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Sprout: UEFI bootloader that can reduce bootloader times to milliseconds

https://github.com/edera-dev/sprout
1•sbt567•1m ago•0 comments

I asked a chatbot what it thought of HN (reader discretion strongly advised)

https://viewreplyy.com/share/galactico/7n5s9c0
1•galactic_atom•3m ago•0 comments

Self-hosted PM app: multi-view projections (boards, grids) + time tracking

https://eigenfocus.com/
1•vinioyama•5m ago•1 comments

SmartTube has been disabled by Google Play

https://old.reddit.com/r/ShieldAndroidTV/comments/1p6oxxe/smart_tube_has_been_disabled_by_google_...
1•eTomte•5m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Codex vs. 5.1 for pdf table-to-JSON extraction?

1•oliver236•7m ago•0 comments

RIP David Lerner, a Mr. Fix-It of Apple Computers, Co-Founder of Tekserve

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/technology/personaltech/david-lerner-dead.html
3•johnshades•8m ago•0 comments

What Happens When You Train Pure Logic Without Knowledge: 15-Expert Moe

https://github.com/vac-architector/VAC-Memory-System/blob/main/LOGICA_MOE_STORY.md
2•ViktorKuz•11m ago•0 comments

Ancestry and the NRS: when the corporate genealogy world turns ugly

http://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2025/09/ancestry-and-nrs-when-corporate.html
1•ilamont•12m ago•0 comments

Monorepo CI for GitHub Actions: Run the Tests You Need, Nothing More

https://mergify.com/blog/monorepo-ci-for-github-actions-run-exactly-the-tests-you-need-nothing-more
4•JulianMaurin1•13m ago•0 comments

Conformal Prediction for Compositional Data

https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2511.18141
1•felineflock•15m ago•0 comments

The SIMD-CSV crate chose not to use simdjson tricks to parse CSV with SIMD

https://docs.rs/simd-csv/latest/simd_csv/#design-notes
6•Yomguithereal•16m ago•0 comments

Watch the NEW Commodore 64 Ultimate being made [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BffeaLbKHkw
1•DeathArrow•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: NodeLoop – Hub for electronics design knowledge and tools

https://nodeloop.org/
1•eezZ•20m ago•0 comments

Steam censors LGBTQ+ content on behalf of the Russian Government

https://www.videogamesindustrymemo.com/p/how-steam-censors-lgbtq-content-on
4•HelloUsername•20m ago•1 comments

Deep Work vs. the Cyborg Hyperactive Cracked-Out Agent Allocator

https://bengoldhaber.substack.com/p/deep-work-vs-the-cyborg-hyperactive
2•lindowe•21m ago•0 comments

Lowtype: Elegant Types in Ruby

https://codeberg.org/Iow/type
1•todsacerdoti•25m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why does scale values between -1 and 1 return nothing on Google search

1•sonabinu•27m ago•0 comments

GOG Patrons

https://www.gog.com/en/patrons
2•HunOL•27m ago•0 comments

We're Losing Our Voice to LLMs

https://tonyalicea.dev/blog/were-losing-our-voice-to-llms/
2•TonyAlicea10•28m ago•2 comments

The Idiot Sandwich – On Embedding Alt Text

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/the-idiot-sandwich-on-embedding-alt-text/
1•ColinWright•28m ago•0 comments

When Ants Are Smarter Than People

https://aethermug.com/posts/my-notes-on-when-ants-are-smarter-than-people
1•mrcgnc•30m ago•0 comments

KDE going all-in on a Wayland future

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/going-all-in-on-a-wayland-future/
3•birdculture•30m ago•1 comments

Don't be a scary old guy: My 40s survival strategy with charm

https://www.devas.life/dont-be-a-scary-old-guy-my-40s-survival-strategy-with-charm/
9•ashleynewman•31m ago•0 comments

Tattoo ink induces lymph node inflammation&alters immune response to vaccination

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2510392122
2•bookofjoe•31m ago•0 comments

LLM Observatory

https://llm-observatory.org/index.html
1•myth_drannon•33m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Henry Perigal's Visual Proof of the Pythagoras Theorem

https://do-say-go.github.io/insights/others/interactive_perigals_pythagorean.html
2•keepamovin•39m ago•1 comments

Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving – Grateful

3•emreb•41m ago•3 comments

Show HN: Auto-Unpublish NPM Packages Published Outside CI

https://github.com/telophasehq/tangent-plugins/tree/main/detections/sha1hulud/npmcicorrelation
4•ethanblackburn•41m ago•2 comments

Show HN: SyncKit – Offline-first sync engine (Rust/WASM and TypeScript)

https://github.com/Dancode-188/synckit
5•danbitengo•47m ago•1 comments

Toll in Hong Kong fire rises to 65, police cite 'grossly negligent' firm

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/hong-kong-tower-fire-toll-rises-44-police-arrest-three-2025-1...
3•Inocez•48m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Do AIs reply with numerous em dashes to save money somehow?

3•amichail•1h ago
Maybe those replies are cheaper to generate at least for some models like those used by ChatGPT?

Comments

incomingpain•1h ago
No. For hundreds of years authors loved to use the em dash. It was a sign of quality writing. Only very recently has it stopped getting used and only because the - is on the wrong side of the keyboard and it's becoming more a hyphen instead.

When someone uses an em dash, it implies they arent using a normal keyboard; not even dvorak.

amichail•26m ago
So maybe the training data has a lot of old English writing and overcoming the model's tendency to use em dashes everywhere with custom instructions would use up more electricity in AI replies.