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The percentage of Show HN posts is increasing, but their scores are decreasing

đź’Ą Discover this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Last update: 2026-01-14 Recently, I felt like I was seeing more “Show HN” stories, and many of which were generated with LLMs. So I analyzed the data to see if that was true. Also I included the average score per month to see if people enjoy seeing them (because I don’t :P). Charts Stories in 2026 was omitted. 1) It’s only 13 days, 2) Scores are not stable yet. Left axis: show_hn_ratio(show_hn / story * 100) Right axis: average_show_hn_score and average_story_score With LLM timeline Analysis…
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Can you slim macOS down? – The Eclectic Light Company

Can you slim macOS down? – The Eclectic Light Company

đź’Ą Explore this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Open Activity Monitor when your Mac isn’t doing a great deal and you’ll see hundreds of processes listed there. Even in a virtual machine with a minimum of services there are at least 500, and in a vanilla setup with no apps open a real Mac can exceed 700. Clearly some of those like WindowServer are essential, but aren’t there plenty we could do without? That’s a question I’m asked repeatedly, which this article tries to answer. One of the first problems when trying to…
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Director Gore Verbinski says Unreal Engine is ‘the greatest slip backwards’ for movie CGI

Director Gore Verbinski says Unreal Engine is ‘the greatest slip backwards’ for movie CGI

🔥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Remember the glory days of CGI in movies? Terminator 2's liquid metal T-1000, Jurassic Park's stunning dinosaurs, Starship Trooper's swarms of giant arachnids. Not only did the CGI look great then, most of the visual effects in those movies still hold up well today, even decades after they were created.Nowadays, movie fans seem much less impressed by CGI in films. There's a general distaste for a perceived overuse of CGI in favor of practical effects, and there are a lot of complaints that recent…
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EU Parliament freezes US trade deal ratification after Trump’s tariff threats over Greenland

EU Parliament freezes US trade deal ratification after Trump’s tariff threats over Greenland

✨ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: General view of the plenary room of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France January 20, 2026. YVES HERMAN / REUTERS EU lawmakers have agreed to hold off on ratifying a key trade deal with the United States following President Donald Trump's tariff threats over Greenland, the main political groups said on Tuesday, January 20. The warning shot from the European Parliament comes as the 27-nation bloc weighs how hard to hit back if Trump follows through against Washington's long-standing allies. The Parliament was planning…
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cURL removes bug bounties

cURL removes bug bounties

đź’Ą Discover this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Open source code library cURL is removing the possibility to earn money by reporting bugs, hoping that this will reduce the volume of AI slop reports. Joshua Rogers – AI wielding bug hunter of fame – thinks it's a great idea. cURL has been flooded with AI-generated error reports. Now one of the incentives to create them will go away. The vast majority of AI-generated error reports submitted to cURL are pure nonsense. Other open source projects are caught in the same pandemic. cURL maintainer…
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ef1500/libbbf: Bound Book Format: A high-performance, DirectStorage-native container format for comics and manga

ef1500/libbbf: Bound Book Format: A high-performance, DirectStorage-native container format for comics and manga

đź’Ą Read this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: WarningOfficial Source Notice: Please only download releases from this repository (ef1500/libbbf). External mirrors or forks may contain malware. Bound Book Format (.bbf) is a high-performance binary container designed specifically for digital comic books and manga. Unlike CBR/CBZ, BBF is built for DirectSotrage/mmap, easy integrity checks, and mixed-codec containerization. C++17 compliant compiler (GCC/Clang/MSVC), and optionally CMake xxHash library cmake -B build cmake --build build sudo cmake --install build Linux g++ -std=c++17 bbfenc.cpp libbbf.cpp xxhash.c -o bbfmux -pthread Windows g++ -std=c++17 bbfenc.cpp libbbf.cpp xxhash.c -o bbfmux -municode…
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anthropics/original_performance_takehome: Anthropic’s original performance take-home, now open for you to try!

anthropics/original_performance_takehome: Anthropic’s original performance take-home, now open for you to try!

🔥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: This repo contains a version of Anthropic's original performance take-home, before Claude Opus 4.5 started doing better than humans given only 2 hours. Now you can try to beat Claude Opus 4.5 given unlimited time! measured in clock cycles from the simulated machine: 2164 cycles: Claude Opus 4 after many hours in the test-time compute harness 1790 cycles: Claude Opus 4.5 in a casual Claude Code session, approximately matching the best human performance in 2 hours 1579 cycles: Claude Opus 4.5 after 2 hours in…
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Disaster planning for regular folks: level-headed prepping tips

🔥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Disaster planning for regular folks: level-headed prepping tips Written by lcamtuf@coredump.cx, Dec 2015, minor updates Jul 2021. Buy the book instead! Practical Doomsday is an in-depth, data-packed guide to rational emergency preparedness. The book offers deeper and more polished insights on most of the topics covered on this page. For example, about 40 pages are devoted to financial planning alone - from cash reserves, to insurance policies, to commodity derivatives. You can get it on Amazon, order from Barnes & Noble, or visit your favorite…
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Lunar Radio Telescope to Unlock Cosmic Mysteries

Lunar Radio Telescope to Unlock Cosmic Mysteries

✨ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Isolation dictates where we go to see into the far reaches of the universe. The Atacama Desert of Chile, the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the vast expanse of the Australian Outback—these are where astronomers and engineers have built the great observatories and radio telescopes of modern times. The skies are usually clear, the air is arid, and the electronic din of civilization is far away.It was to one of these places, in the high desert of New Mexico, that a young astronomer…
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GitHub – davidbeesley/claude-chill

GitHub – davidbeesley/claude-chill

🚀 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: A PTY proxy that tames Claude Code's massive terminal updates using VT-based rendering. Claude Code uses synchronized output to update the terminal atomically. It wraps output in sync markers (\x1b[?2026h ... \x1b[?2026l) so the terminal renders everything at once without flicker. The problem: Claude Code sends entire screen redraws in these sync blocks - often thousands of lines. Your terminal receives a 5000-line atomic update when only 20 lines are visible. This causes lag, flicker, and makes scrollback useless since each update clears history. claude-chill…
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