Hacker News on Sunday, 7 December 2025

Using LLMs at Oxide(rfd.shared.oxide.computer)

636 points by steveklabnik 10 months ago | 249 comments

Oxide Computer's public RFD 576 by Bryan Cantrill describing how the company approaches using large language models in its work.

I wasted years of my life in crypto(twitter.com)

593 points by Anon84 10 months ago | 822 comments

An X (Twitter) article by Ken Chang reflecting on having spent years of his life working in the crypto industry.

The state of Schleswig-Holstein is consistently relying on open source(heise.de)

557 points by doener 10 months ago | 258 comments

Heise news article reporting that Schleswig-Holstein saves 15 million euros in license costs by migrating its administration from Microsoft to open source software.

Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory(research.google)

553 points by Alifatisk 10 months ago | 176 comments

Google Research blog post introducing the Titans architecture and MIRAS framework for giving AI models long-term memory.

I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude(j0nah.com)

522 points by thecr0w 10 months ago | 428 comments

Blog post describing a failed attempt to get Claude to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website from screenshots.

Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices(theguardian.com)

475 points by bookofjoe 10 months ago | 652 comments

Guardian investigation finding that Dollar General and Family Dollar stores often charge more at checkout than their posted shelf prices.

Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions(gptzero.me)

464 points by puttycat 10 months ago | 367 comments

GPTZero blog post reporting that its Citation Check tool found 50+ hallucinated citations in ICLR 2026 submissions missed by peer reviewers.

Z2 – Lithographically fabricated IC in a garage fab(sam.zeloof.xyz)

333 points by embedding-shape 10 months ago | 76 comments

Sam Zeloof's blog post about the Z2, a homemade 1000+ transistor array chip made by lithography in his garage fab, following his 2018 Z1 amplifier.

The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video](youtube.com)

316 points by AareyBaba 10 months ago | 391 comments

Bag of words, have mercy on us(experimental-history.com)

293 points by ntnbr 10 months ago | 321 comments

The Anatomy of a macOS App(eclecticlight.co)

257 points by elashri 10 months ago | 77 comments

How I block all online ads(troubled.engineer)

246 points by StrLght 10 months ago | 215 comments

Scala 3 slowed us down?(kmaliszewski9.github.io)

238 points by kmaliszewski 10 months ago | 137 comments

He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over(washingtonpost.com)

221 points by wallflower 10 months ago | 201 comments

Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image(bbc.com)

206 points by josephcsible 10 months ago | 160 comments

Rio de Janeiro's talipot palm trees bloom for the first and only time(apnews.com)

203 points by 1659447091 10 months ago | 42 comments

Estimates are difficult for developers and product owners(thorsell.io)

197 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 205 comments

Discovering the indieweb with calm tech(alexsci.com)

196 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 17 comments

Java Hello World, LLVM Edition(javaadvent.com)

180 points by ingve 10 months ago | 75 comments

Eurydice: a Rust to C compiler(jonathan.protzenko.fr)

175 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 113 comments

Mechanical power generation using Earth's ambient radiation(science.org)

156 points by defrost 10 months ago | 56 comments

Nested Learning: A new ML paradigm for continual learning(research.google)

134 points by themgt 10 months ago | 10 comments

Go is portable, until it isn't(simpleobservability.com)

125 points by khazit 10 months ago | 108 comments

Syncthing-Android have had a change of owner/maintainer(github.com)

114 points by embedding-shape 10 months ago | 25 comments

What the heck is going on at Apple?(cnn.com)

108 points by methuselah_in 10 months ago | 145 comments

Evidence from the One Laptop per Child program in rural Peru(nber.org)

101 points by danso 10 months ago | 92 comments

Java FFM zero-copy transport using io_uring(mvp.express)

95 points by mands 10 months ago | 43 comments

XKeyscore(en.wikipedia.org)

90 points by belter 10 months ago | 71 comments

The AI wildfire is coming. it's going to be painful and healthy(ceodinner.substack.com)

