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GPT-6 Astra in code review: Gains, privacy, and cost
2026-09-05 @ 03:38:56Points: 40Comments: 22
Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns
2026-09-05 @ 00:04:16Points: 207Comments: 70
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2
2026-09-05 @ 00:04:14Points: 117Comments: 41
Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
2026-09-04 @ 23:38:50Points: 128Comments: 58
Connecting every app to every other app
2026-09-04 @ 23:09:59Points: 38Comments: 2
Can guitar frets perform multiplication?
2026-09-04 @ 22:40:30Points: 76Comments: 19
Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
2026-09-04 @ 22:03:16Points: 413Comments: 317
Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions
2026-09-04 @ 21:52:01Points: 487Comments: 270
Icons as a Service
2026-09-04 @ 21:44:59Points: 44Comments: 5
GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter
2026-09-04 @ 21:39:19Points: 217Comments: 128
Statichost.eu – European static site hosting
2026-09-04 @ 20:34:49Points: 280Comments: 107
An open DNS recursive service for free security and high privacy
2026-09-04 @ 20:13:08Points: 88Comments: 25
Can AI design circuit boards yet?
2026-09-04 @ 19:48:29Points: 257Comments: 151
Government Rails Site Hit Hours After CVE Patch
2026-09-04 @ 19:06:39Points: 94Comments: 29
Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean 4
2026-09-04 @ 18:57:32Points: 108Comments: 20
Shutting down our public encrypted DNS
2026-09-04 @ 18:50:28Points: 341Comments: 155
Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
2026-09-04 @ 18:42:56Points: 612Comments: 383
The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite
2026-09-04 @ 17:49:09Points: 138Comments: 31
Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer
2026-09-04 @ 17:18:08Points: 285Comments: 102
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
deSEC – Free Secure DNS
2026-09-04 @ 15:38:58Points: 130Comments: 46
IBM Bob
2026-09-04 @ 12:50:29Points: 268Comments: 288
Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
2026-09-04 @ 11:54:53Points: 1700Comments: 1315
Show HN: TERMy – A fast terminal assistant that does not use LLMs
2026-09-04 @ 09:03:00Points: 129Comments: 35
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
RSA-260 Factorized
2026-09-03 @ 05:35:31Points: 114Comments: 59
The Highest Point in the Netherlands
2026-09-02 @ 14:58:44Points: 51Comments: 35
Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?
2026-09-02 @ 09:24:11Points: 128Comments: 74
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.