DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision

DeepSeek V4 Pro wins this head-to-head by being more exact where it matters: following instructions, matching schemas, and solving edge cases cleanly. GPT-5.5 Pro is still strong, but it gave away points with avoidable deviations.

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Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage tests

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Teenage Engineering: Introducing APC-2

a professional record cutter built and designed for producingoriginal playback discs with superior sound quality in real time. 

LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do

I'm a software engineer, completing 10 years of professional experience this year. I started my career as a web frontend engineer (it was easier for me to de...

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The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python

A perceptron explained from scratch in Python, with interactive demos. Learn weights, bias, the decision boundary, epochs, learning rate, and why we normalize data.

Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony

I spent ages 14-16 in a maximum-security juvenile prison, became a felon at 19, lost almost everything to addiction, and later rebuilt my life through software, open source, and a few people who took a chance on me. This is the condensed story, written for anyone wondering whether they have a future.

Show HN: I Derived a Pancake

The science of perfect pancakes: leavening chemistry, acid-base stoichiometry, whey protein structure, and an interactive calculator that computes optimal ratios from your available ingredients.

How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown

breakdown of the architecture behind Linear's speed: local-first sync, MobX observables, instant first loads, and a keyboard-first design.

Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948

Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)

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What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014)

There is a folder at the root of Linux and Unix operating systems called /lost+found/ What is it for? Under what circumstances would I interact with it? How would I interact with it?

Do we fear the serializable isolation level more than we fear subtle bugs (2024)

Do we fear the serializable isolation level more than we fear subtle bugs? We don’t understand how applications are affected by lower isolation levels. Maybe READ COMMITTED is good enough or maybe …

A Matter Wi-Fi Light Bulb in Rust on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W

rust-rpico2-embassy-examples Rust Embassy examples for Raspberry Pi Pico 2 - melastmohican/rust-rpico2-embassy-examples

Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it

Generate hands-on, multi-part technical tutorials on demand, with LLM skills tuned to make content approachable. Then you work through them yourself, by hand ✋ - devenjarvis/lathe

7.8 magnitude earthquake shakes part of southern Philippines. Tsunami possible

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake centered at sea shook part of the southern Philippines early Monday, causing damage in a key coastal city, knocking down power and setting off 1-meter (3-foot) tsunami waves...