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New ask Hacker News story: I built a new PoW protocol and observed a surprisingly early solution

I built a new PoW protocol and observed a surprisingly early solution 2 by babakkarimib | 0 comments on Hacker News. I recently deployed an experimental proof-of-work protocol called Shardhash. The idea is simple: miners compete by finding hashes with a required suffix pattern, and rewards scale with the number of matching hex digits. Something unexpected happened during testing. A wallet that had never interacted with the protocol before submitted a failed claim and then a successful claim. The successful solution was Tier 10 (roughly a 1 in 16^10 event), with a nonce value of 18. The interesting part was the timing: - The failed claim used nonce 17 but was rejected because the round had already expired. - The failed claim was submitted 300 seconds after the round started, even though the submission window is only 12 seconds. - The next claim used nonce 18 and succeeded. - The successful claim was submitted 480 seconds after that round started (42 Ethereum blocks later), about 180 ...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What are some popular AI detection software that you know/have used?

Ask HN: What are some popular AI detection software that you know/have used? 2 by dd-sharma | 1 comments on Hacker News. We want to undertake a comprehensive evaluation of popular AI detection software that detect the text content. If you use a software for this purpose, please share the name of the product and if possible a brief on what you like/dislike about it? Thanks in advance.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: HotPin – lossless 120B MoE inference on 24GB RAM (CPU, 50 loc)

Ask HN: HotPin – lossless 120B MoE inference on 24GB RAM (CPU, 50 loc) 2 by LozzKappa | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm a mechatronics designer with a background in control systems, robotics, PCB design, and embedded hardware. I design physical systems: motors, sensors, microcontrollers, and real-time control loops. I applied this design thinking to LLM memory management – and it worked. HotPin is a set of patches for llama.cpp that runs 30B–120B Mixture of Experts (MoE) models on far less RAM than their disk footprint, with bit-identical (lossless) output. Tested on an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (Zen5, AVX512), 23.6GB LPDDR5X, NVMe >1GB/s, CPU-only. Results: | Model | Disk | Min RAM | Savings | tok/s | |-------|------|---------|---------|-------| | gpt-oss:120b | 58.5GB | 19.1GB | -67% | 3.84 | | qwen3:30b-a3b | 18.0GB | 10.4GB | -42% | 19.7 | | gemma4:26b-a4b | 16.2GB | 10.6GB | -35% | 11.5 | | GLM-4.7-Flash | 19.0GB | 13.3GB | -30% | 12.4 | Output is SHA-256 bit-identical to ful...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How are you getting decent front end interface results out of LLMs?

Ask HN: How are you getting decent front end interface results out of LLMs? 2 by VladVladikoff | 1 comments on Hacker News. I find in my workflow LLMs do a pretty excellent job of generating backend code, but whenever I get them to build a new bit of an interface on an existing website they do all sorts of wonky stuff. They ignore existing styles and write their own, they build custom javascript in places that we already have working solutions, they fail to properly align elements, pick random colours, random font sizes, etc, etc. Do you guys have some magic to avoid this madness?
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What's the best AI coding tool today?

Ask HN: What's the best AI coding tool today? 2 by FrenchDevRemote | 1 comments on Hacker News. My current workflow would be something like: write detailed requirements, ssh into a remote instance, ask an agent to write a plan and giving it free rein to build it there, only pinging me back when it's ready or when it's stuck. I could write code manually in an IDE too but only when the problem is too complex for an LLM. I've used Cursor for work for a few years, but I'm really not a fan of giving all of my data to Musk. Also I think I want to spend less time writing code by hand. I tried Antigravity but it's utter garbage. I heard some good things about Opencode+open models/ollama cloud, but opencode seems slightly buggy when running it over ssh. I'm really reluctant to give my money to the 2 leaders in the field, I don't think I want to contribute to them making more money, but I could be convinced if there was no doubt they're the best, which I...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask: Why does everything Microsoft create lately feel fragile and half-baked?

Ask: Why does everything Microsoft create lately feel fragile and half-baked? 3 by nothrowaways | 3 comments on Hacker News. Microsoft has seemingly abandoned quality and craftsmanship a long time ago. But more recently they are rushing to force-feed us unfinished AI and web apps just so they can stay in the AI hype race. Call it teams, copilot, LinkedIn I've never liked anything that comes out of Ms lately, yet our company defaults to MS. At what point should we tell our employers to say no to MS treating paying customers as unpaid bulk beta testers?
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New ask Hacker News story: Namecheap Gave My Account to an Unverified Third Party Just Because They Asked

Namecheap Gave My Account to an Unverified Third Party Just Because They Asked 8 by Thrashed | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’ve been a NameCheap customer for 13 years. I’ve also helped out an old college club paying for a .com they use (that is registered to me under my name, address, and phone number). During a recent leadership transition, the incoming club lead wanted to make changes to the DNS and didn’t know to contact me. They figured out the domain name was parked at NameCheap, so they initiated a password reset using the domain name. I got a password reset email and immediately filed a NameCheap support ticket saying “I did not initiate this”. They called me to verify I was the one who filed the ticket, and then followed up with a canned email with tips like check your anti-virus. The incoming club leader was persistent though, and called NameCheap support. He convinced them the domain registered in my name and address really belonged to his club, and with no verification or ...
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