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

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117395269325940185
344•ent101•6h ago•323 comments

Claude Haiku 5.5

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-haiku-5-5
913•sfkgtbor•17h ago•436 comments

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

https://shahidhussain.com/writing/search-for-salvage/
151•shahidhussain•3d ago•62 comments

Living off-grid: Hundred Rabbits

https://100r.ca/site/home.html
246•Muhammad523•2d ago•81 comments

Margaret Hamilton has died

https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007
1639•muglug•14h ago•177 comments

GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-for-everyone/
660•joshuawright11•17h ago•368 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...
193•pavel_lishin•2d ago•68 comments

The Slow Formation of Durable Software

https://newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-slow-formation-of-durable-software/
4•benbreen•1d ago•0 comments

'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth

https://www.404media.co/oldest-living-land-animal-jonathan-the-tortoise/
176•gumby•15h ago•91 comments

Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser

https://treylorswift.github.io/demoscene-recomp/web/
86•adunk•5h ago•67 comments

The Mathocalypse

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10169
271•6bitquant•15h ago•287 comments

Cleo (Mathematician)

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

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

https://bigwords.page/
530•SpeakingOfBrad•19h ago•142 comments

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

https://dat-ecosystem.org/
19•janandonly•4h ago•10 comments

Bloody Cavemen

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n18/edmund-gordon/bloody-cavemen
14•Thevet•1d ago•0 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
114•gumby•17h ago•31 comments

Docker Agent

https://github.com/docker/docker-agent
248•saikatsg•17h ago•114 comments

Sharing AI progress in mathematics

https://openai.com/index/sharing-ai-progress-in-mathematics/
1285•OfficialTurkey•1d ago•1457 comments

New repository settings for configuring pull request access

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-02-13-new-repository-settings-for-configuring-pull-request-acc...
20•Bluestein•2d ago•11 comments

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

https://debasishg.github.io/blog/push-ifs-up-fors-down/
156•speckx•16h ago•71 comments

Analog Computer Simulator in the Browser

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

Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages

https://ascii.rest/
374•turrini•20h ago•66 comments

Why were Victorian elites so effective?

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-seven-vices-of-highly-effective-victorians/
177•karakoram•20h ago•291 comments

How machines learned precision

https://glinscott.github.io/how-machines-learned-precision/
181•glinscott•1d ago•63 comments

House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k

https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/26612080.house-15m-underground-tunnels-sale-300k/
212•librasteve•22h ago•199 comments

A minimal kernel in Swift, running in QEMU

https://carette.xyz/posts/minimal_swift_kernel_on_qemu/
88•surprisetalk•1d ago•16 comments

OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers

https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/history.md
7•theemathas•3h ago•2 comments

Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08144
315•nill0•20h ago•188 comments

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

https://github.com/pingdotgg/ts-rust
71•jcbhmr•10h ago•113 comments

Anti-patterns in software blogging

https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/anti-patterns-software-blogging/
289•ilreb•22h ago•140 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Terse, a Claude Code plugin that halves reply length by cutting filler

https://github.com/lowenbjer/claude-terse
20•lowenbjer•18h ago
I struggle with the way Claude speaks to me when I do work. So much text, every, single, time.

When I ask a question, I get an essay back, and with so many weird constructs: slogans, metaphors, recaps, strange choice of nouns, "it's not X, it's Y".

Claude's own "concise" mode shortens it, somewhat, but keeps the the rest of the slop.

I tried system prompts, those got forgotten after a couple of turns. I tried looking for plugins but none consistently made Claude speak normally. Some where slash commands, other solved for token use, others solved for neurodivergence.

I just wanted to not read an essay and make Claude get to the point fast, every single time.

Is that so much to ask? Apparently; it took me weeks of trial and error to make something that worked for me, I have stories, but I'm sharing it as a claude code plugin with you, those of you who struggle with Claude, the same way I did.

Comments

trashymctrash•59m ago
Opus 5.5 has reduced this to an acceptable level for me. Are you also using this plugin with that model?
TZubiri•54m ago
Read up on Chain of Thought

The model is essentially thinking out loud, when you ask it to be more concise, you make it think less, therefore producing more erroneous answers.

Some models have an internal chain of thought (claude being one of them), which sometimes isn't even published to avoid reverse engineering, but it seems that this might still be a problem.

What you'd want actually is a layer that summarizes the actual answer, but that's actually an internal prompt by claude that you are not seeing, the model just doesn't expose the necessary bits for you to hack this together.

Try another model that exposes the raw llm output instead of exposing a CoT result directly.

Of course the real hack is learning to read diagonally without reading every single word, this is a skill that is useful in general. It's also less effort in general, instead of making plugins and super customizing the thing, you just consume the default settings, which are hyperoptimized, and require no time spent in configuration.

cyanydeez•48m ago
I think you're humanizing too much.

The <think> blocks are an attempt to explore the gradient descent space to escape local minimums and find a better global minimum to continue the descent.

While verbosity _might_ do this better, you could easily consider things like "but wait am I forgetting ...." as just one token. So if you actually do it right, you could replace all that with a "hold on" or something of a terse variety.

citizenfishy•50m ago
Claude Mods seem to answer this pain better without affecting the model reasoning