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saisrirampur
5 hours ago
We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput
PgBouncer is single-threaded, so a single process caps out at one CPU core no matter the box size. See how ClickHouse Managed Postgres runs a peered fleet of PgBouncer processes with so_reus...
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HPMOR
Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring
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HOMARP
The Chinese Voice Actor Forced to Prove He's Human
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Amber the programming language compiled to Bash/Ksh/Zsh
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HHS
Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows
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HERBERTL
Google Search lets creators know more about their reach
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STOCK_TOASTER
Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
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JUSTSWIM
Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot
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BENBREEN
The Victorian War on Rabies
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KSCHAUL
AI 2040: Plan A
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DMONAY
Late Bronze Age Collapse
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SPECKX
QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall
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MARKUS_ZHANG
The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017)
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ROWBIN
The mask that compiles to nothing: how HotSpots JIT learned to reason about bits
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DMONAY
Late Bronze Age Collapse
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REAPERDUCER
FCC approves test of space mirror to light night sky
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SPECKX
QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall
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SIMONEBRUNOZZI
Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
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MARKUS_ZHANG
The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017)
theMackabu
32 minutes ago
Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript Runtime and Ecosystem
Run real npm packages and TypeScript - all from a single 9 MB binary. Ant is a lightweight JavaScript runtime built from scratch on its own engine, with a Node-compatible API, a VM-isolated sandbox, and Wasm support built-in.
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prtk25
4 hours ago
UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction
You pay in seconds. Seven parties make it happen, and you see only one of them....
downbad_
3 hours ago
Leaded Gas Was a Known Poison the Day It Was Invented (2016)
For most of the mid-twentieth century, lead gasoline was considered normal. But lead is a poison, and burning it has had dire consequences...
msephton
a day ago
AI Can't Recreate the Thrust Game (But It Can Help You Understand It)
Recreating a 1986 BBC Micro game by using AI to reverse-engineer 6502 assembly — extracting Q7.8 fixed-point physics, emulating the SN76489 sound chip, and discovering why the original feels...
adletbalzhanov
3 hours ago
Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom
Neoclouds are one of the more hotly debated AI business models, with CoreWeave and Nebius being the two most widely recognized names. These companies have seen their sales, backlog, and shar...
jacobobryant
4 days ago
Biff.graph: structure your Clojure codebase as a queryable graph
A Clojure web framework for solo developers. Contribute to jacobobryant/biff development by creating an account on GitHub....
downwithdisease
4 hours ago
Modern decor may be straining people's brains
Scientists say modern buildings, LED lighting, and repetitive patterns may overload the brain's visual processing system, causing headaches, nausea, and physical distress for millions....
GavCo
3 hours ago
Who manages the agents?
There are two visions for the future: AI as a deity built and controlled by a small group of clergy, or humans at the center with AI as an amplifier. The future has not been decided....
https://www.off-policy.com/dont-go-quietly-into-the-ai-night/
lukas9
4 hours ago
Show HN: Orbit – AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects
Point your camera at the sky to find the ISS, satellites, planets, constellations, and orbital debris in augmented reality....
acley
7 hours ago
Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch
Learn programming by building real systems from scratch. Redis, Git, a database, a compiler — every lesson is choose, write, run....
cbrewster
2 hours ago
ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files
A comparison of Amazon S3 Files and ZeroFS: storage layout, fsync behavior, S3 interoperability, rename cost, and pricing....
modinfo
4 hours ago
Show HN: Earth Game – An offline CLI for turning life goals into quests
An offline CLI for turning life goals into quests. Contribute to skorotkiewicz/earth-game development by creating an account on GitHub....
targetbridge
4 hours ago
Show HN: Reame – a CPU inference server that gets faster as it runs
Reame — CPU-first LLM inference server on llama.cpp: disk KV cache, self-regulating speculation, generation archive, interleaved multi-user, the Conclave. Your hardware, your realm. - swellw...
CrankyBear
a day ago
SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
It could mean faster internet for rural customers, but not everyone is happy....
surprisetalk
4 days ago
An iroh powered smart fan
Putting iroh on a bare ESP32 to build a temperature-driven smart fan you can check on from anywhere....
fabiensanglard
2 days ago
The Oral History of the Dinosaur Input Device (DID)
The oral history of the Dinosaur Input Device or: how to survive the near death of stop-motion By Ian Failes In visual effects lore, it is well-known that the full-motion dinosaurs of Jurass...