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$12B of US ratepayers' money wasted on a modeling mistake in PJM
2026-08-17 @ 05:22:49Points: 24Comments: 9
Gmail might partially be to blame for receiving emails from other Sean Conners
2026-08-17 @ 03:21:37Points: 28Comments: 35
Strong gravitational lensing and microlensing of supernovae (2024)
2026-08-17 @ 02:55:20Points: 9Comments: 1
AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64
2026-08-17 @ 01:45:36Points: 68Comments: 9
Prolly: A content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees
2026-08-17 @ 01:00:45Points: 35Comments: 1
Rhombus 1.1 is now available
2026-08-17 @ 00:48:21Points: 66Comments: 22
Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye”
2026-08-17 @ 00:35:29Points: 39Comments: 8
The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]
2026-08-17 @ 00:17:57Points: 179Comments: 83
Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network
2026-08-16 @ 23:59:10Points: 97Comments: 23
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
2026-08-16 @ 23:45:09Points: 348Comments: 152
Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee
2026-08-16 @ 21:07:10Points: 195Comments: 89
Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+
2026-08-16 @ 20:31:16Points: 309Comments: 201
Red queen hypothesis – A new way forward for self-improving AI
2026-08-16 @ 20:01:13Points: 46Comments: 10
Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome
2026-08-16 @ 18:48:27Points: 143Comments: 94
MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent
2026-08-16 @ 18:17:10Points: 86Comments: 28
Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
2026-08-16 @ 17:49:46Points: 444Comments: 114
then disable the snippet. I find this approach entirely invasive, you should opt-in to features like that not have to opt-out. Just a warning out there to folks who might not be aware of this.
A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”
2026-08-16 @ 17:01:07Points: 472Comments: 244
St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core
2026-08-16 @ 15:16:06Points: 186Comments: 136
The AI Credit Resale Economy
2026-08-16 @ 14:44:55Points: 273Comments: 113
Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker
2026-08-16 @ 12:58:10Points: 636Comments: 254
Claude: System Prompts
2026-08-16 @ 12:48:21Points: 629Comments: 250
Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video]
2026-08-15 @ 20:15:51Points: 65Comments: 16
Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life
2026-08-14 @ 23:53:43Points: 84Comments: 23
How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)
2026-08-13 @ 19:07:34Points: 90Comments: 57
SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX
2026-08-13 @ 12:44:05Points: 110Comments: 44
Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga
2026-08-13 @ 03:05:36Points: 104Comments: 14
Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter
2026-08-11 @ 15:36:27Points: 160Comments: 41
Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence (2012)
2026-08-11 @ 12:40:31Points: 39Comments: 4
Show HN: Vocal Slice – Cut audio by selecting text, fully on-device
2026-08-10 @ 15:32:03Points: 17Comments: 6
Vocal Slice transcribes your audio, then you can simply highlight the passage you want and the waveform jumps to exactly that span. Fine-tune with the handles, export a named clip.
Windows and macOS.
https://vocalslice.com wesley@vocalslice.com
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