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How the words we teach English language learners changed

https://pudding.cool/2026/07/essential-words/
89•c-oreills•1h ago•38 comments

Karpathy’s Pelican

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2083749667410727319
95•delichon•13h ago•63 comments

Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM

https://github.com/wie-project/kakehashi
25•vlad_kalinkin•1h ago•10 comments

Twenty Years of RISC OS Open

https://www.riscosopen.org/news/articles/2026/06/20/twenty-years-of-risc-os-open
101•AlexeyBrin•5h ago•15 comments

Show HN: NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark

https://github.com/graham33/nixos-dgx-spark
9•graham33•31m ago•2 comments

F*: A general-purpose proof-oriented programming language

https://fstar-lang.org/
83•ducktective•5h ago•31 comments

Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of TP-Link TL-841N

https://blog.juni-mp4.com/posts/42/rooting-the-tplink-tl841n-pt1/
15•mindracer•1h ago•1 comments

GE-97 Terminal: The Old Internet

https://ge97.com/
10•classichasclass•56m ago•0 comments

Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side

https://meshdiff.com/
136•projscope•6h ago•13 comments

Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2

https://16-bits.org/ft2.php
61•andsoitis•4d ago•18 comments

When transit passes were designed by hand

https://letterformarchive.org/news/milwaukee-transit-passes/
34•nate•2d ago•9 comments

Folding Paper Globes

https://foldingglobes.com/globes
87•dango2506•4d ago•15 comments

Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops

https://getbor.dev/blog/2026-08-02-bor-v080-release/
134•eniac111•8h ago•19 comments

Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language

https://fuselang.org
72•the_unproven•6h ago•10 comments

Norway Salmon

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-28/how-norway-s-salmon-industry-became-a-global-behemoth/1069...
74•CHB0403085482•5d ago•31 comments

Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Senior Demand Gen Manager

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/great-question/jobs/YutDxyf-senior-demand-generation-manager
1•nedwin•5h ago

Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/ars-notoria/
97•jruohonen•7h ago•23 comments

Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust

https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/07/29/developers-are-attached-to-tools-because-tools-encode-trust/
4•HieronymusBosch•4d ago•0 comments

Go 1.27 Interactive Tour

https://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-1-27/index.html
311•Hixon10•16h ago•155 comments

Rust All Hands 2026 Retrospective

https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/07/31/all-hands-2026-retrospective/
55•dcminter•7h ago•22 comments

Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built

https://github.com/tom-ilan/cycloidal_gearbox
270•tomilan•15h ago•91 comments

Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America

https://linuxiac.com/linux-desktop-market-share-surpasses-10-in-north-america/
21•leephillips•47m ago•7 comments

A Rant About “Technology” (2005)

https://www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about-technology
102•jamesgill•2h ago•58 comments

Holocloth

https://holocloth.vercel.app
108•ingve•2d ago•21 comments

Diátaxis

https://diataxis.fr/
462•ryanseys•21h ago•54 comments

Pushes to arch AUR are suspendended right now.

https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/message/YPJ3FQYJTJXXY3R...
11•EbNar•34m ago•0 comments

MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/08/mklinux-and-pimped-out-apple-workgroup.html
93•goldenskye•14h ago•9 comments

Show HN: Syncular – offline-first SQL sync with TypeScript and Rust cores

https://github.com/syncular/syncular
62•quambo•7h ago•22 comments

Seedance 2.5

https://seed.bytedance.com/en/blog/one-take-creation-flexible-referencing-introducing-seedance-2-5
415•njaremko•20h ago•235 comments

ESP32-C3 SuperMini antenna modification

https://peterneufeld.wordpress.com/2025/03/04/esp32-c3-supermini-antenna-modification/
54•ta988•10h ago•9 comments
Open in hackernews

Karpathy’s Pelican

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2083749667410727319
92•delichon•13h ago
https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2083749667410727319

Comments

c0rruptbytes•59m ago
perfect benchmark to burn more tokens - convenient
qwertox•56m ago
I'd rather have them battle on the topic "Who builds a better Google Wave for LLM chats" to explore the space of how AI studios could be.

"Getting Started with Google Wave": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKUAqNGVwX0

misiti3780•49m ago
i remember this failing, but this product looks pretty useful in 2026
throwaway27448•42m ago
It looked pretty useful in 2009. Failing to push it was baffling then too.
QuantumNomad_•35m ago
It was open sourced as Apache Wave when Google shut it down.

Years later Apache moved it to read only because of low community activity.

