Year: 2026

Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions

Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions

โœจ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Input and output tokensA request goes through the GPU in two phases, and they cost different amounts.ย First, during prefill, the model reads your request and context: the system prompt, your CLAUDE.md, your message, and everything that's been added to the conversation since (the files Claude has read and the output of the commands it ran). Those are your input tokens.Then, during decode, it writes output tokens: its thinking, the tool calls it makes, and the text you see. This happens one token at a…
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Racket v9.3

๐Ÿš€ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: posted by Stephen De Gabrielle and John Clements We are pleased to announce Racket v9.3 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org/. As of this release: The raco setup command can generate markdown documentation, using the --doc-markdown option. The "#lang" teaching languages (BSL, โ€ฆ, ISL+; plus DeinProgram) have reached parity with the ones chosen using the Language dialog, and are the recommended choice. DrRacketโ€™s background expansion disables errortrace annotations, for faster syntax checking. The raco pkg install command includes new options that provide more install-time configuration flexibility:…
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The End of Mathematics โ€” Daniel Litt

The End of Mathematics โ€” Daniel Litt

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: I'm currently returning to Toronto from a summit on the future of mathematics, at OpenAI. Sebastian Bubeck asked me to talk a bit about the future we'd all like to avoid, where humans are mathematically disempowered. Jacob Tsimerman advised us to try to prioritize detail over correctness, and I have no doubt that I succeeded in deprioritizing correctness. I tried to find a title that wasn't too bombastic: The premise of the workshop (which we took as a starting point, rather than subject to debate,…
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The Other Sean Byrne Doesn’t Exist โ€” Sean Byrne

The Other Sean Byrne Doesn’t Exist โ€” Sean Byrne

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Earlier this year Apple denied me access to App Store Connect after deciding that I matched someone on a U.S. government restricted-party list. Their explanation was fairly definitive: โ€œThe information you provided fully matches one or more restricted parties on the U.S. government consolidated screening list or another governmentโ€™s sanctions list.โ€ They already had my passport. I replied with my full legal name, Sean Joseph Byrne, uploaded my driverโ€™s license, and pointed out the address on the government record they appeared to be matching me…
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Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

โœจ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Microsoftโ€™s move isnโ€™t surprising, as Edge is based on Chromium, the open-source browser engine that powers most web browsers today, including Opera, Brave, Vivaldi, and Samsung Browser. Google initiated the migration from Manifest V2 to V3 in Chrome/Chromium, and Microsoft Edge is now following Googleโ€™s lead. But Firefox is one of the few web browsers remaining that isnโ€™t based on Chromium, and itโ€™s now the only major browser to still support uBlock Origin. Neither Safari nor DuckDuckGoโ€”the two other major non-Chromium browsers out thereโ€”support…
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[2608.11158] New Lower and Upper Bounds for the Grothendieck Constant

[2608.11158] New Lower and Upper Bounds for the Grothendieck Constant

โœจ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: [Submitted on 11 Aug 2026 (v1), last revised 12 Aug 2026 (this version, v2)] View a PDF of the paper titled New Lower and Upper Bounds for the Grothendieck Constant, by Rahul Saha and 6 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:We establish new bounds on the Grothendieck constant $K_G$: \[ \frac๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ \le K_G \le \fracโšก๐Ÿ’ฌ - 10^{-4}. \] Methodologically, our lower bound approach differs from previous works by establishing limitations on the asymptotically optimal Krivine schemes, rather than giving explicit constructions of gap…
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NSA and IETF, part 9

๐Ÿš€ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: cr.yp.to: 2026.08.14: NSA and IETF, part 9 Table of contents (Access-I for index page) 2026.08.14: NSA and IETF, part 9: An update. #pqcrypto #hybrids #nsa #ietf #procedures 2026.07.06: NSA and IETF, part 8: Fairness. #pqcrypto #hybrids #nsa #ietf #riskmanagement 2026.07.04: Bugs happen: The easy way to compare solo PQ to ECC+PQ. #pqcrypto #bugs #vulnerabilities #hybrids 2026.07.02: A standard by any other name: How IETF evades responsibility for its actions. #standards #doublespeak 2026.06.30: Understanding lattice risks: Many differences between marketing and reality. #lattices #software #looseness #modules…
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Corgi kills short-lived website that ranked its female employees

Corgi kills short-lived website that ranked its female employees

โœจ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: A website that allowed users to rank women working at Corgi, an AI insurance company known for its 24-hour cafes and whimsical social media presence, was taken down Thursday after the startup threatened the websiteโ€™s owner with legal action.For its three days of existence, CorgiGirls.com displayed photos of Corgiโ€™s female employees in side-by-side comparisons, letting visitors vote on who they thought was more attractive. The website now shows a domain name error.The website appears to have been set up by Sebastian Mandal, a San Francisco-based…
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Stop sending me huge PRs; a rant

๐Ÿš€ Explore this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: I'm tired boss. I'm tired of reviewing one, two, three thousand line PRs because some agent was able to "one shot the whole issue." Small PRs were never asked for because they're easier to write, it's always been for the benefit of the reviewer. AI is such a boon to the industry, but it's becoming such a liability for reviewers and maintainers. Maybe I'm just an old man yelling at the clouds, but please, stop sending me huge PRs. I have heard on multiple occasions…
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RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better

RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better Table of Contents Everything for EveryoneOptionalityMissing Obvious PiecesRidiculous encodingAlleged FixesHow Did We Get Here and Where to Now?Does This Mean RISC-V is Doomed?Comments... I am often asked to explain my distaste for RISC-V and I often find myself explaining it piecewise. The reactions are often of the form "you just do not understand the brilliance of it all", which is, of course, no argument at all. After being asked for the Nth time to explain, I decided to put…
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