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Qwen3-Max-Thinking

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-max-thinking
115•vinhnx•1h ago•30 comments

MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format

https://maplibre.org/news/2026-01-23-mlt-release/
271•todsacerdoti•6h ago•62 comments

After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand

https://atmoio.substack.com/p/after-two-years-of-vibecoding-im
343•mobitar•3h ago•172 comments

What "The Best" Looks Like

https://www.kuril.in/blog/what-the-best-looks-like/
18•akurilin•35m ago•3 comments

Exactitude in Science – Borges (1946) [pdf]

https://kwarc.info/teaching/TDM/Borges.pdf
36•jxmorris12•1h ago•13 comments

Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/24/google-ai-overviews-youtube-medical-citations-...
114•bookofjoe•2h ago•64 comments

Things I've learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager

https://www.jampa.dev/p/lessons-learned-after-10-years-as
359•jampa•4d ago•92 comments

OracleGPT: Thought Experiment on an AI Powered Executive

https://senteguard.com/blog/#post-7fYcaQrAcfsldmSb7zVM
23•djwide•1h ago•11 comments

Show HN: Only 1 LLM can fly a drone

https://github.com/kxzk/snapbench
66•beigebrucewayne•5h ago•33 comments

The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen

https://github.com/quaadgras/graphics.gd/discussions/242
153•Splizard•8h ago•112 comments

Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude Code in a month

https://blog.vjeux.com/2026/analysis/porting-100k-lines-from-typescript-to-rust-using-claude-code...
84•ibobev•2h ago•47 comments

TSMC Risk

https://stratechery.com/2026/tsmc-risk/
62•swolpers•5h ago•36 comments

The browser is the sandbox

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/25/the-browser-is-the-sandbox/
261•enos_feedler•11h ago•149 comments

First, make me care

https://gwern.net/blog/2026/make-me-care
707•andsoitis•21h ago•210 comments

Text Is King

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/text-is-king
96•zdw•5d ago•37 comments

Blade Runner Costume Design (2020)

https://costumedesignarchive.blogspot.com/2020/12/blade-runner-1982.html
29•exvi•5d ago•5 comments

Runjak.codes: An adversarial coding test

https://runjak.codes/posts/2026-01-21-adversarial-coding-test/
12•todsacerdoti•4d ago•0 comments

Transfering Files with gRPC

https://kreya.app/blog/transfering-files-with-grpc/
35•CommonGuy•3h ago•10 comments

Vibe coding kills open source

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15494
213•kgwgk•3h ago•186 comments

QMD - Quick Markdown Search

https://github.com/tobi/qmd
7•saikatsg•6d ago•1 comments

Scientists identify brain waves that define the limits of 'you'

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-identify-brain-waves-that-define-the-limits-of-you
260•mikhael•16h ago•71 comments

OSS ChatGPT WebUI – 530 Models, MCP, Tools, Gemini RAG, Image/Audio Gen

https://llmspy.org/docs/v3
34•mythz•1h ago•2 comments

Wind Chime Length Calculator (2022)

https://www.snyderfamily.com/chimecalcs/
32•hyperific•5d ago•13 comments

AI will not replace software engineers (hopefully)

https://medium.com/@sig.segv/ai-will-not-replace-software-engineers-hopefully-84c4f8fc94c0
19•fwef64•1h ago•23 comments

The future of software engineering is SRE

https://swizec.com/blog/the-future-of-software-engineering-is-sre/
210•Swizec•18h ago•104 comments

LED lighting undermines visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-35389-6
163•bookofjoe•18h ago•148 comments

A static site generator written in POSIX shell

https://aashvik.com/posts/shell-ssg/
60•todsacerdoti•6d ago•32 comments

Clinic-in-the-loop

https://www.asimov.press/p/clinic-loop
17•surprisetalk•4d ago•4 comments

Running the Stupid Cricut Software on Linux

https://arthur.pizza/2025/12/running-stupid-cricut-software-under-linux/
51•starkparker•12h ago•13 comments

Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems

https://www.diljitpr.net/blog-post-postgresql-dlq
242•tanelpoder•1d ago•73 comments
Open in hackernews

Exactitude in Science – Borges (1946) [pdf]

https://kwarc.info/teaching/TDM/Borges.pdf
36•jxmorris12•1h ago

Comments

RansomStark•1h ago
I can't get enough of Borges.

