🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: Hey HN,I feel like I've wasted the better part of my twenties trying to be a professional software engineer and founding two companies. Fortunately I have some money to show for it and I learned a lot, but at this point it seems I'm functionally unemployable / have skills that just don't make the cut anymore.Building with AI is incredible, but when I get interviews I just flat out can't pass tech screens anymore. I've gotten lucky with a few "forward deployed" roles…
✨ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: Why? Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable. Of course there are alternatives, specifically bad ones. FoxIt is slow and non-customizable. Chrome/Firefox kinda works as a PDF reader, but is lacking in the feature department. On linux there is (at least) one non-bad PDF reader. Zathura is amazing with the MuPDF backend. However it only works on X11/Xorg and thus Linux. I use Wayland and Windows. Zathura-2? If I could just reach parity with the features from Zathura it would be the perfect program for…
🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: tl;dr We explore language models that recursively call themselves or other LLMs before providing a final answer. Our goal is to enable the processing of essentially unbounded input context length and output length and to mitigate degradation “context rot”. We propose Recursive Language Models, or RLMs, a general inference strategy where language models can decompose and recursively interact with their input context as a variable. We design a specific instantiation of this where GPT-5 or GPT-5-mini is queried in a Python REPL environment…
💥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Key idea: Syntax highlighting is a tool. It can help you read code faster. Find things quicker. Orient yourself in a large file. Like any tool, it can be used correctly or incorrectly. Let’s see how to use syntax highlighting to help you work. Most color themes have a unique bright color for literally everything: one for variables, another for language keywords, constants, punctuation, functions, classes, calls, comments, etc. Sometimes it gets so bad one can’t see the base text color: everything is highlighted. What’s the base text…
💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: Even though the impacts of LLMs have never been seen before, they feel familiar to earlier assumptions. For context: I wasn’t the “PhD scientist,” working on models. I was the guy who worked on productionizing their proof-of-concept code and turning it into something people could actually use. I worked in industries ranging from software/hardware automated testing at Motorola to small startups dealing with accessibility and education.So here is what I've learned:This AI hype cycle is missing the mark by building ChatGPT-like bots and “✨”…
✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: Claude Haiku 4.5, our latest small model, is available today to all users.What was recently at the frontier is now cheaper and faster. Five months ago, Claude Sonnet 4 was a state-of-the-art model. Today, Claude Haiku 4.5 gives you similar levels of coding performance but at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed.Claude Haiku 4.5 even surpasses Claude Sonnet 4 at certain tasks, like using computers. These advances make applications like Claude for Chrome faster and more useful than ever before.Users who…
💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Key idea: My work is supported by members. If you find my work valuable and have the means, consider supporting it with a membership or sponsorship! This members-only article has been made publicly available. You can see more of my work at alexanderobenauer.com. The last chapter of Bootstrapping Computing is all about user environments. One of the more unique user environments mentioned is found on the Canon Cat, an obscure machine that didn’t last long on the market, but took some specific philosophies to an extreme, presenting fascinating…
💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: My kids have this RC fire engine that works in the 27MHz band. I got curious how the communication is, with objective to control the toy from laptop. I had an RTL SDR in my toolbox. I have used it with gnuradio software for a couple of analog reception tasks. Not for anything serious so far. So I started simple and kept building on top. Following is the final block diagram I arrived at. Seems complex right?. I will walk you through the steps…
🔥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Main takeaway: I don’t really believe in the threat of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence—human-level intelligence) partly because I don’t believe in the possibility of AGI and I’m highly skeptical that the current technology underpinning LLMs will provide a route to it. But I also think there’s something we should actually be afraid of long before AGI, if it ever comes. When talking about humans in any context, whether it’s us vs sharks, or us vs wolves, or us vs , and especially when it’s us vs , I…
💥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Main takeaway: October 15, 2025 PRESS RELEASE Apple Vision Pro upgraded with the powerful M5 chip and comfortable Dual Knit Band The latest version improves performance, display rendering, battery life, and comfort, while offering innovative features with visionOS 26 and all-new spatial apps and Apple Immersive content CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today introduced Apple Vision Pro with the powerful M5 chip that delivers a leap forward in performance, improved display rendering, faster AI-powered workflows, and extended battery life. The upgraded Vision Pro also comes with the soft, cushioned Dual Knit Band to help users achieve an…