The archived git repo on GitHub remains available to clone and revive as a fork.

https://github.com/apache/incubator-retired-wave

throwaway27448•20m ago
This doesn't explain the lack of marketing. Apache isn't exactly known for pushing tech.
tikhonj•38m ago
notion isn't too far off

wave failed for weird google organizational reasons far more than anything inherent to the product or tech

patwolf•14m ago
I used it to plan a group beach trip back when it came out. We had a single page shared with everyone going on the trip. The page had live shopping lists, maps, weather forecasts, and other snippets of useful information. Now in 2026 I still can't think of any single technology that provides the same utility. Although to be fair, this might be a case of rosy retrospection.
epolanski•51m ago
I wish there was a timeline where I never ever had to see the pelican SVG test ever again.
matchagaucho•46m ago
It's difficult to think in exponentials.

But this demonstrates we're a couple orders of magnitude away from generating 1:1 hyper-personalized entertainment and media for individuals, rather than the masses.

dude250711•41m ago
I kind of like a sense of community even if it means losing out on personalisation.
futureshock•39m ago
Judging by the Seedance 2.5 demos today, I’d say it’s not that many orders of magnitude away now.
skippyfish•33m ago
I very much doubt that. We now have nearly-perfect AI image generation and it hasn't really changed the nature of human expression. I don't see my friends getting wildly creative. I mostly see it used for spammy blogs, spammy books, and cringeworthy corporate marketing - basically, a negative signal, rather than "ooh, AI image, I'm in for a treat". Is your experience different? If not, what changes with moving images?

Ultimately, most people don't have ideas for the kinds of personalized entertainment they want, and they don't want to be in charge of content production (even if you have an LLM do most of the work). I don't doubt that there are niches for it, especially stuff like porn, and I'm sure that pros (game studios, film studios) will leverage AI more and more, but I suspect that most of us will just want to sit on the couch, watch Spiderman XVIII, and then be able to talk about that shared Spiderman XVIII experience with all our friends.

darkwater•27m ago
quantumleaper•42m ago
I'm sad that Andrej Karpathy went from being one of the most reasonable, trusted, and credible voices in AI to peddling marketing slop for Anthropic.

8 months ago, he was (very reasonably) claiming that reliable agents are at least a decade away, but this now goes against the interest of his employer, so the narrative has been changed.

azan_•34m ago
> 8 months ago, he was (very reasonably) claiming that reliable agents are at least a decade away, but this now goes against the interest of his employer, so the narrative has been changed.

Or maybe over these 8 months agents improved a lot? You know, few years ago many AI experts predicted that things we are routinely doing now with AI are decades away. I mean how can you look at this post and not be impressed? It's insane what AI is currently capable of.

Rexxar•4m ago
What narrative has changed ? I just see an experiment with a very perfectible result and some reflections about what capacity are currently missing to have better results.
bredren•42m ago
I worked with an LLM to build a ~3D animation of the Back to the Future delorean Time Machine as a way to spice up the hero on a docs page.

That took a fair amount of custom tuning and I had to create a tuning view to get some of the behaviors right.

But it was enough fun that I generalized it to take in ~any scene description from a film. It goes out and gets more detailed descriptions and film stills if available but also takes custom stills if you provide them.

My test scene was the Gauntlet scene from Apocalypto. It is low fidelity but does a pretty amazing sequence with somewhat believable physics of the javelins etc.

Here is the docs page with the vertical takeoff / 88 miles an hour time travel: https://contextify.sh/docs

I can share some of the Apocalypto bit if anyone is interested.

manofmanysmiles•21m ago
I am interested, I'd love to see! I'm waiting for the day my dad's self published books become self produced movies!
theproblemisyou•6m ago
Yes, what a brilliant use of all that rapidly depleting fossil fuel! Just construct a bunch of fake fantasy worlds to live in so you can ignore reality, until one day the lights shut off and you don't even have a candle to read your rapidly dwindling pile of books at night, as you have to start burning them to keep warm. Real fucking amazing forward thinking you've done there, homo sapien, never change.
baron816•40m ago
IMO, the area where AI is going to be most useful over the next couple years is in developing manufacturing processes top to bottom. Maybe a million token budget is too small, but something like "design me a sneaker and all the equipment to manufacture it autonomously".
Invictus0•36m ago
Gotta love when a techbro just says some complete nonsense like this with total confidence
etdznots•13m ago
Grok build me a spaceship to mars, make no mistakes
aabhay•34m ago
Yes but the second order effect of this is that the cost of the tooling goes up since it is now the bottleneck, and therefore the shoemakers that survive do it off of technical complexity, branding, and regulatory capture.
bagels•5m ago
You think the bottleneck in creating a sneaker factory is not having an LLM to tell you what machines to buy?
billyp-rva•5m ago
> "design me a sneaker and all the equipment to manufacture it autonomously"

We already have sneaker designs and the equipment to manufacture them. Whatever it spits out is going to be, at best, a mediocre clone of something that already exists. What exactly is the point?

trlhaq•37m ago
So the LLMs do know the first paragraph for any novel! Probably verbatim, as we saw in the 2023 models. That verbatim giveaway has been beaten out of them to keep up appearances.

