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Hacker News

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• arXiv▲ 18

Can LLMs Perform Deep Technical Comprehension of Computer Architecture Papers

Can large language models perform deep technical comprehension of computer architecture papers -- not summarization, but structured critique that names the core mechanism, surfaces buried assumptions, and connects a contribution beyond its own scope? We study Gauntlet, an open-source pipeline that analyzes a paper through five independent expert-persona reviewers and an adversarial synthesis stage. On 20 ISCA 2025 and HPCA 2026 papers, ten researchers each wrote their own analyses and then judged, for papers other than their own, the human analysis against Gauntlet's. Across the 20 comparisons evaluators…

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• Mort▲ 193

SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions

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• Mad Campos▲ 56

If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe

A concrete example of why using native HTML as much as possible is better than slapping ARIA on top of things.

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• Greg▲ 69

LLM Networking with MikroTik

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• Pigeons and Planes▲ 33

The lost joy of music piracy

What.CD, Oink, and the banalities of streaming.

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• PMBanugo▲ 33

The Tokio/Rayon Trap and Why Async/Await Fails Concurrency

Async/await makes concurrency easy to write, but incredibly complex to operate. Read on for why the Tokio/Rayon boundary is failing in production, and how explicit state machines fix it.

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• Atproto▲ 60

Bluesky Trademarks ATProto

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• Frank▲ 20

Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used

I’m tired of this phrase and this simple way of thinking about tools. This blog post is a wandering train of thought on the topic of what tools are and why it matters to be even slightly…

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• The Gustafson▲ 12

My Throw Decides My Aim

A D-A-D song, heard as a blues sung by a large language model. On generating your intention after the fact, the voice with no throat behind it, and what interpretability keeps finding.

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HN — Best of the Week

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• Dev Moe▲ 250

Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)

Telegram claims to have 5 data centers (DCs), referred to as DC1~5 in Telegram’s code and documentation. Among them, DC1 and DC3 are located in Miami, USA; DC2 and DC4 are in Amsterdam, Netherlands; and DC5 is in Singapore. Each account is associated with a DC upon registration and does not change with the user’sContinue reading "Mysteries of Telegram DC"

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• Thinking Machines▲ 827

Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

Our first open-weights model: multimodal, Mixture-of-Experts, with controllable reasoning effort. Available to fine-tune on Tinker.

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• Fabien Sanglard▲ 879

Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail

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• Academic Oxford University Press▲ 676

Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)

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• GitHub▲ 345

Grok Build is open source

SpaceXAI's coding agent harness and TUI. Fullscreen, mouse interactive, extensible. - xai-org/grok-build

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• Ayush Digital▲ 619

I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets

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• TurnTrout▲ 306

Why I Left Google DeepMind

I fought against Google’s Pentagon AI deal from the inside. Powerful people and institutions failed to keep their AI ethics promises under pressure.

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