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That Dropped Call with Customer Service? It Was on Purpose 12 by dustincoates | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Touching the back wall of the Apple store 43 by nivethan | 11 comments on Hacker News.

Several Anker power bank models recalled: Supplier's batteries pose fire hazard 12 by Eduard | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect a Russian keyboard installed 23 by air7 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Sequence and first differences together list all positive numbers exactly once 3 by andersource | 0 comments on Hacker News.

An Indoor Beehive in My Bedroom Wall 27 by gscott | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Untangling Lifetimes: The Arena Allocator 4 by signa11 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

DeepSeek R2 launch stalled as CEO balks at progress 16 by nsoonhui | 7 comments on Hacker News.

Glass nanostructures reflect nearly all visible light, challenging assumptions 8 by bookofjoe | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?) 51 by gk1 | 16 comments on Hacker News.

How much slower is random access, really? 14 by sestep | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Low Overhead Allocation Sampling in a Garbage Collected Virtual Machine 3 by matt_d | 0 comments on Hacker News.

As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to boost publisher revenue 11 by elektor | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Some bits on malloc(0) in C being allowed to return NULL 3 by ingve | 0 comments on Hacker News.

LLM Hallucinations in Practical Code Generation 3 by appwiz | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls 19 by mooreds | 18 comments on Hacker News.

Booms, Not Busts, Drives Innovation, Especially in Mid Size American Cities 15 by guardianbob | 8 comments on Hacker News.

Berkshire Hathaway Now Pays 5% of All Corporate Income Taxes in America 9 by rexbee | 0 comments on Hacker News.

iPhone customers upset by Apple Wallet ad pushing F1 movie 55 by ewoodrich | 22 comments on Hacker News.

Judge denies creating "mass surveillance program" harming all ChatGPT users 10 by merksittich | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Rivulet: An esolang inspired by calligraphy && code [video] 4 by exiguus | 0 comments on Hacker News.

AGI is Mathematically Impossible 2: When Entropy Returns 45 by ICBTheory | 105 comments on Hacker News.

2025 Alonzo Church Award: Paul Blain Levy for Call-by-Push-Value (CBPV) 5 by matt_d | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Why do all browsers' user agents start with "Mozilla/"? 12 by nan60 | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Finally, a Makefile formatter (50 years overdue) 22 by rainmans | 0 comments on Hacker News.

P2piano: A P2P collaboration space for the musically inclined 8 by giulianopz | 0 comments on Hacker News.

AI Is Ushering in the 'Tiny Team' Era in Silicon Valley 4 by kjhughes | 1 comments on Hacker News.

AllTracker: Efficient Dense Point Tracking at High Resolution 3 by lnyan | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Inspect and extract files from MSI installers directly in your browser 13 by rmast | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hey everyone! I'm excited to share a small web app I built that allows you to view and extract the contents of Windows MSI installers directly in your browser. It's essentially a web-based "lessmsi" powered by Pyodide. You can try it out at: https://ift.tt/lpAtqVg My motivation for building this was from part of my day job -- I often get Windows MSI installers and need to extract files while preserving the relative directory structure and filenames, as they would appear after a full installation. The existing tools I found were good but limited in which platforms they support: lessmsi works great on Windows, while msitools works for Linux/macOS. Neither is a truly cross-platform solution that works on any major OS. So we developed pymsi (a pure Python library, available on GitHub at https://ift.tt/BiqlRDI ) to handle reading and extracting MSI fi...

JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress) 40 by Bogdanp | 23 comments on Hacker News.

ELIZA Reanimated: Restoring the Mother of All Chatbots 8 by abrax3141 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Tool to Automatically Create Organized Commits for PRs 15 by edverma2 | 4 comments on Hacker News. I've found it helps PR reviewers when they can look through a set of commits with clear messages and logically organized changes. Typically reviewers prefer a larger quantity of smaller changes versus a smaller quantity of larger changes. Sometimes it gets really messy to break up a change into sufficiently small PRs, so thoughtful commits are a great way of further subdividing changes in PRs. It can be pretty time consuming to do this though, so this tool automates the process with the help of AI. The tool sends the diff of your git branch against a base branch to an LLM provider. The LLM provider responds with a set of suggested commits with sensible commit messages, change groupings, and descriptions. When you explicitly accept the proposed changes, the tool re-writes the commit history on your branch to match the LLM's suggestion. Then you can force push your branc...

Giant, All-Seeing Telescope Is Set to Revolutionize Astronomy 8 by gammarator | 2 comments on Hacker News.

DropZap World – my falling block game with lasers, released after years of work 3 by amichail | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Windows x86-64 System Call Table (XP/2003/Vista/7/8/10/11 and Server) 11 by walterbell | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Locally hosting an internet-connected server 17 by pabs3 | 9 comments on Hacker News.

Dinesh's Mid-Summer Death Valley Walk (1998) 9 by wonger_ | 1 comments on Hacker News.

After millions of years, why are carnivorous plants still so small? 9 by gmays | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Pitfalls of premature closure with LLM assisted coding 3 by shayonj | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Iron nitride permanent magnets made with DIY ball mill [video] 14 by xqcgrek2 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature's research papers 31 by rntn | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Scientists genetically engineer a lethal mosquito STD to combat malaria 6 by burnt-resistor | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book 42 by aspenmayer | 62 comments on Hacker News.

Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book 21 by zdw | 13 comments on Hacker News.

How fast can the RPython GC allocate? 9 by todsacerdoti | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Simplest C++ Callback, from SumatraPDF 14 by jandeboevrie | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Sperm are very different from all other cells 22 by viewtransform | 5 comments on Hacker News.

