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Hacker News

hnrss.org14 items
• arXiv▲ 30

Mixing Visual and Textual Code

The dominant programming languages support nothing but linear text to express domain-specific geometric ideas. What is needed are hybrid languages that allow developers to create visual syntactic constructs so that they can express their ideas with a mix of textual and visual syntax tailored to an application domain. This mix must put the two kinds of syntax on equal footing and, just as importantly, the extended language must not disrupt a programmer's typical workflow. This means that any new visual syntax should be a proper language extension that is composable with other language features. Furthermore, the…

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• TechCrunch▲ 636

OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom

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• Reuters▲ 260

Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities

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• Intercept Fund▲ 119

Ending respiratory infections

Introducing Intercept, a $500M bet to make respiratory infections like colds and flu a thing of the past.

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• GitHub▲ 112

LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions

This is an umbrella issue for the LuaJIT 3.0 syntax extensions. The documentation will be evolved and updated in the first comment below. 1 Please feel free to discuss the choice, design…

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• Google▲ 196

Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

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• Jim Nielsen▲ 150

Blogging can just be stating the obvious

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HN — Best of the Week

hnrss.org14 items
• Bunny▲ 869

We’re making Bunny DNS free

Your DNS bill shouldn't scale with your traffic. So we removed query fees from Bunny DNS entirely. No per-request billing and no query limits.

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• TechCrunch▲ 629

OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom

Named Jalapeño, the new processor was designed specifically for the unique needs of OpenAI's inference systems.

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• Paolino▲ 565

Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice

I started a company in Germany in late January. By late June I had spent 9,600 euros, registered two companies, and still cannot issue a single invoice of my...

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• Twitter▲ 513

There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days

There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days. Quake was overly ambitious technically. We could have done all the great multiplayer and modding work inside a…

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• RubyLLM▲ 367

RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers

A single, beautiful Ruby framework for all major AI providers. Easily build chatbots, AI agents, RAG applications, content generators, and every AI workflow you can think of.

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• Wired▲ 324

Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak

The move comes after the company left potentially sensitive data from the initiative exposed internally.

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• Jerry▲ 570

Jerry's Map

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• NVIDIA▲ 260

45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero

NVIDIA’s latest AI servers can run on coolant warmer than a hot tub — and that counterintuitive choice is one of the biggest efficiency leaps in data center history.

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