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TorchCodec 0.14: HDR Video Decoding for CPU and CUDA, and Fast Wav Decoder (github.com/meta-pytorch)

×0.49 80 #75 | 56 points by scott_s 23 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
USB Power Delivery: Plugging into the Benefits (aptiv.com)

×0.63 78 #83 | 62 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Perlisisms (1982) (yale.edu)

×0.80 72 #70 | 131 points by tosh 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Segmented type appreciation corner (2018) (aresluna.org)

×0.57 72 #81 | 78 points by unexpectedVCR 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chaosnet (1981) (tumbleweed.nu)

×0.62 68 #71 | 98 points by RGBCube 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Programming the ZX Spectrum's Bitmap Display (wordpress.com)

×1.55 74 #85 | 8 points by ibobev 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FarOutCompany (faroutcompany.com)

×0.78 64 #80 | 125 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE (planetscale.com)

×1.18 63 #66 | 188 points by hollylawly 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
21 years and counting of 'eight fallacies of distributed computing' (2025) (apnic.net)

×1.00 65 #44 | 137 points by teleforce 20 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Nxui – Copy-paste animated UI components for Vue (geoql.in)

×0.50 70 #65 | 10 points by vinayakkulkarni 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why does paper fold so well? (bbc.co.uk)

×0.90 60 #53 | 93 points by zeristor 17 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Caddy compatibility for zeroserve: 3x throughput and 70% lower latency (su3.io)

×1.15 55 #69 | 205 points by losfair 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Formal methods and the future of programming (janestreet.com)

×1.88 54 #58 | 331 points by eatonphil 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to build a virtual cell and biology scaling laws (nikomc.com)

×0.39 69 #38 | 13 points by ogundipeore 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Discover Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News (orangecrumbs.com)

×1.26 52 #79 | 132 points by octopus143 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

×1.46 50 #54 | 296 points by david927 1 day ago | 1047 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Trace – Offline Mac meeting transcripts you can flag mid-call (traceapp.info)

×1.29 50 #64 | 198 points by AG342 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What every coder should know about Gamma Correction (johnnovak.net)

×0.87 89 #19 | 4 points by sph 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building a plugin system without runtime, storage, or shared JavaScript context (tolgee.io)

×0.23 70 #45 | 6 points by jancizmar 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
There Is(Ǝ) – Such That (∋) (fractalkitty.com)

×0.86 48 #49 | 95 points by evakhoury 15 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A short history of Cerro Torre, the most controversial mountain (2012) (markhorrell.com)

×0.64 46 #84 | 68 points by joebig 19 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014) (destroyallsoftware.com)

×1.15 44 #78 | 236 points by subset 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lisp's Influence on Ruby (tacoda.dev)

×1.23 44 #76 | 253 points by tacoda 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Exploring building a tiny FUSE filesystem (shayon.dev)

×0.86 44 #51 | 71 points by shayonj 13 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Emacs, how it all started (for me) (xvw.lol)

×0.91 53 #46 | 12 points by nukifw 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model (github.com/nex-agi)

×1.74 40 #47 | 391 points by unrvl22 1 day ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Asciline – real-time ASCII video rendering engine (github.com/YusufB5)

×0.65 39 #37 | 55 points by godot 9 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GLM 5.2 Is Out (twitter.com/jietang)

×3.59 29 #89 | 758 points by aloknnikhil 2 days ago | 483 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bitsy (bitsy.org)

×1.77 30 #43 | 272 points by tosh 20 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ported my C game to WASM, here's every bug that I hit (ernesernesto.github.io)

×0.98 32 #31 | 97 points by birdculture 11 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School and Found Hidden Ancient Roman Ruins (smithsonianmag.com)

×1.63 29 #24 | 156 points by thunderbong 12 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Improvement in advanced Alzheimer’s disease following high-dose psilocybin (frontiersin.org)

×2.10 26 #28 | 178 points by cl3misch 13 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Being an old school web-based sports sim dev in the era of vibe coded games (zengm.com)

×0.92 25 #86 | 58 points by YesBox 13 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Openrouter Fusion API (openrouter.ai)

×1.41 25 #26 | 180 points by tdchaitanya 13 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Even more batteries included with Emacs (karthinks.com)

×1.76 23 #27 | 332 points by signa11 17 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Exploiting Slack's video embeds to achieve E2EE communication (v1c.rocks)

×0.32 27 #30 | 23 points by victorio 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launch HN: Drafted (YC P26) – Models for residential architecture

×0.42 29 #10 | 30 points by AtmosXR 3 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple Foundation Models (claude.com)

×2.40 15 #18 | 437 points by MehrdadKhnzd 15 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns? (github.com/sammysltd)

×1.37 17 #20 | 88 points by smashini 6 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Fata – Spaced repetition to fight skill rot from AI coding (fata.dev)

×0.97 16 #9 | 49 points by djoume 3 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Making glass-to-metal seals for homemade vacuum tubes (maurycyz.com)

×1.01 11 #11 | 98 points by zdw 5 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Alaska Server (serialport.org)

×0.56 17 #25 | 12 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Boot Naked Linux (zoic.org)

×1.09 11 #16 | 53 points by abnercoimbre 4 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models

×2.56 8 #77 | 409 points by iliashad 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A man with ALS is "the first power user" of a brain implant that lets him sp (technologyreview.com)

×0.85 10 #82 | 8 points by joozio 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Did a medieval flying monk spot Halley's comet, twice? It's complicated (arstechnica.com)

×1.08 9 #74 | 11 points by Brajeshwar 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hetzner Price Adjustment (hetzner.com)

×3.10 7 #8 | 207 points by tuhtah 7 hours ago | 326 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My Homelab AI Dev Platform (rsgm.dev)

×1.41 7 #4 | 157 points by rsgm 5 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fox to buy Roku (wsj.com)

×2.55 6 #13 | 200 points by thm 7 hours ago | 284 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Factoring "short-sleeve" RSA keys with polynomials (trailofbits.com)

×1.37 9 #7 | 34 points by ledoge 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++ (kobzol.github.io)

×1.38 6 #15 | 68 points by nicoburns 4 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: machine0 – Persistent NixOS VMs You Control from the CLI (machine0.io)

×1.04 5 #23 | 51 points by bwm 4 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer (roman.pt)

×2.72 18 #12 | 6 points by lwhsiao 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How TimescaleDB compresses time-series data (roszigit.com)

×1.03 4 #6 | 68 points by lkanwoqwp 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Game Engine White Papers Commander Keen (forgottenbytes.net)

×1.54 3 #5 | 68 points by mfiguiere 2 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?

×3.39 2 #3 | 358 points by cloudking 5 hours ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???