Thanks for confirming:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260802165914/https://xcancel.c...

You can downvote like in all other ClosedAI threads, but justice will come for the thieves eventually.

david-gpu•33m ago
Try reading what Karpathy said again before reinforcing your biases.
trlhaq•31m ago
Yeah, pretend that you never used 2023 models that quoted everything verbatim. To put it in a way that you'll understand:

No bias. No speculation. Just facts!

adamtaylor_13•28m ago
You literally did not read the article.
mdp2021•10m ago
Theft of what? Why - aside from the fact that your accusation are irrelevant to the submission and arguments absent -, you do not know verbatim paragraphs (we do)?

You cannot come and place your personal positions as assumptions. To me, there is absolutely no theft. And we cannot play a game of "Yes!"//"No!" here.

By the way: are we having a surge of this?

fzeindl•34m ago
Regarding the argument about LLMs having difficulties auditing their work:

I wonder whether we are entering the era of throwaway software. Just like cheap plastics and improved processes has enabled us to rapidly manufacture anything we want for a very low price, maybe LLMs give us the same for software. Produce it cheaply and if it breaks throws it away and reproduce it.

gisely•4m ago
Does this make sense with economics of software though? Throwaway products compete with more durable versions of the same product because there is a cost per unit produced that can be minimized by using cheaper materials or production processes that cut corners. With software there is no cost per unit. There might be a market for one-off software that serves a very specific purpose where throwaway software can compete with adapting more carefully engineered software to that purpose, but I am not convinced there is a lot value in this market.
serf•34m ago
you don't really need screenshots if you have an engine expressive enough for the scene generation while ensuring the visual appearance of the engine output itself is feasible.

that's why these things are actually pretty good at openscad/freecad/F360 mcps , the visual reality is enforced and guaranteed by rigor in the interpretation engine that is anchored to human physical reality.

skybrian•32m ago
Still images seem like a better quick test because we can see them at a glance. Maybe ask it to make a comic?
blitzar•28m ago
I think the pelican test is better.
criddell•21m ago
I'd like to see tests of things the current AIs are bad at, like drive a car. Or maybe take instruction to complete some novel activity to test how well they can learn.
shapefrog•23m ago
"Check the current situation and make a new Iran Lego (tm) truth bomb video."
trentor•22m ago
I always thought of the Pelican more of like a gimmicky quick test. There are people who took it as a serious benchmark for overall model performance?
NitpickLawyer•18m ago
"Draw a pelican on a bicycle" is not a serious benchmark.

"Draw an animation of this long ass scene from a movie, and only call me when everything works e2e" can be.

forrestthewoods•18m ago
As a former gamedev watching non-gamedev AI talk about games is so amusing. They really truly do not understand anything about games or consumer entertainment.

There’s a reason AI slop games have literally zero engagement. Last summer that stupid flying game blew up. Maybe a million people “played” the game. Where play means they clicked a link and checked it out not because of what the game was but solely because of how it was made.

In terms of concurrent players that game wouldn’t have cracked the Top 5,000 on Steam.

My metric for AI games is “number of players who spent more than 15 minutes playing”. I’m not aware of any vibeslop that has achieved 1 such player.

Now obviously LLMs are transformative for game dev. But “hyper custom worlds you can drop into” shows an extreme ignorance of what players want imho.

matsemann•18m ago
I'm pretty tired of the "Y made this game in Z tokens" all over the internet last week. They look impressive, and it's cool that it's even possible, but they're useless as games. None of them are any fun. They're like the most boring variant of basic controllers you can imagine. None have any cool mechanics. None have any tweaks made from hours and hours of testing. All have the same cel-shader.
moron4hire•12m ago
It's blockchain for gaming all over again, putting the cart before the horse.
segmondy•6m ago
you're tired because you lack imagination.
8n4vidtmkvmk•5m ago
We're all just impressed that it's even possible. No one is saying these are fun.

