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Claude Code Can Debug Low-Level Cryptography (Score: 155+ in 5 hours)
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Show HN: Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment) (Score: 152+ in 4 hours)
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I spent a few hours last weekend testing whether AI can replace code by executing directly. Built a contact manager where every HTTP request goes to an LLM with three tools: database (SQLite), webResponse (HTML/JSON/JS), and updateMemory (feedback). No routes, no controllers, no business logic. The AI designs schemas on first request, generates UIs from paths alone, and evolves based on natural language feedback. It works—forms submit, data persists, APIs return JSON—but it's catastrophically slow (30-60s per request), absurdly expensive ($0.05/request), and has zero UI consistency between requests. The capability exists; performance is the problem. When inference gets 10x faster, maybe the question shifts from "how do we generate better code?" to "why generate code at all?"
GHC now runs in the browser (Score: 157+ in 4 hours)
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Chat Control proposal fails again after public opposition (🔥 Score: 156+ in 2 hours)
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How I stopped worrying and started loving the Assembly (❄️ Score: 151+ in 1 week)
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Hard Rust requirements from May onward (Score: 155+ in 8 hours)
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arXiv No Longer Accepts Computer Science Position or Review Papers Due to LLMs (🔥 Score: 156+ in 1 hour)
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Claude outage (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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A theoretical way to circumvent Android developer verification (Score: 150+ in 16 hours)
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How We Found 7 TiB of Memory Just Sitting Around (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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Apple reports fourth quarter results (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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Nim 2.2.6 (Score: 150+ in 16 hours)
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My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4 (Score: 152+ in 19 hours)
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Hacking India's largest automaker: Tata Motors (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
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Nix Derivation Madness (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
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Perfetto: Swiss army knife for Linux client tracing (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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Visible from space, Sudan's bloodied sands expose a massacre of thousands (🔥 Score: 152+ in 2 hours)
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OpenAI Moves to Complete Potentially the Largest Theft in Human History (🔥 Score: 158+ in 1 hour)
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Active listening: the Swiss Army Knife of communication (❄️ Score: 150+ in 5 days)
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SQLite concurrency and why you should care about it (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
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Abandonware of the web: do you know that there is an HTML tables API? (🔥 Score: 151+ in 3 hours)
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You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say (Score: 162+ in 6 hours)
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The profitable startup (Score: 153+ in 10 hours)
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Signs of introspection in large language models (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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S.A.R.C.A.S.M: Slightly Annoying Rubik's Cube Automatic Solving Machine (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)
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Tim Bray on Grokipedia (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
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The cryptography behind electronic passports (Score: 151+ in 18 hours)
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Use DuckDB-WASM to query TB of data in browser (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
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Show HN: Strange Attractors (🔥 Score: 156+ in 2 hours)
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I went down the rabbit hole on a side project and ended up building this: Strange Attractors(https://blog.shashanktomar.com/posts/strange-attractors). It’s built with three.js.
Working on it reminded me of the little "maths for fun" exercises I used to do while learning programming in early days. Just trying things out, getting fascinated and geeky, and being surprised by the results. I spent way too much time on this, but it was extreme fun.
My favorite part: someone pointed me to the Simone Attractor on Threads. It is a 2D attractor and I asked GPT to extrapolate it to 3D, not sure if it’s mathematically correct, but it’s the coolest by far. I have left all the params configurable, so give it a try. I called it Simone (Maybe).
If you like math-art experiments, check it out. Would love feedback, especially from folks who know more about the math side.
Addiction Markets (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
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