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OpenAI's Sam Altman declares 'code red' after rivals make advances

https://www.ft.com/content/7a42396f-487a-47b0-8121-8d8f2112fa53
1•nycdatasci•2m ago•0 comments

The Music Theory Behind Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You"

https://stereogum.com/2208354/mariah-carey-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-music-theory/columns
1•terryds•3m ago•0 comments

A Minimal CSS Starter

https://meiert.com/blog/a-minimal-css-starter/
1•speckx•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: FactIQ – A Data Explorer for the US Economy

https://www.factiq.com/
1•rishsriv•4m ago•0 comments

Vkd3d-proton is a fork of VKD3D

https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton
1•doener•5m ago•0 comments

Stanford Agentic Reviewer: Get detailed AI feedback on your research paper free!

https://paperreview.ai
1•pretext•6m ago•0 comments

Microservices

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microservices
1•peter_d_sherman•6m ago•1 comments

Text as a "Market for Lemons"

https://win-vector.com/2025/12/01/text-as-a-market-for-lemons/
2•apwheele•6m ago•0 comments

The Download: AI's impact on the economy, and DeepSeek strikes again

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/02/1128647/the-download-ais-impact-on-the-economy-and-de...
2•fleahunter•8m ago•0 comments

AlphaFold shows why science may be AI's killer app

https://fortune.com/2025/11/28/google-deepmind-alphafold-science-ai-killer-app/
2•pretext•10m ago•0 comments

Speeding up C++ functions with a thread_local cache

https://lemire.me/blog/2025/10/19/speeding-up-c-functions-with-a-thread_local-cache/
1•mikece•11m ago•0 comments

South Korea police say 120k home cameras hacked for 'sexploitation' footage

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj01q6p7ndlo
1•_____k•12m ago•0 comments

Apple refuses Indias order to preload state cyber safety app Sanchar Saathi

https://www.telegraphindia.com/business/apple-refuses-indias-order-to-preload-state-cyber-safety-...
4•_____k•14m ago•0 comments

Why Authorization is more important

https://oscarevertsson.com/posts/why-authorization-is-more-important-than-ever/
1•johlo•15m ago•0 comments

State of the Terminal

https://gpanders.com/blog/state-of-the-terminal/
1•Velocifyer•15m ago•0 comments

FreeBSD 15.0-Release Release Notes

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/relnotes/
1•throw0101c•15m ago•0 comments

AMD GI-1.2 with multibounce indirect real-time rendering

https://gpuopen.com/learn/gi-1-2-multibounce-indirect-rendering/
2•ibobev•16m ago•0 comments

Thousands of U.S. trucking schools could lose accreditation under DOT crackdown

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/01/nx-s1-5627474/cdl-trucking-schools-dot-crackdown
2•geox•16m ago•0 comments

FreeBSD 15.0-Release Announcement

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/announce/
4•throw0101c•16m ago•1 comments

Spatial hashing for raytraced ambient occlusion

https://interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/spatial-hashing-for-raytraced-ambient-occlusion/
1•ibobev•16m ago•0 comments

Just found out about Typeform that I didn't know

1•serin-ai•19m ago•0 comments

Samsung Debuts First TriFold Months Ahead of Foldable iPhone

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-02/samsung-debuts-2-450-galaxy-z-trifold-months-a...
3•helsinkiandrew•19m ago•1 comments

The Rise of AI Denialism

https://bigthink.com/the-present/the-rise-of-ai-denialism/
1•hogwash•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Side-by-side PDF parser comparison for RAG pipelines

https://github.com/2dogsandanerd/rag_pdf_audit
1•2dogsanerd•19m ago•0 comments

Sort the Court – A Free King Simulator Where You Rule with Yes or No

https://www.sort-the-court.com
1•causalzap•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Quest - A GeoGuessr-inspired game for finding mountain peaks

https://quest.topokit.dev/new
1•vpmadd52huq•25m ago•0 comments

Shader Execution Reordering Benchmarked

https://www.evolvebenchmark.com/blog-posts/shader-execution-reordering-benchmarked
2•ibobev•26m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Binary files in Git repository, what is you workaround

2•kreco•27m ago•0 comments

LLMs Need Better Executive Function

https://www.robdearborn.com/2025/12/01/llms-need-better-executive-function/
1•rfdearborn•29m ago•0 comments

The Absent Silence (2010)

https://www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/3-the-absent-silence
1•dcminter•29m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Is it OK to look at AoC solutions?

2•ifh-hn•29m ago
I'm yet again attempting AoC. I've never completed one yet. Mostly I get too busy on the run up to Christmas but sometimes I just get stuck.

This brings me to my question. If you are stuck is it OK to just look at a solution?

For me, I got stuck on Day 1 Part 2. No amount of hints worked, so I just found a solution. I managed to get the code to produce the correct answer. I still don't understand why, I'm not good at maths. AI can't ELI5 either.

So is it good to see how others solved the problem? Or just remain stuck, and not understanding why?

Personally I feel better about knowing a solution to the problem even if I didn't solve it myself, mostly because not knowing is worse.

Comments

red_Seashell_32•15m ago
It’s better to look at other solutions, analyze and understand them to learn something new rather than giving up and not learning something new