Everyone in Seattle hates AI
I grabbed lunch with a former Microsoft coworker I’ve always admired—one of those engineers who can take any idea, even a mediocre one, and immediately find the gold in it. I wanted her take on Wanderfugl 🐦, the AI-powered map I’ve been building full-time. I expected encouragement. At worst, overly generous feedback because she knows […]
Lie groups are crucial to some of the most fundamental theories in physics
In mathematics, ubiquitous objects called groups display nearly magical powers. Though they’re defined by just a few rules, groups help illuminate an astonishing range of mysteries. They can tell you which polynomial equations are solvable, for instance, or how atoms are arranged in a crystal. And yet, among all the different kinds of groups, one […]
Turtletoy
Embracing minimalism Create black-and-white line drawings using a simple Turtle graphics API. Plottable, generative art playground You can export each turtle as a plotter-friendly vector graphics SVG file. Share your work Share your work with the community, gain feedback, learn and get inspired.
Ghostty Is Now Non-Profit
Ghostty is now fiscally sponsored by Hack Club, a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit. Fiscal sponsorship is a legal and financial arrangement in which a recognized non-profit extends its tax-exempt status to a project that aligns with its mission. This allows Ghostty to operate as a charitable initiative while Hack Club manages compliance, donations, accounting, and governance […]
Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business
BOISE, Idaho, Dec. 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), a leader in innovative memory and storage solutions, today announced its decision to exit the Crucial consumer business, including the sale of Crucial consumer-branded products at key retailers, e-tailers and distributors worldwide. Micron will continue Crucial consumer product shipments through the consumer […]
Periodic Spaces
One of my favorite SDF techniques is domain repetition: (def eye-center [35 82 62]) (def eyes (ball 39 | move eye-center | mirror x :r 10)) (def eye-angle [0 0 0]) (defn pupils [target] (def left-pupil (ball 15 | shade black | move [39 0 0] | align x target | move eye-center )) (def […]
Prompt Injection via Poetry
You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. The study, “Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak in Large Language Models (LLMs),” comes from Icaro Lab, a collaboration of researchers at […]
Transformers know more than they can tell: Learning the Collatz sequence
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Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app
Hi HN, We are launching Phind 3 (https://www.phind.com), an AI answer engine that instantly builds a complete mini-app to answer and visualize your questions in an interactive way. A Phind mini-app appears as a beautiful, interactive webpage — with images, charts, diagrams, maps, and other widgets. Phind 3 doesn’t just present information more beautifully; interacting […]
Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files
Timeline & Responsible Disclosure Initial Contact: Upon discovering this vulnerability on October 27, 2025, I immediately reached out to Filevine’s security team via email. November 4, 2025: Filevine’s security team thanked me for the writeup and confirmed they would review the vulnerability and fix it quickly. November 20, 2025: I followed up to confirm the […]