frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

Open in hackernews

Undefined Behavior in C and C++

https://russellw.github.io/undefined-behavior
4•imadr•3h ago

Comments

VivaTechnics•3h ago
We switched to Rust. Generally, are there specific domains or applications where C/C++ remain preferable? Many exist—but are there tasks Rust fundamentally cannot handle or is a weak choice?
imadr•1h ago
I haven't used Rust extensively so I can't make any criticism besides that I find compilation times to be slower than C

An Engineer's Perspective on Hiring

https://jyn.dev/an-engineers-perspective-on-hiring/
1•zdw•2m ago•0 comments

Google Finance testing new AI features

https://blog.google/products/search/google-finance-ai/
1•DocFeind•2m ago•0 comments

Self-Loathing AI

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/08/08/self-loathing-ai/
1•zdw•3m ago•0 comments

A Routine Vaccine May Lower Dementia Risk by as Much as 20%

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-routine-vaccine-may-lower-dementia-risk-by-as-much-as-20
1•amichail•6m ago•0 comments

The Troubling Decline in Conscientiousness

https://www.ft.com/content/5cd77ef0-b546-4105-8946-36db3f84dc43
2•jnord•8m ago•0 comments

A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering

https://prog21.dadgum.com/29.html
2•Bogdanp•9m ago•0 comments

Keeping Up with AI: The Painful New Mandate for Software Engineers

https://thenewstack.io/keeping-up-with-ai-the-painful-new-mandate-for-software-engineers/
1•andsoitis•13m ago•0 comments

How Intel's CEO Helped Create China's Chip Industry

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/executive-leadership-and-management/how-intel-s-ceo-helped-create-china-s-chip-industry/ar-AA1Ka98v
2•jnord•16m ago•0 comments

What makes a SuperAger?

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025/08/what-makes-a-superager/
7•hhs•19m ago•1 comments

Tornado Cash co-founder found guilty on 1 of 3 charges after jury deadlock

https://cointelegraph.com/news/tornado-cash-roman-storm-found-guilty-partial-verdict
2•creer•21m ago•0 comments

EPA plans to end a program that makes solar available to low-income Americans

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/08/nx-s1-5493300/solar-climate-change-trump-epa
1•rbanffy•25m ago•0 comments

International Cat Day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Cat_Day
3•PaulHoule•26m ago•0 comments

Watching the watchers: Former NSA employee on Flock cameras

https://www.protectprivacynow.org/news/watching-the-watchers-former-nsa-employee-on-flock-cameras-real-and-palpable-damage-to-citizenry
1•hhs•28m ago•0 comments

Back to the Future: From Freeze-in-Place to Sliding Scale Chip Controls

https://rhg.com/research/back-to-the-future-from-freeze-in-place-to-sliding-scale-chip-controls/
2•rbanffy•29m ago•0 comments

When ChatGPT integration within Apple Intelligence will use GPT-5

https://9to5mac.com/2025/08/07/apple-intelligence-gpt-5-chatgpt-integration/
1•gnabgib•30m ago•0 comments

Not the quality of pseudoscience infotainment I have grown accustomed to

https://medium.com/@steve.desch/this-is-not-the-quality-of-pseudoscience-infotainment-to-which-i-have-grown-accustomed-34268f892ba8
1•rbanffy•31m ago•0 comments

Americans, Be Warned: Lessons from Reddit's Chaotic UK Age Verification Rollout

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/americans-be-warned-lessons-reddits-chaotic-uk-age-verification-rollout
2•mdp2021•31m ago•0 comments

Could AI help America out of its debt hole?

https://www.ft.com/content/3c56d56e-b889-4eff-a8db-324c487334f3
1•hhs•33m ago•1 comments

The Desperate Struggle to Squeeze Aid into a Starving Gaz

https://share.google/lwSKW8yEyTcCMaDrs
6•loandbehold•37m ago•0 comments

I built a Python tool to spot legal risks in AI responses under the EU AI Act

https://medium.com/@esromwoldtensaie/i-built-a-free-python-tool-to-spot-million-euro-lawsuit-risks-in-your-ai-ac1cbcb083a9
1•Esrbwt•39m ago•0 comments

iOS 26 will bring GPT-5 to Apple Intelligence

https://www.tomsguide.com/phones/iphones/apples-confirmed-gpt-5-is-coming-to-apple-intelligence-and-sooner-than-expected
1•stikit•43m ago•0 comments

When OpenAI Fires Your Favorite Coworker

https://relantic.com/radar/gpt-5-lost-friends.html
5•relantic•47m ago•0 comments

Disclaimer

https://xkcd.com/3126/
1•LorenDB•48m ago•0 comments

New research shows promise for restoring vision for people with glaucoma

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/new-research-shows-promise-for-restoring-vision/
3•mgh2•50m ago•0 comments

Spindle

https://blog.tangled.sh/ci
2•todsacerdoti•55m ago•0 comments

Trump to blame for high cost of living, Americans say in new poll

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/01/trump-inflation-cost-of-living-poll
10•PaulHoule•56m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Made a "Block Blast " Solver

https://www.adriclumma.com/projects/blockBlastSolver/
2•xFixItNow•57m ago•0 comments

China's overlapping tech-industrial ecosystems

https://www.high-capacity.com/p/chinas-overlapping-tech-industrial
1•walterbell•1h ago•0 comments

Essential Books on the Science of Reading

https://journal.imse.com/ten-essential-books-the-science-of-reading/
1•mindcrime•1h ago•0 comments

Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01191
1•nnx•1h ago•0 comments