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Article URL: https://jacobian.org/2025/jun/3/changing-directions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44172659

Points: 32

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https://jacobian.org/2025/jun/3/changing-directions/

Article URL: https://austinhenley.com/blog/coord2state.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44175356

Points: 19

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https://austinhenley.com/blog/coord2state.html

Article URL: https://www.preciousplastic.com//news/problems-in-precious-plastic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44175773

Points: 35

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https://www.preciousplastic.com//news/problems-in-precious-plastic

Article URL: https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/physics/news/new-study-casts-doubt-on-the-likelihood-of-milky-way-collision-with-andromeda/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44175579

Points: 6

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https://www.durham.ac.u

Article URL: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2416433122

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44175905

Points: 50

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https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2416433122

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/meta_pauses_android_tracking_tech/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44175940

Points: 13

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https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/meta_pauses_android_tracking_tech/

Was starting to mess around with the latest LLM models and found that they're not great at counting lines in files.

I gave Gemini 2.5 flash a python script and asked it to tell me what was at line 27 and it consistently got it wrong. I tried repeatedly to prompt it the right way, but had no luck.

https://g.co/gemini/share/0276a6c7ef20

Is this something that LLM bots are still not good at? I thought they had gotten past the "strawberry" counting problems.

Here's the raw file: https:/

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/patched/jobs/hgDeMBr-software-engineer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176314

Points: 0

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https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/patched/jobs/hgDeMBr-software-engineer

Hey HN,

We've written a pretty cool Gradle plugin I wanted to share.

It turns out if you native-image the Java and Kotlin compilers, you can experience a serious gain, especially for "smaller" projects (under 10,000 classes).

By compiling the compiler with native image, JIT warmup normally experienced by Gradle/Maven et al is skipped. Startup time is extremely fast, since native image seals the heap into the binary itself. The native version of javac produces identical outputs from inp

Article URL: https://www.livescience.com/health/neuroscience/can-adults-grow-new-brain-cells

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44174540

Points: 41

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https://www.livescience.com/health/neuroscience/can-adults-grow-new-brain-cells