Hacker News

Links for the intellectually curious, ranked by readers.

• Position: LLMs Can't Jump
• Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI
• Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking
• Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest
• TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In
• Scaling NumPy on Free-Threaded Python
• “Gravity is worth asking about”
• Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
• Bubble Memory
• Birduino: A card-triggered audio player for [learning] the birds
• Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation
• Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones
• Helsinki Hacker News Meetup
• BSD Make extravaganza: Mandelbrot Set In bmake
• Could psilocybin be the key to treating anorexia?
• IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay
• The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria (1851)
• Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents
• Show HN: Maple-Preview – Ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone
• In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years
• DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023)
• Piece of SpaceX rocket believed to have crashed into the moon
• Anthropic AI created fake profiles and impersonated people in attempted hack
• Universities would prefer no AI
• An SLM trained on $8 ESP32-S3
• We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars
• Bugtraq is back
• Why is it all in the kernel?
• Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)
• Iowa-led states ask OpenAI to keep their bots on a leash