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Bringing PyTorch Monarch to AMD GPUs

https://pytorch.org/blog/bringing-pytorch-monarch-to-amd-gpus-single-controller-distributed-train...
1•gmays•1m ago•0 comments

The Dark Night of Mathematics

https://kirwinhampshire.substack.com/p/the-dark-night-of-mathematics
1•rmdmphilosopher•1m ago•0 comments

Claude helps reduce our technical debt

https://ninkovic.dev/blog/2026/how-claude-helps-reduce-our-technical-debt
1•Brajeshwar•2m ago•0 comments

Secondhand fashion got expensive

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026/jul/24/secondhand-fashion-thrifting-depop-cost
1•keiferski•2m ago•0 comments

Japan weighs regulating Pokemon cards amid trading mania

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/23/japan-weighs-regulating-pokemon-cards/
2•anigbrowl•2m ago•0 comments

Remember Tesla?

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/tesla-elon-musk-comeback-cars/688056/
1•paulpauper•3m ago•0 comments

People are deceiving the justice system with AI

https://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-07-25/how-people-are-deceiving-the-justice-system-with...
1•root-parent•3m ago•1 comments

Brazilian farmers tokenized dairy cows to get loans, bypassing bank limits

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/07/24/brazilian-farmers-tokenized-dairy-cows-to-get-loans-b...
2•paulpauper•5m ago•0 comments

DP21228 Science Under Threat? A Natural Experiment in Economics

https://cepr.org/publications/dp21228
1•paulpauper•5m ago•0 comments

Apple's Advertising Cognitive Dissonance

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/07/24/advertising-cognitive-dissonance/
1•ksec•6m ago•0 comments

Anduril in talks to raise funding at $100B valuation, over 3x last year's mark

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/anduril-reportedly-in-talks-to-raise-funding-at-100b-valuation-...
1•bookofjoe•9m ago•0 comments

The whole premise of checking for human writing is daft

https://mohammedshehu.com/checking-for-human-writing-is-daft/
2•shehuphd•10m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT wants access to your health records so it can be a better not-doctor

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/24/chatgpt-wants-access-to-your-health-records-so-i...
2•Bender•11m ago•0 comments

Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/24/popes-official-prayer-app-commits-cardinal-sin-le...
5•Bender•11m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What happens when we do compress the context in Claude Code?

2•tbharath•11m ago•0 comments

Staging patches with Git add -p

https://www.simonholywell.com/post/git-add-p/
2•ankitg12•11m ago•0 comments

The AI Boom Made Average People More Interesting

https://alec.is/posts/the-ai-boom-made-average-people-more-interesting/
2•arm32•12m ago•0 comments

GNU C Library 2.44 Released With /etc./tunables.conf, More Optimizations

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-C-Library-glibc-2.44
1•Bender•13m ago•0 comments

Memory-level parallelism: AMD is the king

https://twitter.com/lemire/status/2081035484633985112
1•tosh•18m ago•0 comments

The things that matter take a minute

2•ishener•19m ago•0 comments

Carbon: Graduating from the experiment (Google C++ evolution language) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJl4ftb5Fxg
1•wild_pointer•21m ago•0 comments

Launched ORBIT AI Sandbox

https://orbit.schmitech.ca/
1•schmitech•21m ago•0 comments

Samsung Electronics, SK Group seal $950B in deals with AI firms

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/south-korea-president-lee-looking-open-new-era-ai-...
2•alephnerd•22m ago•1 comments

IMAX vs. IMAX 70mm: The difference between these two cinema formats

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3•ksec•23m ago•0 comments

The Interstellar Laser Beacons Hypothesis and the Cosmic Lighthouses Project

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.12106
1•tcp_handshaker•23m ago•0 comments

Visa Vulnerability Agentic Harness – Agentic SAST Pipeline

https://github.com/visa/visa-vulnerability-agentic-harness
1•binyu•28m ago•0 comments

Google signs Open Weights letter

https://twitter.com/sundarpichai/status/2081026488158040181
4•tosh•29m ago•0 comments

A Space Mission to Earth's Nearest Black Hole: Reality or Science Fiction?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.10982
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The Many Mysteries of the European Eel

https://lithub.com/on-the-many-mysteries-of-the-european-eel/
1•geneticdrifts•31m ago•0 comments

The Cost of Seamlessness

1•taotuner•32m ago•0 comments
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.