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news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 14:23:09

Every startup founder knows about Geoffrey Moore's concept of "crossing the chasm"–that you have to change your marketing and sales approach as you gain marketshare fit a more conservative buyer. But most fail to internalize what crossing the chasm means when it comes to their product. I recently stumbled upon Adam Mastroanni's post on strong-link problems, and realized that it's the perfect framework for thinking about this shift. In essence, Adam says there are two types of problems: strong-

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Google Maps crashes keeping you from planning a route home? You’re far from alone

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-28 11:21:22

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Google Maps is crashing for some users when attempting to get transit directions. Other transportation methods do not appear to be affected. Not everyone on the same version of the app is experiencing the problem, though, and we’ve reached out to Google for more information. Modern navigation software is superior to paper maps for more reasons than we can count, and one great example is how well they can integrate with mass transit systems. Instead of dr

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Google DeepMind makes AI history with gold medal win at world’s toughest math competition

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2026-01-08 00:33:34

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Google DeepMind announced Monday that an advanced version of its Gemini artificial intelligence model has officially achieved gold medal-level performance at the International Mathematical Olympiad, solving five of six exceptionally difficult problems and earning recognition as the first AI system to receive official gold-level grading from

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OpenAI jumps gun on International Math Olympiad gold medal announcement

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-08 11:02:04

On Saturday, OpenAI researcher Alexander Wei announced that a new AI language model the company is researching has achieved gold medal-level performance on the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), matching a standard that fewer than 9 percent of human contestants reach each year. The announcement came despite an embargo request from IMO organizers asking AI companies to wait until July 28 to share their results. The experimental model reportedly tackled the contest's six proof-based probl

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Reddit is back online after outage

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-17 11:43:27

If you were having trouble viewing Reddit today, you weren't alone. Downdetector showed a spike in outages and problems at the site. Reddit acknowledged the problem on Wednesday. At 12:38PM ET, it said the situation had been resolved. Reddit told Engadget that an update was the culprit. "An update we made caused some instability," a company spokesperson said. "We reverted and are seeing Reddit ramp back up." If you tried to visit Reddit this morning, you likely saw a message reading, "Server e

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AI coding tools are shifting to a surprising place: The terminal

techcrunch.com Russell Brandom 2026-01-18 18:30:00

For years, code-editing tools like Cursor, Windsurf, and GitHub’s Copilot have been the standard for AI-powered software development. But as agentic AI grows more powerful and vibe coding takes off, a subtle shift has changed how AI systems are interacting with software. Instead of working on code, they’re increasingly interacting directly with the shell of whatever system they’re installed in. It’s a significant change in how AI-powered software development happens — and despite the low profil

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AI coding tools are shifting to a surprising place: the terminal

techcrunch.com Russell Brandom 2026-01-20 06:30:00

For years, code-editing tools like Cursor, Windsurf, and GitHub’s Copilot have been the standard for AI-powered software development. But as agentic AI grows more powerful and vibe-coding takes off, a subtle shift has changed how AI systems are interacting with software. Instead of working on code, they’re increasingly interacting directly with the shell of whatever system they’re installed in. It’s a significant change in how AI-powered software development happens – and despite the low profile

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Gaming cancer: How citizen science games could help cure disease

news.ycombinator.com The Mit Press Reader 2026-01-23 20:23:38

Gaming Cancer: How Citizen Science Games Could Help Cure Disease By inviting players to tackle real scientific problems, games can offer a hand in solving medicine’s toughest challenges. Screenshot from the game Nanocrafter, a synthetic biology game created to educate and entertain players while advancing science. By: Jeff Yoshimi A↑ A↓ Off Bright Dark Blues Gray BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. Consider a gamer playing a game. Maybe one of

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Show HN: Learn LLMs LeetCode Style

