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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Has Show HN become LLM-prompt-centric?

Ask HN: Has Show HN become LLM-prompt-centric? 4 by piratesAndSons | 2 comments on Hacker News. It seems to me that Show HN is filled with low-effort see-what-I-prompted-Claude posts—no innovation, no real creation, just yet another copy of a copy. If you’re going to prompt an LLM, at least come up with something original, not the millionth text editor.

New ask Hacker News story: Designing programming languages beyond AI comprehension

Designing programming languages beyond AI comprehension 3 by mr_bob_sacamano | 0 comments on Hacker News. What characteristics should a programming language have in order to make automated analysis, replication, and learning by artificial intelligence systems difficult? Any idea?

New ask Hacker News story: A Trillion Lost Games

A Trillion Lost Games 2 by sirianth | 0 comments on Hacker News. You sit across from an old crone, her face a map of time itself. The board between you is simple, the pieces familiar. You play the game with passion, developing brilliant strategies, but she is the master. With a gentle, knowing smile, she corners you. Your child takes your seat. The board is the same, but a new piece stands on the back rank—one that can see several moves ahead. Your child plays, building on your gambits, and the game is longer, more complex. Again, the crone wins, but as she takes the final piece, a single wrinkle on her face vanishes. Your grandchild sits, and now the board has a piece that can link others together, morphing their shapes and capabilities. The game is a dazzling web of strategy. The very shape of the board itself seems somehow fundamentally to have changed. The crone, looking younger still, takes hours for a single move. Generation after generation takes their seat, each inheriting a...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: If OpenAI stops its free Web service (ChatGPT)

Ask HN: If OpenAI stops its free Web service (ChatGPT) 2 by JPLeRouzic | 0 comments on Hacker News. Then I guess their competitors will stop their own free LLM services (why burn money?). What kind of local LLM can I use to at least check my code?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Who do you follow via RSS feed?

Ask HN: Who do you follow via RSS feed? 9 by znpy | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hello there! I just set up TinyTinyRSS (https://tt-rss.org/) at home and I'm looking into interesting things to read as well as people/website publishing interesting stuff. This, among the other things, to reduce the daily (doom)scrolling and avoid the recommendation algorithms by social media. So: who or what do you follow via RSS feed, and why?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is Gaussian Splattering useful for analyzing Pretti's death?

Ask HN: Is Gaussian Splattering useful for analyzing Pretti's death? 3 by mdnahas | 3 comments on Hacker News. It is now common to have multiple people using their smartphones to video the same event. I'm thinking Pretti and Good's killings. I've heard of Gaussian Splattering, which constructs a 3D scene from multiple cameras. Is it useful for these analyzing these events? And, if so, can someone build an easy-to-use open source tool? My speculation is that it would be useful to: (1) synchronize video, (2) get more detail than a single camera can get, (3) track objects (like Pretti's gun) that are seen by multiple cameras, and (4) identify AI generated video. The last is most important to me. There is a danger of AI generated or modified video of an event. It seems possible to me that Gaussian Splattering from N videos will be able to detect if the N+1 video is consistent or inconsistent with the scene. Is this possible?

New ask Hacker News story: Qwen3-Max-Thinking Drops: 36T Tokens

Qwen3-Max-Thinking Drops: 36T Tokens 2 by SilasYee | 2 comments on Hacker News. Alibaba has officially launched Qwen3-Max-Thinking, a trillion-parameter MoE flagship LLM pretrained on 36T tokens—double the corpus of Qwen 2.5—and it’s already matching or outperforming top-tier models like GPT-5.2-Thinking, Claude-Opus-4.5, and Gemini 3 Pro across 19 authoritative benchmarks. Its two core technical breakthroughs are what truly set it apart. First, Adaptive Tool Calling: No manual prompts are needed—it autonomously invokes search engines, memory tools, and code interpreters based on task demands. This cuts down on hallucinations and boosts real-time problem-solving; for instance, coding tasks trigger automatic error correction loops, while research tasks combine search with context synthesis. Second, Test-Time Scaling (TTS): It outperforms standard parallel sampling by refining reasoning through iterative insights, with measurable jumps in key benchmarks—GPQA rose from 90.3 to 92.8, Li...