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Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant for essay writing task

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
102•stephen_g•3h ago•52 comments

Being a Force Multiplier

https://substack.com/home/post/p-165651243
7•jandrewrogers•3d ago•2 comments

Lisp-stat: Lisp environment for statistical computing

https://lisp-stat.dev/about/
35•oumua_don17•1d ago•8 comments

Modifying an HDMI dummy plug's EDID using a Raspberry Pi

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/06/modifying-an-hdmi-dummy-plugs-edid-using-a-raspberry-pi/
218•zdw•14h ago•59 comments

Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment

https://github.com/cosmos72/twin
77•kim_rutherford•10h ago•11 comments

Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014)

https://tim.dierks.org/2014/05/security-standards-and-name-changes-in.html
243•Bogdanp•16h ago•115 comments

Chemical knowledge and reasoning of large language models vs. chemist expertise

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-025-01815-x
46•bookofjoe•1d ago•9 comments

Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

https://voxelmanip.se/2025/06/14/jokes-and-humour-in-the-public-android-api/
35•todsacerdoti•6h ago•6 comments

Canyon.mid

https://canyonmid.com/
264•LorenDB•16h ago•155 comments

Childhood leukemia: how a deadly cancer became treatable

https://ourworldindata.org/childhood-leukemia-treatment-history
184•surprisetalk•17h ago•47 comments

Telephone Exchanges in the UK

https://telephone-exchanges.org.uk/
110•petecooper•10h ago•36 comments

Datalog in Rust

https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2025-06-03.md
269•brson•18h ago•28 comments

First 2D, non-silicon computer developed

https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/worlds-first-2d-non-silicon-computer-developed
88•giuliomagnifico•3d ago•16 comments

DARPA program sets distance record for power beaming

https://www.darpa.mil/news/2025/darpa-program-distance-record-power-beaming
31•gnabgib•7h ago•16 comments

Reinventing circuit breakers with supercritical CO2

https://spectrum.ieee.org/sf6-gas-replacement
64•rbanffy•7h ago•27 comments

How to modify Starlink Mini to run without the built-in WiFi router

https://olegkutkov.me/2025/06/15/how-to-modify-starlink-mini-to-run-without-the-built-in-wifi-router/
282•LorenDB•17h ago•77 comments

Datalog in miniKanren

https://deosjr.github.io/dynamicland/datalog.html
92•deosjr•13h ago•8 comments

Simplest C++ Callback, from SumatraPDF

https://blog.kowalczyk.info/a-stsj/simplest-c-callback-from-sumatrapdf.html
106•jandeboevrie•12h ago•82 comments

Real-time CO2 monitoring without batteries or external power

https://news.kaist.ac.kr/newsen/html/news/?mode=V&mng_no=47450
20•gnabgib•7h ago•4 comments

Fields where Native Americans farmed a thousand years ago discovered in Michigan

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/massive-field-where-native-american-farmers-grew-corn-beans-and-squash-1000-years-ago-discovered-in-michigan-180986758/
178•CoopaTroopa•3d ago•76 comments

Random Walk: A Modern Introduction [pdf]

https://www.math.uchicago.edu/~lawler/srwbook.pdf
19•Anon84•3d ago•1 comments

Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book

https://www.understandingai.org/p/metas-llama-31-can-recall-42-percent
110•aspenmayer•18h ago•149 comments

David Attenborough at 99: 'I will not see how the story ends'

https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/celebrity/article/david-attenborough-book-extract-age-99-lj3rd2fg7
172•herbertl•8h ago•85 comments

Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look

https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-gravity-just-entropy-rising-long-shot-idea-gets-another-look-20250613/
10•pseudolus•5h ago•0 comments

