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Can AI Pass Freshman CS? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56HJQm5nb0U
3•Antibabelic•2h ago

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ThrowawayR2•42m ago
Surprising to see so little traction on this; I hope this makes it to the second chance pool because it would interesting to hear the LLM advocates' take on it.

Is the poor performance because the LLMs are not being used for iterative refinement?

The Date Data Type in Oracle vs. PostgreSQL

https://hexacluster.ai/blog/the-date-data-type-in-oracle-vs-postgresql/
1•avivallssa•31s ago•1 comments

Show HN: Pharos – "yarn why" but shows the full chain and what to update (Rust)

https://github.com/vaskort/pharos
1•vaskort•44s ago•0 comments

Train Your Tenacity

https://playtechnique.io/blog/train-your-tenacity.html
1•gwynforthewyn•2m ago•1 comments

Estimation of Variance by a Recursive Equation (pdf, 1969)

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19690028796/downloads/19690028796.pdf
1•slow_typist•3m ago•0 comments

Why sandboxing coding agents is harder than you think

https://martinalderson.com/posts/why-sandboxing-coding-agents-is-harder-than-you-think/
2•jnord•4m ago•1 comments

Frankenwine: Multiple Personas in a Wine Process

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/01/19/
1•zdw•5m ago•0 comments

ChatVault – Local-first semantic search for WhatsApp (Rust and WASM)

https://github.com/marcoshernanz/ChatVault
1•marcoshernanz•5m ago•1 comments

OpenAI's 2026 'focus' is 'practical adoption'

https://www.theverge.com/news/864229/openai-focus-practical-adoption-sarah-fria
1•timpera•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Cmdarg, argument parsing for bash scripts

https://github.com/akesterson/cmdarg
1•akesterson•7m ago•0 comments

James Prinsep, polymath who deciphered Kharosthi and Brahmi scripts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Prinsep
1•like_any_other•7m ago•0 comments

Even citing NSF funded research is an ACM premium feature

https://win-vector.com/2026/01/19/even-citing-nsf-funded-research-is-an-acm-premium-feature/
1•jmount•8m ago•0 comments

GLM-4.7-Flash 30B-A3B MoE

https://xcancel.com/zai_org/status/2013261304060866758
1•Alifatisk•8m ago•0 comments

The average 50-something American is now worth $1.4M

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/01/19/average-net-worth-1-million-50-year-olds/88202093...
4•lxm•10m ago•3 comments

The US is buying icebreakers from Finland

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0q48d71ke8o
2•perihelions•11m ago•0 comments

Systems design 3: LLMs and the semantic revolution

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20251120
1•gjadi•11m ago•0 comments

Anthropic's Interpretability Research Blog

https://transformer-circuits.pub/
1•philipfweiss•12m ago•1 comments

Show HN: EV-QA-Framework – Open-source battery testing with ML anomaly detection

https://github.com/remontsuri/EV-QA-Framework
1•remontsuri•13m ago•1 comments

How much can a city take?

https://www.theverge.com/policy/864195/minneapolis-ice-invasion-organizing-immigration
2•HotGarbage•13m ago•0 comments

Why file systems are here to stay for agents

https://archil.com/post/why-file-systems-are-here-to-stay
1•huntaub•14m ago•0 comments

Pasture – Qualify Your Signups

https://www.usepasture.com/
1•rogutkuba•15m ago•1 comments

Turn off your Firestore automatic indexes

https://jaredkhan.com/blog/firestore-indexes
1•krinn_silver•15m ago•1 comments

3D Print: loud and compact emergency whistle

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2933021/files
1•rendx•16m ago•0 comments

Intel's 18A claims 50% lower power than Apple's 3nm [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RrA5SVfC_g
1•thelastgallon•16m ago•0 comments

DiffusionBlocks: Block-Wise Neural Network Training

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14202
1•E-Reverance•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Whirligig – Tinder for Gigs

https://whirligig.live
1•idiocache•18m ago•0 comments

Morally judging famous and semi-famous people

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/01/morally-judging-famous-and-semi-famous-...
2•7777777phil•19m ago•0 comments

Digital Transformation: Why Some Companies Succeed and Others Fail

https://dynamic.broadtechnologies.site/digital-transformation-why-some-companies-succeed-and-othe...
1•Silvaaaa•20m ago•0 comments

The Rise and Fall of the American Monoculture

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/american-pop-culture-history-ce8672f1
1•jnord•20m ago•0 comments

Asus Confirms It Won't Launch Phones in 2026, May Leave Android Altogether

https://www.pcmag.com/news/asus-confirms-it-wont-launch-phones-in-2026-may-leave-android-altogeth...
2•jnord•21m ago•0 comments

Mima Mounds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mima_mounds
1•areoform•23m ago•0 comments