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Hacker News

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• Margaret Hamilton▲ 1141

Margaret Hamilton has died

Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

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• Anthropic▲ 788

Claude Haiku 5.5

Claude Haiku 5.5 is our fastest, most capable small model. Built for high-volume work like summarization, subagents, and browser use.

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• Terence Tao▲ 51

Terence Tao Responds to the OpenAI Math Drop

"Math 1.0" placed a premium on being the first to solve an open problem, even if the solution was not initially well understood. Now that this goal has been optimized to the point of…

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• OpenAI▲ 569

GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone

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• Bigwords▲ 434

Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app

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• Docker▲ 210

Docker Agent

AI Agent Builder and Runtime by Docker Engineering - docker/docker-agent

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• ASCII▲ 324

Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages

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• 'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth▲ 114

'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth

Jonathan, a 194-year-old Aldabra giant tortoise, was born before the Civil War. Scientists have now sequenced his genome to reveal what’s behind his extreme longevity, so we can live longer…

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• Debasish Ghosh▲ 130

Push ifs up and fors down: The idiom, its algebra, and its limits

Tiger Style and matklad recommend pushing ifs up and fors down. This post looks at what the idiom actually says, where it shows up in query optimization and in the algebra of functional…

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• GitHub▲ 26

A 100x faster* alternative to homebrew

An up to 100x* faster Homebrew alternative. Contribute to zerobrewhq/zerobrew development by creating an account on GitHub.

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• Self-Modeling Interventions Modulate Emergent Misalignment▲ 3

Self-Modeling Interventions Modulate Emergent Misalignment

Code: https://github.com/atagade/sgtr-em • Model checkpoints: https://github.com/atagade/sgtr-em/blob/main/MODEL_README.md …

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HN — Best of the Week

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• arXiv▲ 284

Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation

Autoformalisation is increasingly used to verify mathematical texts, including those generated by AI, as in OpenAI's announced proof of blow-up of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations. In this process, an AI system translates the text from a natural language (NL) into a formal language such as Lean. Once this translation is done, the argument expressed in the formal language can easily be mechanically verified. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate why this process may offer no confidence in the original NL argument, owing to the various difficulties in performing the translation semantically…

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• MIT▲ 1135

Margaret Hamilton has died

Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age…

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• Anthropic▲ 786

Claude Haiku 5.5

Claude Haiku 5.5 is our fastest, most capable small model. Built for high-volume work like summarization, subagents, and browser use.

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• ClassAction▲ 531

Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees

A class action lawsuit alleges Visa, Mastercard and some of America

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• Chrome▲ 523

Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome

JPEG XL offers better compression than JPEG, built-in HDR support, lossless JPEG transcoding, and more.

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• Bigwords▲ 432

Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app

Turn a phone, tablet or TV into a sign. Type a message and it fills the screen: welcome signs, timers, Wi-Fi passwords and more. No app, no account, free.

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• RSWebSols▲ 330

Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI

Meta and Microsoft are implementing new measures to limit employee use of Claude AI—discover what this means for the future of AI in the workplace.

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• ASCII▲ 324

Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages

191 animated ascii pieces for web pages, in TypeScript with no dependencies: for React, Next.js, Astro, or one HTML tag. MIT licensed.

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