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Tim Gowers: What sort of maths are LLMs good at?

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/what-sort-of-maths-are-llms-good-at/
54•ColinWright•1h ago•6 comments

Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation

https://woxi.ad-si.com
46•adius•1h ago•1 comments

LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

https://www.cringebot3000.com/
225•theanonymousone•4h ago•84 comments

Facebook is paying controversial creators to produce rage-bait content

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/ragebait-how-facebook-is-paying-controversial-creators/106...
101•robtherobber•1h ago•48 comments

Dutch Train Map Simulator

https://spoorkaart.zaza.dev
42•zazaalaza•1h ago•15 comments

High-Res Photo Shows Sand-Capped Butte Rising from Mars Plain of Polygons

https://petapixel.com/2026/08/04/amazing-high-res-photo-shows-a-butte-rising-from-mars/
12•bookofjoe•6d ago•1 comments

The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025)

https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/
226•dcminter•5d ago•40 comments

Compression is prediction

https://ngrok.com/blog/compression-is-prediction
548•nikolay•15h ago•224 comments

Worms: The Future of Yesterday's Worms Today

https://worm.net/
61•doener•4d ago•20 comments

Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials

https://discoveredmaterials.com/research/
19•advaith08•3h ago•5 comments

WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale

https://tencent-hunyuan.github.io/Hunyuan3D-WorldClaw/
231•EwanG•13h ago•71 comments

llama.cpp

https://llama.app
248•kristianpaul•6h ago•111 comments

A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy

https://refp.se/articles/your-shell-and-the-lazy-exclamation-mark
90•refp•5d ago•37 comments

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

https://stolen-thoughts.com/
629•quantumgarbage•21h ago•284 comments

OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining

https://www.ft.com/content/e49dfb75-f841-4466-a577-f7aaff8779a0
451•ilamont•22h ago•427 comments

Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nemotron-lightning-switchyard-rtx-dgx/
234•droidjj•15h ago•122 comments

Mojo 1.0

https://www.modular.com/blog/modular-26-5-mojo-1-0-is-here
392•dayanruben•18h ago•202 comments

Newfoundland has a hard bread shortage, but why do they eat it?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/nl-hard-bread-history-shortage-9.7299276
18•empressplay•2d ago•19 comments

Grok Bot

https://x.ai/bot
298•rvz•17h ago•262 comments

The Human Is the Loop

https://brentfitzgerald.com/posts/the-human-is-the-loop/
119•burnto•8h ago•58 comments

DARPA heavy lift challenge ends with winner at a 3.84:1 payload to weight ratio

https://dronexl.co/2026/08/10/darpa-lift-challenge-results-avidrone/
46•daau•7h ago•31 comments

The lifesaving secret hidden inside a horseshoe crab's blue blood

https://whdh.com/news/the-lifesaving-secret-hidden-inside-a-horseshoe-crabs-blue-blood-and-the-ra...
89•andsoitis•9h ago•25 comments

Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo

https://photosynthesis.camera
293•sajomes•3d ago•271 comments

Making holograms with a pen plotter

https://blog.jordan.matelsky.com/Penplotter-holography/
167•DemiGuru•16h ago•17 comments

Retire the Abstractions

https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2026-08-05-retire-the-abstractions
55•convexstrictly•6d ago•57 comments

London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces

https://www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/news/england/btp-expands-live-facial-recognition-lfr-trial-int...
350•BlueBerry2001•1d ago•431 comments

Show HN: Tamron Lens Utility Alternative on Linux

https://github.com/yikerman/tamron-lens-control
72•xiaoyu2006•4d ago•7 comments

Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme

https://jolt-lang.github.io
202•mark_l_watson•3d ago•66 comments

Flatworms, Ion Channels, and Burning Mouths

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/flatworms-ion-channels-and-burning-mouths
36•surprisetalk•1d ago•1 comments

Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering

https://developers.googleblog.com/why-go-is-an-ideal-language-for-ai-assisted-software-engineering/
386•0xedb•18h ago•446 comments
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Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation

https://woxi.ad-si.com
44•adius•1h ago
Woxi is an interpreter for the Wolfram Language written in Rust.

It comes with Woxi Studio, a Mathematica-like GUI built with iced, but you can also use Woxi through a CLI, Jupyter kernel, Python package, npm package, or WASM module.

Compared with wolframscript / Mathematica, the main differences are:

- Free and open source - Very fast startup - Typically milliseconds rather than seconds for the Wolfram kernel, making Woxi practical for shell scripts, one-liners, and other short-lived processes - Embeddable - It can run in a browser via WASM or be embedded into another application as a scripting language

A more detailed comparison with Mathematica is available here: https://woxi.ad-si.com/docs/comparison/mathematica/.

Conformance is ensured with ~26'000 unit tests and ~900 .wls script snapshot tests.

The current focus is on fixing remaining edge cases, improving performance, and growing the community.

If you use the Wolfram Language, I'd be particularly interested in feedback on compatibility and missing functionality. Contributions and bug reports are also very welcome: https://github.com/ad-si/Woxi

Comments

alex7o•31m ago
This was also posted 6 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47155526