HN should be treated as an external comment section for the internet to the extent that it can’t substitute for the internet, much less for your own thinking. At its best, HN is a map to new questions and a window onto new angles. The landscape itself remains…

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We tested 19 LLMs on their ability to handle real-world software engineering tasks like compiling old code and cross-compiling. See how Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google models stack up in our new benchmark – CompileBench.

A Generalized Algebraic Theory of Directed Equality | A PhD thesis by Jacob Neumann

Cap'n Web is a new open source, JavaScript-native RPC protocol for use in browsers and web servers. It provides the expressive power of Cap'n Proto, but with no schemas and no boilerplate.

A game about love and graphing

Discover Ellen Langer's radical 1979 experiment where men lived as if it were 1959. The shocking results on aging and health challenge everything we know about the mind-body connection.

Cloudflare launched 15 years ago this week. We like to celebrate our birthday by launching new products that give back to the Internet, which will do a lot of this week. But on this occasion we've also been thinking a lot about what's changed on the Internet…

PlanetScale for Postgres is now generally available.

30 news pieces a day in 2024 on non-existent exodus A millionaire exodus widely reported by news outlets around the world in 2024, and credited for the UK Labour government’s decision to weaken tax reforms, did not occur, the Tax Justice Network reveals.…

Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question — how hard is it to untie a knot? — has a complicated answer.

OpenAI and NVIDIA announce a strategic partnership to deploy 10 gigawatts of AI datacenters powered by NVIDIA systems, with the first phase launching in 2026.

Earlier this summer, over at Nationhood Lab, we extended our data models to enable researchers to apply the American Nations model in Canada, This also let us create, for the... Read more »

We disinfect water before we drink it. Why don’t we disinfect the air before we breathe it?

The court of appeals issued an historic fine after 21 of 23 quotes in the lawyer's opening brief were fake. Courts want more AI regulations.

SWE-Bench Pro: Can AI Agents Solve Long-Horizon Software Engineering Tasks? - scaleapi/SWE-bench_Pro-os

Compositionality can be much more than just an interface between two objects or functions. It can be a set of laws.

What a week it's been as a Ruby Central Board Member.

What happens if we just treat a local Postgres like SQLite? What does that mean? In this article, I’d like to expand on that idea.

Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appears polished but lacks real substance, offloading cognitive…