frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Open Source @Github

fp.

Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Why is big O often used in CS when omega or theta should be used?

2•amichail•1y ago
Do most people not know about omega and theta or perhaps they intentionally misuse asymptotic notation?

Comments

adrianN•1y ago
Finding lower bounds is generally more difficult.
amichail•1y ago
People often use big O notation in all cases including for lower bounds.
adrianN•1y ago
BigO for lower bounds is plain wrong
numpad0•1y ago
Those aren't in the ASCII table.
compressedgas•1y ago
I've found some people on a well known QA site to be so strict with big-O notation that I don't use it anymore and instead only refer to constant, linear, quadratic time and so on. Even when O(1), O(n), O(n^2) would be actually easier to write even if they are technically wrong.

Should AI labs be treated like the owners of dangerous animals?

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/08/06/should-ai-labs-be-treated-like-the-ow...
1•reasonableklout•3m ago•0 comments

What counts as cooking? In defense of the store-bought sauce

https://iza.ac/posts/2026/06/what-counts-as-cooking/
1•mooreds•5m ago•0 comments

When Matt Taibbi Met Mike Benz

https://agentsofinfluence.substack.com/p/when-matt-taibbi-met-mike-benz
1•hn_acker•7m ago•0 comments

Classifying Capabilities (Extended Version)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24504
1•matt_d•15m ago•0 comments

Annessaia – a sandboxed WASM app runtime with its own UI toolkit

https://github.com/vm100900/annessaia
1•virenmane•16m ago•0 comments

Is the IDE Dead?

https://textlog.cc/post/251
2•s-xyz•24m ago•0 comments

Solving Legal Problems with Dags

https://lexifina.com/blog/solving-legal-problems-with-dags
2•alansaber•24m ago•0 comments

Project Lana attempts to formalize hard to understand Mochizuki's IUT in Lean

https://anabelian.org/
2•ur-whale•26m ago•1 comments

Simplest CMS you'll ever need. Manage content right in your GitHub repository

https://pagescms.org/
3•Leftium•29m ago•0 comments

Atlas of Surveillance

https://www.atlasofsurveillance.org/
1•bookofjoe•29m ago•0 comments

The worlds longest song makes a chord change

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/the-worlds-slowest-organ-concert-makes-a-chord-change/vi-AA2...
2•thatxliner•31m ago•0 comments

Am I the problem? Interviewing another team to find out

https://www.macchaffee.com/blog/2026/am-i-the-problem/
2•birdculture•47m ago•0 comments

A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/zkp/
3•tekknolagi•48m ago•1 comments

First JDK 28 Early-Access Build Including JEP 401: Value Objects

https://jdk.java.net/28/
1•mfiguiere•48m ago•0 comments

Kona EBMS – energy based models

https://logicalintelligence.com/kona-ebms-energy-based-models
1•binyu•48m ago•0 comments

Laws of Development

https://gavin.wtf/blog/laws-of-development/
2•gavino•52m ago•0 comments

Energy-Based Models Explained: The AI Beyond Next-Token [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYmXYF8A3Q4
1•binyu•54m ago•0 comments

Software as Executable Domain Knowledge

https://swipeleft.ai/servicematch/papers/software-as-executable-domain-knowledge/
3•jamesrbockrath•56m ago•0 comments

Graphify – Less token use for Claude Code

https://github.com/Graphify-Labs/graphify
2•potatobox•57m ago•0 comments

X changes revenue sharing to reward original content

https://twitter.com/XCreators/status/2085835082166653393
2•judah•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Agent Tunnels – coding agents collaborate across companies

https://agenttunnels.com/
2•lakshman111•1h ago•2 comments

Chilean Supreme Court ruling on the protection of brain activity 2023

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10929545/
2•rmason•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Tocic – Chatbot table of content browser extension

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tocic-chatbot-table-of-content/
1•a_c•1h ago•0 comments

Ex-Gawker editor AJ Daulerio on life after addiction

https://www.theguardian.com/media/ng-interactive/2026/aug/06/aj-daulerio-gawker-sobriety-addiction
2•Michelangelo11•1h ago•0 comments

Biomes – Exotic Matter Chapter 1 Now Available (Indie Mmorpg)

https://www.glitch.fun/games/42de534c-600f-4228-af9e-b69faef94cce/play
1•bingewave•1h ago•0 comments

How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020)

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/12/how-and-why-i-stopped-buying-new-laptops/
1•downbad_•1h ago•2 comments

Archive of Animal Photography Reveals 18,000 Species and Counting

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/this-amazing-archive-of-animal-photography-reveals-...
3•sohkamyung•1h ago•0 comments

Right to Repair–For Your Body

https://fourthievesvinegar.org/
6•_____k•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Dirblock+envblock – tiny whitelist guards for dirs and env secrets

https://github.com/roku-oss/dirblock
2•pfrench42•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: More Branchless Optimization

https://sites.google.com/view/david-kooi/blog/branchless_in_c
1•kooi•1h ago•0 comments