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Slopstructions or Don't tell me how to do my work, tell me what you need

https://manuel.bernhardt.io/posts/2026-11-01-slopstructions
1•logician_insa•17s ago•0 comments

The Newspeak Programming Language

https://newspeaklanguage.org/
1•fanf2•25s ago•0 comments

The AI bubble could expose your deepest secrets

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20261029-the-ai-bubble-could-expose-your-deepest-secrets
3•devonnull•1m ago•0 comments

Valve's Cancelled Portal Prequel F-Stop Has Leaked

https://kotaku.com/valves-cancelled-portal-prequel-f-stop-has-leaked-2000752082
1•HelloUsername•1m ago•0 comments

Google, Anthropic and others to support new AI crawling opt-out standard

https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/30/google-anthropic-and-others-to-support-new-ai-crawling-opt-ou...
1•noptd•2m ago•0 comments

Making it easier for websites to express AI training preferences

https://openai.com/index/helping-websites-express-ai-training-preferences/
1•noptd•3m ago•0 comments

A book that evolves alongside my exploration of Monero and its inner workings

https://xmr.alzze.xyz/
1•alzze•4m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)

2•jesse__•4m ago•1 comments

What makes drone/missile interceptors expensive?

1•campervans•5m ago•0 comments

2026–2027 El Niño event

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026%E2%80%932027_El_Ni%C3%B1o_event
1•tosh•5m ago•0 comments

About TierHive

https://tierhive.com/about.php
1•Curiositry•5m ago•0 comments

Independent Journalism Atlas

https://journalismatlas.com/
1•gnabgib•6m ago•0 comments

Nintendo Switch exploit using Civ 7

https://github.com/Gezine/CivSwitch
2•ochn•6m ago•0 comments

I didn't hand my NPM updates to an AI

https://medium.com/@balazs.csaba.diy/why-i-didnt-hand-my-npm-updates-to-an-ai-ca5603552e70
1•csababalazs•6m ago•0 comments

Postmortem of Database Outage (2017)

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/postmortem-of-database-outage-of-january-31/
1•tux3•7m ago•1 comments

HackerShorts(cinelet) – the short films HN keeps telling people to watch

https://cinelet.com/
1•firas_slimane•7m ago•0 comments

The Evolution of Bone (1987)

https://academic.oup.com/evolut/article/41/6/1187/6870730
1•joebig•8m ago•0 comments

$2B from 20 Top Donors Fuels an Expensive Midterms

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/11/01/us/politics/2026-midterm-top-donors.html
1•gmays•9m ago•0 comments

Muse AI agent is a commercial surveillance network disguised as an AI assistant

https://paulfwalsh.substack.com/p/metas-muse-ai-agent-is-a-commercial
2•Anon84•9m ago•1 comments

Show HN: BoothWall – open-source live photo wall for Fire TV and any browser

https://github.com/boothwall/boothwall-oss
1•dannyded•10m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Cannot log in to my AWS account

1•usr1106•12m ago•0 comments

Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/11/01/mathematics-has-changed-lets-act-like-it/
3•smilelamp•13m ago•0 comments

Private BitTorrent Tracker for LLMs

https://libreagi.com/
3•satuke•13m ago•0 comments

Hot take: AI skills getting obsolete after months

https://jakobbr.eu/2026/10/14/hot-take-ai-skills-already-getting-obsolete-after-months/
2•waschl•15m ago•2 comments

SpaceX's $2T Bet Has a Physics Problem [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1umCJfbJ0w
1•timmytokyo•15m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do you keep up with the latest technologies?

1•ciarcode•16m ago•0 comments

JJ Coders Group

https://jjcoders.com
1•johanjomet•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I vibe-coded a generator of Suprematist compositions with Claude

https://supremath.art/
1•hannibalevit•17m ago•0 comments

Leaking Muse's Charter, Meta's model spec

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TJGPL5FAk9sCioPbE/leaking-muse-s-charter-meta-s-model-spec
1•gmays•18m ago•0 comments

Writing a Fast Compiler

https://tibleiz.net/blog/2024-02-04-writing-a-fast-compiler.html
2•andsoitis•18m 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.