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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...
3 DAYS AGO
HALFRADAITION
I built a browser-native SysEx librarian for 80s/90s synthesizers
11 HOURS AGO
THEANONYMOUSONE
Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
8 HOURS AGO
TURTUSHIG22
Tea5767-Radio-Tuner
6 HOURS AGO
ADM4
Zapping Rocks Unlocks Stimulated Geologic Hydrogen
5 DAYS AGO
SKADAMAT
Program with Paint Brushes, Not Pencils
14 HOURS AGO
WWEISSBLUTH
Voltair (YC W26) Is Hiring a Test Flight Engineer
AN HOUR AGO
BUKERSHOK
Show HN: Laptop is the last place your secrets are still in plaintext
21 HOURS AGO
TOSH
Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel
11 HOURS AGO
INGVE
Were Touch Bar's problems software rather than hardware?
11 HOURS AGO
JIMMC414
Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, has died
9 HOURS AGO
HHS
Decoding smell: Study reveals how odor signals shapeshift in the wind
7 DAYS AGO
PJHKOREA
Show HN: Fixing optical computing jitter via fluid dynamics in GPU registers
11 HOURS AGO
JIMMC414
Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, has died
10 HOURS AGO
EGSTAD
Oracle – a photorealistic browser for every Magic card ever printed
9 HOURS AGO
HHS
Decoding smell: Study reveals how odor signals shapeshift in the wind
15 HOURS AGO
THISISLIFE2
South Korea proposes talks to officially end war with North
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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felixbraun
11 hours ago
Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)
Solitary work, creativity and larval ideas...
Eridanus2
7 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 …...
johnsillings
8 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....
ingve
10 hours ago
Software Engineering fundamentals matter more
The manifestation of my imposter syndrome, for me and today, is what does it mean to be a software engineer. There’s a lot more noise than signal on the Internet about agentic engineering, w...
dgellow
13 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...
gmays
18 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...
maxutility
6 hours ago
Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems
We ran experiments on swarms of Claude agents and found coordination failures, collusion, and sabotage. Here, we share what they mean for AI safety....
https://www.anthropic.com/research/multiagent-systems
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...
rzk
14 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....
sensanaty
18 hours ago
A spectre is haunting Unicode
In 1978 Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry established the encoding that would later be known as JIS X 0208, which still serves as an important reference for all Japanese encodi...
Jimmc414
10 hours ago
AI-Assisted GPU Porting of a 250k Line Legacy Weather Simulation Code
Recent advances in large language models have made CLI-based AI agents a practical tool for accelerating GPU porting of large legacy scientific applications. Such applications, however, are ...
schmorptron
14 hours ago
Tess's Android Wayland Compositor
Tess's Android Wayland Compositor. Contribute to wmww/tawc development by creating an account on GitHub....
scoofy
5 hours ago
Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn't stand up to scrutiny
Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn't stand up to scrutiny....
NaOH
5 days ago
Speaking for the Dead
A New York Times veteran considers the art of the obituary and how words give shape to legacies....
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....