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What is a quantum computer good for? nothing – yet

https://www.theverge.com/science/959466/quantum-computer-majorana-2-microsoft-trump-eo
3•joak•1h ago

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joak•1h ago
Google had a paper last year explaining that: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/research/us...

We do not have any useful algorithm to run on a quantum computer.

The problem is not that we do not have yet quantum computers powerful enough, but that even if we had such computers we would not have anything useful to run on them.

rolph•55m ago
so it sounds like a douglasadams-ism, we dont know the question to the answer.

that seems to reduce to, a solution in search of a problem.

Keeping Code Reviews from Dragging

https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/06/03/making-reviews-actually-fast
2•locknitpicker•1m ago•0 comments

A 25 question trivia quiz for America's 250th birthday

https://usa250quiz-site.pages.dev/
3•seinvak•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Waypoint.nvim – A Neovim plugin for bookmarking lines of code

https://github.com/patrick-sharp/waypoint.nvim
2•patrick-sharp•3m ago•0 comments

Infra Commits – based on Conventional Commits but for infrastructure/operations

https://codeberg.org/devopsguy/infra-commits
1•ohelm•3m ago•1 comments

Terraforming Warfare and International Law

https://opiniojuris.org/2026/02/25/terraforming-warfare-and-international-law/
1•bryanrasmussen•4m ago•0 comments

America's 250th Birthday because a test of Collective Intelligence

https://venturebeat.com/technology/how-americas-250th-birthday-became-a-test-of-ai-powered-collec...
1•bonkerbits•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Clipart.free – Public-Domain Clipart

https://clipart.free/
1•nadermx•5m ago•0 comments

Keep Your Skills Sharp the Hard Way

https://explainanalyze.com/p/keep-your-skills-sharp-the-hard-way/
1•sdevonoes•7m ago•0 comments

Miller 6.20.2: Miller and AI, bash/zsh tab-completion, bytes datatype

https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases/tag/v6.20.2
1•john_kerl•8m ago•0 comments

AI has torched the market for junior programmers

https://seldo.com/posts/ai-has-torched-the-market-for-junior-programmers/
5•cdrnsf•8m ago•0 comments

Floci: a fast, free, and open-source local AWS service emulator

https://floci.io/floci/
1•Tomte•12m ago•0 comments

Calculator built to teach/experiment with costing LLM chat apps

https://calc.ajinkya.ai/
1•csmonk•14m ago•0 comments

I ran an AI nuclear engineering department for a week

https://charlesazam.com/blog/ai-engineering-department/
1•couAUIA•15m ago•0 comments

RefCam Bayer Leverkusen vs. FC Bayern [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Nuf_Y-tBeI
2•mmarian•16m ago•1 comments

Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable

https://github.com/ammaarreshi/Generals-Mac-iOS-iPad/tree/main
9•asronline•17m ago•7 comments

The Feeling of Recursion

https://icely.neocities.org/articles/recursion
4•icely•21m ago•0 comments

I built a game where people solve mazes together

https://maze.cleoselene.com/hackernews
2•brunovcosta•23m ago•0 comments

AI-writing-pattern linter that kept flagging my own README

https://github.com/Shirhussain/humanize
3•danishyar•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Typocalypse – An Arcade Typing Roguelike

https://typocalypse.florianrudaj.com/
2•florianrudaj•29m ago•0 comments

Putting an Agent in an Orb

https://ampcode.com/notes/putting-an-agent-in-an-orb
2•tosh•35m ago•0 comments

Generative AI creates delicious, sustainable, and nutritious burgers

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41538-026-00953-x
2•nojito•38m ago•0 comments

There Are Few Socialists in America

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/there-are-very-few-socialists-in
4•rbanffy•39m ago•0 comments

Image-to-emoji ASCII art generation

https://philatype.github.io/mojsaic/
2•busymom0•41m ago•0 comments

A Little Machine Near the Sun – Ecuador Robot Climbs Chimborazo

https://latinamericanpost.com/science-technology/ecuador-robot-climbs-chimborazo-as-science-gets-...
2•dxs•43m ago•0 comments

Iredis

https://github.com/laixintao/iredis
2•Olshansky•44m ago•0 comments

The Consequences of Caste in Village India

https://nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/the-consequences-of-caste-in-village
3•paulpauper•46m ago•0 comments

A damage accumulation model identifies distinct aging regimes across species

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-026-01138-7
4•paulpauper•46m ago•0 comments

AMD pivots from HBM to LPDDR5X for new Versal Gen 2 memory on package chips

https://www.servethehome.com/amd-pivots-from-hbm-to-lpddr5x-for-new-versal-premium-gen-2-memory-o...
2•teleforce•47m ago•0 comments

US and Chinese companies train almost all of the most-used AI models

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/us-and-chinese-companies-train-almost-all-of-the-worlds-...
5•01-_-•48m ago•0 comments

Wicklow hotel cancels 'secretive' Peter Thiel group conference

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/07/03/wicklow-hotel-cancels-secretive-peter-thiel-confere...
12•01-_-•49m ago•0 comments