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RFCs vs. READMEs: The Evolution of Protocols

https://h3manth.com/scribe/rfcs-vs-readmes/
1•init0•5m ago•1 comments

Kanchipuram Saris and Thinking Machines

https://altermag.com/articles/kanchipuram-saris-and-thinking-machines
1•trojanalert•5m ago•0 comments

Chinese chemical supplier causes global baby formula recall

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/nestle-widens-french-infant-formula-r...
1•fkdk•8m ago•0 comments

I've used AI to write 100% of my code for a year as an engineer

https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1qxvobt/ive_used_ai_to_write_100_of_my_code_for_1_ye...
1•ukuina•10m ago•1 comments

Looking for 4 Autistic Co-Founders for AI Startup (Equity-Based)

1•au-ai-aisl•20m ago•1 comments

AI-native capabilities, a new API Catalog, and updated plans and pricing

https://blog.postman.com/new-capabilities-march-2026/
1•thunderbong•21m ago•0 comments

What changed in tech from 2010 to 2020?

https://www.tedsanders.com/what-changed-in-tech-from-2010-to-2020/
2•endorphine•26m ago•0 comments

From Human Ergonomics to Agent Ergonomics

https://wesmckinney.com/blog/agent-ergonomics/
1•Anon84•29m ago•0 comments

Advanced Inertial Reference Sphere

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Inertial_Reference_Sphere
1•cyanf•31m ago•0 comments

Toyota Developing a Console-Grade, Open-Source Game Engine with Flutter and Dart

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fluorite-Toyota-Game-Engine
1•computer23•33m ago•0 comments

Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Labor Behind Modern Literary Masterpieces

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/typing-for-love-or-money/
1•prismatic•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A longitudinal health record built from fragmented medical data

https://myaether.live
1•takmak007•36m ago•0 comments

CoreWeave's $30B Bet on GPU Market Infrastructure

https://davefriedman.substack.com/p/coreweaves-30-billion-bet-on-gpu
1•gmays•48m ago•0 comments

Creating and Hosting a Static Website on Cloudflare for Free

https://benjaminsmallwood.com/blog/creating-and-hosting-a-static-website-on-cloudflare-for-free/
1•bensmallwood•53m ago•1 comments

"The Stanford scam proves America is becoming a nation of grifters"

https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/students-stanford-grifters-ivy-league-w2g5z768z
2•cwwc•58m ago•0 comments

Elon Musk on Space GPUs, AI, Optimus, and His Manufacturing Method

https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/elon-musk-on-space-gpus-ai-optimus
2•simonebrunozzi•1h ago•0 comments

X (Twitter) is back with a new X API Pay-Per-Use model

https://developer.x.com/
3•eeko_systems•1h ago•0 comments

Zlob.h 100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing lib that is faste and better

https://github.com/dmtrKovalenko/zlob
3•neogoose•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Deterministic signal triangulation using a fixed .72% variance constant

https://github.com/mabrucker85-prog/Project_Lance_Core
2•mav5431•1h ago•1 comments

Scientists Discover Levitating Time Crystals You Can Hold, Defy Newton’s 3rd Law

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-scientists-levitating-crystals.html
3•sizzle•1h ago•0 comments

When Michelangelo Met Titian

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/michelangelo-titian-review-the-renaissances-odd-couple-e34...
1•keiferski•1h ago•0 comments

Solving NYT Pips with DLX

https://github.com/DonoG/NYTPips4Processing
1•impossiblecode•1h ago•1 comments

Baldur's Gate to be turned into TV series – without the game's developers

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c24g457y534o
3•vunderba•1h ago•0 comments

Interview with 'Just use a VPS' bro (OpenClaw version) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40SnEd1RWUU
2•dangtony98•1h ago•0 comments

EchoJEPA: Latent Predictive Foundation Model for Echocardiography

https://github.com/bowang-lab/EchoJEPA
1•euvin•1h ago•0 comments

Disablling Go Telemetry

https://go.dev/doc/telemetry
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•0 comments

Effective Nihilism

https://www.effectivenihilism.org/
1•abetusk•1h ago•1 comments

The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/27/uk-government-report-ecosystem-collapse-foi...
5•pabs3•1h ago•0 comments

No 10 blocks report on impact of rainforest collapse on food prices

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/environment/article/no-10-blocks-report-on-impact-of-rainforest-colla...
3•pabs3•1h ago•0 comments

Seedance 2.0 Is Coming

https://seedance-2.app/
1•Jenny249•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Harvard says it's been giving too many A grades to students

https://fortune.com/2025/10/27/harvard-grade-inflation-students-ivy-league-education/
18•jnord•3mo ago

Comments

sema4hacker•3mo ago
For any college, as long as you meet your diploma requirements and graduate, will anyone subsequently really care what your grades were?
techblueberry•3mo ago
Yeah, on the one hand, independence of all institutions and especially ivy-leagues is of the utmost important. But like, I've always done better in the workplace than in the school environment.

