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QWEN2.5-1.5B Abliterated Release for Android Mobile

https://huggingface.co/automajicly/qwen-1.5b-android/commit/
1•automajicly•52s ago•0 comments

I tested GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, and Gemini 3.1 Pro on financial-control

https://albertquaisie.substack.com/p/i-tested-gpt-55-claude-opus-47-and
1•Aquaisie•3m ago•0 comments

I was asked to install malware during a fake interview

https://ashishb.net/security/contagious-interview/
1•ashishb•4m ago•0 comments

TinyStories-260K running locally on a stock Game Boy Color

https://github.com/maddiedreese/gbc-transformer
1•adunk•4m ago•0 comments

Content-defined chunking added to Bazel

https://www.buildbuddy.io/blog/content-defined-chunking/
1•siggi•4m ago•0 comments

The Acceleration of Addictiveness (2010)

https://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html
1•downbad_•5m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What programming blogs do you follow?

1•chistev•7m ago•0 comments

Interaction Nets and Hardware

https://tendrils.co/background
1•PaulHoule•9m ago•0 comments

ZachXBT traces $19M crypto social engineering scheme by a teenager

https://xcancel.com/zachxbt/status/2054170002945987029#m
4•Cider9986•11m ago•1 comments

When crows join your LiveKit call

https://eniveld.substack.com/p/when-crows-join-your-livekit-call
1•davidz•16m ago•0 comments

Apple Is Quietly Building the Most Profitable AI Toll Booth

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4902208-apple-quietly-building-most-profitable-ai-toll-booth
2•ndr42•17m ago•0 comments

UAE Building 'Cope Cages' to Protect Energy Facilities from Drone Attack

https://www.twz.com/news-features/uae-building-massive-cope-cages-to-protect-energy-facilities-fr...
3•uticus•19m ago•0 comments

Six SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud

https://analytics.fixelsmith.com/posts/sql-fraud-patterns/
1•analyticsfs•19m ago•0 comments

How Mamdani and Hochul Are Solving New York City's Budget Crisis

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/nyregion/mamdani-budget-nyc.html
3•thunderbong•20m ago•0 comments

Project Bluefin now based on top of GNOME OS

https://docs.projectbluefin.io/blog/making-our-own-fate/
1•trogdor3000•20m ago•0 comments

Obsidian Sync Audits by Cure53 and Trail of Bits

https://obsidian.md/blog/cure53-tob-sync-audits/
2•cdrnsf•23m ago•0 comments

Aictx – Repo-local continuity runtime for coding agents

https://github.com/oldskultxo/aictx
2•santism•23m ago•1 comments

Stochastic Parrots: Frequently Unasked Questions

https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/stochastic-parrots-frequently-unasked-questions-49c2e7d22d11
1•olalonde•27m ago•0 comments

How the U.S. Became the Greatest Energy Exporter

https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/us-energy-exports-charts-60f29985
2•JumpCrisscross•28m ago•2 comments

Adult game industry complaint to FTC regarding Visa/Mastercard (2025) [pdf]

https://avvn.org/ftc.pdf
2•Scaled•28m ago•1 comments

Crypto Revolution

https://tera-finance.io
1•tyoma_cho•29m ago•0 comments

Stacktree – The publish primitive for agent-made HTML

https://stacktr.ee/
1•indigodaddy•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AICTL – A native AI agent for terminal and macOS, in Rust

https://aictl.app
1•piotrwittchen•31m ago•1 comments

The Chakram and its Forgotten Technique [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyBXkhTzAK0
1•Nevaeh•32m ago•0 comments

Claude programmatic usage get separate budget

https://xcancel.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2054610152817619388
1•willempienaar•33m ago•0 comments

I built a reference Go project (and taught an AI agent to clone it)

https://aran.dev/posts/why-i-built-a-reference-go-project/
1•aranw•34m ago•0 comments

