Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,244 posts.
We are accelerating elements of our upcoming v5 release with interim updates to keep pace with the frontier. Index v4.2 has more complex and realistic tasks, and more private test sets to prevent gaming
Embark on a journey about why you should sometimes trust your OS more than yourself.
Hello! Yes, it's all a disaster again! Let's get this party started: 0:00 /0:12 1× No comments today, so imagine this: * We wrote something that we find very funny, * Nobody else gets it, * But everyone humors us Just like a typical watchTowr Labs blog introduction. As
Building instructions. The silent helper that without a single word guides you, step by step, to transform your pile of bricks to fantastic creations. The tool that shows you building techniques and gives you a solid foundation for further exploring the wonders of the LEGO ® brick. Let’s take a look at some of the…
A comprehensive deep dive into the gRPC protocol, from service definitions and streaming models to the low-level HTTP/2 framing and wire format.
Analysis of more than 40 million alarm-related events shows most alarms offer little operational value, disrupt rest and push crews toward risky workarounds.
Once completed the tunnel located in the Fehmarn Belt will hold the record as the longest immersed tunnel in the world.
As warmer temperatures return, Union Pacific is applying an innovative concept to manage heat-related track conditions – part of a broader strategy that helped the railroad deliver its best-ever full-year derailment incident rate in 2025, improving 19% year over year.
How to make 768 distinct Postgres servers look like 1 to your applications.
Real token cost of frontier models on the same TypeScript input - Claude Fable 5.1, Opus 5, GPT-5.6, Gemini 3.7 Flash. Tokenizer counts, effective cost.
A mouse study finds changes to DNA packaging form a molecular memory of trauma, making the brain vulnerable to future stress.
Recent concerns about a political donation by a Mullvad co-founder have raised questions about the Tor Project's funding relationship with the company. We are not terminating the relationship but are setting clear boundaries on our relationship with Mullvad.
In this essay, Carson Gross argues that Markdown is now an important source artifact for software systems built with LLMs, and that, following the principle of locality, it should live in /src, alongside the code it produces.
The open source Git project just released Git 2.54. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
Hetzner has launched an experimental LLM inference API. I tested its Qwen model—and have a few guesses about where the product could go next.
Notable organizations disclosed ~1,300 high- and critical-severity CVEs in June 2026, roughly 3.5× the pre-Mythos monthly record. Epoch AI's breakdown of vulnerability disclosures following Anthropic's Project Glasswing.
From the Zed Blog: Ted Nelson specified the docuverse sixty years ago. The technology finally arrived, and so did its native users.
Not doing the reading.
Updates to the Gemini API File Search tool makes building efficient, multimodal file retrieval systems easier for developers.
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
Open AI models used for a wide range of scientific applications, including accelerating the design of therapeutic molecules.
We set out to build the first AI tutor to teach math and reading to kids ages 4-9. For AI to actually teach a five-year-old, pedagogy must be baked into the engineering. A child can't wait for a slow reply, can't read a chat interface, and can't unhear anything a model gets wrong. We wanted to share some of the…
Upgrade your RTX 2080 Ti from 11GB to 22GB worldwide. Professional VRAM replacement, BIOS tuning & testing by GPU Solutions.
The University of Granada participates in research linking a bacterium of the Roseburia genus with improved physical condition. This finding could lead to a probiotic for human consumption that helps maintain strength and fitness during aging. The study has been published in the prestigious scientific journal Gut
After the success of using agents to improve query performance through autoresearch , I wanted to try something more ambitious. I rewrote PostHog's…
Inference techniques either move a deployment along the latency–throughput frontier or push the entire frontier out, creating more efficiency to allocate.
The Wasm GC and exceptions proposals are both enabled by default in today’sWasmtime 47 release! We are excited to help bring more languages to WebAssemblyand everywhere that Wasmtime runs. Getting to this point involved large Wasmtimecha...
Desoldering a drone's flash chip and reconstructing the firmware from broken data.
Media over QUIC: I'm on a boat.