Does anyone think that a degree from Harvard says more about what you know than who you know? I suppose for certain careers, particularly perhaps research or writing/ideas/think tanks, a 4.0 GPA plus increasing distinctions / PHD work etc. is important.

But for just like working in business?

robotresearcher•3mo ago
It's a very tough job market right now. I'd rather put a 3.8 than a 2.8 GPA on my CV for job #1 out of college. For job #2, no one cares.

Scholarships for grad school can also be sensitive to undergrad GPA.

(For the non-Americans: 4.0 is a 'perfect' A+ 100% Grade Point Average. Strangely, >4.0 GPAs are possible too, with extra credit work.)

philipwhiuk•3mo ago
The British system has a lot less transparency here. You get:

* First * Upper Second (aka 2:1) * Lower Second (aka 2:2) * Third * Pass * Fail

Some students put module scores down but they are basically meaningless.

And then like the US a degree from a top University is worth more than a degree from another University (by a class or more)

Part of the reason they are worth less is the lack of standardisation of course content. Part of it is grade inflation. Part of it is legacy.

One interesting case is that I know Cambridge grades to a curve. There will never be more than x% of the students getting a first in a single year.

Comparitively my University just had a overall % threshold of weighted module scores.

dekhn•3mo ago
if you apply to grad school, yes. Typically they want a GPA (which was a problem for me since I went to a school that didn't give you grades, just "narrative evals").
PoorRustDev•3mo ago
Yeah, I'm graduating soon and all the jobs I'm looking at "require" a 3.8 or above. And these aren't huge rockstar companies or anything, just local/regional CRUD shops or basic web dev companies. I guess I should have played the game of taking all the easiest classes with the easiest professors rather than attempting anything with more challenge. Sorry for the rant.
rawgabbit•3mo ago
The whole GPA thing never made sense to me. Did you grasp the material? You should get a diploma. Were you extraordinary academically? You should get a diploma with magna cum laude (high praise). Were you a top student and your peers voted you best mate / leader? You should get a diploma with summa cum laude (highest praise). That should be it.
Ekaros•3mo ago
Why should your peers have any impact on your academic rating? That should solely be on the institution. Maybe tiniest bit in group projects but that is the limit.
rawgabbit•3mo ago
We have different philosophies. I believe how you treat peers and their perception of you is an important part of schooling. If you come across as an arse but do well academically, you will still get magna cum laude.
Ekaros•3mo ago
I hope the highest grade requires 100% evaluation from peers. As I think that is reasonable minimum to aim for. If single peer is reasonably only neutral or against such reward should not be given out.
BobaFloutist•3mo ago
Grades are mostly for students, who (understandably) complain when they lack information about how well they're doing. That's what can make curves so frustrating, since all the grades except the last are essentially meaningless.

Absent complaints, I'm sure the vast majority of professors would be much happier to assign "No-pass," "Pass," "Superlative Pass" arbitrarily based on vibes at the end of each course.

asimpleusecase•3mo ago
The issue that many schools face is that companies complain the grads - even with PhDs - are not able to do anything useful in the workplace. When my wife did her PhD more than 10 years ago (in the UK) she was required to take a stack of ungraded workshops under the label “professionalizing the PhD” it was totally annoying waste of time for her. The stuff was “basics of Excel”, “Research poster making”, “ intro to Adobe suite”, etc this was done because the university had received feedback that PhD grads could literally do nothing useful when hired.

From the article. “About 60% of the grades handed out in classes for the university’s undergraduate program are A’s, up from 40% a decade ago and less than a quarter 20 years ago, according to a report released Monday by Harvard’s Office of Undergraduate Education”

Harvard is currently under a lot of pressure from donors , courts ( loss of case on admissions), and political pressure from US administration.

Awarding 60% A’s does not help them make the case that they know what they are doing and should just be allowed to carry on.

ATMLOTTOBEER•3mo ago
Consider stack ranking to ready them for the workplace!