hacker news

Sunday, May 3, 2026

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A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury

blog.haskell.org

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221 points

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10 hours ago

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92 comments

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This Month in Ladybird – April 2026

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333 points

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14 hours ago

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75 comments

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Unverified Evaluations in Dusk's PLONK

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24 points

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3 days ago

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2 comments

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Dav2d

code.videolan.org

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479 points

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17 hours ago

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132 comments

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Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS

david-smith.org

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296 points

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13 hours ago

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70 comments

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Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML

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116 points

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4 hours ago

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110 comments

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Do_not_track

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334 points

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17 hours ago

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108 comments

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Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March

blogs.windows.com

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42 points

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jovial_cavalier

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2 days ago

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67 comments

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Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025)

universiteitleiden.nl

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191 points

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14 hours ago

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86 comments

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Sourcefeed – a pop-up RSS service

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24 points

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5 days ago

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6 comments

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Care homes and hotels in Japan shut as expansion strategy unravels

newsonjapan.com

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42 points

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9 hours ago

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12 comments

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Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade

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203 points

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3 days ago

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16 comments

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VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

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1198 points

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14 hours ago

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615 comments

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A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm

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83 points

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2 days ago

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21 comments

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The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox

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104 points

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13 hours ago

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80 comments

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Because it doesn't have to

blog.computationalcomplexity.org

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52 points

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4 days ago

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13 comments

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Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement

clojuriststogether.org

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107 points

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13 hours ago

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11 comments

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Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters

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111 points

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13 hours ago

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58 comments

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San Francisco streets with confusingly similar names

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27 points

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2 days ago

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38 comments

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Windows API is Successful Cross-Platform API (2024)

retrocoding.net

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72 points

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7 hours ago

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76 comments

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Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores

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155 points

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9 hours ago

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117 comments

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How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?

eclecticlight.co

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249 points

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a day ago

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91 comments

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A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games

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88 points

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a day ago

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31 comments

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AI, Intimacy, and the Data You Never Meant to Share

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30 points

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8 hours ago

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1 comment

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Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge

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283 points

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6 hours ago

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145 comments

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Learning Pseudorandom Numbers with Transformers

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3 points

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3 hours ago

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0 comments

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When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?

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31 points

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2 days ago

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202 comments

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The USB Situation

randsinrepose.com

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128 points

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4 days ago

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153 comments

29.

Little magazines are back

wsjfreeexpression.substack.com

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94 points

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3 days ago

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33 comments

30.

Barman – Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL

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163 points

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4 days ago

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23 comments