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Claude Code Checkpoints (Score: 151+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6AxtU
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Fossjobs: A job board for Free and Open Source jobs (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6AxBU
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Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use? (🔥 Score: 157+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6AyNn
Indonesia is currently in chaos. Earlier today, the government blocked access to Twitter & Discord knowing news spread mainly through those channels. Usually we can use Cloudflare's WARP to avoid it, but just today they blocked the access as well. What alternative should we use?
Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6AwEW
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Windows 11 Update KB5063878 Causing SSD Failures (Score: 151+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6AxvJ
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Open Source is one person (Score: 153+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6AwCW
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Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6AtQG
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https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-cli-is-now-integ...
Climbing catfish filmed scaling waterfalls (Score: 151+ in 15 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6AnaH
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Show HN: Luminal – Open-source, search-based GPU compiler (❄️ Score: 150+ in 5 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6A3K9
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Hi HN, I’m Joe. My friends Matthew, Jake and I are building Luminal (https://luminalai.com/), a GPU compiler for automatically generating fast GPU kernels for AI models. It uses search-based compilation to achieve high performance.
We take high level model code, like you'd have in PyTorch, and generate very fast GPU code. We do that without using LLMs or AI - rather, we pose it as a search problem. Our compiler builds a search space, generates millions of possible kernels, and then searches through it to minimize runtime.
You can try out a demo in `demos/matmul` on mac to see how Luminal takes a naive operation, represented in our IR of 12 simple operations, and compiles it to an optimized, tensor-core enabled Metal kernel. Here’s a video showing how: https://youtu.be/P2oNR8zxSAA
Our approach differs significantly from traditional ML libraries in that we ahead-of-time compile everything, generate a large search space of logically-equivalent kernels, and search through it to find the fastest kernels. This allows us to leverage the Bitter Lesson to discover complex optimizations like Flash Attention entirely automatically without needing manual heuristics. The best rule is no rule, the best heuristic is no heuristic, just search everything.
We’re working on bringing CUDA support up to parity with Metal, adding more flexibility to the search space, adding full-model examples (like Llama), and adding very exotic hardware backends.
We aim to radically simplify the ML ecosystem while improving performance and hardware utilization. Please check out our repo: https://github.com/luminal-ai/luminal and I’d love to hear your thoughts!
The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years (Score: 152+ in 7 hours)
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Japan Post to temporarily suspend mail to US over end of de minimis exemption (🔥 Score: 153+ in 58 minutes)
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Building the mouse Logitech won't make (🔥 Score: 152+ in 1 hour)
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We put agentic AI browsers to the test – They clicked, they paid, they failed (Score: 151+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6Aj3A
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The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf] (Score: 152+ in 15 hours)
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Show HN: Sping – An HTTP/TCP latency tool that's easy on the eye (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6AiiV
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I've frequently found myself using [nvitop](https://github.com/XuehaiPan/nvitop) to diagnose GPU/CPU contention issues.
The two best things about it are:
- It's easy to install if I can access pip in the container
- It makes a compelling screenshot (which helps me communicate with coworkers.)
With those two lessons in mind: Here is Sping!
Purpose: Help observe and diagnose latency issues at layer 4+ (TCP/HTTP/HTTPS)
Two good things about it:
- It's easy to install if you have pip. (Available at [service-ping-sping](https://pypi.org/project/service-ping-sping/) on PyPi)
- It makes a compelling screenshot.
Not sure if this is the kind of thing that anyone else would be interested in. But I've enjoyed making it and intend to keep using it.
PinePhone Pro [GNU/Linux smartphone] has been discontinued (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6AyFs
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Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough (2023) (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
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How to Install TrueNAS on a Raspberry Pi (Score: 153+ in 4 hours)
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Are OpenAI and Anthropic Losing Money on Inference? (Score: 159+ in 5 hours)
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Important machine learning equations (🔥 Score: 155+ in 3 hours)
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Petition to stop Google from restricting sideloading and FOSS apps (🔥 Score: 154+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6AxBg
As Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android (previous discussion): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017028
A developer started a petition to stop Google from limiting app installation on Android devices unless developers provide personal identity documents.
Even though Google has not revoked similar controversial policies in the past, we do our best as much as we can. This change particularly threatens the freedom to build, share, and use software without giving away sensitive personal information. It affects independent developers, FOSS contributors, and even regular users who want to install apps outside of Google Play.
``Just imagine giving sensitive personal, government-issued ID to a corporation to install an app outside Google Play``
Let’s stand together to protect our freedom to create and use software without handing over personal information to a corporation. Every signature, share, and voice counts here
Support the petition here: https://chng.it/MsHzSXtJnw
Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant (Score: 153+ in 1 day)
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macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons (🔥 Score: 153+ in 3 hours)
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Omarchy Is Out (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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Japan's Creepiest Station (Score: 151+ in 5 hours)
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FCC Bars over 1,200 Providers for Non-Compliance with Robocall Protections (🔥 Score: 151+ in 1 hour)
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An Illustrated Guide to OAuth (Score: 156+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6AjFV
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Standard Thermal: Energy Storage 500x Cheaper Than Batteries (Score: 153+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6AjCy
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Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS (🔥 Score: 154+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6AjZM
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I recently released v3 of Base, my SQLite editor for macOS.
The goal of this app is to provide a comfortable native GUI for SQLite, without it turning into a massive IDE-style app.
The coolest features are
- That it can handle full altering of tables, which is quite finicky to do manually with SQLite.
- It has a more detailed display of column constraints than most editors. Each constraint is shown as an icon if active, with full details available on clicking the icon.
This update also adds support for attaching databases, which is a bit fiddly with macOS sandboxing.
I'd love to hear any feedback or answer any questions.
Materialized views are obviously useful (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6Aff4
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