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Ask HN: Will LLMs/AI Decrease Human Intelligence and Make Expertise a Commodity?

1•mc-0•1m ago•0 comments

From Zero to Hero: A Brief Introduction to Spring Boot

https://jcob-sikorski.github.io/me/writing/from-zero-to-hello-world-spring-boot
1•jcob_sikorski•1m ago•0 comments

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and person close to Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/nsa-foreign-intelligence-trump-whistleblower
3•c420•2m ago•0 comments

How to Fake a Robotics Result

https://itcanthink.substack.com/p/how-to-fake-a-robotics-result
1•ai_critic•2m ago•0 comments

It's time for the world to boycott the US

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/2/5/its-time-for-the-world-to-boycott-the-us
1•HotGarbage•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Semantic Search for terminal commands in the Browser (No Back end)

https://jslambda.github.io/tldr-vsearch/
1•jslambda•2m ago•0 comments

The AI CEO Experiment

https://yukicapital.com/blog/the-ai-ceo-experiment/
2•romainsimon•4m ago•0 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
3•surprisetalk•8m ago•0 comments

MS-DOS game copy protection and cracks

https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/game_cracks.php
3•TheCraiggers•9m ago•0 comments

Updates on GNU/Hurd progress [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7FZXHF-updates_on_gnuhurd_progress_rump_drivers_64bit_smp_...
2•birdculture•10m ago•0 comments

Epstein took a photo of his 2015 dinner with Zuckerberg and Musk

https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=davenewworld_2%2Fstatus%2F2020128223850316274
7•doener•10m ago•2 comments

MyFlames: Visualize MySQL query execution plans as interactive FlameGraphs

https://github.com/vgrippa/myflames
1•tanelpoder•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LLM of Babel

https://clairefro.github.io/llm-of-babel/
1•marjipan200•11m ago•0 comments

A modern iperf3 alternative with a live TUI, multi-client server, QUIC support

https://github.com/lance0/xfr
3•tanelpoder•12m ago•0 comments

Famfamfam Silk icons – also with CSS spritesheet

https://github.com/legacy-icons/famfamfam-silk
1•thunderbong•13m ago•0 comments

Apple is the only Big Tech company whose capex declined last quarter

https://sherwood.news/tech/apple-is-the-only-big-tech-company-whose-capex-declined-last-quarter/
2•elsewhen•16m ago•0 comments

Reverse-Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600

https://github.com/joshuanwalker/Raiders2600
2•todsacerdoti•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Deterministic NDJSON audit logs – v1.2 update (structural gaps)

https://github.com/yupme-bot/kernel-ndjson-proofs
1•Slaine•21m ago•0 comments

The Greater Copenhagen Region could be your friend's next career move

https://www.greatercphregion.com/friend-recruiter-program
2•mooreds•22m ago•0 comments

Do Not Confirm – Fiction by OpenClaw

https://thedailymolt.substack.com/p/do-not-confirm
1•jamesjyu•22m ago•0 comments

The Analytical Profile of Peas

https://www.fossanalytics.com/en/news-articles/more-industries/the-analytical-profile-of-peas
1•mooreds•22m ago•0 comments

Hallucinations in GPT5 – Can models say "I don't know" (June 2025)

https://jobswithgpt.com/blog/llm-eval-hallucinations-t20-cricket/
1•sp1982•22m ago•0 comments

What AI is good for, according to developers

https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/generative-ai/what-ai-is-actually-good-for-according-to-developers/
1•mooreds•22m ago•0 comments

OpenAI might pivot to the "most addictive digital friend" or face extinction

https://twitter.com/lebed2045/status/2020184853271167186
1•lebed2045•24m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Know how your SaaS is doing in 30 seconds

https://anypanel.io
1•dasfelix•24m ago•0 comments

ClawdBot Ordered Me Lunch

https://nickalexander.org/drafts/auto-sandwich.html
3•nick007•25m ago•0 comments

What the News media thinks about your Indian stock investments

https://stocktrends.numerical.works/
1•mindaslab•26m ago•0 comments

Running Lua on a tiny console from 2001

https://ivie.codes/page/pokemon-mini-lua
1•Charmunk•27m ago•0 comments

Google and Microsoft Paying Creators $500K+ to Promote AI Tools

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/google-microsoft-pay-creators-500000-and-more-to-promote-ai.html
3•belter•29m ago•0 comments