85 points by LordAtlas 10 months ago | 125 comments

P-computers can solve spin-glass problems faster than quantum systems(news.ucsb.edu)

75 points by magoghm 10 months ago | 25 comments

Proxmox delivers its software-defined datacenter contender and VMware escape(theregister.com)

70 points by Bender 10 months ago | 1 comments

DNA Learning Center: Mechanism of Replication 3D Animation(dnalc.cshl.edu)

68 points by timschmidt 10 months ago | 17 comments

So What Should We Call This – A Grue Jay?(cns.utexas.edu)

59 points by surprisetalk 10 months ago | 26 comments

Locks in PostgreSQL: 3. Other locks (2020)(habr.com)

56 points by fanf2 10 months ago | 5 comments

Millions of Americans mess up their taxes, but a new law will help(wakeuptopolitics.com)

56 points by toomuchtodo 10 months ago | 38 comments

Iced 0.14 has been released (Rust GUI library)(github.com)

56 points by airstrike 10 months ago | 27 comments

OpenAI disables ChatGPT app suggestions that looked like ads(techoreon.com)

51 points by GeorgeWoff25 10 months ago | 31 comments

Semantic Compression (2014)(caseymuratori.com)

51 points by tosh 10 months ago | 5 comments

How the Disappearance of Flight 19 Fueled the Legend of the Bermuda Triangle(smithsonianmag.com)

49 points by pseudolus 10 months ago | 12 comments

Pdsink: USB Power Delivery Sink library for embedded devices(github.com)

46 points by zdw 10 months ago | 14 comments

Martin Parr has died(bbc.co.uk)

36 points by yzydserd 10 months ago | 2 comments

Oblast: A better Blasto game for the Commodore 64(oldvcr.blogspot.com)

28 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 6 comments

A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes(biorxiv.org)

27 points by wjb3 10 months ago | 6 comments

Show HN: Spotify Wrapped but for LeetCode(github.com)

25 points by collinboler2 10 months ago | 10 comments

TigerBeetle as a File Storage(aivarsk.com)

24 points by aivarsk 10 months ago | 2 comments

Should CSS be a constraint system instead?(pavpanchekha.com)

24 points by fanf2 10 months ago | 18 comments

F-35 Fighter Jet's C++ Coding Standards [pdf](stroustrup.com)

24 points by birdculture 10 months ago | 6 comments

C64 Maze Chomp.BAS(basic-code.bearblog.dev)

23 points by ibobev 10 months ago | 3 comments

FBI Making List of American "Extremists," Leaked Memo Reveals(kenklippenstein.com)

23 points by O1111OOO 10 months ago | 8 comments

Magnitude-7.0 earthquake hits in remote wilderness along Alaska-Canada border(apnews.com)

16 points by appreciatorBus 10 months ago | 4 comments

The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to Criticizing AI(pluralistic.net)

15 points by doener 10 months ago | 2 comments

A Struct Sockaddr Sequel(lwn.net)

13 points by g0xA52A2A 10 months ago | 0 comments

BehindTheMedspeak: A Spinal Tap(bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)

12 points by surprisetalk 10 months ago | 5 comments

Scientists link sugar substitute sorbitol to liver disease in zebrafish(scitechdaily.com)

11 points by mraniki 10 months ago | 5 comments

When exercising copyrights puts a gamedev under threat: My take on GBCOMPO 25(allalonegamez.itch.io)

9 points by embedding-shape 10 months ago | 1 comments

Three-year-old forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court(coppercourier.com)

9 points by sipofwater 10 months ago | 3 comments

KJS: A Complete Formal Semantics of JavaScript(github.com)

7 points by andsoitis 10 months ago | 0 comments

The Ways the AI Bubble Might Burst(wheresyoured.at)

5 points by chilipepperhott 10 months ago | 0 comments

You Gotta Push If You Wanna Pull(morling.dev)

5 points by tedyoung 10 months ago | 2 comments

FL Governor Announces Proposal for Citizen Bill of Rights for AI(flgov.com)

3 points by WaitWaitWha 10 months ago | 1 comments