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Rust's derive often implies inline

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Write Like It's 1866: LLMs Relearn Telegraphese

Instructed to answer in cablese — the telegraph operators' compressed dialect (drop the articles and filler, keep every fact) — a single one-sentence instruction, no examples and no codebook, elicits 40–49% fewer billed output tokens on the API's own meter, and models across four families still recover the information at full fidelity. For machine-to-machine traffic, that is half the output bill at any major API, today. The Victorian economics of the cable, reborn as token economics: the Telegraph Test benchmark.

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Mallet Head Angle

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What is Codemode

If you just need bash, why do you need codemode?

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Show HN: AstroHelm – Use your phone camera to aim a telescope or telephoto lens

Find galaxies, nebulae and stars with your existing telescope. AstroHelm uses fast on-device plate solving to turn smartphones into precision push-to telescope finders.

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House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k

A house in Tilehurst featuring underground tunnels hand dug 15m below ground by the owner over twenty years is on sale for £300K.Civil engineer Tony Deane spent two decades creating a subterranean network of rooms and corridors under his home. , A house in Tilehurst featuring underground tunnels hand dug 15m below ground by the owner over twenty years is on sale for £300K.Civil engineer Tony Deane spent two decades creating a subterranean network of rooms and corridors under his home.

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Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model

Strands Decider 2B is a small, open source, decision model optimized for fast experimentation, local development, and innovation.

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Google Playground

Create custom games in minutes.

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 was awarded to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai “for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.”

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Southern Olive Oil

As climates shift and traditional growing regions suffer, the American South has potential to be the next global olive oil source.

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Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome

JPEG XL offre une meilleure compression que JPEG, une compatibilité HDR intégrée, un transcodage JPEG sans perte et plus encore.

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Decisions API is in public beta

Use the Decisions API to check conditions, select from fixed options, and score text and images against a rubric.

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Sharing AI progress in mathematics

OpenAI publishes new results on open problems in mathematics from an internal frontier model and shares Lean proof formalizations and research details on GitHub.

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Show HN: A walkable 3D art history museum built from Wikipedia

An interactive 3D museum of art history. Zoom through more than a thousand years of periods and artists, then walk first-person galleries of their real paintings — all drawn from Wikipedia.

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ESP32-C3 Adblock

Pi-hole-class DNS ad-blocker on a $2 ESP32-C3 (no PSRAM): 537k domains as 40-bit FNV-1a hashes in flash, binary-searched. UDP DNS sinkhole + web dashboard. https://youtube.com/shorts/RaxszOUMi8E?feature=share - M-Abozaid/esp32-c3-adblock

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A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps

Photo-based reconstruction of classic Commodore 64 keycap lettering, with desktop fonts, webfont, editable outlines, and a specimen. - szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font

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Shaders, WebGPU Components for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, JavaScript and Framer

WebGPU components for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, JS & Framer - shader-effects-inc/shaders

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Mistral Large 4

The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.

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EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model

Introducing EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model optimized for privacy-first use cases

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Google Playground: Create and play custom games

Build custom games with simple text prompts on Google Playground. No coding required—start creating your own playable experiences today.

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On this day

Hamas and several other Palestinian militant groups launch an attack into Israel, which results in the deaths of around 1,200, mostly civilians, and the taking of 251 hostages, including civilians and soldiers.

2023

Top Stories from Hacker News

Rust's derive often implies inline

Write Like It's 1866: LLMs Relearn Telegraphese

Mallet Head Angle

What is Codemode

Show HN: AstroHelm – Use your phone camera to aim a telescope or telephoto lens

House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k

Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model

Google Playground

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai

Southern Olive Oil

Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome

Decisions API is in public beta

Sharing AI progress in mathematics

Show HN: A walkable 3D art history museum built from Wikipedia

ESP32-C3 Adblock

A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps

Shaders, WebGPU Components for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, JavaScript and Framer

Mistral Large 4

EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model

Google Playground: Create and play custom games

On this day

Hamas and several other Palestinian militant groups launch an attack into Israel, which results in the deaths of around 1,200, mostly civilians, and the taking of 251 hostages, including civilians and soldiers.