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-23 23:03:13

TorchLeet is broken into two sets of questions: Question Set: A collection of PyTorch practice problems, ranging from basic to hard, designed to enhance your skills in deep learning and PyTorch. LLM Set: A new set of questions focused on understanding and implementing Large Language Models (LLMs) from scratch, including attention mechanisms, embeddings, and more. Note Avoid using GPT. Try to solve these problems on your own. The goal is to learn and understand PyTorch concepts deeply. Table o

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Forget the hype — real AI agents solve bounded problems, not open-world fantasies

venturebeat.com Sean Falconer 2026-02-06 16:15:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Everywhere you look, people are talking about AI agents like they’re just a prompt away from replacing entire departments. The dream is seductive: Autonomous systems that can handle anything you throw at them, no guardrails, no constraints, just give them your AWS credentials and they’ll solve all your problems. But the reality is that’s ju

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Hannah Cairo: 17-year-old teen refutes a math conjecture proposed 40 years ago

news.ycombinator.com Ágata A. Timón 2026-02-06 10:15:51

Hannah Cairo was stuck on a math problem. All she could think about during those weeks was a new approach. “After months of trying to prove the result, I managed to understand why it was so difficult. I realized that if I used that information correctly, I might be able to refute the claim. Finally, after several failed attempts, I found a way to construct a counterexample [a case that does not satisfy the studied property and therefore proves it is not universally true].” Ciaro says it required

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Abstraction boundaries are optimization boundaries

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-14 12:12:10

Abstraction boundaries are optimization boundaries The N+1 query problem occurs when your application code sends one SQL query per element in a collection. The N queries are redundant; since all of the data is in the database already, a single query should be enough. This problem is usually caused by a leaky abstraction; the ORM, or whatever database abstraction you are using, can’t anticipate that it would need to send N queries, so it can’t automatically optimize this down to a single query.

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New proof dramatically compresses space needed for computation

news.ycombinator.com Max Springer 2026-02-16 12:59:28

Once upon a time computers filled entire rooms, reading numbers from spinning tapes and churning them through wires to do chains of basic arithmetic. Today they slip into our pockets, performing in a tiny fraction of a second what used to take hours. But even as chips shrink and gain speed, theorists are flipping the question from how much computation space we can pack into a machine to how little is enough to get the job done. This inquiry lies at the heart of computational complexity, a measu

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New Proof Dramatically Compresses Space Needed for Computation

news.ycombinator.com Max Springer 2026-02-17 00:59:28

Once upon a time computers filled entire rooms, reading numbers from spinning tapes and churning them through wires to do chains of basic arithmetic. Today they slip into our pockets, performing in a tiny fraction of a second what used to take hours. But even as chips shrink and gain speed, theorists are flipping the question from how much computation space we can pack into a machine to how little is enough to get the job done. This inquiry lies at the heart of computational complexity, a measu

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A brief history of hardware epidemics

news.ycombinator.com Alan B 2026-02-26 14:18:39

Living creatures aren’t the only things to be ravaged by epidemics. Computers, even Macs, can die prematurely when there are widespread manufacturing failures. I’d like to unearth a couple of mass graves from the past that have surely contributed to landfill around the world: capacitor plague and lead-free solder, and a recent problem with butterflies. Capacitor plague 1999-2007 Capacitors or ‘caps’ have a chequered history. Acting as temporary stores of electric charge, they’re used extensive

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Solving LinkedIn Queens Using Haskell

news.ycombinator.com Agnishom Chattopadhyay 2026-03-03 09:29:08

June 24, 2025 · Agnishom Chattopadhyay [Thanks to James Haydon for his suggestions on improving the post and the code quality] On LinkedIn, you can play a variant of the N-Queens problem. A community version of the game (rather, puzzle) can be found here. Recently, we saw it solved using SAT solvers, using SMT Solvers, using APL and MiniZinc. Today, I will try solving it using Haskell, a slightly more conventional language. The Puzzle You are given a N-colored square-shaped board of size N.

