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Software Understanding in the Sciences is Really Uneven

My day job, such as it is, involves optimizing simulations and scientific tooling. Right now I'm working on an astrophysical simulation with a group at CUNY. One of the grad students has spent the last few months working on a tool to process the output of a simulation. The output is pretty big, about 200GB for a local test run, probably going into the tens of terabytes once we do a big run on the actual cluster. The tool, which needs to walk the output tables to construct a tree of black hole ...
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Show HN: Merge – AI-native code review assessments for engineering hiring

We’re 5 founders who’ve collectively done over 250 interviews - everywhere from startups to Big Tech to quant shops. Most of the interviews we’ve done were Leetcode based or tested skills that weren’t used on the job. These days, with AI, assessments still continue to test code output. Meanwhile, at each of our companies, though, PR counts have nearly tripled. Most of us haven’t manually edited a line of code in a year. Our teams are putting more and more emphasis on code and architecture review...
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Music to confuse AI might be the next new genre

Article URL: https://cdm.link/music-to-confuse-ai-might-be-the-next-new-genre/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213647 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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AI Has a Hidden Agenda

Article URL: https://twitter.com/aisystemprompt/status/2085464156229247245 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213920 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
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YouTube's AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt

Article URL: https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtubes-ai-slop-detector-incorrectly-targets-kurzgesagt-as-other-creators-fear-same-fate-3395930/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213990 Points: 7 # Comments: 3
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EU AI Act: Second Big Blow, or a Move Toward Sanity?

Article URL: https://medium.com/@MirArshadTalpur/eu-ai-act-second-big-blow-or-a-move-toward-sanity-3dea3586dbf3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214347 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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AI for Recording Live Chess

Article URL: https://fenify.ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214575 Points: 2 # Comments: 2
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Gödel and Turing outlined the limits of AI

Article URL: https://www.heise.de/en/blog/How-Goedel-and-Turing-outlined-the-limits-of-AI-11313804.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214850 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Reassign.ai

Article URL: https://reassign.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49215098 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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How Baseline Can Help You Ship Less JavaScript

The gap between “you need a library for this” and “the browser does this” keeps closing. A practical guide to auditing your dependencies and finding what the web platform can now handle for you.
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2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out

Article URL: https://www.ign.com/articles/ramageddon-continues-another-year-as-2027-memory-capacity-is-reportedly-sold-out Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207236 Points: 105 # Comments: 103
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Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice

Article URL: https://www.sciencealert.com/radical-study-suggests-life-on-earth-arose-from-non-living-matter-twice Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209572 Points: 48 # Comments: 58
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Möbius-Strip Crosswords

Article URL: https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2026/08/04/mobius-crossword/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211660 Points: 35 # Comments: 4