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How would you design a programming language that LLMs have a hard time understanding or using effectively?

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Why Big Tech Turns Everything Into a Knife Fight - a noir-toned piece on how pressure, ambiguity, and internal competition turn routine decisions into zero-sum battles. - https://medium.com/data-science-collective/why-big-tech-turns-everything-into-a-knife-fight-42e221944ec8

Big Tech Performance Review: How to Gaslight Employees at Scale - a sardonic look at why formal review systems often substitute process for real leadership and honest feedback. - https://medium.com/@dmitrytrifonov/why-big-tech-leaders-destroy-value-db70bd2624cf

Why Big Tech Leaders Destroy Value: When Identity Outlives Purpose - a reflective essay on how feeling of identity overrides rationality. - https://medium.com/data-science-collective/big-tech-performance-review-01fff2c5924d

Why Big Tech is not About Business: Power and the illusion of corporate rationality - a story about fighting for straightforward business values and still loosing. - https://medium.com/@dmitrytrifonov/why-big-tech-is-not-about-business-a69e6a20178f

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We're two PhD students in mechanical engineering. We spent years digging through scattered textbooks and YouTube rabbit holes. We figured there could be a better way to learn.

So we wrote a multivariable calculus course entirely in code: 18 lectures, 6 languages. All content and pedagogy are ours. As everything is code, we can feed the LLM the full context of every lecture. Ask a question mid-lecture, it knows what's on the screen, and answers from the actual content.

The recent Coursera/Udemy thread echoed a lot of what pushed us to build this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301346

Would love feedback, especially on the tutor.

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I spent weeks writing a full cryptocurrency implementation from scratch. Not a fork of Bitcoin or any existing codebase – 83,000 lines of original C++20.

Technical choices: - Equihash (200,9) for PoW – memory-hard, ASIC-resistant - Keccak-256 for all hashing – chose this over SHA-256 after doing my own cryptanalysis - UTXO model, 10-minute blocks, 21M supply cap - Actor model for P2P networking

The SHA-256 research: I found distinguishers up to 23 rounds using differential cryptanalysis. At 17 rounds, a single-bit delta in w15 creates a 7-bit near-collision. Full diffusion only happens at round 24. This influenced my decision to use Keccak-256 instead.

Network is live with 9+ nodes across Seoul, Virginia, France. A community member in France already built a block explorer without being asked.

Built with AI assistance (Claude). Happy to answer questions about the architecture or the SHA-256 analysis.

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I wrote this purely out of frustration. Claude Code recently started making my terminal lag, Codex keeps flickering, and the Gemini CLI just spams deprecation warnings. I wanted something dead simple.

SAA (Single Action Agent) is a Go binary that turns your shell into a chat interface. It has no fancy UI and gives the agent only one tool: bash.

I started this as a half-joke PoC, but I was surprised to find that even local LLMs (running GLM-4.7-Flash UDQ4) handle "Bash is all you need" remarkably well. It keeps sessions in a hidden directory and stays out of your way.

Is anyone else building minimal ecosystems around this "shell-as-chat" concept? I'd love to hear about interesting wrapper scripts or ideas.

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Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Tchou

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Article URL: https://mayberay.bearblog.dev/does-anyone-even-know-whats-happening-in-zim-right-now/

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I was trying to find better content (doom) scrolling sources (quit Instagram, YouTube, etc). HN was great but I couldn't read properly on my phone hence I built Hacker Newspaper -- a mobile first HN reader.

Key things: - Mobile-first, newspaper-style UI - Tap goes to comments, not article - Nested threads that don't get crushed on small screens

Still WIP, would love some feedback. Thanks!

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Article URL: https://reorx.com/blog/openclaw-is-changing-my-life/

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Article URL: https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/us-supreme-court-to-decide-if-1988-video-tape-privacy-law-applies-to-internet-uses/

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Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00388-0

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Article URL: https://www.infosecinstitute.com/podcast/red-teamers-arrested-conducting-a-penetration-test/

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AgentKube is the AI powered Kubernetes IDE - all open source. Try it our and lets chat on making it better. open source is the way to go.

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Article URL: https://github.com/gtsbahamas/hallucination-reversing-system

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Article URL: https://x.com/SevenviewSteve/article/2019601506429730976

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Article URL: https://pypi.org/project/aisbf/

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Article URL: https://openclaw.ai/blog/virustotal-partnership

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