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Hacker News

hnrss.org14 items
• nishtahir▲ 203

Build your own decision model

"System one" decision models are models that infer and respond with calibrated probabilities or every allowed answer. Consider your everyday language model, to get typed output from it (JSON), you may use Structured Output to constrain the output to guaranteed valid JSON. While model prefills the input in one pass,

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• housing over pizza▲ 260

A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't

A city-building game about trying to get housing built in San Francisco. By Oliver Sin.

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• wallhop▲ 207

WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement

Read the article. Skip the wall. Paste a link and read it free, no signup.

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• motherduck▲ 185

Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster

DuckDB 2.0 alpha vs 1.5.5 on one laptop: recursive CTEs up to 90x, VARIANT 6x faster than JSON text, async I/O 2.4x on S3. What changes, and how to model data to get the speedup. | Reading…

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• lightbulb computer▲ 330

The Lightbulb Computer

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• thomas huehn▲ 180

Knuth reward check

Twenty years ago I got a reward check from Donald Knuth.

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• github▲ 274

Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier

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• ghuntley▲ 128

Unikernels were hard. key word: were

Justin Cormack, who worked on MirageOS back in the day, called me at the pub to talk about why unikernels are coming back. The friction that made them hard is gone, the operating system is…

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• youtube▲ 28

GameBoy on E-Paper ESP32 at 30FPS [video]

I wrote a custom display driver for a small ESP32-S3 e-paper board and managed to get around 30 display updates per second, with 4 shades of gray.In this vid...

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• atoll92▲ 14

AI agents in a stand-up call

Your AI agents, in a stand-up call. See who is working, waiting or blocked. Free and open source: VS Code, Cursor, terminal or desktop app.

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HN — Best of the Week

hnrss.org14 items
• Beaksec▲ 438

Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen

An unescaped separator in Telegram Desktop’s single-instance IPC lets one clicked link read arbitrary files off the disk and send them to the attacker, session files included.

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• REA Tools▲ 723

REA Reverse – Engineer Anything

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• Gizmodo▲ 669

YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops

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• Lightbulb Computer▲ 330

The Lightbulb Computer

A new direction for computing: projecting information into the real world to augment it, with a device that combines a projector and computer vision in the shape of a large lightbulb.

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• Talorys▲ 274

Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier

Your personal AI agent in your own Cloudflare account. Chat, memory, tasks, notes and scheduled reminders, deployed with one command: npx create-talorys@latest. Free-tier friendly,…

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• Carette▲ 477

Lobbying is corruption

On lobbying, corruption, and the same animal under two names

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• Housing Over Pizza▲ 260

A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't

A city-building game about trying to get housing built in San Francisco. By Oliver Sin.

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• Conversable Economist▲ 240

I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall

Many of us are inconsistent in our economic desires. I would like the price of my home to rise, because it increases my wealth, but I would also like the prices of all other homes to fall,…

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