From News Articles to Knowledge Graphs with SpaCy and NetworkX

https://data4sci.substack.com/p/from-news-articles-to-knowledge-graphs
1•Anon84•37m ago•0 comments

The 'Special Child' Trap: From 'Indigo' to Modern Identity

https://growsomelabia.substack.com/p/indigo-vs-trans-children-status
1•GSL_Commentary•37m ago•0 comments

Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads

https://www.theverge.com/tech/929091/meta-ai-threads-account-block
13•logickkk1•39m ago•6 comments

I built an iPhone app for practicing happiness through small daily actions

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/practice-of-happiness/id6466039739
1•practiceofhappy•39m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Rars: a Rust RAR implementation, mostly written by LLMs

https://bitplane.net/log/2026/05/rars/
32•davidsong•1h ago

Comments

davidsong•1h ago
I spent a fortnight using Claude to create specs for every version of RAR, then another using gpt-5.5 to write compressors in Rust.

It's not fast and it's not pretty, but it works.

esafak•37m ago
> It’s sloppy, it’s slow, it’s almost two megabytes in size and somewhat worse than WinRAR on compression.

As mathematicians say, optimization is left as an exercise to the reader. You did the hard part.

themafia•42m ago
> But, it works, and the world now has a free software RAR implementation.

Does it? How are you legally intending to use copyright to license this machine output? How would you know it's not encumbered in any way?

perching_aix•15m ago
Really unsure why this is getting downvoted, to my understanding this is a massive, unsettled concern.

It wasn't even a disasm/pseudocode to formal spec flow, and then a separate human implementation. The same human has been in the loop throughout, and large parts of it were generated directly.

It's basically guaranteed tainted.

cactusplant7374•40m ago
> and it almost earned me an OpenAI ban

Were you flagged for a cybersecurity violation?

gibspaulding•28m ago
> Well, it turned out that at some time during spec investigation, Claude needed to understand authenticity verification which is a paid feature. With a context full of reverse engineering tools it cracked WinRAR and bypassed product registration, then dutifully documented its crimes in the spec. The docs, when viewed, triggered OpenAI’s alarms and stopped it dead in its tracks. I squashed this out of the git history, and decided not to implement the feature at all.

You can draw your own conclusions as to what this says about the state of agentic development.

Imustaskforhelp•22m ago
Kudos, this is a really cool project (even if it might be AI generated), I have starred the repo, (3rd starrer here)

One thing I have been curious at is are there any ways to stop a rar compression mid way and then continue it later?

Like suppose I have a compression happening for a large file, then would there be a possibility with this project to shut down the computer mid compression and continue it after starting it again?

I would really love it if you can add this functionality!

slopinthebag•21m ago
How do we know it's actually correct?
perching_aix•18m ago
By using it.
repelsteeltje•16m ago
It works == it's correct?
mjr00•14m ago
This is Rust we're talking about. It doesn't even need to work; as long as it compiles, it's correct.
speedgoose•9m ago

    use std::fs::File;
    use std::io::prelude::*;
    
    fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
        let mut file = File::create("content.txt")?;
        file.write_all(b"3!")?;
        Ok(())
    }
perching_aix•13m ago
Yes? What do you think fuzzing, unit testing, integration testing is for? It's an empirical evaluation of correctness. Literally just try and see.

For actual correctness verification in the strong sense, you'd need to start from a specification written in a formal language so that it's machine checkable, which if I had to guess, not even win.rar GmbH has.

repelsteeltje•8m ago
I hope the developers of, say, the brakes in my car don't interpret 'software correctness' the way you do.

Added, later: hey you changed your comment, added a whole paragraph.

perching_aix•7m ago
Correctly? Weird thing to wish for, but you do you.
xphos•16m ago
Would it really take 5 years to develop rare compress and decompression that seems an extreme overestimate in time. I don't know of the compressor decompression but that seems really high
q3k•7m ago
Yeah, sounds closer to a 5 week thing, if you know what you're doing.