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cafkafk
7 hours ago
A 10 year old Xeon is all you need
Or running Gemma 4 on a 2016 Xeon with no GPU, 25 flags, 128 GB of DDR3, and a 25B-parameter MoE....
7 HOURS AGO
ANKITG12
Using Git's rerere feature to escape recurring conflict hell
4 DAYS AGO
TOSH
The four programming questions from my 1994 Microsoft internship interview (2023)
3 DAYS AGO
JNORD
Finding success in industry as a chip designer
A DAY AGO
K1M
The Website Specification
21 HOURS AGO
MOOREDS
The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI
4 DAYS AGO
SPECKX
Having your insulin pump die while you're on vacation
19 HOURS AGO
VIRA28
Show HN: Streambed – Stream Postgres to Iceberg on S3, Supports Postgres Wire
A DAY AGO
DZHEKY
Odysseus – self-hosted AI workspace
kurmiashish
18 minutes ago
NPM packages from RedHat have been compromised
Ref: https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/multiple-redhat-cloud-services-npm-packages-compromised https://app.stepsecurity.io/oss-security-feed?q=@redhat-cloud-services Affected Packages Package Compro...
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modinfo
a day ago
1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices
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hackerBanana
17 hours ago
ChatGPT for Google Sheets exfiltrates workbooks
ChatGPT for Google Sheets is vulnerable to data exfiltration and phishing overlay attacks that affect workbooks across the victim’s account after an indirect prompt injection in a single she...
tosh
16 minutes ago
Nvidia Cosmos 3
Physical AI systems must understand the real world before they can act within it. Robots, autonomous vehicles, and smart spaces need to understand what’s happening in their world…...
itsezc
3 days ago
Benchmarking SurrealDB 3.x vs. Postgres, Mongo, Neo4j and Redis (With Fsync)
Fresh SurrealDB 3.x benchmarks: 141k ops/s CRUD, scans 164× faster than 2.x, and head-to-head numbers vs. Postgres, Mongo, Neo4j, and Redis....
captain_bender
a day ago
Dav2d
VideoLAN announces dav2d, an open source AV2 decoder — continuing the work started with dav1d for AV1....
Eridanus2
a day ago
United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert
The flight crew issued repeated warnings and a one-minute ultimatum to passengers, demanding they turn off their Bluetooth devices....
sebg
4 days ago
Only 17% of all 64-bit Integers are products of two 32-bit integers
In software programming, the product between two integers is often computed to a fixed number of bits with overflow. Consider 8-bit integers. If you multiply 127 by 127, you get back the num...
https://lemire.me/blog/2026/05/22/only-17-of-all-64-bit-integers-are-products-of-two-32-bit-integers/
adm4
10 hours ago
Rubin Tracks Skyscraper-Size Asteroids and Failed Supernovas
Astronomers are preparing for a new era of big-data astronomy, and results are already starting to arrive....
Brajeshwar
4 days ago
Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity
Telltale SSD activity can be measured in the browser using simple JavaScript....
chiply
4 days ago
Two Ways to Draw Infinite Jest's Sierpinski Gasket
In a 1996 Bookworm interview with Michael Silverblatt, David Foster Wallace confirmed something Silverblatt had spotted about Infinite Jest....
sbulaev
3 hours ago
LLMs Are Closer to Religion Than They Appear
Papal's 40k-word encyclical drops and lawyers already asking if Catholics can refuse workplace AI on religious grounds...
grappler
a day ago
Restartable Sequences
All languages will change to express restartable sequences, and all software will be rewritten to use them....
WalterSobchak
9 hours ago
A powerful new chapter for Windows PCs, accelerated by Nvidia RTX Spark
Today at NVIDIA GTC, Microsoft and NVIDIA announced the world’s most powerful and efficient thin-and-light Windows PCs ever. Accelerated by NVIDIA RTX Spark...
ankitg12
6 hours ago
Textbooks in Tokenland
Teaching judgement and providing guidance on how to think about complex systems are areas where we think we still have the edge over LLMs....
f4n4tiX
7 hours ago
Rift: Better Alternative to Git Worktrees
Contribute to anomalyco/rift development by creating an account on GitHub....