New filtration technology could be game-changer in removal of PFAS

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/23/pfas-forever-chemicals-filtration
1•PaulHoule•30m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Garbage collection is contrarian

https://trynova.dev/blog/garbage-collection-is-contrarian
68•aapoalas•4w ago

Comments

eru•3w ago
Compare also 'A Unified Theory of Garbage Collection' https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~weimerw/2008-415/reading/bacon-g...
antonvs•3w ago
Just intuitively, this seems to be using a feature designed to guarantee safety in a way that doesn’t guarantee safety, which raises questions about what the point is.
aapoalas•3w ago
Author here: to get the compiler to help me as the programmer to produce correct code (not accidentally using handles after GC) without being massively manual, but (at least currently) accepting that it is not a guarantee and thus runtime checks (bounds checks in my case) are needed to retain memory safety.
_3u10•3w ago
Just use unsafe then you have all of the good points of rust, like being able to say you wrote it in rust with none of the downsides, like having to write safe code in rust, or that code being slow.
eru•3w ago
You can write slow unsafe Rust just fine.
shevy-java•3w ago
This reminds me of the old Monty Python sketch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLlv_aZjHXc (Argument Clinic)

4782626292283•3w ago
No, it doesn't!
anArbitraryOne•3w ago
I clicked on this hoping is was about physical garbage collection
aapoalas•3w ago
I aim to displease!
illuminator83•3w ago
I'm hoping for a future in which humankind looks back with embarrassment at this silly period in its history in which people used to think a leaky and bad abstractions like garbage collection was ever a good approach to deal with resource life-times.
aziis98•3w ago
Still the whole world runs on GC-ed languages so it must be an abstraction at least some people like to work with.

And I'm pretty sure using a GC in some cases it's the only option to not go crazy.

illuminator83•3w ago
I think we are just used to it. Like we are used to so many suboptimal solutions in our professional and personal lives.

I mean, look something like C++ or the name "std::vector" specifically. There are probably 4 Trillion LoC containing this code out there - in production. I'm used to it, doesn't make it good.

immibis•3w ago
Did you know the Linux kernel has a tracing garbage collector in it, specifically for Unix socket handles? It seems to be a recurring solution to a common problem.
illuminator83•3w ago
There are lots of suboptimal solutions for lots of problems out there. I don't know why it would matter if the Linux Kernel does the same mistake. And I'm sure that wasn't the only solution. Just something somebody implemented and noone bothered to change it because it worked "well enough". But I wouldn't be surprised if this is known to cause the kind of issue GCs are known to cause such as race conditions, resource exhaustion and stalling.

Let me do some quick research:

https://gist.github.com/bobrik/82e5722261920c9f23d9402b88a0b... https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2024-26923

aapoalas•3w ago
Monkey's paw: you get your wish, but so does someone who wants RAII and single-use-malloc to be left behind as a leaky and bad abstractions.

We all happily march into a future where only arena allocation is allowed, and when the arena is overfull it can only be fully reset without saving data. Copying still-used data out if it before reset is not allowed, as that's a copying half-space garbage collector. Reference counting is of course not allowed either as that's also garbage collection. Everyone is blessed...?

eru•3w ago
Well, to be fair, RAII is a leaky abstraction. For example, if your programme crashes there's no guarantee that you'll ever give the resources back.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_acquisition_is_initia...

ameixaseca•3w ago
> See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_acquisition_is_initia...

This example is specific to C++

> (..) if your programme crashes there's no guarantee that you'll ever give the resources back.

What guarantees can you have from a "crashing program", and by what definition of crashing?

> RAII is a leaky abstraction

Any abstraction is leaky if you look close enough.

eru•3w ago
> What guarantees can you have from a "crashing program", and by what definition of crashing?

You might like https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotos-ix/crash-only-softwa...

zahlman•3w ago
Some problems are just fundamentally easier to solve using cyclic data structures whose lifetime exceeds the scope where they were created, which would be quite difficult to clean up properly in any other way.
AllegedAlec•3w ago
Indeed. I also hope we stop using all of these "high-level" languages. So much overhead just so people don't have to learn how to write proper optimized machine code. It's super-trivial to write a website directly in that too, and it only takes a bit longer, but it is almost twice as fast.
illuminator83•3w ago
I'm a big fan of high-level languages and abstractions. I'm just not a fan of bad abstractions.
kannanvijayan•3w ago
Writing a GC in rust without just dropping the whole business into unsafe is really annoying.

Jason Orendorff has an implementation of a GC in rust called "cell-gc" that seemed like only one I've seen so far that seemed to "get" how to marry rust to the requirements of a GC implementation: https://github.com/jorendorff/cell-gc

Still has a lot of unsafe code and macro helpers, but it's laid out well and documented pretty well. Not sure if you've run across it yet.

yencabulator•3w ago
Did you notice the https://github.com/kyren/gc-arena mentioned (via Lobsters)?