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Ask HN: Do we need "metadata in source code" syntax that LLMs will never delete?

1•andrewstuart•1m ago•0 comments

Pentagon cutting ties w/ "woke" Harvard, ending military training & fellowships

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pentagon-says-its-cutting-ties-with-woke-harvard-discontinuing-milit...
2•alephnerd•4m ago•1 comments

Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete? [pdf]

https://cds.cern.ch/record/405662/files/PhysRev.47.777.pdf
1•northlondoner•4m ago•1 comments

Kessler Syndrome Has Started [video]

https://www.tiktok.com/@cjtrowbridge/video/7602634355160206623
1•pbradv•7m ago•0 comments

Complex Heterodynes Explained

https://tomverbeure.github.io/2026/02/07/Complex-Heterodyne.html
2•hasheddan•7m ago•0 comments

EVs Are a Failed Experiment

https://spectator.org/evs-are-a-failed-experiment/
2•ArtemZ•19m ago•3 comments

MemAlign: Building Better LLM Judges from Human Feedback with Scalable Memory

https://www.databricks.com/blog/memalign-building-better-llm-judges-human-feedback-scalable-memory
1•superchink•20m ago•0 comments

CCC (Claude's C Compiler) on Compiler Explorer

https://godbolt.org/z/asjc13sa6
1•LiamPowell•21m ago•0 comments

Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-security-spies-on-reddit
2•duxup•24m ago•0 comments

Actors with Tokio (2021)

https://ryhl.io/blog/actors-with-tokio/
1•vinhnx•25m ago•0 comments

Can graph neural networks for biology realistically run on edge devices?

https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-8645211/v1
1•swapinvidya•38m ago•1 comments

Deeper into the shareing of one air conditioner for 2 rooms

1•ozzysnaps•39m ago•0 comments

Weatherman introduces fruit-based authentication system to combat deep fakes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HVbZwJ9gPE
3•savrajsingh•40m ago•0 comments

Why Embedded Models Must Hallucinate: A Boundary Theory (RCC)

http://www.effacermonexistence.com/rcc-hn-1-1
1•formerOpenAI•42m ago•2 comments

A Curated List of ML System Design Case Studies

https://github.com/Engineer1999/A-Curated-List-of-ML-System-Design-Case-Studies
3•tejonutella•46m ago•0 comments

Pony Alpha: New free 200K context model for coding, reasoning and roleplay

https://ponyalpha.pro
1•qzcanoe•50m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Tunbot – Discord bot for temporary Cloudflare tunnels behind CGNAT

https://github.com/Goofygiraffe06/tunbot
2•g1raffe•53m ago•0 comments

Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16496
2•vinhnx•59m ago•0 comments

Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse

https://thatjoescott.com/2026/02/03/bye-bye-humanity-the-potential-amoc-collapse/
3•rolph•1h ago•0 comments

Dexter: Claude-Code-Style Agent for Financial Statements and Valuation

https://github.com/virattt/dexter
1•Lwrless•1h ago•0 comments

Digital Iris [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_2MAgS_pE
1•vermilingua•1h ago•0 comments

Essential CDN: The CDN that lets you do more than JavaScript

https://essentialcdn.fluidity.workers.dev/
1•telui•1h ago•1 comments

They Hijacked Our Tech [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nJM5HvnT5k
2•cedel2k1•1h ago•0 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
37•chwtutha•1h ago•6 comments

HRL Labs in Malibu laying off 1/3 of their workforce

https://www.dailynews.com/2026/02/06/hrl-labs-cuts-376-jobs-in-malibu-after-losing-government-work/
4•osnium123•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: High-performance bidirectional list for React, React Native, and Vue

https://suhaotian.github.io/broad-infinite-list/
2•jeremy_su•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a Mac screen recorder Recap.Studio

https://recap.studio/
1•fx31xo•1h ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Codex 5.3 broke toolcalls? Opus 4.6 ignores instructions?

1•kachapopopow•1h ago•0 comments

Vectors and HNSW for Dummies

https://anvitra.ai/blog/vectors-and-hnsw/
1•melvinodsa•1h ago•0 comments

Sanskrit AI beats CleanRL SOTA by 125%

https://huggingface.co/ParamTatva/sanskrit-ppo-hopper-v5/blob/main/docs/blog.md
1•prabhatkr•1h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Hacker News Headlines (game)

https://projects.peercy.net/projects/hn-oracle/index.html
27•greenwallnorway•2mo ago

Comments

greenwallnorway•2mo ago
I average a score in the range 1500-2000 (out of 2500).

I imagine those who spend more time on hn will ace it.

ivanjermakov•2mo ago
I got 2000ish, but I remember seeing 3/5 headlines. Perhaps I should spend less time there...
tptacek•2mo ago
It helps a lot just to have an intuition for what a big article is here. The slider starts at ~1500 votes, which is an insanely successful story. You can get a strong score just by guessing 400 for everything, nudging up +100 for things you remember being popular and down -100 for things that seem obscure.
greenwallnorway•2mo ago
Yea - I didn't think too long on how to calculate points well. Is there a more balanced strategy?

Identifying some of the truly high-scoring articles (>1000) should be rewarding, and 200 vs 400 points is a pretty big difference on hn

tptacek•2mo ago
A "replacement-level" front page story is ~200 votes, +/- 50. If you're drawing just from the front page, and not from a deliberately weighted set of successful vs. marginal posts, most stories should be below 400.

(It's weird to say this but I'm not nerdy enough to have actually worked this out with data; it's just intuition from spending time here.)

codechicago277•2mo ago
Could split the stories into buckets and then randomly sample from each bucket. Most stories are small, so they’re currently overrepresented in the sampling.
codechicago277•2mo ago
I think you need to adjust the variation of scores, I got 1650 actually guessing, then realized most of the scores were low and got 1800 by just always guessing 239
greenwallnorway•2mo ago
Ah! Good idea. Hurts replayability though, since we probably get not more than one 1000 pointer each week.
tptacek•2mo ago
Just change the range of scores. If you're not going to deliberately weight the set of stories to include outliers, then the whole game is really played in the 150-400 range anyways, so make that the slider.
Yizahi•2mo ago
Include some 0 to 4 score posts with interesting headlines. Should be pretty funny I think :)

For example:

Rubin Observatory Discovers Surprise 'Tail' on Iconic Galaxy - 2

Vera Rubin's primary mirror gets its first reflective coating - 157

unsnap_biceps•2mo ago
I got 2038 by just going with the default 373 for all 5
jtrn•2mo ago
Anchoring!!! If the range has nothing to do with the items in question, just have simple number input. Tested multiple times and all items were below default / midpoint.
greenwallnorway•2mo ago
ui idea: show the distribution over the slider
BrenBarn•2mo ago
Why is the score range 239-1000?
anonymousiam•2mo ago
First try:

Hacker News Headlines

Score: 2,003 / 2,500 pts

R1: 684 (guessed 429) - 0.63x - 333 pts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45722639

R2: 298 (guessed 239) - 0.80x - 413 pts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45783074

R3: 273 (guessed 239) - 0.88x - 445 pts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736461

R4: 288 (guessed 479) - 1.66x - 321 pts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45589715

R5: 244 (guessed 249) - 1.02x - 491 pts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45602124

Play at: https://nbanmp.github.io/claude-web/projects/hn-oracle/