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AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers
87 points, 80 comments on Hacker News
You might not need a service worker
Article URL: https://www.jayfreestone.com/writing/you-might-not-need-a-service-worker/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48713453 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Better Images of AI
36 points, 18 comments on Hacker News
Knowledge Distillation of Black-Box Large Language Models (2024)
63 points, 12 comments on Hacker News
How does a pull-back car work? Illustrated teardown
41 points, 12 comments on Hacker News
30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech
399 points, 228 comments on Hacker News
A Core Calculus for Documents
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Newly discovered spider builds spring loaded snare to catch ants
21 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
HyperCard on the Macintosh
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Show HN: Bash4LLM+ – A lightweight, dependency-free Bash wrapper for LLM APIs
Bash4LLM is a single-file Bash wrapper for interacting with LLMs from the terminal. I created it because I wanted something simple that worked without installing Python, Node, or any other runtime. It uses only Bash, curl, and jq. You can send prompts, start a small chat, process files line by line, stream output, and save session metadata in JSON format. I tried to make it safe and predictable: no use of the system /tmp, no use of eval. Groq is supported by default, and other providers can be added with dedicated Bash scripts in the extras/providers/ folder. Example: echo "explains the command: ls -l" | ./bash4llm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48710827 Points: 12 # Comments: 8
Show HN: NanoEuler – GPT-2 scale model in pure C/CUDA from scratch
Hi everyone, I started working on nanoeuler after the ban of anthropic's fable because my ambition and dream is to work in the AI field in anthropic. The two interesting reasons that led me to create nanoeuler were (1) interfacing with llm does not mean understanding how they are composed and (2), working on llm with a very low-level layer to understand the correlation between parameters and data and growth of the model and how the GPU works and how some layers can be optimized. So I started working on it with a research aspect by making nanoeuler grow more and more but doing one step after another starting from Shakespeare.txt and understanding what a text generation model understands at 23 million parameters. For example, nanoeuler at that number had understood that Name: started a line and wrote that line with sense. I wrote everything in CUDA because I wanted to not use any intermediary between the model in training and inference and what it had to do. Then the use of SFT and muc
TOP500 at ISC’26: We have a New Number 1 Supercomputer
Article URL: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/top500-at-isc26-we-have-a-new-number Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48710775 Points: 38 # Comments: 23
Introducing Test That
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The US Used to Demand the Best Tech. Now We Ban It
Article URL: https://www.pcmag.com/opinions/the-us-used-to-demand-the-best-tech-now-we-ban-it Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48710437 Points: 72 # Comments: 56
Do LLMs pass the mirror test?
Article URL: https://blog.pascalschuster.de/article/do-llms-pass-the-mirror-test Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48710414 Points: 10 # Comments: 6
Computer-Aided Language Development in Nonspeaking Children (1968) [pdf]
http://i.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/68/85/CS-TR-68-... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48710350 Points: 13 # Comments: 1
British Origami: the 1955 exhibition by Akira Yoshizawa
Article URL: https://www.britishorigami.org/cp-lister-list/the-1955-exhibition-by-akira-yoshizawa/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48710325 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
Librepods: AirPods liberated
Article URL: https://github.com/librepods-org/librepods Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48710232 Points: 170 # Comments: 53
Historical memory prices 1960-2026
Article URL: https://dam.stanford.edu/memory-prices.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48710092 Points: 69 # Comments: 19
Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor
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Ornith-1.0: Self-scaffolding LLMs for agentic coding
42 points, 6 comments on Hacker News
GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks
Article URL: https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/we-have-mythos-at-home-glm-52-beats-claude-in-our-cyber-benchmarks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48709670 Points: 160 # Comments: 48
Who are the fire-tamers?
24 points, 16 comments on Hacker News
HP Inc. launches Frontier strategic partnership with OpenAI
HP Inc. scales its OpenAI Frontier partnership to deploy AI across customer experiences, software development, and enterprise operations.
Show HN: DRM-Free Books
After several years of mandatory DRM lockdowns from most commercial book sources, now authors have a choice when it comes to DRM for their books. Pick authors and books that are DRM-free, or download DRM-free classics that are out of copyright. https://frequal.com/Perspectives/DrmFreeAuthors.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48709186 Points: 43 # Comments: 19
Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown
Article URL: https://english.elpais.com/education/2026-06-28/ai-fraud-at-brown-university-academic-integrity-is-at-risk.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708991 Points: 60 # Comments: 56
I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI
Article URL: https://antoine.fi/mri-analysis-using-claude-code-opus Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708941 Points: 249 # Comments: 360
Daisugi, the Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees (2020)
https://x.com/wrathofgnon/status/1250287741247426565, https://xcancel.com/wrathofgnon/status/1250287741247426565 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708859 Points: 83 # Comments: 25
Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing
84 points, 104 comments on Hacker News
Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor
70 points, 14 comments on Hacker News
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