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Child Mortality Has Declined in All World Regions

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/child-mortality-has-declined-in-all-world-regions
1•karakoram•37s ago•0 comments

A Writer's Life: A Life

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/1829132/a-writers-life-a-life
1•smileduck•37s ago•0 comments

DNS Doom – No shame in the Domain Name game: DNS is doomed

https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/10/12/no-shame-in-the-domain-name-game-dns-is-doomed-...
1•baud147258•55s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sayso, free open source dictation for Mac, Windows, and Linux

https://github.com/watzon/sayso
1•watzon•1m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Present, near-future state of nuclear (betavoltaic, 6C, etc.) batteries?

1•eth0up•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Surprisal – a language identifier in ~250 lines of C. No ML,no training

https://github.com/ahhyoushh/zip-surprisal
1•iushh•2m ago•0 comments

Google's new WeatherNext 3 AI enabled this free weather app

https://www.freethewind.com/whyfree
1•timetrax•4m ago•0 comments

The Private Life of a Cat (1945)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-private-life-of-a-cat-ca-1945/
1•lufxen•5m ago•0 comments

Nvidia falls to 34% of China's AI chip market as Huawei takes 28%

https://theinference.org/article/nvidia-falls-to-34-of-china-s-ai-chip-market-as-huawei-takes-28
1•vincentjiang•5m ago•0 comments

Slopcore – A Guide to Claudia

https://claudia.gallery/
1•phillc73•6m ago•1 comments

Unparliamentary Language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unparliamentary_language
1•samclemens•6m ago•0 comments

Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/redesigning-source-control
2•Philpax•7m ago•0 comments

The fastest open Firebase alternative – an 8-way benchmark comparison

https://github.com/burggraf/baas-bench/tree/main/results/realworld-api-v3/project-management-capa...
1•barfoos•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RemainderBot – spends leftover Claude/Codex quota on reviewable PRs

https://github.com/arimwilson/openremainderbot
2•ariwilson•9m ago•1 comments

Keepword a decentralised network that checks if a company silently edits TOS

https://keepword.net/
2•Aelthorim•10m ago•1 comments

The Rise and Flush of Skibidi Toilet

https://rollingstoneindia.com/the-rise-and-flush-of-skibidi-toilet/
1•rdmuser•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Revise CLI

https://www.npmjs.com/package/revise
1•artursapek•12m ago•1 comments

The AI Enthusiasm Gap

https://mitch.website/blog/ai-enthusiasm-gap/
2•hyperultra•14m ago•0 comments

Launch HN: Consus (YC F24) – LLM gateway for companies handling sensitive data

5•ericmags•16m ago•1 comments

Perplexity's AI agents helped build a database with Rust

https://thenewstack.io/perplexity-cobbledb-ai-database/
1•shenli3514•16m ago•0 comments

Now That Information Is Free, What's a College Campus For?

https://commonedge.org/now-that-information-is-free-whats-a-college-campus-for/
12•surprisetalk•17m ago•12 comments

Server44 – Tip tracker for servers and bartenders

https://server44.app/
1•ehm-tech•21m ago•0 comments

Factories are automated. Their back offices are stuck in 1995

https://www.lleverage.ai/company/blog/why-your-back-office-spends-80-of-time-on-admin-the-researc...
1•leonardopiumi•21m ago•0 comments

Scammers Steal Millions from Food Stamp Recipients. Congress Won't Fix It

https://www.propublica.org/article/food-stamp-snap-benefits-theft-skimmers-fraud
3•hn_acker•21m ago•1 comments

China Reduced Extreme Poverty Fast, but Indonesia Hasn't Been Far Behind

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/china-reduced-extreme-poverty-fast-but-indonesia-hasnt-b...
3•karakoram•23m ago•0 comments

Bundestrojaner

https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/13/petards-r-us/
1•hn_acker•23m ago•0 comments

Singapore's bank wants all FinTech AI use cases subject to independent review

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/08/singapores-central-bank-wants-all-fintech-ai-use...
2•vismit2000•24m ago•0 comments

Augmenting Human Intellect (1962) [pdf]

https://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/papers/scanned/Doug_Engelbart-AugmentingHumanIntellect.pdf
1•_doctor_love•27m ago•0 comments

Palantir CTO:Some AI researchers taking up smoking;they expect AI to cure cancer

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-researchers-smoking-ai-cure-cancer-palantir-cto-2026-10
2•bookofjoe•27m ago•0 comments

Deprecation of HashiCorp Boundary Community Edition

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/deprecation-of-boundary-community-edition/77828
1•bluehatbrit•28m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Pi-Infinite-Context

https://github.com/fdietze/pi-infinite-context
1•manx•52m ago
Hi HN! Since I created this extension and heavily refined its core design, I'm not worrying about context size anymore. It just works so well. So I wanted to share. It is stress-tested with OpenAI and Anthropic models.

Since HN is sensitive to good readmes, I wanted to do it well here. I started writing it by hand, but noticed that it was not great. then I decided to go back to LLM help, but iterate on it until it was short, simple and readable. I hope you like it.

In this process I had an insight about AI generated content. Slop is not only the fact that AI was used, but that the creator did not care about a high quality result. I'm interested to hear what you think about this take.

Comments

thepasch•49m ago
Isn't this going to completely slaughter cache hit rates?
manx•42m ago
valid question. I thought a lot about this. The prefix before every fold stays intact (cache hit). But for the messages after the fold there is always a cache miss. Folds don't happen too often, so in practice this turned out to be worth it, because the cache miss comes with a big token reduction in general. I don't have a solid cost analysis for this yet, though.
k310•31m ago
To those of us who can barely keep up with the proliferation of homonyms (words with the same name and different meanings):

> Pi is a minimal agent harness.

Not 3.14159 and so on

Not a computer.

verdverm•22m ago
I just switch to pi from OpenCode (another polynomer), and have no intentions of going back
verdverm•20m ago
I won't touch anything that touches my context without very compelling evals. The readme is too minimal, imo
manx•2m ago
Which evals would you be interested in specifically? And what are you missing in the readme?