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How We Found 7 TiB of Memory Just Sitting Around (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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Apple reports fourth quarter results (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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Nim 2.2.6 (Score: 150+ in 16 hours)
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My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4 (Score: 152+ in 19 hours)
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Hacking India's largest automaker: Tata Motors (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
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Nix Derivation Madness (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
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Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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Futurelock: A subtle risk in async Rust (Score: 152+ in 5 hours)
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This RFD describes our distillation of a really gnarly issue that we hit in the Oxide control plane.[0] Not unlike our discovery of the async cancellation issue[1][2][3], this is larger than the issue itself -- and worse, the program that hits futurelock is correct from the programmer's point of view. Fortunately, the surface area here is smaller than that of async cancellation and the conditions required to hit it can be relatively easily mitigated. Still, this is a pretty deep issue -- and something that took some very seasoned Rust hands quite a while to find.
[0] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron/issues/9259
[1] https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/397
[2] https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/400
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrv5Cy1R7r4
Just Use a Button (🔥 Score: 151+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EEn8
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Another European agency shifts off US Tech as digital sovereignty gains steam (🔥 Score: 159+ in 3 hours)
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Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain (🔥 Score: 150+ in 1 hour)
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Reasoning Models Reason Well, Until They Don't (🔥 Score: 151+ in 3 hours)
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John Carmack on mutable variables (Score: 156+ in 9 hours)
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Show HN: JSON Query (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
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I'm working on a tool that will probably involve querying JSON documents and I'm asking myself how to expose that functionality to my users.
I like the power of `jq` and the fact that LLMs are proficient at it, but I find it right out impossible to come up with the right `jq` incantations myself. Has anyone here been in a similar situation? Which tool / language did you end up exposing to your users?
Minecraft HDL, an HDL for Redstone (Score: 151+ in 13 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6EB67
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S.A.R.C.A.S.M: Slightly Annoying Rubik's Cube Automatic Solving Machine (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)
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Tim Bray on Grokipedia (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
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The cryptography behind electronic passports (Score: 151+ in 18 hours)
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Use DuckDB-WASM to query TB of data in browser (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
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Show HN: Strange Attractors (🔥 Score: 156+ in 2 hours)
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I went down the rabbit hole on a side project and ended up building this: Strange Attractors(https://blog.shashanktomar.com/posts/strange-attractors). It’s built with three.js.
Working on it reminded me of the little "maths for fun" exercises I used to do while learning programming in early days. Just trying things out, getting fascinated and geeky, and being surprised by the results. I spent way too much time on this, but it was extreme fun.
My favorite part: someone pointed me to the Simone Attractor on Threads. It is a 2D attractor and I asked GPT to extrapolate it to 3D, not sure if it’s mathematically correct, but it’s the coolest by far. I have left all the params configurable, so give it a try. I called it Simone (Maybe).
If you like math-art experiments, check it out. Would love feedback, especially from folks who know more about the math side.
Addiction Markets (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
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Introducing architecture variants (Score: 151+ in 1 day)
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AI scrapers request commented scripts (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
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Ask HN: Who uses open LLMs and coding assistants locally? Share setup and laptop (Score: 154+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6EDCQ
Dear Hackers,
I’m interested in your real-world workflows for using open-source LLMs and open-source coding assistants on your laptop (not just cloud/enterprise SaaS). Specifically:
Which model(s) are you running (e.g., Ollama, LM Studio, or others) and which open-source coding assistant/integration (for example, a VS Code plugin) you’re using?
What laptop hardware do you have (CPU, GPU/NPU, memory, whether discrete GPU or integrated, OS) and how it performs for your workflow?
What kinds of tasks you use it for (code completion, refactoring, debugging, code review) and how reliable it is (what works well / where it falls short).
I'm conducting my own investigation, which I will be happy to share as well when over.
Thanks!
Andrea.
OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise (🔥 Score: 160+ in 1 hour)
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Jujutsu at Google [video] (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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Rouille – Rust Programming, in French (❄️ Score: 151+ in 1 week)
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AMD Could Enter ARM Market with Sound Wave APU Built on TSMC 3nm Process (Score: 152+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ECne
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Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture (Score: 151+ in 10 hours)
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Some people can't see mental images (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
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