His way with words and way to highlight to absurdity of situations is first class.

My favorite is the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge. It's a critique of the classification used by the Institute of Bibliography which he considered nonsensical. He claims to have found the list in an ancient Chinese encyclopaedia:

- those belonging to the Emperor

- embalmed ones

- trained ones

- suckling pigs

- mermaids

- fabled ones

- stray dogs

- those included in this classification

- those that tremble as if they were mad

- innumerable ones

- those drawn with a very fine camel hair brush

- et cetera

- those that have just broken the vase

- those that from afar look like flies

bobson381•58m ago
It's such a wonderful thing to be reminded of how silly it is to take language seriously. IMO it's prickles and goo[1] all the way down - and the prickles help us share meaning and exchange information, but there is no project of exactitude to be completed.

The hubris it takes to maintain the view that we can just keep figuring things out if we are rational enough is also sometimes overwhelming to me. It's not that we can't understand things better through analysis, just that it sometimes seems foolish to me to try to get all of it through system-2 type behavior. We will always miss something crucial[2].

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4vHnM8WPvU

[2]:https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-call...

mkoubaa•32m ago
An algorithm written in a well specified language with precise semantics might have bugs. A "logical" argument made with natural language is orders of magnitude less precise
bobson381•29m ago
What I've always wondered, though, is whether that lack of precision is what allows for meaning to arise in the first place. In the gap between language and - this - .
colechristensen•1m ago
If you haven't run across it yet you would enjoy Borges and Me

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borges_and_Me:_An_Encounter

divbzero•1h ago
The most avid members of the Cartographers Guilds had even proposed a Map of the Empire several times larger than the Empire itself to depict microscopic details that would otherwise be invisible. Such proposals were considered the peak of academic excess after the Study of Cartography fell out of favor.
bobson381•55m ago
I do sometimes wonder if we will get "detailed enough" vector embeddings in LLMs to bring the grain of resolution down below human perception - like having enough bits to fully capture what's on tape in audio world. Maybe this is never possible, and (I hope) some details are unresolvable, but it will be interesting to see.
pixl97•25m ago
LLMs are already used in signal processing so the idea is explored.

Simply put anything that can be encoded is a language, so you just need sensors to capture and classify the incoming data and build that into a model. The real question is post training the model to behave correctly as these places are far less explored than things at the human scale. RLHF may be a poor choice because the models may see actual behaviors that humans don't and humans will discount it as being incorrect.

johngossman•56m ago
"I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last summer folding it. People ask me where I live, and I say, 'E6."

Steven Wright

Though it's not as funny without his delivery

zubiaur•49m ago
Ficciones is full of mockings of intellectualism. I Particularly like the critique on the critical philosophical work of Menard's Quixote. Where Menard, the subject of the story, carefully writes parts of a novel that is word-for-word a copy of Cervante's Quixote, but shaped by Menard's intellectual efforts, one is to draw the opposite appreciations than from the one written by Cervantes.

His stories are such a strange read. The plot, the characters, the mentions, all feel almost secondary to the feeling they evoke.

lkm0•9m ago
Menard's Quixote is also one of my favorites. I feel it illustrates almost in a mean way the futility and arrogance of analyzing a work through its author's life and intention. I'm not knowledgeable enough to know if this kind of literary analysis was still popular in Borges' time and place, but in France up to the early 20th century, an influential critic called Sainte-Beuve was claiming with great success that any work could be entirely (and scientifically) analyzed and elucidated by interviewing the author's friends, partners, by sniffing out their secret habits and what not -- and I assume Borges must've been aware of it, having been educated in early 20th century French-speaking Switzerland. If I had another life I'd probably do another PhD thesis on Borges vs Sainte-Beuve. Fun fact: Marcel Proust was so mad at Sainte-Beuve that it got him out of his writer's block; In Search of Lost Time is an anti-Sainte-Beuve essay that got out of hand.
fbn79•21m ago
"The House of Asterion" is the most beautifully written thing I have ever read. https://klasrum.weebly.com/uploads/9/0/9/1/9091667/the_house...
profsummergig•2m ago
I think it's a message about how science is really about effective sampling.