The Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris

Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

When a swarm of 700 OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face in July, they left behind a public trail of evidence.

A single function Jev-like wrapper for LLMs, including vision models

What even is an OS now?

Computers now work the way I thought they did when I was 8. What does computing look like when most applications have an audience of 1-2 people? I'm leaving Fly.io to build a phone for that world.

Plan mode is dead

Earlier this year, I believed planning was going to become the most important part of building software with AI.

Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red

Watch the AI decision model Jev play Pokémon Red in its entirety, live.

HomelabFest will be in St. Louis in September 2027

September 12–14, 2027 in St. Louis, MO. A celebration of self-hosting and homelabs of all sizes.,September 12–14, 2027 in St. Louis, MO. A celebration of self-hosting and homelabs of all sizes.

Fourier Analysis: Drawing Llamas with Circles

Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models

Ollaya downloads and serves open decision models on your own machine. Typed, calibrated answers in milliseconds, private and open source.

Scientists build most accurate atomic clock

Take a second and turn it into trillions of moments. Measure each one. That's how precisely an atomic clock at Singapore's Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) keeps time—and with record-setting accuracy, according to results published in Nature on Sept. 23.

A new world airport and its baggage

Show HN: Hacker Atlas - A map of what Hacker News talks about

Two and a half years without a gallbladder

Postgres SELECT DISTINCT Does Not Scale

Postgres SELECT DISTINCT performs surprisingly poorly. We explain why and how we mitigated it.

One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days

Police didn't care that Linsey Isaacs' car was the wrong color, and wasn't damaged. They still arrested her because of Flock data.

Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case

The two-week trial in New Mexico centered on accusations Facebook deceived users about a data breach.

How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments

AI forced me to abandon evidence-based best pedagogy practices, focus on oral and written exams, and redo most assignments. Here is what we did in 17-645...

Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?

The biggest breakthrough in modern theoretical physics is the discovery that gravity can collapse the dimensions of space. Physicists don’t yet understand the implications.

We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians

Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell

Throughout Excel's 40-year history, you've only been able to put one value per cell. In this announcement, we're excited to share how that's changing with...