Hacker News on Wednesday, 3 September 2025

Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed(zed.dev)

658 points by meetpateltech 1 year ago | 400 comments

Zed blog post announcing beta support for running Anthropic's Claude Code agent inside the Zed editor via the Agent Client Protocol.

Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up(mikelovesrobots.substack.com)

526 points by dbalatero 1 year ago | 319 comments

A Substack essay by Mike Judge arguing that claims of massive AI coding productivity gains aren't supported by evidence such as a surge in new software releases.

MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline(publichealthpolicyjournal.com)

438 points by cainxinth 1 year ago | 432 comments

Article reporting on an MIT study claiming that using AI tools like ChatGPT alters brain activity and leads to cognitive decline.

VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model(microsoft.github.io)

406 points by lastdong 1 year ago | 150 comments

Project page for Microsoft's VibeVoice, an open-source TTS model generating up to 90 minutes of multi-speaker conversational audio using LLM and diffusion.

Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources(github.com)

357 points by indigodaddy 1 year ago | 255 comments

GitHub repository for Nuclear, an open-source Electron desktop music player that streams music from free sources like YouTube.

Voyager – An interactive video generation model with realtime 3D reconstruction(github.com)

302 points by mingtianzhang 1 year ago | 206 comments

Evidence that AI is destroying jobs for young people(derekthompson.org)

283 points by duck 1 year ago | 251 comments

The 16-year odyssey it took to emulate the Pioneer LaserActive(readonlymemo.com)

283 points by LaSombra 1 year ago | 67 comments

Neovim Pack(neovim.io)

262 points by k2enemy 1 year ago | 156 comments

Understanding Transformers Using a Minimal Example(rti.github.io)

260 points by rttti 1 year ago | 17 comments

Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works)(blog.frost.kiwi)

260 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 39 comments

Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor – Version 1.1(github.com)

254 points by marvinborner 1 year ago | 170 comments

ReMarkable Paper Pro Move(remarkable.com)

245 points by ksec 1 year ago | 295 comments

Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python (2023)(vgel.me)

231 points by ofou 1 year ago | 74 comments

Garmin beats Apple to market with satellite-connected smartwatch(macrumors.com)

223 points by mgh2 1 year ago | 209 comments

Lit: a library for building fast, lightweight web components(lit.dev)

217 points by merqurio 1 year ago | 141 comments

Kernel-hack-drill and exploiting CVE-2024-50264 in the Linux kernel(a13xp0p0v.github.io)

206 points by r4um 1 year ago | 34 comments

Speeding up Unreal Editor launch by not spawning unused tooltips(larstofus.com)

195 points by samspenc 1 year ago | 78 comments

The worst possible antitrust outcome(pluralistic.net)

185 points by leotravis10 1 year ago | 94 comments

We're Joining OpenAI(alexcodes.app)

179 points by liurenju 1 year ago | 131 comments

Like humans, every tree has its own microbiome, a new study has found(nytimes.com)

176 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 31 comments

Speeding up PyTorch inference on Apple devices with AI-generated Metal kernels(gimletlabs.ai)

173 points by nserrino 1 year ago | 28 comments

What is it like to be a bat?(en.wikipedia.org)

164 points by adityaathalye 1 year ago | 228 comments

Tufte CSS(edwardtufte.github.io)

161 points by avinassh 1 year ago | 40 comments

Finnish City Inaugurates 1 MW/100 MWh Sand Battery(cleantechnica.com)

157 points by erwinmatijsen 1 year ago | 109 comments

Building the most accurate DIY CNC lathe in the world [video](youtube.com)

155 points by pillars 1 year ago | 60 comments

Airbus B612 Cockpit Font(github.com)

149 points by Bogdanp 1 year ago | 84 comments

Poor man's bitemporal data system in SQLite and Clojure(evalapply.org)

149 points by adityaathalye 1 year ago | 39 comments

Eels are fish(eocampaign1.com)

145 points by speckx 1 year ago | 141 comments

The wall confronting large language models(arxiv.org)

144 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 151 comments

John Coltrane's Tone Circle(roelsworld.eu)

142 points by jim-jim-jim 1 year ago | 53 comments

UK Electricity Generation Map(energydashboard.co.uk)

142 points by zeristor 1 year ago | 85 comments

Who Owns, Operates, and Develops Your VPN Matters(opentech.fund)

141 points by sdsantos 1 year ago | 116 comments

Comic Sans typeball designed to work with the IBM Selectric typewriters(printables.com)

133 points by Sami_Lehtinen 1 year ago | 29 comments

Finding thousands of exposed Ollama instances using Shodan(blogs.cisco.com)

128 points by rldjbpin 1 year ago | 59 comments

Novel hollow-core optical fiber transmits data faster with record low loss(phys.org)

124 points by Wingy 1 year ago | 57 comments

Zig Software Foundation 2025 Financial Report and Fundraiser(ziglang.org)

119 points by smlavine 1 year ago | 42 comments

A Random Walk in 10 Dimensions (2021)(galileo-unbound.blog)

118 points by just_human 1 year ago | 16 comments

For all that's holy, can you just leverage the Web, please?(blog.tomayac.com)

99 points by tomayac 1 year ago | 120 comments

Show HN: Writing Arabic in English(sherifelmetwally.com)

96 points by selmetwa 1 year ago | 15 comments

A queasy selling of the family heirlooms(commonreader.wustl.edu)

90 points by ilamont 1 year ago | 77 comments

A Technical Update on Submarine Cables [pdf](swinog.ch)

89 points by zdw 1 year ago | 27 comments

I want to be left alone(blog.ctms.me)

82 points by car 1 year ago | 41 comments

Anonymous recursive functions in Racket(github.com)

80 points by azhenley 1 year ago | 38 comments

AI is going great for the blind (2023)(robertkingett.com)

79 points by ljlolel 1 year ago | 46 comments

What Is the Fourier Transform?(quantamagazine.org)

76 points by jnord 1 year ago | 4 comments

All New Java Language Features Since Java 21(inside.java)

69 points by lichtenberger 1 year ago | 76 comments

Braincraft challenge – 1000 neurons, 100 seconds, 10 runs, 2 choices, no reward(github.com)

68 points by phreeza 1 year ago | 3 comments

Amazonq.nvim: Official AWS AI Assistant Plugin for Neovim(github.com)

62 points by xyos 1 year ago | 19 comments

6NF File Format(habr.com)

61 points by sergeyprokhoren 1 year ago | 16 comments

Baby's first type checker(austinhenley.com)

59 points by alexmolas 1 year ago | 15 comments

Apple's Assault on Standards(infrequently.org)

58 points by freetonik 1 year ago | 27 comments

Not paying with cash(rubenerd.com)

56 points by mikece 1 year ago | 141 comments

Gleam Gathering 2026(gleamgathering.com)

52 points by crowdhailer 1 year ago | 21 comments

Troubleshooting ZFS – Common Issues and How to Fix Them(klarasystems.com)

49 points by zdw 1 year ago | 12 comments

Launch HN: Risely (YC S25) – AI Agents for Universities

40 points by danialasif 1 year ago | 18 comments

Evaluating Agents(aunhumano.com)

37 points by mfalcon 1 year ago | 9 comments

Ask HN: Gandi is holding my domain hostage. What can I do?

37 points by ohgandihelpme 1 year ago | 12 comments

Warp Code: the fastest way from prompt to production(warp.dev)

36 points by brainless 1 year ago | 38 comments

API Blueprint(apiblueprint.org)

34 points by maxwell 1 year ago | 13 comments