Ten people are killed and eight are injured in an explosion at a petrol station in Creeslough, Ireland.

Ales Bialiatski, along with two organisations, Memorial & Center for Civil Liberties, are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, the death toll rises to over 800.

Asteroid 2008 TC3 impacts the Earth over Sudan, the first time an asteroid impact is detected prior to its entry into Earth's atmosphere.

Qantas Flight 72 experiences an in-flight upset near Exmouth, Western Australia, Australia, injuring 112.

The battle of Mirali begins in which the Pakistan Armed Forces and Taliban militias clash for four days.

Three bombs explode at Taba and Nuweiba in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, killing 34.

The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-112 to continue assembly of the International Space Station.

The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground, starting the longest war in American history.

Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Hezbollah militants capture three Israeli Defense Force soldiers in a cross-border raid.

Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.

The flood of '93 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.

Croatian War of Independence: Bombing of the Banski Dvori in Zagreb, Croatia.

A hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice near Alaska; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales.

Sikh nationalists declare the independence of Khalistan from India; it is not internationally recognized.

The Mameyes landslide kills almost 200 people in Puerto Rico.

Four men from the Palestine Liberation Front hijack the MS Achille Lauro off the coast of Egypt.

Swissair Flight 316 crashes at Ellinikon International Airport in Athens, Greece, killing 14.

Aeroflot Flight 1080 crashes after takeoff from Koltsovo International Airport, killing 38.

The Fourth Soviet Constitution is adopted.

President Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

Buddhist crisis: Amid worsening relations, outspoken South Vietnamese First Lady Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu arrives in the US for a speaking tour, continuing a flurry of attacks on the Kennedy administration.

A Douglas Dakota IV operated by Derby Aviation (later renamed to British Midland International) crashes in Canigou, France, killing 34 people.

The Soviet probe Luna 3 transmits the first-ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.

The 1958 Pakistani coup d'état inaugurates a prolonged period of military rule.

The U.S. crewed space-flight project is renamed to Project Mercury.

Mother Teresa establishes the Missionaries of Charity.

The communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.

World War II: The Sonderkommando Revolt in Auschwitz was an uprising of prisoners (especially the Sonderkommando) at the Auschwitz concentration camp, they burnt down Crematorium IV.

World War II: The McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.

Photius II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.

Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes prime minister of Greece for a short period of time.

KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.

Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.

Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving vehicle assembly line.

The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.

Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance.

Franco-Prussian War: Léon Gambetta escapes the siege of Paris in a hot-air balloon.

Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.

American Civil War: A US Navy ship captures a Confederate raider in a Brazilian seaport.

Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.

Morea expedition: The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by the French expeditionary force.

Imperial Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Akkerman Convention, under which the Ottomans accept Russian territorial demands in the Balkans, Caucasus and the Danubian river basin.

The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.

French corsair Robert Surcouf, commander of the 18-gun ship La Confiance, captures the British 38-gun Kent.

American Revolutionary War: American militia defeat royalist irregulars led by British major Patrick Ferguson at the Battle of Kings Mountain in South Carolina, often regarded as the turning point in the war's Southern theater.

American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat British forces under general John Burgoyne in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights, compelling Burgoyne's eventual surrender.

King George III issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing Indigenous lands in North America north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlements.

The charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued.

The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Ottoman Navy suffers its first defeat.

War of the League of Cambrai: Spain defeats Venice.

Uppsala University is inaugurated after receiving its corporate rights from Pope Sixtus IV in February the same year.

Venetian–Genoese wars: The Genoese fleet under a French admiral is defeated by a Venetian fleet at the Battle of Modon.

Fatimid Caliph al-Amir is assassinated.

The epoch reference date (start) of the modern Hebrew calendar.

On this day

Hamas and several other Palestinian militant groups launch an attack into Israel, which results in the deaths of around 1,200, mostly civilians, and the taking of 251 hostages, including civilians and soldiers.