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I benchmarked caveman against two words

I benchmarked caveman against two words

๐Ÿš€ Check out this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Repo Caveman is a popular Claude Code compression plugin. The pitch is in the name: ultra-compressed responses, ~75% fewer tokens, all the technical accuracy. Six modes, slash commands, intensity dials, classical Chinese variants. I benchmarked it against two words: "be brief." Same quality. Same range of tokens. The plugin didn't beat the boring default on either axis. This article is the long version of the video. If you want the verdict in two minutes, watch it. What I tested CategoryFailure modeSkill claim testednBug diagnosisDrops…
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aallan/vera: Vera: a programming language designed for LLMs to write ยท GitHub

aallan/vera: Vera: a programming language designed for LLMs to write ยท GitHub

๐Ÿš€ Check out this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Vera (v-ERR-a) is a programming language designed for large language models to write. The name comes from the Latin veritas (truth). Programs compile to WebAssembly and run at the command line or in the browser. public fn safe_divide(@Int, @Int -> @Int) requires(@Int.1 != 0) ensures(@Int.result == @Int.0 / @Int.1) effects(pure) โšก There are no variable names. @Int.0 is the most recent Int binding; @Int.1 is the one before. The requires clause is a precondition the compiler checks at every call site. The ensures clause…
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Germany has become the largest ammunition producer in the world

Germany has become the largest ammunition producer in the world

๐Ÿš€ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: In Germany, the defense concern Rheinmetall has significantly increased the production of ammunition and military equipment. According to the companyโ€™s management, the country has overtaken the United States in the production capacity of conventional ammunition. This is reported by the Sรผddeutsche Zeitung . Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperger said the company has significantly increased production in several areas. In particular, the production of military trucks has increased from 600 to 4,500 per year, medium-caliber ammunition from 800,000 to 4,000,000, and artillery shells from 70,000 to 1,100,000.…
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Founding Growth Engineer at Gooseworks

Founding Growth Engineer at Gooseworks

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Gooseworks is hiring a Founding Growth Engineer! This is a builder role for someone who lives in Claude Code / Codex / OpenClaw / Hermes and is obsessed with growth as a craft. Not a typical sales / marketer role. Half your time goes to building, operating and tuning AI-powered growth engines for customers; the other half goes to R&D โ€” turning what works into self-serve playbooks that Goose agents can run autonomously. What is Gooseworks Gooseworks is the workspace where companies stand up and…
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Pentagon seeks $55 billion for drones and autonomous warfare in 2027 budget

Pentagon seeks $55 billion for drones and autonomous warfare in 2027 budget

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Pentagon is seeking roughly $55 billion for drone and autonomous warfare programs in its fiscal year 2027 budget, as battlefield conflicts from the Middle East to Ukraine expose a growing problem: cheap drones are increasingly able to overwhelm costly U.S. defenses.The funding request, a dramatic surge from roughly $225 million a year earlier, signals a major shift in how the U.S. military plans to fight future wars, accelerating a move toward large numbers of lower-cost, AI-enabled…
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Twelve centuries of cherry blossoms โ€” peak bloom in Kyoto, 812โ€“2026

Twelve centuries of cherry blossoms โ€” peak bloom in Kyoto, 812โ€“2026

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Kyoto ยท ไบฌ้ƒฝThe peak bloom date of Kyotoโ€™s cherry trees has been written down for more than a thousand years. Stitched together, the entries form what is widely considered the longest continuous record of any natural phenomenon on Earth.How to read itEach pale dot is a single recorded peak: the day a designated tree in Kyoto was judged to be at full bloom that spring. The earliest entry is from 812. There are gaps โ€” some centuries are sparse โ€” but the record runs continuously…
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Copy Fail โ€” CVE-2026-31431

Copy Fail โ€” CVE-2026-31431

๐Ÿš€ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Who is affected If your kernel was built between 2017 and the patch โ€” which covers essentially every mainstream Linux distribution โ€” you're in scope. Copy Fail requires only an unprivileged local user account โ€” no network access, no kernel debugging features, no pre-installed primitives. The kernel crypto API (AF_ALG) ships enabled in essentially every mainstream distro's default config, so the entire 2017 โ†’ patch window is in play out of the box. Distributions we directly verified: DistributionKernel Ubuntu 24.04 LTS6.17.0-1007-aws Amazon Linux 20236.18.8-9.213.amzn2023 RHEL…
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Why AI Can Simulate But Not Instantiate Consciousness โ€” Google DeepMind

โœจ Check out this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: AbstractComputational functionalism dominates current debates on AI consciousness. This is the hypothesis that subjective experience emerges entirely from abstract causal topology, regardless of the underlying physical substrate. We argue this view fundamentally mischaracterizes how physics relates to information. We call this mistake the Abstraction Fallacy. Tracing the causal origins of abstraction reveals that symbolic computation is not an intrinsic physical process. Instead, it is a mapmaker-dependent description. It requires an active, experiencing cognitive agent to alphabetize continuous physics into a finite set of meaningful…
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30 Years Old and Still the Better Protocol for Reverse Proxies

๐Ÿš€ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: HTTP reverse proxying is a minefield. Just the other week, a researcher disclosed a desync vulnerability in Discord's media proxy that allowed spying on private attachments. This is not unusual; these vulnerabilities just keep coming. The problem is the widespread use of HTTP as the protocol between reverse proxies and backends, even though it's unfit for the job. But we don't have to use HTTP here. There's a 30-year-old protocol for proxy-to-backend communication that avoids HTTP's pitfalls. It's called FastCGI, and its specification was released…
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Remote agents in Vibe. Powered by Mistral Medium 3.5.

Remote agents in Vibe. Powered by Mistral Medium 3.5.

๐Ÿš€ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Coding agents have mostly lived on your laptop. Today we're moving them to the cloud, where they run on their own, in parallel, and notify you when they're done. You can start them from the Mistral Vibe CLI or directly in Le Chat, offloading a coding task without leaving the conversation.ย  Powering this is Mistral Medium 3.5 in public preview, our new default model in Mistral Vibe and Le Chat, built to run for long stretches on coding and productivity work. The new Work mode…
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