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401•BloondAndDoom•1h ago•137 comments

Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-war
216•surprisetalk•58m ago•39 comments

Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers

https://github.com/anadim/AdderBoard
60•ks2048•1d ago•12 comments

OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/openai-raises-110b-in-one-of-the-largest-private-funding-rounds...
383•zlatkov•11h ago•467 comments

Qt45: A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt2760
42•ppnpm•2h ago•5 comments

A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/operating-systems/a-new-california-law-says-all-operating-system...
385•WalterSobchak•11h ago•380 comments

Emuko: Fast RISC-V emulator written in Rust, boots Linux

https://github.com/wkoszek/emuko
42•felipap•3h ago•4 comments

A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operation

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/politics/chatgpt-china-intimidation-operation
143•cwwc•10h ago•91 comments

NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-artemis-moon-program-overhaul/
213•voxadam•9h ago•206 comments

A better streams API is possible for JavaScript

https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-better-web-streams-api/
374•nnx•12h ago•126 comments

I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

https://twitter.com/secwar/status/2027507717469049070
1056•jacobedawson•3h ago•892 comments

Show HN: Claude-File-Recovery, recover files from your ~/.claude sessions

https://github.com/hjtenklooster/claude-file-recovery
49•rikk3rt•9h ago•17 comments

Inventing the Lisa user interface – Interactions

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/242388.242405
13•rbanffy•2d ago•1 comments

Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit

https://book.mixu.net/distsys/single-page.html
28•vinhnx•3d ago•0 comments

Let's discuss sandbox isolation

https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/52/lets-discuss-sandbox-isolation/
104•shayonj•7h ago•30 comments

Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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448•zhisme•17h ago•202 comments

Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification

https://github.com/c3d/db48x/commit/7819972b641ac808d46c54d3f5d1df70d706d286
139•iamnothere•10h ago•68 comments

Writing a Guide to SDF Fonts

https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2026-02-26-writing-a-guide-to-sdf-fonts/
78•chunkles•7h ago•5 comments

Otters as Bioindicators of Estuarine Health

https://emt.pensoft.net/article/185117/
19•PaulHoule•4h ago•2 comments

Building secure, scalable agent sandbox infrastructure

https://browser-use.com/posts/two-ways-to-sandbox-agents
57•gregpr07•11h ago•9 comments

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring an Enterprise Account Executive

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kyber/jobs/59yPaCs-enterprise-account-executive-ae
1•asontha•7h ago

Allocating on the Stack

https://go.dev/blog/allocation-optimizations
125•spacey•9h ago•49 comments

PCB Tracer

https://pcbtracer.com
54•Luc•3d ago•29 comments

Implementing a Z80 / ZX Spectrum emulator with Claude Code

https://antirez.com/news/160
126•antirez•2d ago•62 comments

Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died

https://www.beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/17193/red-dwarf-rob-grant
242•nephihaha•6h ago•69 comments

Modeling cycles of grift with evolutionary game theory

https://www.oranlooney.com/post/grifters-skeptics-marks/
83•ibobev•3d ago•36 comments

We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM

https://www.mendral.com/blog/llms-are-good-at-sql
170•shad42•10h ago•93 comments

Reading English from 1000 AD

https://lewiscampbell.tech/blog/260224.html
114•LAC-Tech•4d ago•37 comments

Show HN: I built a self-hosted course platform in Clojure

https://clojure.stream
39•jacekschae•1d ago•5 comments

Court finds Fourth Amendment doesn’t support broad search of protesters’ devices

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/victory-tenth-circuit-finds-fourth-amendment-doesnt-support...
516•hn_acker•11h ago•92 comments
Open in hackernews

Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers

https://github.com/anadim/AdderBoard
60•ks2048•1d ago

Comments

amelius•1h ago
> In short: if you can swap in a different set of weights and use the exact same inference code for a different task, your setup is legitimate. If the inference code is inseparable from the algorithm, it's not.

I wonder why they don't just write the code themselves, so by design the focus can be on the model.

medi8r•1h ago
You can do that in a single matmul of course.
hyperhello•1h ago
So can you take an arbitrary transformer and somehow turn it into a compact set of low-power fast gates by some algorithm?
measurablefunc•1h ago
I think you're misunderstanding the joke.
medi8r•30m ago
Yes joke is:

    [A B]
times

    [1]
    [1]
is

    [A+B]
hyperhello•20m ago
From context then, I infer that a transformer is not comprised of matrix multiplications, because it would simply be one that adds two 10-digit numbers.
medi8r•15m ago
A transformer tokenizes input, does a bunch of matmul and relu set up in a certain way. It doesn't get to see the raw number (just like you don't when you look at 1+1 you need visual cortex etc. first.)
E-Reverance•50m ago
Not sure how much this fits into the rules but I saw on twitter someone claimed 28 params : https://gist.github.com/SeuperHakkerJa/da3050739bea97aabd86e...
ks2048•48m ago
So, hand-coded weights can do it with 36 params and 311 for trained weights - did anyone try the former architecture, but starting with random weights and learning?
1over137•14m ago
Now wrap it all in an Electron app!
munro•8m ago
>=99% accuracy wtf?!?

I was initially excited until i saw that, because it would reveal some sort of required local min capacity, and then further revelation that this was all vibe coded and no arXiv, makes me feel I should save my attn for another article.

i000•6m ago
Would it make sense to embed such single-purpose network with fixed weights within a LLM before pre-training?