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jascha_eng
4 hours ago
Pg_vectorsearch: An index that is faster than pgvector's IVFFlat and HNSW
High-performance vector search for PostgreSQL. Contribute to timescale/pg_vectorsearch development by creating an account on GitHub....
3 HOURS AGO
SPECKX
Eric Binnion has died
A DAY AGO
KARAKORAM
The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s
17 HOURS AGO
JSLAKRO
Recreational Programming
11 HOURS AGO
RGLOVER
Felix Rieseberg Homepage
2 DAYS AGO
ZDW
MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors
2 HOURS AGO
JERVANT
Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI
2 DAYS AGO
THM
Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts
AN HOUR AGO
POPCAR2
AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary
2 DAYS AGO
EVAKHOURY
Maybe a better way to track the release history of a Git repo
18 HOURS AGO
JASONJMCGHEE
AlphaNIST
A DAY AGO
FORMERLY_PROVEN
11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker
A DAY AGO
ETOTHET
Apple HomeView
18 HOURS AGO
JASONJMCGHEE
AlphaNIST
2 HOURS AGO
WATER-DRUMMER
Gaming on Linux Without Cheating
A DAY AGO
FORMERLY_PROVEN
11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker
AN HOUR AGO
BLUEPETER
Andrew Ng: More Agents Demand More Compute
speckx
35 minutes ago
Passkeys Are Not a Trap
A post called Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them. has been doing the rounds over the last few days, making it pretty high on Hacker News, and I've had it sent to me many times with an 'is this true?' kind of vibe. It's written for
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dverlaeckt80
3 days ago
Sound – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2022)
Interactive article explaining how sound works....
routeroff
4 hours ago
The Aaronson Oracle
A program that guesses which key you'll press next, and is right far more often than chance. Play it, then read exactly how it works....
mdp2021
2 days ago
900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692 (With Complete High-Res Scan)
There’s ahead of its time, then there’s Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau -- or, in its original Dutch title, Klaer Lightende Spiegel der Verfkonst, a 900-page book of paint ...
sighborg
6 hours ago
Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet
You don’t have to shop on Amazon to pay Amazon's high prices....
talccc
21 hours ago
Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard
The most realistic and most complete virtual guitar online. Play it with your keyboard or by touch, slow songs down and see which strings each strum hits....
mpweiher
5 hours ago
Pulsar at ESUG 2026 (new Smalltalk IDE)
At ESUG 2026 I presented Pulsar, a new coding-first IDE for Pharo. The talk explores why staying close to the code still matters in the age of generative agents—and where Pulsar is heading n...
jadenlemmon
an hour ago
Running Windows desktop tests from Linux with disposable VMs
How QA Wolf runs Windows desktop app tests in parallel: single-use VMs from warm pools on Google Compute Engine, driven from Linux over CDP and Appium....
https://www.qawolf.com/blog/how-we-solved-windows-desktop-automation
marcbpaul
a day ago
Same Job, Two Engines: InnoDB and Iceberg Internals
The OLTP vs OLAP post. What InnoDB was optimizing for, and the two paths that make a lakehouse work: pruning on the read and the atomic pointer swap commit....
hacb
6 hours ago
Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets?
The theft last week of an estimated $100 million in crypto using a hardware backdoor planted in Ledger wallets points to a sophisticated and systematic attack aimed at subverting crypto wall...
tharen
10 hours ago
AOSP Source Releases Are So Late Developers Disassemble Libraries to Report Bugs
Description On Android 17 builds from September 2026, wcscspn() and wcspbrk() stop at the first character of the string that is >= U+0100 whenever the reject set has two or more characters t...
EvgeniyZh
5 hours ago
AI Laser Locking for Quantum Computers: How QuEra Automates It
How QuEra used an AI agent to relock quantum computer lasers in seconds and tune them to 5x lower noise, all within safety bounds....
morraa
19 hours ago
PostEra (YC W20) Is Hiring AI Researchers for Drug Discovery
Role Overview In this role, you will develop the agentic research vertical at PostEra, using agentic systems to automate the development of mechanistic models for biochemical and physiologic...
vunderba
a day ago
Show HN: How random are you?
Say numbers out loud as randomly as you can. Before each one, a predictor in your browser seals its guess, and a split-flap board shows how far ahead of chance it gets....
ibobev
4 hours ago
Nvidia's first GPU: GeForce 256
The term GPU was born October 11, 1999, even if the concept wasn't exactly new...
Philpax
a day ago
Redesigning source control at Anthropic
As our merges per day grew more than tenfold, source control became our biggest development bottleneck. Here, we share how we migrated to an in-house version control system in five months....