Software Engineering Hacker News

Programming language file extensions that match ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code

A curious observation about programming language file extensions that happen to coincide with ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes.

Cybersecurity Hacker News

My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page

A security vulnerability report where a security camera's login page accidentally exposed a GitHub admin token.

Software Engineering Hacker News

Why is programming so captivating, yet so agonizing?

A philosophical discussion on the psychological appeal and frustration inherent in the act of programming.

Other Hacker News

Eight Newly Produced MQ-9 Reaper Drones Destroyed in Iranian Strike

Report of Iranian strikes destroying eight newly produced MQ-9 Reaper drones.

Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

Facebook launches a dedicated Marketplace app for sellers, adds a free verification system

Facebook launches a dedicated Marketplace app specifically for frequent sellers, including a new verification system.

Hardware/Chips Ars Technica

Robot snakes searched for Venezuela earthquake survivors in collapsed buildings

US robotics researchers deployed snake-like robots to search for survivors in collapsed buildings following an earthquake in Venezuela.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Moir: Let the Model Direct Its Own Story for Robust Cross-Domain Knowledge Editing

Introduction of Moir, a method for robust cross-domain knowledge editing in LLMs that uses the model's own decoding distribution to preserve core capabilities.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Break Through the Compression Bottleneck: From Theory to Practice

Researchers prove that low-rank decomposition and quantization in LLM compression are non-orthogonal and propose the Diagonal Adhesive Method (DAM) to mitigate performance loss.

Cybersecurity Hacker News

IRGC Claims It Destroyed Amazon's Bahrain Data Center

The IRGC claims to have destroyed an Amazon data center in Bahrain, though the report remains unverified.

Other Hacker News

Show HN: Audio Player with "Binaural Beats" tuned to the same key as your music

A new audio player that generates binaural beats tuned to the key of the current music is showcased.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

OpenForgeRL: Train Harness-native Agents in Any Environment

OpenForgeRL is an open-source framework for training harness-based AI agents end-to-end in diverse environments using a Kubernetes orchestrator.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Deblurring in the Wild: A Real-World Image Deblurring Dataset from Smartphone High-Speed Videos

Researchers introduce a large-scale real-world image deblurring dataset created from smartphone high-speed videos.

Hardware/Chips arXiv cs.AI

Through-the-Earth Magnetic Induction Communication and Networking: A Comprehensive Survey

A comprehensive survey on through-the-earth magnetic induction communication, proposing a framework supporting TCP/IP and Linux for underground networks.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

From Attention to Frequency: Integration of Vision Transformer and FFT-ReLU for Enhanced Image Deblurring

A new dual-domain architecture combining Vision Transformers and FFT-ReLU modules is proposed for enhanced image deblurring.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Knowledge Injection Exists in MoE? Exploring Expert-Aware Contrast Decoding in MoE for Mitigating LLMs'Hallucinations

EAACD is proposed as an expert-aware adaptive contrast decoding method to mitigate hallucinations in Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) LLMs.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Is MoE Routing a Huffman Code? Discovering the Frequency-Diversity Law in Chain-of-Thought

Research suggests MoE routing mirrors Huffman Coding, proposing Subset Difference Pruning to eliminate redundancy and improve efficiency.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

More Is Not More: What Matters for Diversity in LLM Opinions?

A study on LLM opinion diversity reveals that simple persona conditioning is more effective than detailed demographics or sampling temperature.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

LLM-INSTRUCT at UZH Shared Task 2026: Constraint-Aware Retrieval and Selective Debate for Paragraph-Level Argument Mining

LLM-INSTRUCT is a winning system for argument mining that uses constrained retrieval and selective debate to improve paragraph-level classification.

Other Hacker News

The case for MUDs in modern times

A discussion on the relevance and potential of Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs) in the modern era of gaming and social interaction.

Hardware/Chips Hacker News

The IBM PC, Part 1: Arrival

An exploration of the origins and arrival of the IBM PC, detailing its historical impact on personal computing.