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2026-08-16, by Anthony “chovy” Ettinger. How this was written:drafted with an AI assistant from my own notes, then edited by me. Somebody dropped a post in one of those IT humor groups —this one— and the comments turned into a wall of 90s office war stories. Some of them were genuinely funny. Not meme-funny. Funny … Devamını oku

A SAT Attack on Tarski’s High School Algebra Problem

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Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?

You’ve definitely seen that many companies progressed from “use LLMs for anything and everything” policies to limiting budgets and scopes of approved LLM usage. It wouldn’t be unexpected to see that some companies might decide that generating more code faster doesn’t meaningfully contribute to their bottom line, and forego LLMs in favour of human authoring, … Devamını oku

Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane

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Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems

Agents are unlike people in many ways. They can work for longer, instantly grasp large bodies of information, and exhibit a breadth of knowledge surpassing any person. Yet they are also susceptible to confabulation and reward hacking, and despite progress in alignment, we know very little about how they behave in complex, real-world, multiagent environments. … Devamını oku

Impulse Tracker

To do the big things in life, you have to pay attention to each beat along the way On a quiet night in the year 1996, 20-year old Alan is in his small apartment, about to make an important life decision. His thoughts are torn between the electronic music he makes with his computer and … Devamını oku

What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?

The hosted 5B model, live in your browser.Open in a new tab ↗if the chat doesn’t load below. Modern LMs are trained on everything at once, so it is hard to tell whether a new skill waslearnedor merelyelicited. We constrain the training distribution itself: an 88B-token corpus filtered to the U.S. elementary-school curriculum, with models … Devamını oku

Show HN: Laptop is the last place your secrets are still in plaintext

Just-in-time credentials for your dev machine. Documentation·Quickstart·Supported tools·Command reference·Security Status:macOS-only (Apple Silicon), and still in development. jitmoves each secret into a local encrypted vault gated by Touch ID, and rewrites the files so your tools keep working. On disk there’s now a decoy. The real value only appears, in memory, for the specific process that … Devamını oku

Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work

TL;DR: Starting with v2.0, scheduled for fall 2026, DuckDB will support asynchronous reads of Parquet and CSV files. This can significantly speed up queries when synchronous I/O does not saturate the available bandwidth, as is typical in EC2/S3 compute-storage setups. It doesn’t matter how fast query operators are in a database system if we can’t … Devamını oku

It’s How You Ask: Gender-Associated Linguistic Bias in LLMs

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