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Tracking down a 25% Regression on LLVM RISC-V (kaving.me)

×0.88 70 #62 | 126 points by luu 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stanford HAI Index Report 2026 (stanford.edu)

×0.47 80 #69 | 7 points by giuliomagnifico 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Initial mainline video capture and camera support for Rockchip RK3588 (collabora.com)

×0.70 66 #84 | 87 points by mfilion 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What we learned building a Rust runtime for TypeScript (encore.dev)

×0.87 65 #70 | 78 points by vinhnx 23 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Visualizing CPU Pipelining (2024) (timmastny.com)

×0.87 62 #76 | 89 points by flipacholas 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MEMS Array Chip Can Project Video the Size of a Grain of Sand (ieee.org)

×0.68 60 #87 | 87 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Exploiting the most prominent AI agent benchmarks (berkeley.edu)

×2.40 57 #89 | 581 points by Anon84 3 days ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anastasia (1997) live action reference material (lostmediawiki.com)

×0.54 62 #74 | 38 points by hyperific 16 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I just want simple S3 (feld.me)

×1.82 54 #50 | 217 points by g0xA52A2A 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Air Powered Segment Display? [video] (youtube.com)

×1.39 54 #57 | 131 points by ProfDreamer 23 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
N-Day-Bench – Can LLMs find real vulnerabilities in real codebases? (winfunc.com)

×0.77 54 #71 | 87 points by mufeedvh 22 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
On hacker mindset (henrikkarlsson.xyz)

×1.24 59 #54 | 24 points by jger15 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Repository Pattern with Hygienic Macros in Scheme – Lisp (jointhefreeworld.org)

×0.46 57 #88 | 16 points by jjba23 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lumina – a statically typed web-native language for JavaScript and WASM (github.com/nyigoro)

×0.69 55 #51 | 54 points by light_ideas 14 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A soft robot has no problem moving with no motor and no gears (princeton.edu)

×0.80 54 #43 | 80 points by hhs 15 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Write less code, be more responsible (orhun.dev)

×1.27 51 #48 | 154 points by orhunp_ 21 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GAIA – Open-source framework for building AI agents that run on local hardware (amd-gaia.ai)

×1.21 49 #65 | 141 points by galaxyLogic 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MOS tech 6502 8-bit microprocessor in pure SQL powered by Postgres (github.com/lasect)

×0.80 51 #52 | 65 points by adunk 14 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Great Majority: Body Snatching and Burial Reform in 19th-Century Britain (publicdomainreview.org)

×0.37 54 #61 | 21 points by apollinaire 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
B-trees and database indexes (2024) (planetscale.com)

×1.32 48 #80 | 117 points by tosh 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rust Threads on the GPU (vectorware.com)

×1.17 43 #55 | 113 points by PaulHoule 18 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Run GUIs as Scripts (github.com/skinnyjames)

×0.36 48 #53 | 19 points by zero-st4rs 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Multi-Agentic Software Development Is a Distributed Systems Problem (kirancodes.me)

×0.94 39 #40 | 99 points by tie-in 15 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ithihāsas – a character explorer for Hindu epics, built in a few hours (ithihasas.in)

×1.23 37 #72 | 167 points by cvrajeesh 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Design and implementation of DuckDB internals (duckdb.org)

×1.43 36 #47 | 174 points by mpweiher 20 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii (github.com/fabienmillet)

×1.53 31 #39 | 233 points by throwawayk7h 21 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Distributed DuckDB Instance (github.com/citguru)

×1.19 32 #32 | 145 points by citguru 14 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The acyclic e-graph: Cranelift's mid-end optimizer (cfallin.org)

×0.68 29 #34 | 60 points by tekknolagi 8 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A memory database that forgets, consolidates, and detects contradiction (github.com/yantrikos)

×0.88 31 #19 | 28 points by pranabsarkar 5 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The AI revolution in math has arrived (quantamagazine.org)

×1.98 24 #86 | 105 points by sonabinu 21 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Carol's Causal Conundrum: a zine intro to causally ordered message delivery (decomposition.al)

×0.51 29 #23 | 31 points by evakhoury 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug (kirancodes.me)

×2.11 20 #29 | 369 points by bumbledraven 20 hours ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true (steveblank.com)

×2.39 17 #90 | 201 points by tie-in 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Kontext CLI – Credential broker for AI coding agents in Go (github.com/kontext-dev)

×0.64 20 #27 | 55 points by mc-serious 6 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nucleus Nouns (ben-mini.com)

×0.71 20 #26 | 46 points by bewal416 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The M×N problem of tool calling and open-source models (thetypicalset.com)

×1.12 18 #30 | 110 points by remilouf 10 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Introspective Diffusion Language Models (introspective-diffusion.github.io)

×1.50 15 #21 | 206 points by zagwdt 12 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Franklin's bad ads for Apple II clones and the beloved impersonator they depict (buttondown.com)

×1.15 13 #38 | 118 points by rfarley04 11 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Orange Pi 6 Plus (taoofmac.com)

×1.25 18 #10 | 23 points by rcarmo 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Mouse Programming Language on CP/M (techtinkering.com)

×0.81 13 #22 | 35 points by PaulHoule 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
guide.world: A compendium of travel guides (guide.world)

×0.84 14 #13 | 32 points by firloop 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Android now stops you sharing your location in photos (shkspr.mobi)

×2.18 9 #83 | 404 points by edent 1 day ago | 313 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome (blog.google)

×1.00 12 #8 | 44 points by xnx 3 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional (nypost.com)

×2.52 8 #68 | 441 points by t-3 1 day ago | 326 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: LangAlpha – what if Claude Code was built for Wall Street? (github.com/ginlix-ai)

×0.94 10 #16 | 71 points by zc2610 5 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trusted access for the next era of cyber defense (openai.com)

×1.61 29 #9 | 5 points by surprisetalk 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
5NF and Database Design (databasedesignbook.com)

×0.95 10 #6 | 90 points by petalmind 4 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Let's Talk Space Toilets (mceglowski.substack.com)

×0.95 9 #12 | 78 points by zdw 5 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Plain – The full-stack Python framework designed for humans and agents (github.com/dropseed)

×0.96 10 #15 | 28 points by focom 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ClawRun – Deploy and manage AI agents in seconds (github.com/clawrun-sh)

×1.15 11 #11 | 15 points by afshinmeh 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive (techcrunch.com)

×2.18 5 #3 | 394 points by jrm-veris 6 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My brother's minesweeper site (minesweeper.org) has been running for 27 years (restlessforge.substack.com)

×1.27 4 #82 | 20 points by restlessforge 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Servo is now available on crates.io (servo.org)

×2.28 3 #77 | 467 points by ffin 1 day ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets (github.com/sterlingcrispin)

×1.99 2 #67 | 459 points by m-hodges 1 day ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code Routines (claude.com)

×2.47 2 #4 | 205 points by matthieu_bl 3 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney (hollywoodreporter.com)

×3.33 2 #2 | 155 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Kelet – Root Cause Analysis agent for your LLM apps (kelet.ai)

×0.76 1 #31 | 37 points by almogbaku 4 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???