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ibotty
11 hours ago
A Preview of DuckDB v2.0
DuckDB v2.0 is coming this fall. In this post, we preview its headline features: DuckDB as a server, triggers, the VARIANT type, asynchronous I/O, a new SQL parser, a new storage format, and...
4 HOURS AGO
INGVE
How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack?
4 DAYS AGO
SURPRISETALK
A digestion of the proof of Sendov's conjecture
7 HOURS AGO
BLUESTEIN
Roboflow Playground: Try and Compare 30 Computer Vision Models
4 DAYS AGO
NAOH
The oldest bar in every state
11 HOURS AGO
SURPRISETALK
How to put 170 atoms in an atom
A DAY AGO
JACQUESM
On AI regulation and messaging
6 HOURS AGO
BOOKOFJOE
Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia
11 HOURS AGO
TARUNNNP
How to ship a database every day
12 HOURS AGO
ENJOYYOURLIFE
Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver
11 HOURS AGO
ARTIOMYAK
Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz
13 HOURS AGO
UNTILEDSOURCE
Mexico crackdown on coastal development
11 HOURS AGO
ARTIOMYAK
Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz
pizzaiolo
3 hours ago
Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera
Today i bring the working main camera! Building on the work nondescriptpointer did on the wide lens camera i have written the driver for the main camera and now its working alongside auto focus and color correction. The color correction still a work in progress, but you can…
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galnagli
11 hours ago
AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira
Wiz Red Agent finds its way into Snowflake's internal Jira through a flaw in a GitHub Copilot–Assisted PR....
whobre
6 days ago
The Road to MS-DOS 2.0
One little step toward UNIX...
mooreds
5 hours ago
AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
I'm about as pro-AI as you can be, but this is becoming a pet peeve of mine (and I'm not alone). That's why I love the AI;DR acronym as my new solution for ignoring the walls of slop....
Topfi
4 hours ago
GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%
GPT-5.6 Sol is the flagship model in OpenAI's GPT-5.6 series. $2.50 per million input tokens, $15 per million output tokens. 1,050,000 token context window, maximum output of 128,000 tokens....
jimt1234
2 hours ago
Flock cameras haven't improved Atlanta's crime clearance rates
Despite the eight-fold growth of surveillance cameras directly accessible by Atlanta PD officers, crime clearance rates haven't increased....
plurby
13 hours ago
GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released
GPT-5.6 Sol is OpenAI’s strongest vision model yet. We tested Sol, Terra, and Luna across detection, counting, OCR, and extraction, then compared their results, speed, and cost with leading ...
linggen
7 hours ago
GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast
High-performance GPU programming has traditionally forced a compromise between execution efficiency and memory safety. While Rust guarantees compile-time memory safety for host CPUs via its ...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13759
abdik
9 hours ago
Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI
Every speech model, benchmarked language by language, wired into one API....
Brajeshwar
5 days ago
A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball'
Scientists have been predicting the existence of a particle made of gluons for a long time, but detecting it has taken decades....
oskrim
4 days ago
A simple fix for LLM tail latency
Send every request twice and take the faster response....
anana_
8 hours ago
Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis
Analysis of Alibaba's Qwen3.8 27B and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (tokens per second & time to first token), context window & more....
nanochess
a day ago
How I developed an Am29000 C compiler and web browser
History of the development of my C compiler and web browser for 32-bit Am29000 processors....
neogodless
8 hours ago
An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
It's been a few months since my post on leaving Gmail which sparked a lot of discussion on Hacker News. Here's an update on how things have been going after my move to Fastmail....
samclemens
4 days ago
Some Virtues of Narrative Poetry
Some Virtues of Narrative Poetry...
bilsbie
a day ago
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
Friday’s big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba’s Qwen research lab. I’ve been looking forward to this one: 27B is an …...