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From hunger to luxury: The story behind the most expensive rice (2025)

https://www.cnn.com/travel/japan-expensive-rice-kinmemai-premium-intl-hnk-dst
1•mooreds•54s ago•0 comments

Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi...
2•mindracer•1m ago•0 comments

A New Crypto Winter Is Here and Even the Biggest Bulls Aren't Certain Why

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/a-new-crypto-winter-is-here-and-even-the-biggest-bulls-are...
1•thm•1m ago•0 comments

Moltbook was peak AI theater

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/
1•Brajeshwar•2m ago•0 comments

Why Claude Cowork is a math problem Indian IT can't solve

https://restofworld.org/2026/indian-it-ai-stock-crash-claude-cowork/
1•Brajeshwar•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Built an space travel calculator with vanilla JavaScript v2

https://www.cosmicodometer.space/
1•captainnemo729•3m ago•0 comments

Why a 175-Year-Old Glassmaker Is Suddenly an AI Superstar

https://www.wsj.com/tech/corning-fiber-optics-ai-e045ba3b
1•Brajeshwar•3m ago•0 comments

Micro-Front Ends in 2026: Architecture Win or Enterprise Tax?

https://iocombats.com/blogs/micro-frontends-in-2026
1•ghazikhan205•5m ago•0 comments

These White-Collar Workers Actually Made the Switch to a Trade

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1•impish9208•5m ago•1 comments

The Wonder Drug That's Plaguing Sports

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/ostarine-olympics-doping.html
1•mooreds•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Which chef knife steels are good? Data from 540 Reddit tread

https://new.knife.day/blog/reddit-steel-sentiment-analysis
1•p-s-v•6m ago•0 comments

Federated Credential Management (FedCM)

https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/federated-credential-management-fedcm
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Token-to-Credit Conversion: Avoiding Floating-Point Errors in AI Billing Systems

https://app.writtte.com/read/kZ8Kj6R
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The Story of Heroku (2022)

https://leerob.com/heroku
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Obey the Testing Goat

https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/
1•mkl95•7m ago•0 comments

Claude Opus 4.6 extends LLM pareto frontier

https://michaelshi.me/pareto/
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Brute Force Colors (2022)

https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2022-12-30-amiga-ham/
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Google Translate apparently vulnerable to prompt injection

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1•julkali•11m ago•0 comments

(Bsky thread) "This turns the maintainer into an unwitting vibe coder"

https://bsky.app/profile/fullmoon.id/post/3meadfaulhk2s
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Software development is undergoing a Renaissance in front of our eyes

https://twitter.com/gdb/status/2019566641491963946
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Can you beat ensloppification? I made a quiz for Wikipedia's Signs of AI Writing

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https://medium.com/@dustin_44710/spec-driven-design-with-kiro-lessons-from-seddle-9320ef18a61f
1•nslog•14m ago•0 comments

Agents need good developer experience too

https://modal.com/blog/agents-devex
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The Dark Factory

https://twitter.com/i/status/2020161285376082326
1•Ozzie_osman•15m ago•0 comments

Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS (2024)

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/free-data-transfer-out-to-internet-when-moving-out-of-aws/
1•tosh•16m ago•0 comments

Interop 2025: A Year of Convergence

https://webkit.org/blog/17808/interop-2025-review/
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Prejudice Against Leprosy

https://text.npr.org/g-s1-108321
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Slint: Cross Platform UI Library

https://slint.dev/
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AI and Education: Generative AI and the Future of Critical Thinking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7PvscqGD24
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Maple Mono: Smooth your coding flow

https://font.subf.dev/en/
1•signa11•23m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

The Architecture of Learning: From Statistics to Intelligence

https://little-book-of.github.io/maths/books/en-US/chronicles-8.html
75•scapbi•4mo ago

Comments

bulla•4mo ago
This is superbly written.
olooney•4mo ago
Then you may enjoy Elements of Statistical Learning[1] or Kevin Murphy's books[2][3][4], which this chapter is heavily indebted to; it is mostly a short gloss of the topics covered in those books.

[1]: https://hastie.su.domains/ElemStatLearn/

[2]: https://probml.github.io/pml-book/book0.html

[3]: https://probml.github.io/pml-book/book1.html

[4]: https://probml.github.io/pml-book/book2.html

pfekin_2nd•4mo ago
This is brilliant, thanks.
thorum•4mo ago
"not a X, but a Y" - 8 matches

"is more than a X... it is Y" - 3 matches

"not just X, but Y" - 4 matches

ForceBru•4mo ago
Why not just say what you want to say??? Surely these statistics are supposed to suggest some "obvious" conclusion, probably that the article is somehow bad. What do you mean by these numbers???
SchizoMode•4mo ago
They're saying it was written by an LLM because of the style of writing.
jal278•4mo ago
Yeah -- I don't get why this is front-page -- reads like LLM quasi-insight:

"Through activation, lifeless equations became living systems. The neuron was no longer a mere calculator; it was a decider - a locus of transformation where signal met significance." -- wtf

godelski•4mo ago
More than that, it uses a lot of words to say so little.

Even a quick scan shows some pretty critical errors. In 76.4

  Two parameters govern its perception:

   • ( ): neighborhood radius
   • ( MinPts ): minimum points per dense region
Or later in 76.7

  In Fuzzy C-Means (FCM), each point (x_i) receives membership values (u_{ik}) in (
                               0,1
  ), satisfying (k u{ik} = 1). The objective is to minimize: 
These are not human mistakes. They are categorically different

Also, the math really smells of AI. It has equations but it is like they have no substance. It has the form, but not the feeling. I know all this math and looking through I don't know how anyone could learn from such text. I'm not sure how it could even serve as a good reference. Where are the derivations? Where are the corollaries? Where are the implications? The extensions? The... depth?

0/10. I think you would be worse off by reading this

dazzaji•4mo ago
Here’s what Claude Sonnet 4.5 suggested to take this piece from something that sounds impressive but lacks substance to something that could actually deliver on its promise. I did this thought exercise to explore whether being AI-generated necessarily precludes brilliance. You be the judge - I think Claude succeeded in mapping the gap between the current draft and what a truly excellent version would actually require.

https://claude.ai/share/46dd4b7e-9adf-473d-8372-22cb1ae34249

tamnd•4mo ago
This book is open source and welcomes contributions. Would you like to join forces to create a truly brilliant version?

https://github.com/little-book-of/maths

redwood•3mo ago
I for one loved the work. Thank you