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Created deep dive into Anthropic’s performance take-home test—the custom VLIW SIMD simulator, the tree-traversal hashing challenge, and how Claude Opus 4.5 outperformed most humans. Link in comments

someone is offering to buy my illiquid stock options using some legal loophole. To get around the right of first refusal they use either some forward contract or maybe SPV. didn’t know about this and wonder how common this is

i’ll be there, anyone else?

@henloitsjoyce it’s gonna be like that for the next 6 months :)

i dont think anyone’s gon create shareholder value for the next two weeks. the sun is shining. birds are chirping. no puffer needed. people are sunbathing again

Glad to report that MTIA is alive and well.

@FedericoNoemie $100 btw

Dandelion is the closest we get to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. they spent 2 years on R&D to design this seven-inch-tall chocolate egg. it comes with its own brass hammer and hidden vanilla marshmallows at its core. the easter egg we all deserve

I feel like this startup idea is fundable now.

still deciding if i like this book but the cover is elite

If you do this just for NYC and use comparable per-mile accounting, the gap is much smaller. NYC taxpayers chip in roughly $0.30-0.45 per passenger-mile for MTA transit and about $0.12–0.20 per passenger-mile for driving once local street funding is included. Transit is still more subsidized

People often say public transport subsidization is fine because driving is subsidized too. This is substantially a lie: for every $1.00 you spend on driving, the taxpayer chips in $0.08. For every $1.00 you spend on public transit, the taxpayer chips in $7.40.

@cis_female @grok is this true? reply with one word only

France is investing $30,000,000 in this new ai initiative That’s how much Google will spend in 90 minutes. No joke. Every 90 minutes Google will spend $30 million on capex this year. One company.

would this be enough to run @openclaw? i don’t have mac mini

got access to a 8xb200 node, what do i run?

@effectfully can confirm my job offers in NL were 5x lower than in US coming out of college

The EU is not a real place.

i’m not prompting my ai agent to *just* change a single line i’m prompting it to * find the file * find the line * change the line * update the comments * rerun the tests * verify correctness * commit result tldr; use ai even for single line changes

@oprydai what would be good slightly ambitious 1 month long side project?

if you are in software, 2026 is the year to pivot to hardware.

@GPU_MODE @willccbb Can someone explain pls

We're working on Tinder for CUDA kernels. We need more humans to join us!

Startup idea: any existing company but for moltbots

@karpathy Substack feels similar to me although unfortunately it is not open

Finding myself going back to RSS/Atom feeds a lot more recently. There's a lot more higher quality longform and a lot less slop intended to provoke. Any product that happens to look a bit different today but that has fundamentally the same incentive structures will eventually converge to the same black hole at the center of gravity well. We should bring back RSS - it's open, pervasive, hackable. Download a client, e.g. NetNewsWire (or vibe code one) Cold start: example of getting off the ground, here is a list of 92 RSS feeds of blogs that were most popular on HN in 2025: gist.github.com/emschwartz/e6d… Works great and you will lose a lot fewer brain cells. I don't know, something has to change.

@oprydai How’s cost of living there?

just move to Shenzhen, it wil change your life. go in debt if you have to.