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Zuckerberg has "finished" with Alexandr Wang, worth US$14B

https://www.idnfinancials.com/news/61918/zuckerberg-has-finished-with-alexandr-wang-worth-us14-bi...
1•SilverElfin•1m ago•0 comments

China's AI giants are handing out cash to lure in users

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/03/09/chinas-ai-giants-are-handing-out-cash-to-lure-in-users
1•petethomas•3m ago•0 comments

We Tried Paying Artists Royalties on AI-Generated Work – Learnings

https://www.kapwing.com/blog/learnings-from-paying-artists-royalties-for-ai-generated-art/
2•jenthoven•5m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Favorite Non-Spammy iPhone Games?

1•bix6•10m ago•0 comments

A Survival Guide to a PhD (2016)

http://karpathy.github.io/2016/09/07/phd/
1•vismit2000•13m ago•0 comments

PEP 827: Type Manipulation

https://peps.python.org/pep-0827/
1•azhenley•14m ago•0 comments

Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation

https://lwn.net/Articles/1042938/
1•zdkaster•16m ago•0 comments

David W. Bates, cybernetics specialist: 'The brain is not a computer'

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2026/02/28/david-w-bates-cybernetics-specialist-the-bra...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•18m ago•0 comments

SheepDipped

1•sheepdipped•21m ago•1 comments

Anthropic launches Code Review

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/code-review
2•rishabhaiover•21m ago•1 comments

The Arts Bookstore of the Internet

https://mzs.press/
1•mooreds•22m ago•0 comments

Breaking free from smartphone addiction: Defensive tactics against algorithms

https://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-03-07/breaking-free-from-smartphone-addiction-defensiv...
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•22m ago•0 comments

Lovable, Monetization, and the Vibe Coder Economy

https://jxnl.co/writing/2025/06/12/lovable-monetization-and-the-vibe-coder-economy/
1•AnhTho_FR•25m ago•0 comments

Trial against Meta in New Mexico highlights video depositions by top executives

https://apnews.com/article/meta-instagram-new-mexico-zuckerberg-mosseri-social-e5a6749f4628cff9ff...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•28m ago•0 comments

Lunches.fyi: Scraping corporate cafeteria menus and ranking the food

https://walzr.com/lunches-fyi/
2•meetpateltech•32m ago•0 comments

Human Brain Cells Run New Data Centers in Singapore, Melbourne

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-09/human-brain-cells-run-new-data-centers-in-sing...
1•inaros•32m ago•0 comments

Mockdown

https://www.mockdown.design
1•handfuloflight•33m ago•0 comments

Sony is testing dynamic pricing in the PlayStation Store

https://psprices.com/news/sony-ab-testing-prices/
1•xoxxala•33m ago•0 comments

Amazon tells FCC to bin SpaceX's million-satellite datacenter dream

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/09/amazon_petitions_to_block_spacexs/
3•johnbarron•38m ago•0 comments

Lazy iteration vs. array chaining on 500k rows – benchmark results

1•gvsh_maths•41m ago•1 comments

I built a tool to export Gemini chat to PDF, Word, Docs, and Notion

2•backrun•41m ago•0 comments

Baochip-1x: What It Is, Why I'm Doing It Now, and How It Came About

https://www.crowdsupply.com/baochip/dabao/updates/what-it-is-why-im-doing-it-now-and-how-it-came-...
1•brewcrew•41m ago•0 comments

Sen Sheldon Whitehouse: Connections Between Trump, Russia, and Epstein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylvTFvJvB84
3•johnbarron•42m ago•0 comments

I just launched my first Roblox game "Drone Wars"

https://www.roblox.com/games/136100514232797/Drone-Wars
1•mmmmkay•44m ago•1 comments

Scotland becomes first UK country to legalise water cremations

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/02/scotland-becomes-first-uk-country-to-legalise-wat...
3•gscott•47m ago•0 comments

Loom vs. Linear: A tale of two AI-cities

https://jamespember.substack.com/p/loom-vs-linear-a-tale-of-two-ai-cities
2•jep888•49m ago•1 comments

Reese's changed its chocolate because of climate change

https://www.fooddive.com/news/hershey-reeses-ingredients-chocolate-climate-change-oped/813903/
1•del82•49m ago•2 comments

Financial group probed by congressional committee over Chinese stock scams

https://www.ft.com/content/49f541f8-c73d-4268-9621-f8604f1a8141
2•petethomas•49m ago•0 comments

Boredom Is the Price We Pay for Meaning

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/boredom-parenthood-father/686158/
5•myth_drannon•50m ago•1 comments

Something feels weird about this economy

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/something-feels-weird-about-this
1•paulpauper•51m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

The “JVG algorithm” only wins on tiny numbers

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9615
26•jhalderm•1h ago

Comments

MathMonkeyMan•1h ago
The title of this post changed as I was reading it. "It looks like the 'JVG algorithm' only wins on tiny numbers" is a charitable description. The article is Scott Aaronson lambasting the paper and shaming its authors as intellectual hooligans.
measurablefunc•18m ago
Scott Aaronson is the guy who keeps claiming quantum supremacy is here every year so he's like the proverbial pot calling the kettle black.
RcouF1uZ4gsC•1h ago
Scott References the top comment on this previous HN discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47246295

kmeisthax•1h ago
I mean, considering that no quantum computer has ever actually factored a number, a speedup on tiny numbers is still impressive :P
Tyr42•55m ago
Hey hey, 15 = 3*5 is factoring.
ashivkum•30m ago
my understanding is that they factored 15 using a modular exponentiation circuit that presumes that the modulus is 3. factoring 15 with knowledge of 3 is not so impressive. Shor's algorithm has never been run with a full modular exponentiation circuit.
guy4261•1h ago
> (yes, the authors named it after themselves) The same way the AVL tree is named after its inventors - Georgy Adelson-Velsky and Evgenii Landis... Nothing peculiar about this imh
abound•56m ago
Same with RSA and other things, I think the author's point is that slapping your name on an algorithm is a pretty big move (since practically, you can only do it a few times max in your life before it would get too confusing), and so it's a gaudy thing to do, especially for something illegitimate.
johncarlosbaez•37m ago
Adelson-Velsky and Evgenii Landis were not the ones who named their tree the "AVL tree".

In my "crackpot index", item 20 says:

20 points for naming something after yourself. (E.g., talking about the "The Evans Field Equation" when your name happens to be Evans.)

goodmythical•32m ago
Like RSA?
ot•18m ago
RSA was also not given that name by its authors, the name came later, which is usually the case.

In the original paper they do not give it any name: https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Rsapaper.pdf

croes•32m ago
Named after != named by