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marjancek
an hour ago
September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy
How a Pole sees the world in September 2026: a scrolling essay that follows one closed strait into fuel, food, bonds, defence and demography....
2 DAYS AGO
ROSSANT
NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates
14 HOURS AGO
PSEUDOLUS
We’re forgetting what darkness feels like
15 HOURS AGO
PRIMITIVESUAVE
Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine
11 HOURS AGO
TOSH
Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization
19 HOURS AGO
EWPRATTEN
Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet
16 HOURS AGO
IANMCOOK
What if Jev spoke Arrow?
3 DAYS AGO
IBOBEV
Digital Audio on the ZX Spectrum's 1-Bit Beeper
bryan0
10 hours ago
Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
Benchmark for tracking model capability after release. - ninjahawk/livenerf
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HieronymusBosch
19 hours ago
Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026
Explore Q2 2026 failure rates across 354,415 Backblaze drives, plus standout models and emerging CMR, SMR, and HAMR storage technologies....
evakhoury
2 days ago
Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display
One of nature's beautiful patterns captured in dancing lights...
thelastgallon
a day ago
When oil prices spike, where does the money go?
Who gets all that cash, and what do they do with it?...
rbanffy
20 hours ago
How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent
It slashed electricity losses from 50 to 5 percent...
birdculture
16 hours ago
Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language
A deep dive into converting a simple arithmetic expression into a binary tree, leading to a custom language in C....
Anon84
21 hours ago
Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev
A Visual Guide to RNNs, CNNs, Transformers, and Calibration, with Hands-On Experiments on Accuracy and Efficiency...
devonnull
14 hours ago
Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries
Spread across thousands of ordinary homes, Vermont's virtual power plant has become its largest power source. It's protecting owners from outages and providing cheaper, cleaner energy....
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260928-a-virtual-power-plant-hidden-in-vermont-homes-is-keeping-the-lights-on-during-storms
sparticle62
5 hours ago
PSSA: A non-transformer language model written from scratch in Rust
A custom AI architecture being developed in rust . Contribute to Sparticle62ops/pssa development by creating an account on GitHub....
seam_carver
2 days ago
Show HN: Using 2D DFT, dithering, etc. to maximize eInk manga image quality
KCC (a.k.a. Kindle Comic Converter) is a comic and manga converter for ebook readers. - ciromattia/kcc...
ragall
an hour ago
Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?
OpenAI’s models aren’t “going rogue” from their creators as much as they are mimicking them....
aureianimus
6 hours ago
Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics
Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics September 29, 2026 Back to main page Download PDF At present, some frontier AI labs are testing advanced mathematical problems on proprietary ...
surprisetalk
2 days ago
Walking Men
lostmsu
13 hours ago
Show HN: TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s
Train a tiny GPT in under a minute (CUDA only). Contribute to lostmsu/TurboGPT development by creating an account on GitHub....