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The Green Side of the Lua

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2601.16670: The Green Side of the Lua

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Rust (and Slint) on a Jailbroken Kindle

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Our 2D game character grew 3% taller every time he walked

We’re working on an adventure game, Leonardo’s Moon Ship. The player character, Leo, has the usual pile of animations: idle left and right, walk in …

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Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2510.04950: Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper)

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FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home

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SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)

SimCity 3000 is the best SimCity. Its only problem is that it doesn't run well on contemporary systems. Not to worry, here's a complete guide to a perfect game of SimCity 3000 on modern Windows:...

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Can we have the day off?

So, apparently we are at the cusp of the entire world’s white collar workforce (and, by extension, much of the US workforce) undergoing a revolution in productivity. AI is the technology that is going to revolutionize the way we work, the way we interact with the world, the way we learn, the way we socialize, and all of this. This sounds great. Really, it does. Everything getting faster and easier would be an extraordinary boon to all of our lives.

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A New Typst Template for Pandoc (2025)

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I analysed 20 years of my chats

Importing 1.2 million messages from Telegram, VK, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter into a structured Obsidian vault with local LLM inference - to measure how my friendships work with decay curves, vocabulary shifts, directional sentiment, and conflict rates.

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I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit

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I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)

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RamAIn (YC W26) Is Hiring

RamAIn builds the world's fastest computer-use agents for enterprise work. We're a YC W26 company on a mission to eliminate repetitive, manual workflows by training AI agents that operate legacy systems, desktop apps, and web portals the same way humans do — but 10× faster and more reliably. Founders RamAIn was founded by Shourya Vir Jain (CEO) and Vansh Ramani (CTO), who met at IIT Delhi and dropped out to build AI-native automation for enterprise workflows. Shourya previously worked at McKinsey, where he saw firsthand how much enterprise work still depends on manual interaction with legacy systems. He is also a FIDE-rated chess player (2118), was ranked top-20 globally under 16, and previously built and scaled an enterprise AI company

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What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications

I wrote recently about what Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Apple are doing to your email: how four providers stopped being transport layers and turned into active intermediaries between brands and their customers, parsing, ranking, summarising, and increasingly answering on the recipient's behalf.

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Zero Lines Maze: What the 8-Bit Guy's One-Liner Can Still Teach Us

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The Ask

Coffee in hand, I sit down in the Cave. Any Tuesday during the work week, a sip, and I parse the calendar. 1:1 — he's fine. Status meeting — listen. Staff me

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Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term

The complaint from the Southern District of New York comes just over a month after another insider trading case on Polymarket. ,The complaint from the Southern District of New York comes just over a month after another insider trading case on Polymarket.

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YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

We've heard consistently from our community that they value transparency when it comes to generative AI content. Two new updates will make this process much simpler and more intuitive for creators and viewers on YouTube.

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Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave

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DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode

People just want a choice.

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Qwen3.7-Max Ran for 35 Hours on Unknown Hardware and Achieved a 10× Speedup

Alibaba gave Qwen3.7-Max a kernel optimization task on a hardware platform the model had never encountered before. No documentation or profiling data. No example kernels for the architecture. Just a task description, an existing implementation, and an evaluation script. The model ran for 35 hours. It made 1,158 tool calls. It wrote, compiled, profiled, and rewrote the kernel repeatedly, diagnosing failures, fixing bugs, identifying blocks, and redesigning the architecture multiple times without anyone watching. After 30 hours it was still finding meaningful improvements. The final result was a 10x speedup over the reference implementation. For context: GLM 5.1 ran the same task and reached 7.3x. Kimi K2.6 reached 5x. DeepSeek V4 Pro reached

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On this day

Former Formula One driver Takuma Sato wins his first Indianapolis 500, the first Japanese and Asian driver to do so. Double world champion Fernando Alonso retires from the race with an engine issue in his first entry of the event.

2017

Top Stories from Hacker News

The Green Side of the Lua

Rust (and Slint) on a Jailbroken Kindle

Our 2D game character grew 3% taller every time he walked

Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)

FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home

SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)

Can we have the day off?

A New Typst Template for Pandoc (2025)

I analysed 20 years of my chats

I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit

I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)

RamAIn (YC W26) Is Hiring

What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications

Zero Lines Maze: What the 8-Bit Guy's One-Liner Can Still Teach Us

The Ask

Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term

YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave

DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode

Qwen3.7-Max Ran for 35 Hours on Unknown Hardware and Achieved a 10× Speedup

On this day

Former Formula One driver Takuma Sato wins his first Indianapolis 500, the first Japanese and Asian driver to do so. Double world champion Fernando Alonso retires from the race with an engine issue in his first entry of the event.

