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  1. Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres (rohanbansal.com)
    ×2.40 | 345 points by polyphilz 4 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs (arxiv.org)
    ×1.63 3 | 110 points by matt_d 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust (nvidia.com)
    ×3.17 1 | 105 points by nonmaskable 2 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard (xiaomi.com)
    ×2.53 1 | 194 points by krackers 3 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (johnjwang.com)
    ×3.05 3 | 51 points by johnjwang 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Backups Aren't Simple (filipovski.net)
    ×1.69 14 | 32 points by afilipovski 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Small programming tricks (will-keleher.com)
    ×2.09 2 | 354 points by signa11 7 hours ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework (openspec.dev)
    ×1.76 1 | 21 points by etoxin 42 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Reversing Factorio's RNG (gegell.github.io)
    ×2.02 5 | 117 points by jheitmann 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Performance Improvements in .NET 11 (microsoft.com)
    ×2.18 3 | 125 points by soheilpro 4 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU (independent.co.uk)
    ×5.50 9 | 44 points by doener 51 minutes ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran (wsj.com)
    ×3.83 4 | 175 points by berkeleyjunk 6 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Accurate Models of AMD Matrix Cores (arxiv.org)
    ×0.66 19 | 53 points by matt_d 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries (untranslatedjp.substack.com)
    ×1.74 29 | 74 points by herbertl 6 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Reverse-engineered Jev-like model (github.com/vinnylarouge)
    ×1.74 23 | 47 points by rochansinha 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Destroy After Reading: photocopiers,cheap paper and DIY gave metal it's look (truegrittexturesupply.com)
    ×0.62 46 | 7 points by pigeons 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations (github.com/arnegiacomo)
    ×7.21 18 | 2047 points by arnemunthekaas 1 day ago | 236 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. How good are frontier models at physics? (arxiv.org)
    ×1.02 5 | 59 points by qt31415926 4 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing (mistral.ai)
    ×2.73 7 | 519 points by vertigoruntime 15 hours ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds (arxiv.org)
    ×1.06 13 | 178 points by bananaflag 10 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Anatomy of a Texture (agentlien.github.io)
    ×0.93 36 | 70 points by Agentlien 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce" (evanhahn.com)
    ×1.63 41 | 73 points by vinhnx 10 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Why Does the Universe Expand? (cosmicave.org)
    ×0.76 25 | 11 points by the__alchemist 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. I replaced my brown-noise browser tab with a menu bar app (oldmanrahul.com)
    ×0.82 29 | 12 points by oldmanrahul 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. WalShadow: Sub-second Postgres replication to ClickHouse from physical WAL (clickhouse.com)
    ×1.03 12 | 35 points by spathak 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera (wired.com)
    ×4.10 11 | 443 points by driverdan 10 hours ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Training Text-to-Image Models 3.6× Faster (linum.ai)
    ×0.83 24 | 25 points by schopra909 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort (2022) (googleblog.com)
    ×1.34 17 | 161 points by mococa 5 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The DeepMind Institute (deepmind.com)
    ×1.82 13 | 131 points by vertigoruntime 9 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (ycombinator.com)
    11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Tell the speakers that you liked their talks (ohhelloana.blog)
    ×2.39 9 | 264 points by whisper2020 9 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The Siberian Ice Maiden and the Scythian World (patrickwyman.substack.com)
    ×0.62 23 | 45 points by NaOH 7 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: AttaLambda: a language where types and data are made of untyped lambdas (attalambda.com)
    ×1.70 43 | 35 points by kserrec 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. A warning about 'model welfare' (mustafa-suleyman.ai)
    ×2.67 7 | 191 points by andsoitis 9 hours ago | 522 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now (autism.org.uk)
    ×2.94 40 | 40 points by AndrewDucker 8 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Common Crawl Data Stored on a Hugging Face Bucket (commoncrawl.org)
    ×1.07 37 | 6 points by abidlabs 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Restarted – a 2026 remake of the classic 2015 startup generator (restarted.io)
    ×0.55 34 | 17 points by zxcvbn4038 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents? (harnesstax.github.io)
    ×2.02 45 | 4 points by matt_d 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. How big are factorials? (thegreenplace.net)
    ×0.77 26 | 79 points by ibobev 10 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Douglas Adams and the exterminated Doctor Who adventure (bbc.co.uk)
    ×0.81 45 | 71 points by 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 13 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude (claude.com)
    ×2.41 23 | 197 points by vertigoruntime 7 hours ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week (gultsch.social)
    ×2.02 17 | 337 points by inputmice 12 hours ago | 328 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Write Linters and Tools Before Code (cookie.engineer)
    ×1.22 47 | 4 points by cookiengineer 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Introducing System One Models and Jev (typesafe.ai)
    ×6.63 20 | 1784 points by albelfio 1 day ago | 472 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Principles for a New Utopianism (deepmind.com)
    ×0.94 61 | 4 points by cfowles 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Show HN: How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models (jock.pl)
    ×0.79 24 | 69 points by joozio 10 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.21 35 | 93 points by Brajeshwar 3 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Salesforce Global Outage (salesforce.com)