What is systems programming, really? (2018) 7 by fanf2 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper – and why they fall short 33 by spwestwood | 6 comments on Hacker News.

Caltrain official lived in secret apartment built illegally inside train station 5 by panic | 1 comments on Hacker News.

For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones 22 by Improvement | 4 comments on Hacker News.

EDAN: Towards Understanding Memory Parallelism and Latency Sensitivity in HPC [pdf] 5 by matt_d | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What is your fallback job if AI takes away your career? 9 by 7402 | 21 comments on Hacker News. For the sake of argument, assume that if your job consists of sitting at a computer, reading on a screen, and typing on a keyboard, then your career will go away. There is always room at the top, and there may always be room for humans at the top of any career. Assume (this is a tough ask, I know) that you are NOT one of those people. What is your fallback job? What skills do you have or would like to acquire that might keep you going? Bicycle mechanic? Teach music to children? Woodworking/carpentry? (Living off your stock options or investments does not count)

Anker is recalling over 1.1M power banks due to fire and burn risks 15 by vidyesh | 0 comments on Hacker News.

jemalloc Postmortem 15 by jasone | 1 comments on Hacker News.

NPM: Issues with package install, package publish, and login 22 by tjwds | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Y Combinator startup Sorcerer raises $3.9M to launch more weather balloons 16 by tndl | 6 comments on Hacker News.

GauntletAI (YC S17): All expenses paid AI training and guaranteed $200k+ job 1 by austenallred | 0 comments on Hacker News.

S5cmd: Parallel S3 and local filesystem execution tool 29 by polyrand | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Plato got virtually everything wrong (2018) 23 by pfdietz | 24 comments on Hacker News.

OpenAI's Sora is now available for Free to all users through Bing Video Creator 3 by ahmetcadirci25 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Encapsulated Co–Ni alloy boosts high-temperature CO2 electroreduction 3 by PaulHoule | 0 comments on Hacker News.

The Xerox Alto, Smalltalk, and Rewriting a Running GUI 12 by rbanffy | 1 comments on Hacker News.

The Dangers of Consolidating All Government Information 2 by pseudolus | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Futa – A functionally useless AI terminal assistant 11 by nail_ | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Panjandrum: The 'giant firework' built to break Hitler's Atlantic Wall 12 by rmason | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Re: My AI skeptic friends are all nuts 23 by skarlso | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Installing Microsoft Windows 98 in DOSBox-X 4 by keepamovin | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Why Are Smokestacks So Tall? 4 by azeemba | 0 comments on Hacker News.

I Read All of Cloudflare's Claude-Generated Commits 10 by maxemitchell | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp 6 by todsacerdoti | 0 comments on Hacker News.

How to (actually) send DTMF on Android without being the default call app 3 by EDM115 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Defending Adverbs Exuberantly If Conditionally 5 by benbreen | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Ask-human-mcp – zero-config human-in-loop hatch to stop hallucinations 3 by echollama | 2 comments on Hacker News. While building my startup i kept running into the issue where ai agents in cursor create endpoints or code that shouldn't exist, hallucinates strings, or just don't understand the code. ask-human-mcp pauses your agent whenever it’s stuck, logs a question into ask_human.md in your root directory with answer: PENDING, and then resumes as soon as you fill in the correct answer. the pain: your agent screams out an endpoint that never existed it makes confident assumptions and you spend hours debugging false leads the fix: ask-human-mcp gives your agent an escape hatch. when it’s unsure, it calls ask_human(), writes a question into ask_human.md, and waits. you swap answer: PENDING for the real answer and it keeps going. some features: - zero config: pip install ask-human-mcp + one line in .cursor/mcp.json → boom, you’re live - cross-platform: works on macOS,...

Myanmar's chinlone ball sport threatened by conflict and rattan shortages 4 by YeGoblynQueenne | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Differences in link hallucination and source comprehension across different LLM 4 by hveksr | 0 comments on Hacker News.

LLMs and Elixir: Windfall or Deathblow? 5 by uxcolumbo | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Not All Tokens Are Meant to Be Forgotten 4 by MarcoDewey | 0 comments on Hacker News.

After court order, OpenAI is now preserving all ChatGPT user logs 35 by ColinWright | 12 comments on Hacker News.

"AI Will Replace All the Jobs " Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing 4 by botanicals6 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

What if you could do it all over? 4 by FinnLobsien | 1 comments on Hacker News.

A critical look at NetBSD’s installer 21 by jaypatelani | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Technical Guide to System Calls: Implementation and Signal Handling in Modern OS 5 by signa11 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

The Small World of English 10 by michaeld123 | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Japanese Scientists Develop Artificial Blood Compatible with All Blood Types 23 by Geekette | 7 comments on Hacker News.

My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts 177 by tabletcorry | 183 comments on Hacker News.

Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts 7 by gregorywegory | 1 comments on Hacker News.

In POSIX, you can theoretically use inode zero 11 by mfrw | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Gabon longs to cash in on sacred hallucinogenic remedy 9 by PaulHoule | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Silicon Valley wants to help me make a superbaby 9 by user72343432754 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Hacking Pinball High Scores 7 by surprisetalk | 2 comments on Hacker News.

How I like to install NixOS (declaratively) 35 by secure | 52 comments on Hacker News.

Why DeepSeek is cheap at scale but expensive to run locally 16 by ingve | 3 comments on Hacker News.

I like to install NixOS (declaratively) 4 by todsacerdoti | 2 comments on Hacker News.