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There Are No New Ideas in AI Only New Datasets (Score: 158+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wXPr
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Donkey Kong Country 2 and Open Bus (Score: 152+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wXTc
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wXTc
Show HN: New Ensō – first public beta (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wX82
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wX82
Ensō is a writing tool that helps you enter a state of flow by separating writing from editing and thus making it harder for you to edit yourself - https://enso.sonnet.io/
After 6 years and 2 million words of daily writing I feel like I've learned enough to make Ensō simpler and more accessible.
Related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38025073
Show HN: TokenDagger – A tokenizer faster than OpenAI's Tiktoken (Score: 154+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wXkA
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wXkA
TokenDagger is a drop-in replacement for OpenAI’s Tiktoken (the tokenizer behind Llama 3, Mistral, GPT-3.*, etc.). It’s written in C++ 17 with thin Python bindings, keeps the exact same BPE vocab/special-token rules, and focuses on raw speed.
I’m teaching myself LLM internals by re-implementing the stack from first principles. Profiling TikToken’s Python/Rust implementation showed a lot of time was spent doing regex matching. Most of my perf gains come from a) using a faster jit-compiled regex engine; and b) simplifying the algorithm to forego regex matching special tokens at all.
Benchmarking code is included. Notable results show:
- 4x faster code sample tokenization on a single thread.
- 2-3x higher throughput when tested on a 1GB natural language text file.
Revisiting Knuth's “Premature Optimization” Paper (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wKMn
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wKMn
Is being bilingual good for your brain? (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wS8N
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Finding a former Australian prime minister’s passport number on Instagram (2020) (Score: 150+ in 15 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wVCm
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The Book of Shaders (2015) (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wLRQ
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Bought myself an Ampere Altra system (Score: 153+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wWnq
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Web Embeddable Common Lisp (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wHiY
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The $25k car is going extinct? (Score: 150+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wUFd
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wUFd
Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6wVix
What are you working on? Any new ideas which you're thinking about?
No One Is in Charge at the US Copyright Office (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wSds
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The Effect of Noise on Sleep (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wP4r
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Personal care products disrupt the human oxidation field (🔥 Score: 150+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wURZ
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wURZ
The Plot of the Phantom, a text adventure that took 40 years to finish (❄️ Score: 153+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wPMT
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wPMT
Error handling in Rust (Score: 150+ in 21 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wVjF
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wVjF
The provenance memory model for C (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wWVt
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wWVt
Want to meet people, try charging them for it? (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wWy4
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wWy4
Nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in four African nations (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wVLx
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LetsEncrypt – Expiration Notification Service Has Ended (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wWpi
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wWpi
Event – Fast, In-Process Event Dispatcher (Score: 150+ in 20 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wUzK
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Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wWg5
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We accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube (Score: 150+ in 17 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wUGd
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Touching the back wall of the Apple store (❄️ Score: 151+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wN3D
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Tools I love: mise(-en-place) (Score: 150+ in 13 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wUWM
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Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect a Russian keyboard installed (2021) (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wV3b
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wV3b
Loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back 'decades' (Score: 153+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wUUp
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wUUp
Bloom Filters by Example (Score: 151+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wU84
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wU84
Lossless LLM 3x Throughput Increase by LMCache (❄️ Score: 150+ in 5 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wDUm
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wDUm