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tejohnso
3 days ago
Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids
Tin Can is a kid-friendly WiFi phone that replicates an old-fashioned landline. It's aimed at parents who want to delay giving their kids a cellphone....
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INTERNET_POINTS
Dataframe 1.0.0.0
6 DAYS AGO
SURPRISETALK
Ordered dithering with arbitrary or irregular colour palettes (2023)
5 DAYS AGO
SURPRISETALK
LLMs predict my coffee
2 DAYS AGO
ZDW
How to attract AI bots to your open source project
21 HOURS AGO
COLINWRIGHT
Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts
11 HOURS AGO
KOHLSCHUETTER
Unlocking 25 Gigabit/S on 10 GbE Direct Attach Copper
5 DAYS AGO
HSYNKRKYE
Show HN: Codala, a social network built on scanning barcodes
18 HOURS AGO
CHRISARCHITECT
DoorDash Tasks
speckx
4 days ago
Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website
After testing 200,000 items in ChatGPT, Walmart found sharply lower conversions and will use its own integrated shopping experience.
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andrenotgiant
3 days ago
The way CTRL-C in Postgres CLI cancels queries is incredibly hack-y
There are a few different reasons to hit the brakes on a Postgres query. Maybe it’s taking too long to finish. Maybe you realised you forgot to create an index that will make it orders of ma...
mft_
a day ago
Flash-MoE: Running a 397B Parameter Model on a Laptop
Running a big model on a small laptop. Contribute to danveloper/flash-moe development by creating an account on GitHub....
davidchl
7 hours ago
GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) is hiring Back end Engineers
About Us GoGoGrandparent is a digital caregiving platform helping older and disabled adults stay independent, safe, and supported at home. We adapt on-demand APIs (Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Inst...
c17r
19 hours ago
The future of version control
A Coherent Vision for the Future of Version Control...
mememememememo
3 hours ago
Plane and ground vehicle collide at New York's LaGuardia airport halting flights
The plane, arriving from Montreal, collided with a firefighting vehicle responding to a separate incident....
obilgic
3 hours ago
Show HN: Agent Kernel – Three Markdown files that make any AI agent stateful
Minimal kernel to make any AI coding agent stateful. Clone, point your agent, go. - oguzbilgic/agent-kernel...
mariuz
15 hours ago
The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon
Due to some lucky circumstances, I recently had the chance to appear in one of the biggest German gaming podcasts, Stay Forever, to talk about the technology of RollerCoaster Tycoon (1999). ...
https://larstofus.com/2026/03/22/the-gold-standard-of-optimization-a-look-under-the-hood-of-rollercoaster-tycoon/
raybb
12 hours ago
They’re vibe-coding spam now
The problem with making coding easier for more people is that it makes spam more conventionally attractive. Which is bad. ...
madflojo
10 hours ago
Migrating the American express payment network, twice
The architecture and coordination that kept global transactions flowing through complex application and infrastructure changes....
billyp-rva
a day ago
More common mistakes to avoid when creating system architecture diagrams
A rundown of seven more common mistakes is system architecture diagrams and how to fix them...
rbanffy
a day ago
The IBM scientist who rewrote the rules of information just won a Turing Award
What started as a conversation on the beach between two scientists led to the “Nobel Prize in computing“ decades later. More on Charles Bennet, co-recipient of the 2025 Turing Award....
cjamsonhn
9 hours ago
Intuitions for Tranformer Circuits
A mental model for addressing the residual stream...
mitchbob
9 hours ago
“Collaboration” is bullshit
This newsletter is free to read, and it’ll stay that way. But if you want more - extra posts each month, access to the community, and a direct line to ask me things - paid subscriptions are ...
polymorph1sm
11 hours ago
Apply video compression on KV cache to 10,000x less error at Q4 quant
Exploiting temporal coherence in LLM inference-- delta encoding for KV cache compression and weight-skip prediction. Achieves F16-quality KV cache at Q4_0 compression ratios with zero pe...