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pdet
6 days ago
Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work
Starting with v2.0, scheduled for fall 2026, DuckDB will support asynchronous reads of Parquet and CSV files. This can significantly speed up queries when synchronous I/O does not saturate t...
16 HOURS AGO
TOSH
Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel
5 HOURS AGO
INGVE
Software Engineering fundamentals matter more
13 HOURS AGO
SENSANATY
A spectre is haunting Unicode
9 HOURS AGO
SCHMORPTRON
Tess's Android Wayland Compositor
5 HOURS AGO
JIMMC414
AI-Assisted GPU Porting of a 250k Line Legacy Weather Simulation Code
3 HOURS AGO
PHILLIPCHAFFEE
Big Pickle on SWE Atlas – Codebase QnA
AN HOUR AGO
WALRUS01
US Space Force gives Rocket Lab $397M to build threat-tracking 'Flatellites'
6 HOURS AGO
INGVE
Were Touch Bar's problems software rather than hardware?
5 HOURS AGO
EGSTAD
Oracle – a photorealistic browser for every Magic card ever printed
9 HOURS AGO
SUSANVILLEULA1
Site removes all the clutter from recipe videos and gives just the recipe
11 HOURS AGO
JEFFREYROGERS
A controversial Alzheimer's surgery is said to reverse symptoms
9 HOURS AGO
SUSANVILLEULA1
Site removes all the clutter from recipe videos and gives just the recipe
wiradikusuma
4 days ago
Asus Bike Booster
ASUS Oxiis E250G1 transforms any bike with 500W peak boost, 50 km eco range, app control, fast USB-C charging, and easy install now for riders
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turtushig22
3 hours ago
Tea5767-Radio-Tuner
ESP32-based FM radio with TEA5767 tuner, KY-040 rotary encoder, PAM8403 amplifier, and 0.96" OLED display. Custom PCB design. - turtushig22-blip/tea5767-radio-tuner...
theanonymousone
6 hours ago
Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
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dgellow
8 hours ago
Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter
Super El Niño continues to strengthen as new forecasts push toward record levels, with Fall and Winter 2026/2027 impacts emerging across the United States, Canada, and Europe...
felixbraun
6 hours ago
Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)
Solitary work, creativity and larval ideas...
gmays
13 hours ago
At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis
LymeAlert will hit the market in August. The latest tool against the tick-borne illness could become a medicine cabinet staple...
0x142857
3 hours ago
Show HN: I built a native app for coding agents with Rust and GPUI
A fast, native app for local coding agents. Amp, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Grok, and Pi — one timeline, entirely on your machine....
johnsillings
3 hours ago
Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game
The free online version of Grab the Mic: get a word, buzz in, and sing a real song containing it — your friends vote. No app, no mic needed, 2–8 players....
https://www.micdrop.gg/
rzk
9 hours ago
AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain
The key advantage may not be superior reasoning, but a virtually unlimited symbolic working memory....
Eridanus2
2 hours ago
Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns
I was inspired by Tom Scott’s excellent video and links here where he talks about a particular type of “Inogon” light used to guide ships through channels or harbours. The patent …...
xalfotis
4 days ago
Numba in the Browser: Unlocking a New Scientific Python Stack in JupyterLite
A JIT compiler and its scientific Python ecosystem running entirely in the Web browser...
wweissbluth
9 hours ago
Voltair (YC W26) Is Hiring a Test Flight Engineer
About Voltair Voltair is building the world’s first distributed network of drones for earth observation. We envision a world where after a major storm, an operator of critical infrastructur...
Jimmc414
6 hours ago
Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, has died
The IEEE Life Fellow is remembered as a founder of the field...
hhs
4 hours ago
Decoding smell: Study reveals how odor signals shapeshift in the wind
New research investigates the shifting patterns of odors as they travel through the air. The findings may help explain how animals navigate using smell and...
erdaltoprak
2 days ago
Qwen 3.8 27B
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science....
herbertl
7 hours ago
Humazon
Two of my favorite authors growing up were Franklin W. Dixon and Carolyn Keene, authors of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books. I read everything I could get my hands on from both of them. I...