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A short explainer on how El Niño works [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_JF3etiAv8
63•nharada•2h ago•4 comments

The MacBook Pro's OLED PWM problem

https://macanorak.com/the-macbook-pros-oled-pwm-problem-when-a-better-display-becomes-worse-to-use/
312•MacAnorak•7h ago•172 comments

'Birdbrain' Is a Misnomer. Crows Make Decisions Faster Than We Can

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/15/science/birdbrain-crows-birds-research-decision.html
57•gumby•2h ago•31 comments

Emacs Is My Browser

https://joshblais.com/blog/emacs-as-my-browser/
122•nyc111•5h ago•64 comments

Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011)

https://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html
149•ksec•6h ago•71 comments

Claude Code and Codex reverse engineered my 1994 Jeep's ECU over a $3 Arduino [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPj3aQ-xxpI
196•envoked•3d ago•90 comments

Eclipse Mosquitto – An open source MQTT broker

https://github.com/eclipse-mosquitto/mosquitto
22•gregsadetsky•1h ago•8 comments

Microsoft 365 outage leads to chlorine gas poisoning of 15 hotel guests

https://www1.wdr.de/nrw/rheinland/rhein-erft-kreis/technischer-defekt-chlor-phantasialand-100.html
112•DeepLogin•1h ago•45 comments

SpaceX catches the Starship to end Flight 15

https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-15
1576•ls612•23h ago•1120 comments

Understanding Positional Embeddings in Modern LLMs

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/understanding-positional-embeddings
159•vismit2000•8h ago•10 comments

All AI-generated code should be Open Source

https://jakub.jankiewicz.org/blog/ai-code-open-source/
902•jcubic•5h ago•479 comments

Notes on Mathematics for Engineers (1959) [pdf]

https://websites.umich.edu/~ners311/CourseLibrary/MathNotes.pdf
33•the-mitr•4d ago•10 comments

Clice v1.0 Released: Welcome to Modern C++

https://ykiko.me/en/articles/2105384023094834022/
27•molenzwiebel•3h ago•7 comments

Eval Awareness vs. Eval Paranoia

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mepsi7JNKYejq9wry/eval-awareness-vs-eval-paranoia
21•ezrasu•3d ago•7 comments

Do House members' stock trades beat the market? A test of 8,900 trades

https://arkanumdata.com/research/house-trades
3•Bluestein•37m ago•0 comments

Court denies motion to dismiss DRAM price fixing case

https://litnews.ai/articles/garciaguirre-samsung-sk-hynix-micron-dram-conspiracy-suit-survives-di...
448•ybathaee•19h ago•203 comments

Parents pay $75k for Alpha's AI school. Half of its students missed math target

https://fortune.com/2026/11/14/alpha-school-ai-students-tuition-learning-goals/
22•vrganj•43m ago•10 comments

A NES emulator written in Odin

https://lucypero.com/lucynes.html
82•frostbyte7•7h ago•28 comments

Why did some Apollo missions carry a grenade launcher?

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/37775
190•Skyfall106•11h ago•134 comments

Bullet Dodged

https://idiotking.org/archives/2026/10/bullet-dodged-3/
8•surprisetalk•3d ago•2 comments

20 Years of Pyrolog

https://pypy.org/posts/2026/11/20-years-of-pyrolog.html
54•lumpa•3d ago•4 comments

What thousands of conversations look like inside a language model

https://operator0x.com/field-notes/qwen-conversation-state-space/
89•josip208•2d ago•26 comments

Lutnick Pushed to Weaken Chip Rules That Overlap with His Family Business

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/15/us/politics/lutnick-pushed-to-weaken-chip-rules-that-overlap-w...
367•JumpCrisscross•8h ago•166 comments

The Telephone Changed the World

https://lithub.com/how-the-telephone-changed-the-world/
42•NaOH•21h ago•18 comments

Chasing an audio artifact on power loss

https://subalpinecircuits.com/chasing-an-audio-artifact-on-power-loss/
45•ireflect•2d ago•7 comments

Show HN: Carton Clock – A working pendulum clock made from empty drink cartons

https://www.niklasroy.com/carton-clock/
63•r0r0•2d ago•2 comments

How did Woz write the Apple 1 BASIC before building the computer?

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/17957
297•Skyfall106•22h ago•155 comments

How to read codes from (many) IR remote controls with as little code as possible

https://bitbanksoftware.blogspot.com/2026/11/how-to-read-codes-from-many-ir-remote.html
46•speckx•4d ago•8 comments

Handwritten 200-year-old dismissal notice found on roof tile

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6jdmdzv25r9o
68•nephihaha•2d ago•42 comments

A family tree of software job titles

https://zwischenzugs.com/2026/11/03/a-family-tree-of-software-job-titles/
422•umerf•1d ago•200 comments
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Parents pay $75k for Alpha's AI school. Half of its students missed math target

https://fortune.com/2026/11/14/alpha-school-ai-students-tuition-learning-goals/
21•vrganj•43m ago

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spwa4•15m ago
"Only 42% of Alpha students met the network’s goal of learning twice as fast in both math and reading, according to internal data first reported by The New York Times. The findings land as Alpha pushes into public schools, where districts are adopting its software in hopes of fitting more learning into less time."

As someone who occasionally reads psychometric papers: WOW. That's an impressive result. That is equivalent to a very, very good teacher.

contemporary343•9m ago
Composition effects...
uptrails•8m ago
Although the title is obvious clickbait, I have to note that if you want to spend $75k and have your kid learn at twice the speed of the public speed curriculum, this is really not something you could not have accomplished before.

More generally, the problem is almost always motivation and discipline, not the availability of instruction. If you have a motivated kid, you can simply buy them some books. The problem in public schooling is that most kids are not motivated and the emphasis is on getting everyone to the finish line.

And if you want to use AI in education, I guess the big question is whether it can help the kids who have parents who work two shifts, who get pulled into youth gangs, or play games all day and don't even show up to school. Helping talented kids from well-off homes is really not that much of a challenge.

benmanns•6m ago
And one in five failed the testing target for reading… so 80% learned twice as fast in reading?
cyanydeez•4m ago
yeah, but can you imagine how stupid the parents must be, such that hereditary effects are confounding variables?
neya•10m ago

    A study of 26,811 secondary students in central China found that homework scores rose 18% after students adopted generative AI tools, while closed-book exam scores fell 20%. The OECD’s latest PISA results found that daily AI users scored lower in science than nonusers, while moderate users performed about the same.

It's almost as if using AI only as a tool for execution rather than actual architectural decisions works out well. In HN universe this is the difference between an experienced architect using AI to write code vs a TikTok hipster to tell codex/claude to create an instagram clone for them so they can make a video about it "We dOn'T nEeD eNgiNeErs AnyMoRe"
TwelveEyes•5m ago
What they hinted at about the school not actually sticking to the two hours per day of schooling is slightly concerning. I would frankly be happy with parity provided the kids only needed two hours of schooling per day, but if they aren’t committing to that then this is a bad result.
rodarmor•4m ago
America's public schools spent $17,619 per student in 2024 and only three in ten students read proficiently.