Chip Design and Semiconductors
Chip Design and Semiconductors
Chip Design and Semiconductors
CSS
Experimenting with Random() in CSS
Nourish - a wayland compositor with infinite zoom and pan
Reflecting to optimise
Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs
Wan Streamer v0.1: End-to-End Real-Time Interactive Foundation Models
Show HN: Metaspec: The DpANS3R Common Lisp Spec in S-Expr and HTML Format
Yap – free offline voice dictation for Mac/Windows/Linux (Wispr Flow alt)
Agentic Commerce and Payments
Indian payments chief thinks AI will be heavily involved in next era of digital payment growth
Software Engineering
The Shape of the System - Engineering for Bounded Cognition
Wayfinder Router: deterministic routing of queries between local and hosted LLM
Show HN: Engye – transfer files between any two devices by scanning a QR code
Spotify
Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician
Show HN: FSM – an advanced system monitor for Linux
Startups and Venture
Ancient Tablets Show Markets Worked 4k Years Before Economists Explained Them
Rust
The Unglamorous Side of Rust Web Development
I built a 100% local network privacy appliance to stop smart home spying
Artificial Intelligence
Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly
Network Security
How a YouTube video accidentally proved Libya's sand cat does exist
AI Hardware
Apple Neural Engine: Architecture, Programming, and Performance
Spotify
Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep
Uber
Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo. That Should Terrify You
I Build a 10 Inch Mini Rack from Aluminium Extrusions
Database Administration and Tooling
WAL-RUS: a Rust Rewrite of WAL-G for PostgreSQL Backups
Space Tech
Space Shuttle Endeavour's 20-story vertical display
Show HN: KV-psi, using Linux PSI to to trim an LLM KV cache
AI Psychosis
Response to AI slop is from Robin Williams
C++
Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C
AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide
Climate.us launches independent website for trusted climate information
Query Planning
Christophe Pettus: All Your GUCs in a Row: enable_hashjoin
Diagnose spilling hash joins with `enable_hashjoin = off`.
Software Engineering
Regular expressions that work "everywhere"
Set Up Your Own DoH Service
Software Engineering
America's Large Homebuilders Shift the Cost of Shoddy Construction to Buyers
Monitoring and Alerting
Phones alerted millions before quakes shook Venezuela
CI/CD
Show HN: Kiso, an open-source publishing engine for Open Knowledge Format
Codeberg Is Down
Choosing a Public DNS Resolver
Show HN: Starglyphs - A constellation puzzle game based on Euler paths
Elasticsearch
Remembering the life and artwork of Ron Spears
Enhancing X11 Application Security with LXC
It's dead, Jim! (UEFI CA expiry)
AI Psychosis
'Aren't the Organs a Silver Lining?'
Anthropic
The AI Industry as You Know It Died Today
How do you keep Web MIDI from crashing a 1983 synthesizer?
Meta
Should European housing politics be Americanized?
Michigan spent $1.8B and only created 602 jobs
AI Psychosis
GLP-1 drugs led to weight loss and reversed depression-like behavior in mice
Defense Tech
Peppa Pig studio wants to clone child actors' voices with AI indefinitely
X / Twitter
Instagram is testing more ways for users to customize ‘Your Algorithm’
Meta
'Careless People' author claims Meta surveilled her for 12mos to enforce silence
What If a Man Practised Shooting a Million Times? Shot 90172, Football Progress [video]
pomerium: Pomerium is an identity and context-aware access proxy
X / Twitter
Check out the new US passport
Mojo programming language will become open-source soon
Uber
Paradise Revisited: What Darwin Saw in the Galápagos
Show HN: Adrafinil – keep a lid-closed Mac awake only while agents work
Space Tech
SoftBank’s CEO isn’t the only one with questions about Elon Musk’s orbital data center hype
Uber
A Farmer Arrested for Going 5 Seconds over His Time Limit at Data Center Meeting
iOS 27 Makes the Shortcuts App Less Intimidating
Dr. Alan Kay on the meaning of "object-oriented programming"
Java
Running a software jam in a world of slop
IP Crawl: living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet
Query Planning
pg_plan_advice — help the planner get the right plan
Defense Tech
Cheap Drones Are Rewriting Warfare
Ships keep moving through Hormuz despite strike
LLM Evaluation
"No, I swear I wrote this."
Memory and Hardware
The Card That Made the Apple II Serious
A History of Menus Is a Menu of History
Using Resource score with consistent Hashing in distributed databases
So in order to learn more about the working of the distributed databases I read a few research papers of dynamodb, cockroachdb, gfs etc.., but I wanted to build something from this theory that I learned for indepth learning. Irisdb is a fault tolerant database written in golang. It uses consistent hashing with resourceScore to determine the load/slot ranges assigned to each of the node in the cluster. The project uses pebble as the data storage layer, initially I was planning to use rocksdb b...
Anthropic
Anthropic says Alibaba used 25k accounts to mine Claude
Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other
Artificial Intelligence
AI Is Designing Radio Chips That Humans Couldn't Even Imagine
The feature in OxCaml that more languages should steal
OxCaml, Jane Street's superset of OCaml, allows you to assert that entire call trees do not allocate on the heap with [@zero_alloc].This turns the typical process of profiling to find hot spots backwards, allowing you to track down every single allocation you might care about in a hot loop.
Belonging to the Land
AI Psychosis
Screen time can damage under-twos' development, landmark study suggests
C in the Linux Kernel
Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring for Multigres
AI Psychosis
Scientists Think They’ve Uncovered the 15-Million-Year-Old Origin of Laughter
Recordings of laughter from humans and other great apes suggest that the distinctive rhythm of "ha ha ha" emerged in a common ancestor that lived at least 15 million years ago.
Apple