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Libraries are under-used. LLMs make this problem worse

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-06 06:18:42

Libraries are under-used. LLMs make this problem worse. Libraries are under-used. Why? Briefly: Writing code is more fun than reading documentation. Dunning-Kruger effect leads us to understimate the complexity of the problem solved by the library we're considering. Perverse incentives: libraries compete with big internal engineering projects that look good in a promo packet. LLMs make this problem worse. Why? Less briefly: Vibe coding is more fun than reading documentation. Shit, vibe-codin

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Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short

news.ycombinator.com Gary Marcus 2026-03-17 09:52:38

The Apple paper on limitations in the “reasoning” of Large Reasoning Models, which raised challenges for the latest scaling hypothesis, has clearly touched a nerve. Tons of media outlets covered it; huge numbers of people on social media are discussing. My own post here laying out the Apple paper in historical and scientific context was so popular that well over 150,000 people read it, biggest in this newsletter’s history. The Guardian published an adaptation of my post (“When billion-dollar AI

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Reflections on Sudoku, or the Impossibility of Systematizing Thought

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-18 15:54:00

I reflect on the Entscheidungsproblem how it relates to Sudoku solvers. It's a little weird.. The other day, to no one's surprise, I was fumbling over a programming problem. This wasn't anything satisfyingly algorithmic, but more the thing where you're evaluating a million questions on "how should I structure this system?". While I'm no design purist, I like to at least make an attempt at sketching out the problem space and think through options before I just start coding something. My rule of

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Here's how I finally cracked a tricky Linux problem with this AI terminal app

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-03-22 03:57:00

Warp is scary good at fixing problems. Screenshot by Jack Wallen/ZDNET I've been using Linux for a very, very long time, and it's rare that I encounter an issue I cannot resolve. However, a few weeks ago, such a problem occurred. The issue was caused by an installed application upgrade that required a dependency that the apt package manager couldn't solve. This meant I couldn't update or upgrade the system, and that, my friends, is a big problem. I tried to resolve the issue. I even attempted

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Switch 2 Battery Percentage Acting Weird? Try This Hidden Fix

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-22 02:12:00

It's been almost a week since the launch of the Nintendo Switch 2, which broke records for a console release by selling more than 3.5 million units in its first four days. However, there is a bit of an issue with the system's battery indicator, which may cause owners some frustration. Switch 2 owners noticed that, even though the system's battery said it was at 0%, the console was still playable for hours. Nintendo has since confirmed that this is an issue, although it appears to be a problem w

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AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-16 10:08:28

AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years Cases of tuberculosis (pictured) have increased in the UK and worldwide as the disease increases its resistance to antibiotics A complex problem that took microbiologists a decade to get to the bottom of has been solved in just two days by a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool. Professor José R Penadés and his team at Imperial College London had spent years working out and proving why some superbugs are immune to antibiotics.

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Latest Tech News

Upsides and Downsides

Google Maps crashes keeping you from planning a route home? You’re far from alone

Google DeepMind makes AI history with gold medal win at world’s toughest math competition

OpenAI jumps gun on International Math Olympiad gold medal announcement

Reddit is back online after outage

AI coding tools are shifting to a surprising place: The terminal

AI coding tools are shifting to a surprising place: the terminal

Gaming cancer: How citizen science games could help cure disease

Show HN: Learn LLMs LeetCode Style

Forget the hype — real AI agents solve bounded problems, not open-world fantasies

Hannah Cairo: 17-year-old teen refutes a math conjecture proposed 40 years ago

Abstraction boundaries are optimization boundaries

New proof dramatically compresses space needed for computation

New Proof Dramatically Compresses Space Needed for Computation

A brief history of hardware epidemics

Solving LinkedIn Queens Using Haskell

Libraries are under-used. LLMs make this problem worse

Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short

Reflections on Sudoku, or the Impossibility of Systematizing Thought

Here's how I finally cracked a tricky Linux problem with this AI terminal app

Switch 2 Battery Percentage Acting Weird? Try This Hidden Fix

AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years

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