Ask HN: Can I really create a company around my open-source software?
This is a serious question because I'll be the first to admit, I'm not a great...
Customizable HTML Select
Styling form controls like the <select> element has been reported as a top developer pain point...
iText PDF Library turns 25
Following iText's latest major version release in the last quarter of 2024 with iText 9.0, this...
Launch HN: Confident AI (YC W25) – Open-source evaluation framework for LLM apps
Hi HN - we're Jeffrey and Kritin, and we're building Confident AI (https://confident-ai.com). This is the...
Obsidian is now free for work
People in over 10,000 organizations use Obsidian for work. Starting today, the Obsidian Commercial license is...
What Do Van Halen and Brown M&M's Have to Do with Safety?
There’s a long tradition of musicians and actors adding absurd demands to their performance contracts just...
HP deliberately adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls
HP is trying to force consumer PC and print customers to use digital support channels by...
Helix: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Generalist Humanoid Control
We're introducing Helix, a generalist Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model that unifies perception, language understanding, and learned control...
Saronic raises $600M in Series C to mass-produce autonomous warships
Austin-based defense startup Saronic has raised a $600 million Series C to build an autonomous ship...
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared
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Siddhartha
1922 novel by Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Siddhartha: An Indian novel (German: Siddhartha: Eine Indische Dichtung; German:...
What's in a ring buffer? And using them in Rust
Monday, February 10, 2025Working on my cursed MIDI project, I needed a way to store the...
All-optical control of charge-trapping defects in rare-earth doped oxides
[1] P. Kofstad, “Defects and transport properties of metal oxides,” Oxid. Met., vol. 44, no. 1,...
Cassette Futurism
Cassette Futurism bezeichnet eine ästhetische Richtung im Retro-Futurismus, die von der Technologie und dem Design der...
Agent-Less System Monitoring with Elixir Broadway
We've started working on something that will be a critical component the Opsmaru platform. This part...
After 20 Years, Math Couple Solves Major Group Theory Problem
After the conjecture was posed in the 1970s, dozens of mathematicians tried their hand at proving...
Schools Should Pursue Excellence
For over half a century, inspired by visions of equity, American education has pursued an intoxicating...
The Forecasting Company (YC S24) Is Hiring
Foundation models for time seriesParis, Île-de-France, FRConnect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to...
Grok 3: Another Win for the Bitter Lesson
For once, it seems Elon Musk wasn’t exaggerating when he called Grok 3 the “smartest AI...
Softmax forever, or why I like softmax
[UPDATE: Feb 8 2025] my amazing colleague Max Shen noticed a sign mistake in my derivation...
