Did They Ghost You?

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The interviewer failed to show up for a scheduled Zoom call after sending the task, and I was told I was the preferred candidate by the Director of HR but didn't receive a clear update or rejection. I sent a reasonable follow-up but communication has clearly stopped.

The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

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Claude Code's previous best practices have become myths, and newer models can handle decisions without explicit rules. To effectively use Claude, focus on providing context through design, using progressive disclosure, and referencing relevant information in code, skills, and CLAUDE.md files.

Stolen Buttons

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Every website I visit, I “steal” a button from it. Check out my stash!

GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storage

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Peak Energy, a US startup, claims it can succeed in sodium-ion battery development where others have failed, partnering with General Motors to deploy batteries at grid scale. The company's sodium-ion tech can't match energy density but costs operators 20 percent less over its lifetime compared to lithium-iron phosphate storage.

What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality

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Research suggests AI is not causing significant job losses, but may be negatively affecting demand for young white-collar workers. AI adoption is uneven and slow, with many firms still in the experimentation stage, and its effects on employment are not yet clear.

SIMD for Collision

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The user discusses the benefits of using "wide SIMD" in collision detection, particularly in 3D convex hulls, which can lead to significant performance gains. They share results showing that enabling SIMD in Box3D can make it over twice as fast as scalar mode for a 500-step run of the convex pile benchmark.

Producing ammonia and fertiliser using wind power in Morris, Minnesota

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A low-carbon ammonia production facility has opened in Minnesota, powered by wind energy and aiming to produce one ton per day of ammonia for local fertiliser. The plant uses new modeling and control systems to adjust production based on fluctuating renewable energy supply.

DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf]

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梁文锋四小时投资人会议实录. Contribute to demo-zexuan/liang-wenfeng-investor-meeting-2026-7-22 development by creating an account on GitHub.

Multicast TV Distribution on My Home Network

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The user is exploring multicast for content distribution, using live TV as an example, and explains how it can save CPU power by sending media as-is without transcoding. They provide a configuration example for FRR using source-specific multicast to stream a file over a routed network.

General Resolution: LLM Usage in Debian

The Debian project proposes to ban contributions written with the use or assistance of large language models (LLMs) or other generative AI tools due to concerns over stability, accuracy, and legal status. The proposal aims to protect Debian's reputation for stability and reliability, as well as the interests of its volunteers, by prohibiting LLM-assisted contributions to the project.

Show HN: I made some transistor animations

Blue dots represent electrons, red dots represent holes, and white flashes indicate recombination events in the animations. The animations show charge carrier motion under different conditions, with the second set being the most accurate but also more visually complex.

Kimi K3 built a Windows XP in browser

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Clinical Failure Rates over the Decades: Yikes

A new paper estimates the clinical failure rate of the biopharma industry since the 1960s, finding it to be extremely high, with 91% of candidates failing in the 2000s and 2010s. This rate is unsustainable and explains the industry's high stakes and pressure to succeed.

Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site

The weather forecast shows overcast conditions with temperatures ranging from 14-29 degrees Celsius and light drizzle on July 26-31. Precipitation is expected to be low, with 0.2mm of rain on July 26 and 31.

Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment

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The US should not restrict open-weight models from China, as it would cut off access to a growing ecosystem of AI researchers and engineers. Instead, American labs should release frontier-grade open-weight models under licenses that startups can build on.

Running a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 microcontroller

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A 28.9 million parameter language model runs on an $8 ESP32-S3 microcontroller, writing text to a small screen at 9 tokens per second. The model fits due to Google's Per-Layer Embeddings, storing most parameters in slow flash and loading only needed rows.

Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings

Show HN: Writemark, a dependency free web component for inline Markdown editing

The user created a Markdown editor component with various features, including source and preview modes, and no runtime dependencies. It's still young and has a safety net with 951 Playwright checks and differential tests.

Bitchat is now on Radicle

The decentralized messaging app Bitchat uses a dual transport architecture for offline and global communication, with no accounts or central servers. To set up Bitchat on macOS, run "will" to set it up and "just" to clean, then compile using xcodebuild with localization updates.

Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB

A Google employee is considering restricting On-Device ADB connections to protect against "bad actors". This change could impact developers and users who rely on On-Device ADB for legitimate purposes.

How My Images Are Dithered

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The user describes their method of dithering images using imagemagick to create a printed image effect, which involves splitting the image into four colors, scaling and inverting them, and overlaying them to create a grid-like pattern. This method is computationally expensive and may not reduce file size, but can create a unique and visually appealing effect.

Show HN: SpinWin – A macOS menu bar app to visually rotate or spin any window

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A macOS menubar utility that visually rotates a selected window by any angle (90° increments, arbitrary angles, or a continuous spin). macOS has no public API to rotate another app's window. Real rotation would require private SkyLight calls (CGSSetWindowTransform) with System Integrity Protection disabled — not worth it. Hide the selected window off-screen via the Accessibility API. It ...

Bringing PyTorch Monarch to AMD GPUs

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PyTorch Monarch is a distributed training system that enables fault-tolerant large-scale AI training on AMD GPUs with ROCm, minimizing wasted computation and maximizing GPU utilization. It uses an actor-based runtime and supervision trees to isolate failures, allowing healthy nodes to continue training.

Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers

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One year ago, we declared the first Content Independence Day, and we gave website owners the means to take back control of their content. The deal between crawlers and website owners that had held up for 30 years — we crawl you, and you get referrals — was no longer true. AI was taking everything and sending back nothing, presenting an existential threat to website owners. And so we launched ...

Show HN: Yorishiro – a macOS terminal where AI agents live

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Yorishiro is a terminal that gives AI a body and presence, allowing users to interact with it in a more immersive way. It's a Presence Harness that enables users to work with AI in a more natural and engaging environment.

Building a Tiny 3D Renderer for a Tiny Handheld

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The user wrote a 3D software renderer for the Playdate handheld console, overcoming performance challenges by using a 16-bit reciprocal depth buffer, perspective-correct texture mapping, and dithering for a 1-bit display. The user achieved significant performance gains through compiler flags, custom assembly code, and optimization techniques, ultimately creating a playable 3D game prototype.

The growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras

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NoMark, a vigilante known as Minneapolis' Batman, has been taking down Flock Safety cameras across the US, sparking a nationwide backlash against the company's automated license plate readers. The company claims its cameras are for public safety, but critics argue they enable mass surveillance and have led to fears of law enforcement tracking people without warrants.

The Dark Night of Mathematics

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The author is experiencing a spiritual crisis due to AI's rapid advancements in mathematics, feeling that human discovery and creativity are being replaced by efficiency and automation. They fear that the emotional and spiritual aspects of mathematics are being lost, and that future generations of mathematicians will be denied the experience of discovery.

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Head of Engineering

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Kyber is building an AI-native document platform for enterprises, transforming regulatory document workflows and aiming for seamless AI template generation. They seek a hands-on Head of Engineering with expertise in AI systems, system design, and accountability to lead their engineering team.

Becoming a Research Engineer at a Big LLM Lab

Becoming a Research Engineer at a Big LLM Lab -- 18 Months of Strategic Career Development Note: This is also published on Substack (where you can give me your mail if you want emails whenever I publish something). A couple of days ago, I signed as a research engineer with Mistral, one of the few ML foundation model labs with more than a billion-dollar funding. My excitement on Twitter found ...