    ×1.87 9 | 261 points by mabil 13 hours ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Doing Everyone Else's Job (yosefk.com)
    ×1.54 32 | 195 points by luu 20 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Scaling Golang CI by Replacing actions/setup-go (cloudx.ai)
    ×0.79 22 | 65 points by peterldowns 10 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI (arxiv.org)
    ×1.44 36 | 158 points by pythonic_hell 20 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip 'broken wide open' after 26 years (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.88 21 | 258 points by rbanffy 12 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. ER visits for gambling disorders doubled after expanded online gambling market (utoronto.ca)
    ×3.31 32 | 142 points by geox 6 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: SeasonMap – when to travel where? visualized with climate data (seasonmap.app)
    ×0.88 44 | 10 points by alongtheflow 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Berlin-based Langdock moves its parent company from the US to Germany (euronews.com)
    ×1.76 19 | 49 points by jethronethro 5 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Steve Wozniak launches merch store (daringfireball.net)
    ×1.74 4 | 6 points by ffin 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Can we stop with the uptime percentages? (jim-nielsen.com)
    ×2.08 28 | 130 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography (apple.com)
    ×2.64 8 | 494 points by imwally 21 hours ago | 329 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs (ploeh.dk)
    ×1.94 12 | 230 points by moneroloop2018 14 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Randomized query complexity can beat certificate complexity (arxiv.org)
    ×0.17 67 | 4 points by porridgeraisin 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. This Code Is CRAP (2011) (googleblog.com)
    ×1.09 15 | 73 points by luispa 7 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Barndoor acquires Diaphora, creators of open-source workflow runtime Frags (barndoor.ai)
    ×0.57 63 | 6 points by mansilladev 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Measuring Gauss-Seidel loop-carried dependency and fixing it via loop unrolling (loiseaujc.github.io)
    ×0.58 30 | 27 points by loiseaujc 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. A software thing I built: GPS on a 25MHz 486-SX (vcfed.org)
    ×0.79 53 | 69 points by JPLeRouzic 18 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Negativland, Culture Jamming, and the Art of Making Something New (archive.org)
    ×0.90 45 | 116 points by bananaboy 21 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Is Now Our Best Hacking Model (enclave.ai)
    ×2.55 21 | 157 points by talhof8 11 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. I sent Google proof of a bot farm. They called it "normal user behavior." (dayzlegame.com)
    ×4.35 23 | 71 points by nickabe 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. We do modern frequentist statistics: Using fake-data simulation (columbia.edu)
    ×0.78 44 | 58 points by Tomte 15 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. An update on Wayback Machine access (archive.org)
    ×2.87 10 | 665 points by ChrisArchitect 1 day ago | 350 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Tell HN: An inside view of Montana's new biotech law
    ×1.06 21 | 34 points by niklas_anzinger 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Saving Jet Fuel (marksblogg.com)
    ×1.16 44 | 130 points by marklit 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. An agent fleet needs a new kind of OS, not a bigger harness (pentad.ai)
    ×0.70 46 | 8 points by kgcgfva 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs (businessinsider.com)
    ×3.38 45 | 61 points by TMWNN 4 hours ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Data Broker Radaris Loses Domains in Privacy Fight (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×0.92 21 | 10 points by arnaudsm 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger (inflightsimulator.com)
    ×2.70 21 | 419 points by rkotcher 21 hours ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Friday – Self-hosted persistent memory for AI coding agents (MCP) (github.com/itskie)
    ×0.98 33 | 9 points by itskie 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Feds Want California to Give Up 14 Years of Broadband Protections. It Should Sue (stanford.edu)
    ×3.14 3 | 21 points by rsingel 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (blog.google)
    ×2.30 | 480 points by leumon 1 day ago | 321 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. The Beauty of Roundabouts (gruhn.me)
    ×1.20 54 | 91 points by ngruhn 1 day ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. House Defies Automakers and Mandates AM Radio in New Cars (wsj.com)
    ×3.07 20 | 9 points by fortran77 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. WangNet – 1.8 MB, zero-dependency Numberwang adjudication in 11 languages (github.com/GraafHenk)
    ×1.34 35 | 174 points by Liogra123 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes (dank.systems)
    ×3.45 16 | 454 points by jaykru 1 day ago | 594 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Jean-Pierre Serre turns 100 (st-andrews.ac.uk)
    ×1.08 36 | 145 points by jzox 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea (notnottalmud.substack.com)
    ×4.67 16 | 1114 points by networked 1 day ago | 468 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Learning to solve hard problems in RL for LLMs by never giving up (mnoukhov.github.io)
    ×1.02 47 | 112 points by natolambert 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Fed hikes rates as inflation worries push up bond yields (reuters.com)
    ×5.80 76 | 150 points by wslh 4 hours ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The Inference Hardware Revolution of 2026 (ieee.org)
    ×1.16 51 | 157 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals (effort.news)
    ×4.84 9 | 670 points by yusufozkan 1 day ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. 25 years of mass surveillance is enough (schneier.com)
    ×5.36 25 | 915 points by iamnothere 1 day ago | 339 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
    ×1.44 67 | 369 points by david927 3 days ago | 1170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???