
Terry Tao on Coding Agents: A Fields Medalist's Take on Vibe Coding
Terry Tao on coding agents: how he ported two dozen 1999 Java math applets to JavaScript in hours, built new visualization tools, and weighs risk and trust.
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Terry Tao on coding agents: how he ported two dozen 1999 Java math applets to JavaScript in hours, built new visualization tools, and weighs risk and trust.

AI 2040 Plan A is the AI Futures Project scenario for a US-China accord that delays superintelligence to 2040. What it proposes and what HN thinks.

A solo developer built a complete JavaScript ecosystem from scratch - runtime, engine, package manager, and Electron alternative. Here's what HN thinks.

Cursor v3.11 Side Chats guide: open parallel agent conversations with /side or /btw, search past sessions with Conversation Search, and use Cloud Agent Hooks.

Ghost Font hides text in video using motion, so humans can read it but frame-by-frame AI models cannot. How it works and how HN commenters broke it.

SQLite's flexible typing lets you store anything anywhere. STRICT mode fixes that - here's why you should enable it for every new table.

Write code like a human will maintain it: why AI-generated shortcuts teach future models bad patterns, and what the HN debate suggests for keeping quality up.

Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft: what the complaint says about former employees Tang Tan and Chang Liu, the hardware angle, and HN reactions.

A solo developer built a 1,300-line C inference engine that runs the 744B GLM 5.2 model on consumer hardware by streaming routed experts from disk.

Ginger Bill argues that the best tools disappear during use - and that celebrating workarounds is a sign your tool has failed you.

GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture: what OpenAI claims, the prompt it used, and why mathematicians are still verifying the result.

Mitchell Hashimoto on building Ghostty in Zig: why he chose Zig over Rust, how the GPU-first terminal is architected, and what Hacker News made of it.
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