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LLMs reward expertise

https://www.seangoedecke.com/llms-reward-expertise/

314•MaxMussio•2h ago•131 comments

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/

389•milkshakes•7h ago•673 comments

Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage

https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/08/03/windows-xp-2002-for-the-itanium-unbridled-rage/

36•jandeboevrie•1h ago•6 comments

Devtools must be open source

https://blog.exe.dev/devtools-must-be-open-source

477•bryanmikaelian•9h ago•173 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)

68•whoishiring•8h ago•85 comments

Battle of the Beams

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Beams

21•petethomas•2d ago•2 comments

Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale

https://blog.cloudflare.com/smaller-faster-safer-models/

127•ascorbic•6h ago•33 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

31•whoishiring•8h ago•145 comments

MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video

https://blog.comfy.org/p/minimax-h3-day-0-support-in-comfyui

242•vblanco•10h ago•76 comments

Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years

https://changelog.complete.org/archives/44456-celebrating-45-years-of-kermit-with-the-first-new-c...

118•roryirvine•6h ago•33 comments

Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code

https://ankursethi.com/blog/prevent-cognitive-debt-by-manually-retyping-llm-generated-code/

363•mpweiher•14h ago•300 comments

200 Milliseconds

https://200ms.thenodebook.com

163•dimitarpanov•2d ago•53 comments

Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs

https://clickhouse.com/blog/andy-pavlo-joins-clickhouse

256•nikolay_sivko•9h ago•54 comments

Replacing the Kobo Libra H2O Battery

https://ei3lh.eu/2025/11/20/replacing-the-kobo-libra-h2o-battery/

38•austinallegro•4d ago•10 comments

The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020)

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-kruger-effect-probably-not-real

110•audreyfei•4h ago•111 comments

Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents

https://hoplite.sh

49•BenceRed•7h ago•50 comments

ZX Spectrum System Tour: Text Mode

https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/zx-spectrum-system-tour-text-mode/

12•rbanffy•2h ago•0 comments

How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood

https://www.statsignificant.com/p/how-hollywood-stopped-making-movies

158•speckx•6d ago•180 comments

KisakCOD – open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer

https://github.com/SwagSoftware/KisakCOD

33•skibz•4h ago•3 comments

Kelly Criterion Simulator

https://kellysimulator.com/

50•aleyan•3d ago•23 comments

AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU

https://github.com/lyogavin/airllm

182•Anon84•12h ago•71 comments

Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library

https://github.com/janestreet/bonsai

292•KolmogorovComp•15h ago•112 comments

Massively Parallel Postgres Backups

https://planetscale.com/blog/massively-parallel-postgres-backups

85•ksec•3d ago•10 comments

Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed

https://defector.com/abandoned-fish-sauce-canada-interview

189•ohjeez•3d ago•190 comments

Twenty Years of Pandoc

https://pandoc.org/twenty-years-of-pandoc.html

82•fiddlosopher•8h ago•9 comments

ZX Spectrum System Tour: Sound

https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/08/01/zx-spectrum-system-tour-sound/

28•ibobev•5h ago•5 comments

What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own?

https://epoch.ai/MirrorCode

61•yusufozkan•7h ago•64 comments

The Billable Usage API: programmatic cost visibility for Cloudflare

https://blog.cloudflare.com/billable-usage-api/

39•ashleypeacock•6h ago•6 comments

Use Task Runners for Common Coding Tasks

https://hamvocke.com/blog/task-runners/

64•speckx•7h ago•24 comments

Rust project goals: Immobile types and guaranteed destructors

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-project-goals/blob/main/src/2026/move-trait.md

232•paavohtl•17h ago•89 comments

Open in hackernews

Battle of the Beams

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Beams

21•petethomas•2d ago

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hi_hi•40m ago

For those interested in this topic I can’t recommend the following book enough.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1127842.Most_Secret_W...

Many of the overarching themes and challenges of dealing with technical problems where you have incomplete information will be familiar to many here.

According to the publications section of his Wikipedia, the book is available for free on archive.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Victor_Jones

ggm•1m ago

Decca navigation gear was common in British boats operating in near coastal waters right up to the 70s and 80s. The fundamentals of how this system worked were not radically different to the beam systems used for navigation in the war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decca_Navigator_System