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Shutting down our public encrypted DNS
2026-09-04 @ 18:50:28Points: 157Comments: 56
Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
2026-09-04 @ 18:42:56Points: 309Comments: 184
Hayes AT command set
2026-09-04 @ 17:56:14Points: 32Comments: 8
The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite
2026-09-04 @ 17:49:09Points: 77Comments: 14
Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages
2026-09-04 @ 17:29:22Points: 189Comments: 3
Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer
2026-09-04 @ 17:18:08Points: 180Comments: 57
Another tidbit, in the crazy things that AI has done... It has helped create a ANT (common sensor wireless protocol used in workout/biking) implementation for ESP32 by messing around with undocumented registers: https://github.com/RaemondBW/esp32-ant
Georgi Gerganov on llama.cpp/ggml future after Nvidia acquisition of HuggingFace
2026-09-04 @ 17:12:22Points: 61Comments: 18
Stop Thinking of LLMs as Next-Token Predictors
2026-09-04 @ 17:09:24Points: 35Comments: 82
Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive
2026-09-04 @ 16:46:59Points: 249Comments: 143
Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration
2026-09-04 @ 16:24:50Points: 48Comments: 27
deSEC – Free Secure DNS
2026-09-04 @ 15:38:58Points: 86Comments: 32
Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI
2026-09-04 @ 15:33:45Points: 228Comments: 215
IBM Bob
2026-09-04 @ 12:50:29Points: 193Comments: 231
Restoring 5 GHz Wi-Fi on an LG C5 by changing its webOS region
2026-09-04 @ 12:49:44Points: 54Comments: 63
How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+
2026-09-04 @ 12:43:49Points: 183Comments: 154
SubImage (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer in SF
2026-09-04 @ 12:01:07Points: 1
Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search
2026-09-04 @ 11:59:15Points: 353Comments: 71
Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
2026-09-04 @ 11:54:53Points: 1331Comments: 1081
Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge
2026-09-04 @ 10:17:01Points: 359Comments: 81
Show HN: TERMy – A fast terminal assistant that does not use LLMs
2026-09-04 @ 09:03:00Points: 70Comments: 24
I am excited to share with you TERMy, a terminal assistant built on top of the NPC-Forge framework. Unlike everything else being built today, TERMy does not use embeddings, machine-learning or LLMs. It runs on the CPU (even on a Raspberry Pi Zero) both in the terminal or client-side in a browser tab and responds in milliseconds. It is a cynical but very knowledgeable Linux terminal assistant that translates your natural language into shell commands without relying on a single artificial neuron.
I had a chance to focus for 2 months on my personal projects since early July, during the strange times of AI price hikes and the end of subsidized tokenmaxing. I was curious to see if I could develop from scratch a terminal assistant capable of handling simple natural language requests. I have a bad memory and got used to ask to copilot "activate the virtual environment" or similar trivial operations spending a non negligible sum every month. I started thinking, maybe I can do something to make my workflow more efficient? Do I really need trillions of parameters to accomplish those tasks?
How it Works
When you type a prompt, it goes through a lightweight NLU pipeline written in ~1000 lines of Python that implement the following steps:
1. Strip expletives, interjections, encouraging, discouraging and thanking words (remove noise)
2. Sentiment analysis
3. Exact Match (very fast)
4. Template Match (slower)
5. Probabilistic Match (even slower)
Step 5 relies on:
1. IDF (Inverse Document Frequency) to identify rare words.
2. BOW (Bag Of Words) to accommodate word inversions.
3. IDF weighted Levenshtein to safely handle typos.
Permission gating is hardcoded into the dataset and enforced for all potentially destructive commands, so it's inherently safer than letting an unpredictable LLM run wild on your machine.
- TERMy in operation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeIp0xePLBg
- Variance and typo tolerance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQvGDk6fkk0
- Copilot integration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzzouhq2a8A
- Advanced features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeIp0xePLBg
- Source Code: https://github.com/gioblu/NPC-Forge
Arrested for a Late Manuscript: Seicho Matsumoto's 'Tokyo Express'
2026-09-03 @ 19:10:59Points: 16Comments: 3
GPT-6 Astra
2026-09-03 @ 18:41:05Points: 2134Comments: 1941
Related ongoing threads:
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49555691
GPT-6 Astra makes major gains in the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556147
Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s
2026-09-03 @ 18:32:13Points: 675Comments: 222
People that worked on the same idea for decades
2026-09-03 @ 08:31:22Points: 39Comments: 18
The Two Abstractions of System Design: Hide or Reduce
2026-09-02 @ 11:54:14Points: 94Comments: 10
Resources to Get Good at Soldering?
2026-09-02 @ 09:24:11Points: 67Comments: 43
Right now I've busted a board, and managed to desolder and resolder a stick but the controller doesn't turn on anymore. I'm doing this all by myself, and I think I'm following good advice (ventilation, good iron tip, using flux etc...).
But there are many variables, and a lot of experts have different opinions on stuff. Does anyone know good resources that I could use for getting good and making less mistakes ? Thanks.