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Re:Show HN: A Kakeya Conjecture Game on Friday July 24, 2026 @07:16PM (#49042777)
Got curious about this year’s Fields Medal. Watched a couple of explainer videos on the Kakeya conjecture. I have particular trouble seeing the connection between Kakeya and Harmonics.

So I did what every AI fan would do: asked Fable 5 to do the research and build an educational game https://github.com/Quantisan/kakeya-game

5M tokens later, I’m still clueless. The game Fable built seems to repeat one of the videos almost step by step.

Normally, you’d prompt an LLM with your question and ask it to explain. But I don’t know what I don’t know, and I have a hard time articulating that gap. So what then?

Suggestions? (not looking for more explainers, I want to learn how to learn with AI)

Re:Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @04:45PM (#48752864)
they want our interaction data
Re:AI Outperforms Law Professors in Stanford Law Study on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @10:14PM (#48379045)
I'm surprised Stanford Law would go along with this over-reaching press release title. How about "For common first-year contracts-law questions, law professors preferred AI-generated answers to professor-generated answers"
Does this mean they're effectively a PE firm?

Ask HN: Codex CLI error reveals "GPT-5.4-ab-arm2" string

While using codex CLI gpt-5.3-codex model, I just had a stream disconnect with a specific error message. It looks like I was routed to an A/B test for a 5.4 branch:``` stream disconnected before completion: This user's access to gpt-5.4-ab-arm2-1020-1p-codexswic-ev3 has been temporarily limited for potentially suspicious activity related to cybersecurity. ```Anyone else seeing GPT 5.4 variants?

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Re:Libghostty Is Coming on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @07:20PM (#45354095)
Try Cmd-Shift-J. It dumps your buffer to a temp file, with the file path made ready for you. I do that and then open the temp file with vi.
Re:Pico CSS – Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML on Sunday September 07, 2025 @08:17PM (#45163518)
I use Pico with LLM code gen for new projects. As you probably know, LLMs are predisposed to Tailwind and coding for industrial strength on any tiniest projects. The trick is to feed it the whole Pico docs as context and prompt it (i.e. in your CLAUDE.md) to use Pico explicitly.
1. Zero-Copy Deserialization with rkyv and Unsafe Code 2. Platform-Specific High-Performance Memory Allocators 3. High-Performance Hash Maps with FxHasher and SwissTable

https://deepwiki.com/search/point-to-the-top-3-rust-specif_4...

I used Claude Code to understand the source code of Claude Code:

  1. Tool-Based Action Framework
    - Tools implement a common interface (Tool.ts) with standard methods
    - Central registry in tools.ts manages tool availability and permissions
    - Tools are categorized as read-only or stateful, affecting execution strategy
  2. Agent Orchestration
    - query.ts serves as the orchestration engine that:
        - Identifies tool use requests in Claude's responses
      - Manages permissions and serializes/deserializes tool data
      - Schedules concurrent or serial tool execution based on tool type
      - Feeds tool results back to Claude in a recursive loop
  3. AgentTool Implementation
    - Enables recursive agent capabilities via sub-agent spawning
    - Sub-agents run with controlled permissions (typically read-only)
    - Each agent invocation is stateless and returns a single result
    - Implements progress streaming via async generators
  4. Execution Flow
    - User query → Claude response → Tool use requests → Permission checks
    - Tool execution → Results normalized → Results fed back to Claude
    - Process repeats with Claude potentially using additional tools
  5. Architectural Patterns
    - Async generators for streaming results and maintaining responsiveness
    - Hierarchical permission model controlling tool access
    - Normalized message formats ensuring consistent communication
    - Logging chains for tracking agent activities
    - Context management with optional compression (/compact)
- Youth-Led Implementation - Bypassing Traditional Authority Structures - Loyalty-Based Appointments - Institutional Disruption - Limited Oversight - Information Control

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution

Re:Nvidia might do for desktop AI what it did for desktop gaming on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @11:25PM (#42721194)
"I'll never buy a SBC from Nvidia unless all the SW support is up-streamed to Linux kernel," top comment from prev discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42623030
As others have said, this came after historically significant low popularity and mounting political pressures. His government faced criticism over falling poll numbers, by-election losses, and a broken agreement with the NDP. Tensions with the US and internal dissent within the Liberal party added to his challenges.

One of the final nails in the coffin was the resignation of Chrystia Freeland, his last standing ally and Finance Minister.

This video from CBC a couple weeks ago on Freeland explains the rifts in Trudeau's government well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SuZTLWNlpc

Re:A Quieter Place on Monday December 02, 2024 @04:08PM (#42300416)
thanks for sharing

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