Hacker News Digest

· 11 Hacker News

  1. ▲ 90A Python interpreter squeezed into 1024 bytes of C

    Austin Z. Henley, a professor and tool builder, takes on the challenge of writing a Python interpreter in just 1024 bytes of C code. He starts with a recursive descent parser, then adds control flow…

  2. ▲ 65Hackers Drain $320M in Bitcoin from Liquid Network Sidechain

    The Liquid Network, a Bitcoin sidechain developed by Blockstream, has suffered a major security breach. Purported white-hat hackers withdrew approximately 4,000 BTC (around $320 million) from the Liq…

  3. ▲ 20AI Just Proved a 50-Year-Old Math Conjecture—What Happens to Mathematicians?

    A new paper by Wang & Wu claims to prove the Spherical Hadwiger Conjecture, open since 1974, with AI assistance. The authors used OpenAI Codex to develop proof details and edit the manuscript. This m…

  4. ▲ 16Please don't rearrange our shoes when we turn up, paramedics in Japan urge

    Japan's Kanazawa fire department has asked residents not to tidy paramedics' shoes when they enter a home, warning that well-meaning rearrangement can delay patient transport. In an Instagram video w…

  5. ▲ 6How Market Makers Lose Money to Adverse Selection

    Market makers provide liquidity by quoting both bids and asks, earning the spread. But they face a structural disadvantage: informed traders can pick off stale quotes before the maker can adjust. Thi…

  6. ▲ 6Ponytail: A Ruleset That Makes AI Coding Agents Write the Least Code That Works

    Ponytail is a plugin for AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Copilot that enforces a 'lazy senior engineer' mindset: write the least code that works. It applies a seven-step ladder—from que…

  7. ▲ 5UN backs new map showing Africa's true size; US sole dissenter

    The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution encouraging the use of equal-area world maps like the Equal Earth projection, which show Africa's true relative size, unlike the traditiona…

  8. ▲ 5Why Every Novel Is Boring—Until It Isn't

    In this essay, the author explores the paradox of boredom in fiction: how novels often feel slow or unengaging at first, yet that very boredom can be a gateway to deeper immersion and meaning. Drawin…

  9. ▲ 5Hard-Chat: A Serverless, RAM-Only P2P Terminal Chat

    Hard-Chat is an open-source, browser-based peer-to-peer chat that leaves zero trace: no server, no accounts, no stored history. It uses WebRTC for direct connection, AES-GCM 256-bit encryption with P…

  10. ▲ 4MathKernel: An evidence-aware multi-engine mathematics kernel and MCP server

    MathKernel is an open-source mathematics runtime that pairs with LLMs to handle advanced computation while preserving assumptions, provenance, and claim-specific evidence. It integrates exact, symbol…

  11. ▲ 3The NX bit is not just about security

    A developer debugging a bare-metal hypervisor on ARM64 for postmarketOS encounters a mysterious bug: enabling the CTR_EL0 intercept causes random system lockups. After ruling out emulation errors and…