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Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?

Secondhand booksellers worldwide have noticed an unusual surge in bulk orders, with suspicion that AI companies are…

Cloudflare's AI Psychosis

The author criticizes Cloudflare for losing its focus on core infrastructure excellence in pursuit of becoming a broader…

Writergate: Zig I/O Interface Overhaul

Zig's I/O interface underwent a major overhaul called "Writergate" (late 2023–August 2025), replacing generic types with…

Show HN: Quasicrystals Animation Playground with WebXR

Hi! This is my little project introducing quasicrystals animations with some parameters.

Yadda 3.0.0: BDD in the Age of AI Agents

Yadda 3.0.0, a BDD (Behavior-Driven Development) library for JavaScript, has been released with significant…

Brazilian election filter in X For You timeline

X has published the source code for an algorithm filter used in its For You timeline during Brazil's 2026 election,…

Reddit Joins The S&P 500 And Triggers Massive buys

Reddit will join the S&P 500 on August 18.

GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix

Xorshift Generators

Xorshift generators are a widely-adopted family of pseudorandom number algorithms based on XOR and bitshift operations,…

India Is Training 1 Crore Youth in AI: Could Web3 Get Left Behind?

India has put a hard number on its next technology-skilling push: one crore young people trained in artificial…

The Problem

Leading AI researchers, including Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, warn that artificial superintelligence could be…

T3X/0 a Minimal Procedural Language

T3X/0 is a minimal, portable procedural programming language with Pascal-like syntax and BCPL-like semantics that runs…

Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?

Booksellers are reporting mysterious bulk orders.

Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel

A researcher achieved a 232x speedup over baseline in a GPU optimization contest by implementing an optimized batched QR…

OpenAI rolling out ads for Europe later this month

Working with AI Feels More Like Leadership Than Coding

Working effectively with AI requires leadership skills rather than traditional coding precision, since AI produces…

Debian has begun voting on the future of AI/LLM contributions

Using GCC's Nested Functions with Wide Pointers and No Trampolines II

GCC 16 now guarantees that nested functions without variable capture don't require trampolines, improving security by…

"That's not SoC 2 compliant"

Amp, a software company, bypasses traditional pull requests and pushes code directly to main while maintaining SOC 2…

Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?

A Hacker News user asks how others manage to keep up with the site as the volume of AI-related content has made it…

Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations

ThoughtDAG is a desktop and web application that visualizes LLM conversation context as an editable, directed acyclic…

The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist

Apple denied a man named Sean Joseph Byrne access to App Store Connect, claiming he matched someone on a U.S.

The End of Mathematics

At an OpenAI workshop on the future of mathematics, a speaker explored a cautionary scenario where despite AI becoming…

AI Driven Testing

Deltix is an AI-driven mobile app testing platform that allows developers to test their iOS apps by describing tasks in…

The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here

2D Gaussian Splatting for Bézier Spline Line Art Vectorization

Researchers from Disney and ETH Zurich have developed a new method for converting line art and sketches into vector…

Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus

Jonathan Bartlett proposes simplifying first-year calculus instruction by streamlining redundant processes and concepts…

Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situational Awareness

Strategy Pushes Back on MSCI Plan to Drop MSTR From Global Indexes

MSCI’s proposed eligibility screen would remove Strategy from its global equity benchmarks, the largest of three…