Foundations of Computer Vision

https://visionbook.mit.edu
177•tzury•20h ago•7 comments

The Hewlett-Packard Archive

https://hparchive.com
11•joebig•4h ago•0 comments

Cyborg Embryos Offer New Insights into Brain Growth

https://spectrum.ieee.org/embryo-electrode-array
20•rbanffy•3d ago•1 comments

Cure Dolly's Japanese Grammar Lessons

https://kellenok.github.io/cure-script/
71•agnishom•2d ago•13 comments

The Art of Lisp and Writing (2003)

https://www.dreamsongs.com/ArtOfLisp.html
172•Bogdanp•23h ago•68 comments

Text-to-LoRA: Hypernetwork that generates task-specific LLM adapters (LoRAs)

https://github.com/SakanaAI/text-to-lora
108•dvrp•4d ago•10 comments
Open in hackernews

Cure Dolly's Japanese Grammar Lessons

https://kellenok.github.io/cure-script/
71•agnishom•2d ago

Comments

greybox•9h ago
I'm so glad someone is taking these forward. Her videos were a god send when I started out learning this language. Besides the sometimes strange rants about text-books, her videos are top notch.

This looks like it took a lot of effort to transcribe with all her helpful graphics too.

Thank you for doing this!

R.I.P Cure Dolly

amiga386•8h ago
> だ = the one-way equals sign

What on earth did I just read?

https://i.imgur.com/Z6OUVSp.png

svat•4h ago
> I would of course explain that the equality sign is not symmetric with respect to such notations; we have 3=A(5) and 4=A(5) but not 3=4, nor can we say that A(5)=4. We can, however, say that A(0)=0. As de Bruijn points out in [1, 1.2], mathematicians customarily use the = sign as they use the word “is” in English: Aristotle is a man, but a man isn’t necessarily Aristotle.

— Donald Knuth, Teach Calculus via O Notation (https://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2014/03/13/big-o-notation-a... or http://micromath.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/donald-knuth-calcu...)

Macha•8h ago
I found Cure Dolly's guide very helpful as a launching point for Japanese. Just don't take her "all you need" marketing too seriously, it is more an introductory level than a complete guide.
wyager•8h ago
I did some digging into the identity behind the Cure Dolly character after finding the videos quite helpful. There is what I recall being a fairly credible trail of evidence that the proprietor is formerly associated with the Silver Sisterhood, AKA the "Lesbian Spanking Cult", which has popped up on HN a number of times due to their involvement in the early text adventure video game industry.
joshdavham•7h ago
Could you provide some sources for this? I'm worried that this could be considered as spreading rumors.
userbinator•7h ago
This is what I could find from a few minutes of searching, although it's not really much evidence either way: https://pastebin.com/eHtG45pf

I have no skin in this game, but I wouldn't be surprised that someone with a brilliant mind would also have, to put it bluntly, "a bunch of weird shit."

cAtte_•48m ago
take a look at the long comment on that pastebin, this is some really interesting hobbydrama
arrakeen•7h ago
i randomly stumbled upon the connection as well while reading about the St. Bride's School. such a random connection between two completely different interests of mine that i joked the universe is a simulation with limited RAM and reuses assets

Cure Dolly has _some_ connection to this group which, to me, just adds even more mystique to an already fascinating story[1]

[1] https://if50.substack.com/p/1992-silverwolf

numpad0•46m ago
So eroge. Makes a ton of sense. Nowadays it'll probably be dojinshi. Why don't anyone else make and ship ton of those? It looks like foreign exports of pornography, especially generative than recorded, is not at all an insignificant source of soft power for Japan.
joshdavham•7h ago
For people not in the loop, Cure Dolly was a youtuber who taught basic Japanese grammar lessons using a digital avatar. She had (and continues to have) a cult-like following (in a good way) among a section of the online Japanese learning community. She was also ill at the time and eventually passed away.
happa•7h ago
Another great source is https://imabi.org/
kochikame•4h ago
I live in Japna and have a high-intermediate level of Japanese. I wish I had been able to read and think about these well-expressed observations when I was just starting out as it would have saved me from having to intuit things over time.

Like Cure Dolly writes, no one tells you what you really need to know when you're learning Japanese (all languages?)