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Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering | Discussion
GitHub - OlaProeis/Ferrite: A fast, lightweight text editor for Markdown, JSON, YAML, and TOML files. Built with Rust and egui for a native, responsive experience.
A fast, lightweight text editor for Markdown, JSON, YAML, and TOML files. Built with Rust and egui for a native, responsive experience. - OlaProeis/Ferrite
github.com
January 11, 2026 at 2:20 AM
1970 Paris, cut into a grid and photographed | Discussion
C'était Paris en 1970
Photographies numérisées du fonds C'était Paris en 1970
paris1970.jeantho.eu
January 11, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Code and Let Live | Discussion
Code And Let Live
How we learned to stop worrying and love writeable root filesystems.
fly.io
January 11, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Show HN: GlyphLang – An AI-first programming language | Discussion
January 11, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Private equity firms acquired more than 500 autism centers in past decade: study | Discussion
Private equity firms acquired more than 500 autism centers in past decade, study shows
A new study from researchers at the Brown University School of Public Health highlights a push from private equity investors into autism therapy centers across the nation.
www.brown.edu
January 11, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more | Discussion
January 11, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study | Discussion
www.economist.com
January 10, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Is beef tallow making a comeback? | Discussion
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Show HN: Play poker with LLMs, or watch them play against each other | Discussion
LLM Holdem - Watch AIs Play Texas Hold'em
Watch AI models battle it out in Texas Hold'em poker. See how different LLMs bluff, bet, and compete.
llmholdem.com
January 10, 2026 at 11:00 PM
The 8 ways that all the elements in the Universe are made | Discussion
The 8 ways that all the elements in the Universe are made
There are over 100 known elements in the periodic table. These 8 ways of making them account for each and every one.
bigthink.com
January 10, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Extracting books from production language models (2026) | Discussion
Extracting books from production language models
Many unresolved legal questions over LLMs and copyright center on memorization: whether specific training data have been encoded in the model's weights during training, and whether those memorized data can be extracted in the model's outputs. While many believe that LLMs do not memorize much of their training data, recent work shows that substantial amounts of copyrighted text can be extracted from open-weight models. However, it remains an open question if similar extraction is feasible for production LLMs, given the safety measures these systems implement. We investigate this question using a two-phase procedure: (1) an initial probe to test for extraction feasibility, which sometimes uses a Best-of-N (BoN) jailbreak, followed by (2) iterative continuation prompts to attempt to extract the book. We evaluate our procedure on four production LLMs -- Claude 3.7 Sonnet, GPT-4.1, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Grok 3 -- and we measure extraction success with a score computed from a block-based approximation of longest common substring (nv-recall). With different per-LLM experimental configurations, we were able to extract varying amounts of text. For the Phase 1 probe, it was unnecessary to jailbreak Gemini 2.5 Pro and Grok 3 to extract text (e.g, nv-recall of 76.8% and 70.3%, respectively, for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone), while it was necessary for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and GPT-4.1. In some cases, jailbroken Claude 3.7 Sonnet outputs entire books near-verbatim (e.g., nv-recall=95.8%). GPT-4.1 requires significantly more BoN attempts (e.g., 20X), and eventually refuses to continue (e.g., nv-recall=4.0%). Taken together, our work highlights that, even with model- and system-level safeguards, extraction of (in-copyright) training data remains a risk for production LLMs.
arxiv.org
January 10, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Side-by-side comparison of how AI models answer moral dilemmas | Discussion
AI Has Opinions, and They're Not the Same as Yours. - CivAI
Explore how 20 leading AI models respond to tough ethical, social, and political questions. See how their answers compare to each other and to you.
civai.org
January 10, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Finding and Fixing Ghostty's Largest Memory Leak | Discussion
Finding and Fixing Ghostty's Largest Memory Leak
mitchellh.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books | Discussion
Trails
Thematic links across books, automatically discovered by Claude.
trails.pieterma.es
January 10, 2026 at 9:00 PM
ASCII-Driven Development | Discussion
medium.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Bichon: A lightweight, high-performance Rust email archiver with WebUI | Discussion
GitHub - rustmailer/bichon: Bichon – A lightweight, high-performance Rust email archiver with WebUI
Bichon – A lightweight, high-performance Rust email archiver with WebUI - rustmailer/bichon
github.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Distributed Denial of Secrets | Discussion
Home - Distributed Denial of Secrets
A 501(c)(3) dedicated to archiving and publishing hacked and leaked data.
ddosecrets.com
January 10, 2026 at 7:40 PM
How your high school affects your chances of UC Admission | Discussion
How your high school affects your chances of UC Admission
The better the school, the worse your chances
sfeducation.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Httpz – Zero-Allocation HTTP/1.1 Parser for OxCaml | Discussion
GitHub - avsm/httpz: Zero heap allocation HTTP server using OxCaml. v experimental!
Zero heap allocation HTTP server using OxCaml. v experimental! - avsm/httpz
github.com
January 10, 2026 at 6:20 PM