I guess the next question is if they can be made fun without too much additional work with a human guiding the AI.

revel•4m ago
LLMs are bad at creative work and I don’t see them improving any time soon. Try asking an agent to write a story about raccoons. It will almost certainly involve either stealing food or raiding trash with a 50% chance of having a character named Pip. If a location is mentioned, it’ll be Elm Street.

I guess this is the average story and, similarly, the average game is boring and predictable

cocoa19•12m ago
We must not be using the same opus 5, because if I tried to generate this it would refuse based on copyright grounds.
HarHarVeryFunny•11m ago
It seems pretty clear that Anthropic models have been specifically trained to be good at generating three.js (JavaScript 3-D Graphics) code, so given current state of AI code generation in general, I don't find three.js models/animations as indicative of anything other than the model's ability to write three.js code.

When Fable was first released the day-1 demos of it on Twitter (presumably from people who were given early access, and/or Anthropic employees) were pretty much 100% three.js stuff. Yes, it looks nice, but it doesn't tell me any better than an Erdos proof whether the LLM will be able to run my vending machine.

wiradikusuma•10m ago
Do you guys notice that LLM can create fancy viz/animations by coding them instead of leveraging what we humans usually use (e.g Lottie, After Effects)?

I wonder if Flash is still popular... LLM can use that instead...?

dundarious•8m ago
I can forgive the modeling being godawful jank (windows floating in the air, disconnected from the house). But I expected it to have a better understanding of the text. Instead, we have Bilbo's "disappearance" interpreted as him magically transporting or cloaking, and similarly for his reappearance.
nozzlegear•6m ago
Don't miss Elon Musk's reply:

> @elonmusk 13h

> Yah

> 158 replies, 74 reposts, 1400 likes

Thanks Elon

https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/2083761408932458568

xyzsparetimexyz•4m ago
How much are the hobbit houses described in the book? The ones here look exactly like the movie
I'm mostly seeing the impact of GenAI images in everydays life for example in the small posters small associations or individuals usually attach on streets to promote some small local event. We went from just text created with PowerPoint and maybe some stock image just a Google search away to now images depicting the topic closely. But yeah, it's not like a revolution.

And this personal media thing, yeah maybe for terminally online persons that are REALLY into a sub-genre but otherwise, it's too much effort, I agree. Until we get machines that can read our (subconscious) mind, that will not exist.

lukeschlather•16m ago
> We now have nearly-perfect AI image generation

Not even close. Current AIs have very poor spatial awareness, they can generate some kind of scene but they can't tell you where objects are in the scene, nor can they move objects into different places. They're very useful but it's difficult to be very creative with them because they can't update an image to make it more aligned with your vision for what should be in the image.

matchagaucho•4m ago
Ultimately, most people don't have ideas for the kinds of personalized entertainment they want

1:1 AI entertainment probably won't be a cold start experience.

Much like the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books of the 80's, consumers choose a baseline template, customize the characters, and interact at various points within the plot.

Teever•26m ago
Amazon recently kiboshed a new Stargate television series. The fan community was quite heartbroken because the Amazon had involved some of the writers from the original television series and apparently one of the reasons that they cancelled the show before it made it to production was that the felt that the proposed story would appeal too much to the fans and not new people.

The fans were real heart broken about this but I think you're right on where this is going. We're not going to be seeing the dominance of centrally produced content like this for much longer, like sure, I think there will be big blockbusters will stick around, but I think the day is coming where media becomes a choose your own adventure sort of scenario.

It'll be interesting to see where this scales to. there will definitely be some amazing solo projects but we'll also see the like 4 player co-op version of productions and then the larger mine-craft server 'Minas Tirith' scale ambitious projects that involve a few dozen people. And of course passive consumers will remain a thing, or people who just provide some suggestions or nudges for what they'd like to see others make.

But I don't think it'll be dominated by big companies like Disney, Netflix, Amazon or Paramount.

I'm sure a lot of them will suck but it'll be neat to see the inevitable Seinfield - Star Trek Voyager cross over episodes.

Elaine and B'Elanna Torres feud after a transporter accident leaves the crew stranded the delta quadrant. Jerry attempts to date 7of9 and but is rebuff as she finds Kramer's quirky bluntness relatable. George panics after someone compares him to Neelix.

hgoel•4m ago
I think embodied AI or autonomous experimentation will need to make a lot more progress before that kind of thing is possible.

Asking AI to design real world objects doesn't work very well because all of its tests involve proxies and thus miss things that are glaringly obvious when the object is actually built.