Jimi Hendrix Was a Systems Engineer
5 min read Rohan S. Puranik is an edge-computing architect and company founder. Jimi Hendrix used a chain of components to modulate sound, controlling a feedback loop by positioning the guitar with respect to his amplifier’s speaker. James Provost 3 February 1967 is a day that belongs in the annals of music history. It’s the […]
Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go
Pure-Go tree-sitter runtime — no CGo, no C toolchain, WASM-ready. go get github.com/odvcencio/gotreesitter Implements the same parse-table format tree-sitter uses, so existing grammars work without recompilation. Outperforms the CGo binding on every workload — incremental edits (the dominant operation in editors and language servers) are 90x faster than the C implementation. Why Not CGo? Every […]
om
The Om language is: a novel, maximally-simple concatenative, homoiconic programming and algorithm notation language with: a trivial-to-parse data transfer format. unicode-correct: any UTF-8 text (without byte-order marker) defines a valid Om program. implemented as a C++ library and: The Om language is not: complete. Although the intent is to develop it into a full-featured language, […]
Trellis AI (YC W24) is hiring deployment lead to accelerate medication access
Trellis builds and deploys self-improving agents to get patients access to life-saving medicine. Our AI agents process billions of dollars worth of therapies annually with patients in all fifty states. We do this by automating document intake, prior authorizations, and appeals at scale to streamline operations and accelerate care. We classify medical referrals, understand chart […]
Racket v9.1
posted by Stephen De Gabrielle and John Clements We are pleased to announce Racket v9.1 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org/. As of this release: Documentation organization and navigation can be specialized by language family, to allow users to interact with documentation in a way that is tailored to that language family. This is currently used […]
Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid
On Tuesday, the US Energy Information Administration released full-year data on how the country generated electricity in 2025. It’s a bit of a good news/bad news situation. The bad news is that overall demand rose appreciably, and a fair chunk of that was met by additional coal use. On the good side, solar continued its […]
Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs (using HN posts)
Abstract:We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at high precision, given pseudonymous online profiles and conversations alone, matching what would take hours for a dedicated human investigator. We then design attacks for the closed-world […]
The Misuses of the University
The aging history professor—his beard graying, his posture slouching—parks his 1997 Honda and walks to his office at Johns Hopkins. Along the way he passes two giant glass cubes that, for the last five years, have slowly risen on the edge of campus. Limp signs on the fencing announce the opening of the SNF Agora […]
The United States needs fewer bus stops
When people talk about improving transit, they mention ambitious rail tunnels and shiny new trains. But they less often discuss the humble bus – which moves more people than rail in the US, the EU, and the UK – and whose ridership has bounced back more quickly after Covid than rail.1 The problem with buses […]
GNU Texmacs
GNU TeXmacs: your scientific text editor High quality mathematical typesetting Multiple language support Interfaces for computational software Integrated picture editor Integrated presentation mode And much more… GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific editing platform designed to create beautiful technical documents using a wysiwyg interface. It provides a unified and user friendly framework for editing structured […]