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1.
150-comment debate over the technical definition of "Television" vs "Mechanical Scanning" (diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)
526 points by qassiov 11 hours ago | 178 comments
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You can now give an LLM root access to a container and watch it hallucinate `rm -rf` (simonwillison.net)
187 points by simonw 7 hours ago | 165 comments
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A video about runway concrete grades that you will watch in its entirety instead of working (practical.engineering)
174 points by crescit_eundo 7 hours ago | 51 comments
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Please rewrite your perfectly functional JavaScript app in Rust (avraam.dev)
18 points by almonerthis 1 hour ago | 15 comments
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Senior Engineer explains why pasting from Claude doesn't make you a Senior Engineer (alexwennerberg.com)
89 points by alexwennerberg 4 hours ago | 55 comments
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Founder of AI Code Review startup insists the AI Code Review market is totally fine, actually (greptile.com)
173 points by dakshgupta 9 hours ago | 135 comments
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Apple releases a slightly better stalking puck that requires an iPhone 16 to fully utilize (apple.com)
278 points by meetpateltech 12 hours ago | 387 comments
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Another beloved utility app gets sold, enshittified, and rug-pulls lifetime license holders (nproject.io)
224 points by jandeboevrie 8 hours ago | 109 comments
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We're renaming "Low-Code" to "AI-Generated Spaghetti Code" (zackliscio.com)
151 points by zackliscio 7 hours ago | 65 comments
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A paywalled article about trade secrets that the comments will immediately debunk with a Wikipedia link (wsj.com)
84 points by fortran77 5 hours ago | 156 comments
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Detailed graphics algorithm explainer that makes you feel smart for upvoting but you won't actually read (visualrambling.space)
121 points by ChrisArchitect 7 hours ago | 17 comments
12.
The open-source community continues to spite Mapbox’s pricing changes (maplibre.org)
406 points by todsacerdoti 16 hours ago | 79 comments
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Monthly thread where Linux users ask why you haven't switched to NixOS yet (windowscentral.com)
161 points by 01-_- 11 hours ago | 132 comments
14.
Show HN: My LLM wrapper is slightly better at block stacking than your LLM wrapper (tetrisbench.com)
71 points by ykhli 7 hours ago | 32 comments
15.
Cynical guide to surviving corporate politics for people who just want to write code (seangoedecke.com)
31 points by alexwennerberg 3 hours ago | 18 comments
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Anthropic CEO writes 5,000 words on why his product is god-like but also needs "responsible regulatory moats" (darioamodei.com)
136 points by jasondavies 9 hours ago | 91 comments
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Ancient Wonder of the World discussion where we lament that we can't build things like we used to (uchicago.edu)
12 points by teleforce 2 hours ago | 1 comment
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French government announces project to build a worse version of Jitsi that will be abandoned in 3 years (twitter.com/lellouchenico)
540 points by bwb 10 hours ago | 461 comments
19.
Apple fixes a security bug on a phone you haven't seen since high school, shaming every Android manufacturer (macrumors.com)
30 points by angott 1 hour ago | 9 comments
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Spend $2000 on hardware to run an OS that the manufacturer actively hates, now with M3 support (bsky.app)
433 points by todsacerdoti 8 hours ago | 166 comments
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I let an AI rewrite my codebase in Rust and I have no idea how it works anymore (vjeux.com)
161 points by ibobev 12 hours ago | 107 comments
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New Chinese model tops the leaderboard, sparking a debate about benchmarks vs. vibes (qwen.ai)
416 points by vinhnx 11 hours ago | 376 comments
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Photos of paint on walls that will turn into a heated argument about San Francisco zoning laws (walzr.com)
147 points by walz 16 hours ago | 175 comments
24.
YC silently breaks up with Canada; Canadian founders panic in the comments (betakit.com)
87 points by TheLegace 3 hours ago | 45 comments
25.
Developer realizes that understanding what your code does is actually important (atmoio.substack.com)
647 points by mobitar 12 hours ago | 498 comments
26.
3D printable scientific equipment you will bookmark, plan to build, and forget about by tomorrow (openflexure.org)
54 points by o4c 8 hours ago | 10 comments
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Show HN: I hooked an LLM up to a quadcopter and it mostly doesn't crash (github.com/kxzk)
144 points by beigebrucewayne 15 hours ago | 79 comments
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Google Search is now just an expensive interface for finding YouTube influencers instead of doctors (theguardian.com)
359 points by bookofjoe 12 hours ago | 196 comments
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Yet another tutorial proving you don't need a dedicated Vector DB, just use Postgres (rendiment.io)
74 points by nethalo 10 hours ago | 21 comments
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Mathematical proof that a game variant is unfair, which matters to 0.01% of players (arxiv.org)
48 points by MaysonL 9 hours ago | 24 comments
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