EVs and Transportation
Waymo says expecting driverless taxis to stay out of bike lanes is unrealistic
Sloppy Copies
NVIDIA
The disappearing AI middle class
Kubernetes
Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024)
Connection Pooling
Databases Were Not Designed for This
Embedded Systems
Clay PCB Tutorial
EVs and Transportation
TechCrunch Mobility: Elon’s admission
I have officially retired from Emacs
Startups and Venture
To buy this Bay Area home, you’ll need Anthropic equity
Show HN: HNswered – watches for replies to your Hacker News posts and comments
Software Engineering
Show HN: I remade my blog into a Windows 3.1 environment
GitHub unwanted UX change: issue links now open in a popup
LLM Evaluation
Why SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities
Swissing a table
Branimir Lambov from IBM on Cassandra
Branimir Lambov has worked on and led many key advances in Cassandra over the last ten years, including swapping out the skiplist in Cassandra's Log-Structured Merge Tree for a Trie.
Mine, a Coalton and Common Lisp IDE
Microsoft Reportedly Looking at Rebasing Azure Linux on Fedora
The fastest Linux timestamps
My .config Ship of Theseus
Apple
Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.0
Nightmare of the Javascript Optimization
Startups and Venture
Show HN: A free ESG stock screener that publishes its losses and methodology
Mobile Development
Show HN: Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame
Eden AI – European Alternative to OpenRouter
Statecharts: hierarchical state machines
The Knight Programming Language
Package Management
I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boards
Simple Sabotage of Agents
APL is more French than English
Kubernetes
Enterprises Are Rethinking Kubernetes
EVs and Transportation
US is making Europe pay dearly for its half-hearted electrification
Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski
iOS 18.7.3-18.7.6 were withheld from most devices; iOS 18.7.7 is enabled for all
Defense Tech
The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting How to Code
EVs and Transportation
Rediscovering the Handcart
Show HN: Browse GitHub repos in Emacs without cloning
Godot 4.7 Beta with HDR Output, Ray-Tracing Improvements and Editor Enhancements
Open Source
AGPLv3§74 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware Like OnlyOffice
Per-image PCA characterization of the Kodak image suite (PDF and JSON)
GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline
Defense Tech
Shall We Play a Game?
A Home Made PBX
Open Source
What the FCC router ban means for FOSS
EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs
Infrastructure as Code
Mise-En-Place
Reviving BrowserID in 2026
The Super Nintendo Cartridges
DeepSeek-V4 on Day 0: From Fast Inference to Verified RL with SGLang and Miles
Mathematics
An amateur just solved a 60-year-old math problem–by asking AI
X / Twitter
The Long Reply
Database Administration and Tooling
Christophe Pettus: All Your GUCs in a Row: archive_command
Last post’s deferred party has arrived. archive_command is how WAL segments leave the primary and travel somewhere durable — the substrate on top of which point-in-time recovery, warm standbys, and every serious backup tool are built. It is also, in the classic formulation, a shell command …
Optimizing Datalog for the GPU
AI Agents
Agents Aren't Coworkers, Embed Them in Your Software
C++
A breakthrough in C/C++ dependency management
X / Twitter
Flickr: The First and Last Great Photo Platform
Npm Slop & Wonky Software Supply Chains
Math Is Hard
Agentic Commerce and Payments
Anthropic created a test marketplace for agent-on-agent commerce
xAI
The AI Industry Is Discovering That the Public Hates It
LLM Evaluation
Simulacrum of Knowledge Work
Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp
AI agents that argue with each other to improve decisions
Startups and Venture
The Stanford Freshmen Who Want to Rule the World
Show HN: Kloak, A secret manager that keeps K8s workload away from secrets
Lute: A Standalone Runtime for Luau
Privacy
Turkey to Ban Anonymous VPNs
Hyper-DERP: C++/io_uring DERP relay - Same throughput as Tailscale's derper, half the cores
AI Coding Tools
It's OK to Use Agentic to Revive the Projects You Never Were Going to Finish
Cryptography and PKI
Revocation of X.509 certificates
IPv7: Identity-Centric Network Protocol – IETF Draft and Rust Implementation
MySQL
Migrating Etsy’s database sharding to Vitess
Etsy has maintained a sharded MySQL architecture since around 2010. This database cluster contains most of Etsy’s online data and is made up of ~1,000 tables distributed across ~1,000 shards. Over the last 16 years, it has grown significantly: combined, these tables have over 425 TB of data and receive roughly 1.7 million requests per second. Etsy engineers access our MySQL data through a proprietary object-relational mapping (ORM). The ORM has a corresponding model for each MySQL table. W...
Artificial Intelligence
Making Ads Count: Using MMoE and Auxiliary Tasks to Better Connect Buyers & Sellers
When buyers search on Etsy, they need to quickly and easily find the perfect item. At the same time, sellers need to be confident their unique products are being seen by the right customers. Our Ads Search ranking model, which is built on a multitask learning foundation, is the critical link in this connection. Recently, we identified an opportunity to drive more meaningful buyer engagement by enhancing our model’s ability to predict purchase intent. We achieved this via a dual-pronged impr...
Linux May Drop Old Network Drivers Now That AI-Driven Bug Reports Are Causing A Burden
Show HN: Browser Harness – Gives LLM freedom to complete any browser task
I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support
AI Psychosis
A Man Who Invented the Future
I'm done making desktop applications (2009)
Storage Systems
Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS
Browser Internals