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“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117395269325940185
368•ent101•6h ago•360 comments

The Slow Formation of Durable Software

https://newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-slow-formation-of-durable-software/
25•benbreen•1d ago•6 comments

Claude Haiku 5.5

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-haiku-5-5
927•sfkgtbor•18h ago•438 comments

OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers

https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/history.md
50•theemathas•4h ago•18 comments

The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished

https://shahidhussain.com/writing/search-for-salvage/
171•shahidhussain•3d ago•66 comments

Living off-grid: Hundred Rabbits

https://100r.ca/site/home.html
261•Muhammad523•2d ago•85 comments

Margaret Hamilton has died

https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007
1691•muglug•14h ago•178 comments

GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-for-everyone/
669•joshuawright11•18h ago•384 comments

How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn't

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-did-rosalind-franklin-miss-helix-her-iconic-dna-image...
201•pavel_lishin•2d ago•74 comments

'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth

https://www.404media.co/oldest-living-land-animal-jonathan-the-tortoise/
177•gumby•16h ago•96 comments

The Mathocalypse

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10169
276•6bitquant•16h ago•295 comments

Cleo (Mathematician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleo_(mathematician)
173•djoldman•1d ago•35 comments

Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser

https://treylorswift.github.io/demoscene-recomp/web/
96•adunk•5h ago•82 comments

Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app

https://bigwords.page/
537•SpeakingOfBrad•20h ago•143 comments

New repository settings for configuring pull request access

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-02-13-new-repository-settings-for-configuring-pull-request-acc...
25•Bluestein•2d ago•14 comments

Dat-ecosystem: high level applications built on top of P2P protocols

https://dat-ecosystem.org/
22•janandonly•5h ago•12 comments

In Vienna and Beijing, the first (thorium) nuclear clocks begin to tick

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/science/first-nuclear-clocks-thorium-229.html
117•gumby•18h ago•34 comments

Docker Agent

https://github.com/docker/docker-agent
256•saikatsg•18h ago•118 comments

Sharing AI progress in mathematics

https://openai.com/index/sharing-ai-progress-in-mathematics/
1286•OfficialTurkey•1d ago•1459 comments

Bloody Cavemen

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n18/edmund-gordon/bloody-cavemen
14•Thevet•1d ago•1 comments

Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature 2026

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/08/wins-the-nobel-prize-in-literature-2026
8•sonabinu•12m ago•1 comments

Push ifs up and fors down: The idiom, its algebra, and its limits

https://debasishg.github.io/blog/push-ifs-up-fors-down/
157•speckx•17h ago•72 comments

Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages

https://ascii.rest/
383•turrini•21h ago•68 comments

Analog Computer Simulator in the Browser

https://pavel-krivanek.github.io/The-Analog-Thing-Simulator/public/
30•adamnemecek•2d ago•10 comments

Why were Victorian elites so effective?

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-seven-vices-of-highly-effective-victorians/
181•karakoram•21h ago•304 comments

How machines learned precision

https://glinscott.github.io/how-machines-learned-precision/
183•glinscott•1d ago•64 comments

House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k

https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/26612080.house-15m-underground-tunnels-sale-300k/
214•librasteve•23h ago•200 comments

Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08144
321•nill0•20h ago•194 comments

Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM

https://github.com/pingdotgg/ts-rust
74•jcbhmr•11h ago•126 comments

A minimal kernel in Swift, running in QEMU

https://carette.xyz/posts/minimal_swift_kernel_on_qemu/
91•surprisetalk•1d ago•17 comments
Open in hackernews

The Slow Formation of Durable Software

https://newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-slow-formation-of-durable-software/
23•benbreen•1d ago

Comments

ghoshbishakh•25m ago
A very very strong point. I have personally detailed entire projects because adding a feature seemed easy with AI. It is very difficult to vibe code and not add a bunch of useless crap features.
adamddev1•21m ago
Do you mean "derailed?"
huijzer•11m ago
You can also remove features with AI faster than before. During the initial development phase, that's the most important part IMO
adamddev1•22m ago
> But that slow formation led to software that was durable rather than ephemeral, with a strong foundation that could be built upon.

People say that agentic development is great because you can churn out so much so fast. But that doesn't mean that any of it will be truly good and reliable.

The things that are truly insightful and solid end up being used exponentially more, which makes the linear cost of extra development time (asymptotically) insignificant in the cost/benefit equation.

jeanpah•19m ago
I don't think this is possible in this day and age, everyone expects the development to be instant.