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Gemini just aced the world's most elite coding competition - what it means for AGI

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-09-22 07:16:31

panithan pholpanichrassamee/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways A Gemini model won gold at a challenging coding competition. The model correctly answered 10 out of 12 problems. The win could have major implications for AGI, says Google. In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have become an integral part of many software developers' toolkits, helping them build, refine, and deploy apps more quickly and effectively. Now,

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Boring work needs tension

news.ycombinator.com Mohammad Aziz 2025-09-27 02:44:29

We can make our work exciting by chasing the every day tension. We are all moved by great movies, cinematography, and stories. Watching them is fun because you can imagine yourself resonating with a character. You are thrilled by the tension the story creates and curious how it will be resolved. Many find software development a dull job where you have to write exactly what your PM or client asks for. It’s exciting at first, but it can become boring after a few iterations. Whatever doesn’t exc

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Boring Work Needs Tension

news.ycombinator.com Mohammad Aziz 2025-09-27 12:44:29

We can make our work exciting by chasing the every day tension. We are all moved by great movies, cinematography, and stories. Watching them is fun because you can imagine yourself resonating with a character. You are thrilled by the tension the story creates and curious how it will be resolved. Many find software development a dull job where you have to write exactly what your PM or client asks for. It’s exciting at first, but it can become boring after a few iterations. Whatever doesn’t exc

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The New Math of Quantum Cryptography

wired.com Ben Brubaker 2025-10-09 13:00:00

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the security of modern encryption. Any clever trick for solving them will doom most forms of cryptography. Several years ago, researchers found a radically new approach to encryption that lacks this potential weak spot. The approach exploits the peculiar features of quantum physics. But unlike earlier qua

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Hollow Knight: Silksong is breaking Steam, Nintendo’s eShop

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-13 09:02:14

An influx of players excited for this morning's launch of Hollow Knight: Silksong are encountering widespread errors purchasing and downloading the game from Steam this morning. Ars Technica writers have encountered errors getting store pages to load, adding the game to an online shopping cart, and checking out once the game is part of the cart. That aligns with widespread social media complaints and data from DownDetector, which saw a sudden spike of over 11,000 reports of problems with Steam

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Eye Health and Older Age: How These 6 Conditions May Become More Common

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-17 20:35:00

Your eyes are aging, and you probably aren't helping them, either. Whether it's staring at a screen for hours on end or spending the summer under the sun, your daily activities can really take a toll on your vision and the overall health of your eyes. As your eyes age, changes in your vision are to be expected. As the years tick by, it's common for it to get hard to see things up close, distinguish between some colors and more. Some of the problems you might encounter with your aging eyes can

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Like Intel before it, AMD blames motherboard makers for burnt-out CPUs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-22 13:54:42

AMD's X3D-series Ryzen chips have become popular with PC gamers because games in particular happen to benefit disproportionately from the chips' extra 64MB of L3 cache memory. But that extra memory occasionally comes with extra headaches. Not long after they were released earlier this year, some early adopters started having problems with their CPUs, ranging from failure to boot to actual physical scorching and burnout—the problems were particularly common for users of the 9800X3D processor in A

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Mob Programming (2018)

news.ycombinator.com Woody Z. 2025-10-28 05:45:13

By Woody Zuill {NOTE: This is a draft of a work in progress. It is likely to change over time as I flesh out the examples given here. It is likely there are spelling, grammar, and other errors throughout. Please read past the mistakes. I’ll try to get things cleaned up over time.] Fading Problems I’d like to introduce a concept I am calling “Fading Problems”. After doing Mob Programming for a while we started noticing that many of the problems we previously faced were no longer affecting us.

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Like Intel before it, AMD blames motherboard makers for burnt-out CPUs

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-31 00:37:50

AMD's X3D-series Ryzen chips have become popular with PC gamers because games in particular happen to benefit disproportionately from the chips' extra 64MB of L3 cache memory. But that extra memory occasionally comes with extra headaches. Not long after they were released earlier this year, some early adopters started having problems with their CPUs, ranging from failure to boot to actual physical scorching and burnout—the problems were particularly common for users of the 9800X3D processor in A

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Slow

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 03:00:58

Slow What problems can human beings only solve over a very long period of time? And how can we build institutions that solve those problems? Below is a list of marvellous projects which human beings have undertaken over an exceptionally long time. Many examples contributed by people on Twitter. The focus is on goal-directed projects (e.g., a scientific experiment or a building), less on more decentralized or unplanned changes (e.g., languages, domestication of livestock, cities, religions). O

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Upsides and Downsides

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-22 20:23:09

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

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2026-01-05 06:33:34

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 2026-01-05 17:02:04

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 2026-01-14 17:43:27

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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Gaming cancer: How citizen science games could help cure disease

news.ycombinator.com The Mit Press Reader 2026-01-21 02:23:38

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 2026-01-21 05:03:13

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 2026-02-03 22:15:00

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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A brief history of hardware epidemics

news.ycombinator.com Alan B 2026-02-23 20:18:39

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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Reflections on Sudoku, or the Impossibility of Systematizing Thought

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-16 08:54:00

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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Latest Tech News

Gemini just aced the world's most elite coding competition - what it means for AGI

Boring work needs tension

Boring Work Needs Tension

The New Math of Quantum Cryptography

Hollow Knight: Silksong is breaking Steam, Nintendo’s eShop

Eye Health and Older Age: How These 6 Conditions May Become More Common

Like Intel before it, AMD blames motherboard makers for burnt-out CPUs

Mob Programming (2018)

Like Intel before it, AMD blames motherboard makers for burnt-out CPUs

Slow

Upsides and Downsides

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

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

A brief history of hardware epidemics

Reflections on Sudoku, or the Impossibility of Systematizing Thought

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