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Ray Myers▲ 1445

Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke

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Lyre Bird Dreaming▲ 637

A graph that should be front-page news

Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. This graph is one of them. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most important parts of the Earth

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Y Combinator▲ 1023

Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles

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Get Inscribe▲ 511

Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor

SpeechAnalyzer vs SFSpeechRecognizer vs Whisper on 5,559 LibriSpeech utterances. Apple never published accuracy numbers. Here they are, with raw transcripts you can rescore.

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Twitter▲ 493

Grok uploaded my user directory to xAI's servers

@XBToshi Okay, grok has uploaded my entire user directory to xAI's servers. It contains my SSH keys, my password manager database, my documents, photos, videos, everything...

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The Guardian▲ 453

Sam Neill has died

New Zealand actor built career as dashing romantic leads and charismatic villains across film and television

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TechCrunch▲ 441

LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire

The LAPD, one of Flock's biggest government customers, is ending its contract with the company citing civil liberties concerns.

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19th News▲ 477

Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources

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Scott Willsey▲ 393

Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode

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Super Dario▲ 376

Show HN: Super Dario

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Jivx▲ 361

A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

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Count Binface▲ 333

Count Binface

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HN — Best of the Week

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Geohot▲ 388

I love LLMs, I hate hype

I think from this blog you may misunderestimate how absolutely giddy I am about AI. I did hacking from 2007-2014, after that my whole career has been devoted to AI. I love the progress. I’m so excited for the new LLMs, self driving cars, video generation models, and coding agents. I set up a Linux box with opencode on my local GLM-5.2 last week and wow like just saying install tmux with the geohot configuration works; the Year of the Linux Desktop is finally here!

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Systima AI▲ 533

Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k

Claude Code vs OpenCode token overhead measured at the API boundary. Out-of-the-box baselines, instruction file weight, MCP schema tax, subagent multipliers, and cache-write behaviour.

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Terry Tao▲ 425

Old and new apps, via modern coding agents

I have been interested in machine-assisted ways to do and teach mathematics from as far back as 1999, when I started coding several applets in Java 1.0, both for my complex analysis and…

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Scrapfly▲ 385

Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS

Math.tanh, every CSS trig function, and the Web Audio compressor all route through the host libm, so the rounding of a cosine betrays the OS a browser actually …

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Scotto▲ 288

How to read more books

My method for reading more

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Gist▲ 441

What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis

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The Register▲ 226

Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity

Consumption rose another 10% while restrictions on most new grid connections remained around Dublin

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