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Show HN: A2A Protocol – Infrastructure for an Agent-to-Agent Economy

1•swimmingkiim•1m ago•0 comments

Drinking More Water Can Boost Your Energy

https://www.verywellhealth.com/can-drinking-water-boost-energy-11891522
1•wjb3•5m ago•0 comments

Proving Laderman's 3x3 Matrix Multiplication Is Locally Optimal via SMT Solvers

https://zenodo.org/records/18514533
1•DarenWatson•7m ago•0 comments

Fire may have altered human DNA

https://www.popsci.com/science/fire-alter-human-dna/
3•wjb3•7m ago•1 comments

"Compiled" Specs

https://deepclause.substack.com/p/compiled-specs
1•schmuhblaster•12m ago•0 comments

The Next Big Language (2007) by Steve Yegge

https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.html?2026
1•cryptoz•13m ago•0 comments

Open-Weight Models Are Getting Serious: GLM 4.7 vs. MiniMax M2.1

https://blog.kilo.ai/p/open-weight-models-are-getting-serious
4•ms7892•23m ago•0 comments

Using AI for Code Reviews: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why

https://entelligence.ai/blogs/entelligence-ai-in-cli
3•Arindam1729•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Solnix – an early-stage experimental programming language

https://www.solnix-lang.org/
2•maheshbhatiya•24m ago•0 comments

DoNotNotify is now Open Source

https://donotnotify.com/opensource.html
5•awaaz•25m ago•2 comments

The British Empire's Brothels

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/british-empires-brothels
2•pepys•26m ago•0 comments

What rare disease AI teaches us about longitudinal health

https://myaether.live/blog/what-rare-disease-ai-teaches-us-about-longitudinal-health
2•takmak007•31m ago•0 comments

The Brand Savior Complex and the New Age of Self Censorship

https://thesocialjuice.substack.com/p/the-brand-savior-complex-and-the
2•jaskaransainiz•33m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A Prompting Framework for Non-Vibe-Coders

https://github.com/No3371/projex
2•3371•33m ago•0 comments

Kilroy is a local-first "software factory" CLI

https://github.com/danshapiro/kilroy
2•ukuina•43m ago•0 comments

Mathscapes – Jan 2026 [pdf]

https://momath.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/1.-Mathscapes-January-2026-with-Solution.pdf
1•vismit2000•45m ago•0 comments

80386 Barrel Shifter

https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2026/80386_barrel_shifter/
2•jamesbowman•46m ago•0 comments

Training Foundation Models Directly on Human Brain Data

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12053
1•helloplanets•46m ago•0 comments

Web Speech API on HN Threads

https://toulas.ch/projects/hn-readaloud/
1•etoulas•49m ago•0 comments

ArtisanForge: Learn Laravel through a gamified RPG adventure – 100% free

https://artisanforge.online/
2•grazulex•49m ago•1 comments

Your phone edits all your photos with AI – is it changing your view of reality?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260203-the-ai-that-quietly-edits-all-of-your-photos
1•breve•50m ago•0 comments

DStack, a small Bash tool for managing Docker Compose projects

https://github.com/KyanJeuring/dstack
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Hop – Fast SSH connection manager with TUI dashboard

https://github.com/danmartuszewski/hop
1•danmartuszewski•52m ago•1 comments

Turning books to courses using AI

https://www.book2course.org/
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Top #1 AI Video Agent: Free All in One AI Video and Image Agent by Vidzoo AI

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2•Evan233•54m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How would you design an LLM-unfriendly language?

1•sph•55m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MuxPod – A mobile tmux client for monitoring AI agents on the go

https://github.com/moezakura/mux-pod
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March for Billionaires

https://marchforbillionaires.org/
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Turn Claude Code/OpenClaw into Your Local Lovart – AI Design MCP Server

https://github.com/jau123/MeiGen-Art
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An Nginx Engineer Took over AI's Benchmark Tool

https://github.com/hongzhidao/jsbench/tree/main/docs
1•zhidao9•59m ago•0 comments
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Mr. Difficult: William Gaddis and the Problem of Hard-to-Read Books (2002)

https://adilegian.com/FranzenGaddis.htm
20•ofalkaed•2mo ago

Comments

ofalkaed•2mo ago
Rereading this for the first time in 20 odd years, I think what we lost with the death of David Foster Wallace is the loss of the friendship between David Foster Wallace and Jonathan Franzen. It is easy to see the effect this loss has had on Franzen, but it is impossible to see the effect it had on Wallace, we can only assume. Society did not lose a great author, it lost a great friendship.

I keep trying to get through this but I can't do it, it makes the loss too difficult to overcome.

logicprog•2mo ago
This was an incredibly well written essay, well worth the read. Thank you for sharing
rurban•2mo ago
Looks like Franzen didn't understand JR at all. JR is a novel without an author. There is no subjectivity given by any author. No descriptions, no voice over explanations, no thoughts. Only objective observations, only dialog ie what people say, not what they didnt say, just think. It's like a modern film without a Scorsese like voice over a narrative, which explains everything, instead of letting the observer come to his own conclusions. For literature it was a revolution.

And if you are in it it's very easy to read. You just to keep going on, because when you forgot who said what you get lost. There is no he said, she said. There's only subjects speaking, no author explaining. No double quotes.

My favorite book

miltonlost•2mo ago
There's portions where the voices overlapping is intentional, like calling into a party line on accident, and others where you can tell immediately from the Voice who is speaking. Few other authors have characters you can (or must) identify from idiolects alone.
mna_•2mo ago
There are glimmers of JR in Gaddis' earlier work The Recognitions, specifically during the party scenes where voices overlap. But of course because the rest of the book is written in a "usual manner", you can recognise who's saying what quite easily.
pessimizer•2mo ago
> And if you are in it it's very easy to read. You just to keep going on, because when you forgot who said what you get lost.

That book was one of the weirdest experiences of my life. I didn't know anything about it, just started flipping through it at the library (probably shelved near something I was interested in), and ended up reading the entire thing in one sitting. So I'm definitely with you.

I think my mind was still racing from that book a year later, and I was hoping that it was Gaddis's style (I didn't know anything about him) and I'd be able to find other books by him (or anyone else) written with that velocity. I did not:(

edit: Would appreciate recommendations, though.

mitchbob•2mo ago
This might be easier on the eyes:

https://archive.ph/uyBJD

rudimentary_phy•2mo ago
The Contract version. Thanks!