Graphics and Rendering
How did Atari apply side art to Arcade Cabinets?
Programming Language Theory
Formal Methods and the Future of Programming
Show HN: Dual YOLOv8n UAV Detection on RK3588S at 42 FPS Using NPU
Perlisisms
PostgreSQL
The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE
Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model
Caddy compatibility for zeroserve: 3x throughput and 70% lower latency
Lisp's Influence on Ruby
The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014)
AI Psychosis
No, everyone is not using AI for everything
pkgcli: A command-line interface for PackageKit
PostgreSQL
Write-heavy sysbench tests, a large server, modern Postgres and MySQL
The Consensus Weekly, May 16, 2026
From The Consensus SQLite affinity is stranger than it looks, a peek inside A look at the code and behavior of type coercion in SQLite, or the lack thereof, and how it might contrast to other databases like DuckDB. Paywall has expired. Give it a read! Funding See the full list of over 130 funding ro
The Consensus Weekly, May 23, 2026
From The Consensus Serving files over HTTP three ways: synchronous, epoll, and io_uring We take a tour of epoll and io_uring through the lens of an HTTP file server, starting off first with a synchronous thread-per-request server as a baseline. Read the article Yeunjoo Choi from Igalia on Chromium Y
The Consensus Weekly, May 30, 2026
From The Consensus Graph database-ball! Exploring the Game with the graph capabilities of LadybugDB, DuckDB and PostgreSQL John Nevin compares neo-graph databases, Postgres, LadybugDB, and DuckDB, to understand the user experience and general performance. Read the article Serving files over HTTP thr
The Consensus Weekly, June 6, 2026
From The Consensus Python 3.14 garbage collection rigamarole Python 3.14.0 introduced a new incremental garbage collector. But reports of higher memory usage caused the Python team to revert the garbage collector changes in 3.14.5. We investigate how memory management works in Python and workloads t
The Consensus Weekly, June 13, 2026
From The Consensus This week in infrastructure Supabase announces v0.1 of a distributed Postgres project, Multigres. VillageSQL announces a REST layer for MySQL a la PostgREST. MariaDB embeds DuckDB. Elixir is now gradually typed. PgDog gets funded. Native Linux containers for macOS reaches 1.0. And
EVs and Transportation
TechCrunch Mobility: SpaceX rockets past Tesla
Beagle: Git, URIs and all the dirty words
Linux 7.1
Functional Programming
Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (2018)
Don't trust large context windows
AGI and AI Safety
Cloud-based LLM gold rush is ending
Show HN: 3D print Z reinforcement via injected loops
Anthropic
EU Commission looking at practical consequences of Anthropic decision
Phoenix LiveView 1.2 Released
OpenAI
State Attorneys General Are Investigating OpenAI
C47/R47 Calculators
Show HN: Bastion – isolated Linux VMs for background coding agents
Blockchain
Quadratic funding democratizes allocation by rewarding projects w/ broad support
Artificial Intelligence
Human Routers of Machine Words
Running DOS on Behringers DDX3216 with a DIY x86-Bios from Scratch
ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware
Apt Encounters of the Third Kind
Distributed Systems
Software Architecture Guide (2019)
Weave: Merging based on language structure and not lines
Pyodide 314.0: Python packages can now publish WebAssembly wheels to PyPI
Making Claude a Chemist
(Re//Verse 2026) Taxonomy and Deobfuscation of a Real World Binary Obfuscator [pdf]
Database Administration and Tooling
Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded
Christophe Pettus: All Your GUCs in a Row: default_tablespace
Default_tablespace quietly routes tables and indexes to alternate storage — but three quirks can surprise you, and tablespaces themselves are mostly…
Artificial Intelligence
GLM 5.2 Is Out
Pac-Man, but you're the ghost
Tribblix: The retro Illumos distribution
Honda Civics and the Evil Valet
Amazon
Amazon CEO reportedly raised Anthropic model concerns before government crackdown
Startups and Venture
Meta reportedly moves to unwind $2B Manus deal after Beijing’s demand
Anthropic
As Anthropic suspends access to new models, India debates its AI future
Space Tech
Scientists Discover Vast Ancient ‘Necropolis’ Teeming With Strange New Creatures
A massive whale graveyard in the Indian Ocean contains the remains of hundreds of extinct whales dating back more than five million years, along with recent carcasses that support hotspots of seafloor life.
Anthropic
US ban on Mythos is related to a jailbreak research by Amazon researchers
Chip Design and Semiconductors
The adder at the heart of Intel's 8087 floating-point chip
AI Coding at Home Without Going Broke
OpenAI
OpenAI faces investigation from state attorneys general
AI Hardware
What about OpenCL and CUDA C++ alternatives?
Netflix
This thin under-pillow speaker helped me fall asleep without earbuds
repo-slopscore: Detecting AI/LLM contributions in git repositories via commit history analysis
AI Inference
Show HN: Quant Picker – which GGUF file fits your model and machine
Feature Flags
Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.5: Better Planning, Similar Execution
Privacy
US bans differential privacy in Census data
AI Agents
Google proposes Open Knowledge Format based on Markdown
Every Frame Perfect
Show HN: Skill for your agent to visualize your gbrain and Obsidian
Introduction to the experience of rendering Arabic typography&its technical debt
RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8
Cerebras chips rival Nvidia GPUs for AI [video]
AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed
Chip Design and Semiconductors
An Interview with Intel's Kira Boyko: Xeon 6's Product Director
The Riemann Hypothesis – interactive explanation
Artificial Intelligence
Thoughts on AI and Jobs
The state of building user interfaces in Rust
How ClickHouse became fast at joins
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Artificial Intelligence
KPMG's AI report turns into a demo of AI hallucinations
Exceptions should not be handled – they should be aggregated
Testing
The Fable 5 Jailbreak Shows Why AI Guardrails Alone Are Not Enough
Homelab & Self-Hosting
A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones
Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI collaboration
Artificial Intelligence
What Would It Look Like If the AI Bubble Popped?
Gilles Darold: pg_kpart PostgreSQL extension
Force the use of the partition key and protect your PostgreSQL server from full partition scans
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