Harambe, a gorilla, is shot to death after grabbing a three-year-old boy in his enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, resulting in widespread criticism and sparking various internet memes.

Start of the Gezi Park protests in Turkey.

The Arkankergen massacre in Kazakhstan's Alakol District kills 15 people.

Malta votes on the introduction of divorce; the proposal was approved by 53% of voters, resulting in a law allowing divorce under certain conditions being enacted later in the year.

In West Bengal, India, the Jnaneswari Express train derailment and subsequent collision kills 148 passengers.

The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.

The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.

Peter Hollingworth resigns as Governor-General of Australia following criticism of his handling of child sexual abuse allegations during his tenure as Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane.

The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City.

In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.

Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.

U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas, Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.

The 7.0 Mw Neftegorsk earthquake shakes the former Russian settlement of Neftegorsk with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Total damage was $64.1–300 million, with 1,989 deaths and 750 injured. The settlement was not rebuilt.

The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.

An 18-year-old West German pilot, Mathias Rust, evades Soviet Union air defences and lands a private plane in Red Square in Moscow, Russia.

Konstantinos Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.

The Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky, is engulfed by fire, killing 165 people inside.

Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States.

At Brampton Centennial Secondary School, student Michael Slobodian kills two people and injures 13 others before committing suicide.

Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists.

Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 892 crashes near Nala Sopara in India, killing 30.

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is founded, with Yasser Arafat elected as its first leader.

The Soviet Kosmos 5 satellite is launched.

Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.

Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, heavily reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El Uvero.

Daniel François Malan is elected as Prime Minister of South Africa. He later goes on to implement Apartheid.

World War II: Belgium surrenders to Nazi Germany to end the Battle of Belgium.

World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first Allied infantry victory of the War.

Volkswagen, the German automobile manufacturer, is founded.

Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.

Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.

In the Netherlands, construction of the Afsluitdijk is completed and the Zuiderzee bay is converted to the freshwater IJsselmeer.

The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.

The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the First Republic of Armenia declare their independence.

The first Isle of Man TT race is held.

Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy.

In San Francisco, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.

The Paris Commune falls after two months.

U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which denies Native Americans their land rights and forcibly relocates them.

In Guadeloupe, 400 rebellious slaves, led by Louis Delgrès, blow themselves up rather than submit to Napoleon's troops.

French and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 22-year-old Lieutenant colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.

English Civil War: Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby.

The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, heading for the English Channel. (It will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port.)

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declares the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid.

Marriage of Byzantine Emperor John V Palaiologos and Helena Kantakouzene.

Avignonet massacre: A group of Cathars, with the probable connivance of Count Raymond VII of Toulouse, murder the inquisitor William Arnaud and eleven of his companions.

English king Æthelstan begins his invasion of Scotland.

Battle of Hulao: Li Shimin, the son of the Chinese emperor Gaozu, defeats the numerically superior forces of Dou Jiande near the Hulao Pass (Henan). This victory decides the outcome of the civil war that followed the Sui dynasty's collapse in favour of the Tang dynasty.

On this day

Former Formula One driver Takuma Sato wins his first Indianapolis 500, the first Japanese and Asian driver to do so. Double world champion Fernando Alonso retires from the race with an engine issue in his first entry of the event.

Harambe, a gorilla, is shot to death after grabbing a three-year-old boy in his enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, resulting in widespread criticism and sparking various internet memes.

Start of the Gezi Park protests in Turkey.

The Arkankergen massacre in Kazakhstan's Alakol District kills 15 people.

Malta votes on the introduction of divorce; the proposal was approved by 53% of voters, resulting in a law allowing divorce under certain conditions being enacted later in the year.

In West Bengal, India, the Jnaneswari Express train derailment and subsequent collision kills 148 passengers.

The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.

The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.

The 7.0 Mw  Neftegorsk earthquake shakes the former Russian settlement of Neftegorsk with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Total damage was $64.1–300 million, with 1,989 deaths and 750 injured. The settlement was not rebuilt.

The 7.0 Mw  Neftegorsk earthquake shakes the former Russian settlement of Neftegorsk with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Total damage was $64.1–300 million, with 1,989 deaths and 750 injured. The settlement was not rebuilt.