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151. Why Read Novels?
best life in category of achievable lives
152. A cosmic ring may challenge a key assumption about the universe
At 3.3 billion light-years across, the ring may challenge the “cosmological principle” that the universe looks uniform at sufficiently large scales.
153. SmartOS
154. The Microstructure of Wealth Transfer in Prediction Markets
Slot machines on the Las Vegas Strip return about 93 cents on the dollar. This is widely considered some of the worst odds in gambling. Yet on Kalshi, a CFTC-regulated prediction market, traders have wagered vast sums on longshot contracts with historical returns as low as 43 cents on the dollar. Thousands of participants are voluntarily accepting expected values far lower than a casino slot machine to bet on their convictions.
155. GenAI, the Snake Eating Its Own Tail
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT and Claude have two superpowers. The first superpower is a boon: they can dramatically increase ...
156. Level S4 solar radiation event
157. macOS Tahoe broke Finder columns view
158. Computer vision papers reimplemented with minimal PyTorch code
Implementation of papers in 100 lines of code. Contribute to MaximeVandegar/Papers-in-100-Lines-of-Code development by creating an account on GitHub.
159. Downtown Denver's office vacancy rate grows to 38.2%
160. Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results
161. An Adversarial Coding Test
Sometimes the job interview just wants to gain code exec on your machine.
162. Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced
Anthropic's original performance take-home, now open for you to try! - anthropics/original_performance_takehome
163. Runjak.codes: An adversarial coding test
Sometimes the job interview just wants to gain code exec on your machine.
164. Scaling long-running autonomous coding
165. Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages
166. I'll pass on your zoom call.
167. I finally got my sway layout to autostart the way I like it
168. Mystery of the Head Activator
A biological puzzle that made one researcher and ruined another might never be solved.
169. Taming P99s in OpenFGA: How we built a self-tuning strategy planner
Discover how a self-tuning strategy planner using Thompson Sampling optimized OpenFGA performance and slashed tail latency in multi-tenant environments.
170. Science Is Drowning in AI Slop
Peer review has met its match.
171. Ask HN: Why are so many rolling out their own AI/LLM agent sandboxing solution?
172. Tell HN: Cursor agent force-pushed despite explicit "ask for permission" rules
173. San Francisco coyote swims to Alcatraz
174. Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations
When it comes to database optimization, developers often reach for the same old tools: rewrite the query slightly differently, slap an index on a column, denormalize, analyze, vacuum, cluster, repeat. Conventional techniques are effective, but sometimes being creative can really pay off!
175. Electricity use of AI coding agents
176. Show HN: Agent Skills Leaderboard
Discover and install skills for AI agents.
177. Nipah virus outbreak: 100 people quarantined in West Bengal
178. The Rise and Impending Fall of the Dental Cavity
Another of history's great killers is on the chopping block
179. Libbbf: Bound Book Format, A high-performance container for comics and manga
Bound Book Format: A high-performance, DirectStorage-native container format for comics and manga - ef1500/libbbf
180. Targeted Bets: An alternative approach to the job hunt
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