Year: 2026

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๐Ÿ”ฅ Discover this insightful post from Trending Subreddits ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: trendingsubreddits ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: What's this? We've started displaying a small selection of trending subreddits on the front page. Trending subreddits are determined based on a variety of activity indicators (which are also limited to safe for work communities for now). Subreddits can choose to opt-out from consideration in their subreddit settings. We hope that you discover some interesting subreddits through this. Feel free to discuss other interesting or notable subreddits in the comment thread below -- but please try to keep the discussion on the topic of…
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Will OpenAI Eat Jev’s Lunch?

Will OpenAI Eat Jev’s Lunch?

๐Ÿš€ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: TypeSafe's Jev introduced a new spin on large language models that has taken the AI world by storm. According to Vercel, "Jev was adopted faster than any other model in AI Gateway history." ... But there are clouds forming on the horizon. OpenAI is undoubtedly paying attention โ€“ and deciding what to do next. I wish all the best for TypeSafe, but if they truly live up to their promises, then I'm concerned that OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow โ€“ not only to…
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Texas police department ordered to close after state investigation

Texas police department ordered to close after state investigation

โœจ Read this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: A Trinidad water tower pictured, Thursday, June 18, 2026, in Trinidad, Texas.Elรญas Valverde II/The Dallas Morning NewsA Texas police department that jailed aย woman who criticized the cityโ€™s water quality on social media has been ordered to disband after the state found it provided no public benefit to the community.State officials launched an investigation after Jennifer Combs was arrested for a Facebook post that alleged some residents had been hospitalized due to bacteria in the water in Trinidad, a city of 860 people about 70 miles…
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AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You

AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You

๐Ÿš€ Read this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: In the past month alone Iโ€™ve heard these phrases: I havenโ€™t written code since 2025; Code reviews are dead; People no longer read code. Certainly the industry is transforming, however, the people and organizations falling into the trap of no longer reading and writing code only do so at their peril. Fact is, vibe-coded projects devolve over time into an unmaintainable mess. The reason is simple, yet hard to fix: code maintainability and good architecture donโ€™t have good measurements that we can apply, because it…
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Type Punning in C and C++

โœจ Read this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: I had a bug that took me a while to track down. The problem was type punning. A pointer cast worked fine at -O0 and silently broke at -O2. The C vs C++ distinction here is genuinely treacherous, and most blog posts on the topic get it wrong. Type punning is interpreting memory as different types between reads and writes. Itโ€™s essential for serialisation, network protocols, and low-level hardware access. The problem is that โ€œworks in practiceโ€ and โ€œhas defined behaviourโ€ are different things. The…
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September: world cup viewers | News and features

September: world cup viewers | News and features

๐Ÿ”ฅ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: More than 93,000 visible appearances of brands promoting unhealthy food and drink, alcohol, gambling and speculative products were recorded during coverage of the largest FIFA World Cup in history, new research has found. Unhealthy food and drink brands accounted for more than seven in ten, with 65,722 appearances.The research, led by the University of Bristol in collaboration with the University of Oxford, is the first to examine harmful commodity branding across an entire FIFAย World Cup. The team used the UKโ€™s most powerful supercomputer, Isambard-AI, based…
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Young users ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences

Young users ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences

๐Ÿ”ฅ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: School researchers reviewed nearly 200 studies on how artificial intelligence affects children and young peopleโ€™s ability to learn and think. They found that we know very little about how AI use impacts younger school children. Denne saken er ogsรฅ tilgjengelig pรฅ norsk In briefResearchers wanted to find out how AI tools affect students' critical thinking and problem-solving abilities. They analysed 173 international studies that had looked at the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in school and education. Findings: AI on its own neither strengthens…
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Used ThinkPad Buyer’s Guide

Used ThinkPad Buyer’s Guide

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Should you get a genuine Lenovo battery or a cheap generic battery?It is tempting to cheap out on a battery for your ThinkPad. There are a few things to keep in mind if youโ€™re thinking of getting a generic battery.Generic batteries rarely have their advertised capacity.The batteries usually come with 70-80% of the designed capacity of the Genuine batteryCan be a lot bulkier or have a different designThe battery meter isnโ€™t very reliable but slowly gets better as you charge it more. For example; the…
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Can gzip be a language model?

โœจ Read this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: A while back I wrote about language modeling without neural networks, where I generated Shakespeare with an unbounded n-gram model: no weights, no training, just counting. Fortuitously, I came across the paper Language Modeling is Compression, which mentioned the compressionโ€“prediction equivalence:every prediction model is inherently a compressor, and all compression algorithms are prediction models.This led to the natural question: can gzip do language modeling? No neural network, no learned parameters, nothing. Just the compressor that ships with your operating system. You prime it with a…
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Firmware freedom ยท Taurus

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: When we released CoyoPedal, we ended with a paragraph about owning hardware and choosing what runs on it, and promised it deserved a post of its own. The discussion that followed on Reddit made it clear that the paragraph was the part people wanted to talk about. So here is the longer version, and an invitation at the end of it. Unlimited tweakability, two sounds I have played guitar for twenty-five years and performed for twenty. In that time I have owned, borrowed and gigged…
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