem). - skypilot-org/skypilot
54. Beebo, a wave simulator written in C
55. Bottom-up programming as the root of LLM dev skepticism
56. The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf]
57. AVX-512: First Impressions on Performance and Programmability
A simple, whitespace theme for academics. Based on [*folio](https://github.com/bogoli/-folio) design.
58. The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
59. Text-Based Web Browsers
How do they fare with (not so) recent additions to HTML?
60. We Don't Use AI