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Age verification on Systemd and Flatpak
How will this work, I wonder
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,961 posts.
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What the fuck happened to nerds
I've befriended some of the most thoughtful, brilliant, curious, eccentric, and sincere people I've ever met in the tech industry. Many of my dearest friends...
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I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with GPT-6 Astra
I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with an AI agent.
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How AI text watermarking works
A gentle visual guide to how a statistical mark hides inside generated text, and what erases it.
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Faster Than Dijkstra?
Does a new algorithm that improves on Dijkstra'a classic one actually deliver a practical benefit for networking?
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Gemini, Gophers, and Fingers. Oh My Alternative Internets Beyond HTTPS
Finger from 1971, Gopher from 1991, and Gemini from 2019. These protocols offer decentralized, terminal-based alternatives to the modern web. The small web…
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What my dad taught me about AI coding in the 90s
It was a summer holiday, sometime in the late 1990s. I was a young kid, around 8 or so. My dad had taught me the rules of chess before and we played from time to time. But this time was different: As we were about to start he stood up and walked away from the board, sitting down in a chair across the room and facing…
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CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers
If you run a server with cPanel or WHM, you need to read this carefully. On May 8, 2026 — just ten days after the cPanel CVE-2026-41940 authentication bypass was used to compromise 44,000 web hosting servers and deploy ransomware — cPanel quietly released a second emergency security patch. This one covers three new…
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PC Engine CPU
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
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vLLM large scale serving: DeepSeek 2.2k tok/s/h200 with wide-ep
How vLLM reaches 2.2k tokens per second per H200 for DeepSeek-style MoE serving with Wide-EP, async scheduling, dual-batch overlap, disaggregated serving, CUDA
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Working with Git Worktrees in Magit
I’ll admit that until fairly recently I had no idea git worktrees existed. They’ve been part of git for a decade1 and I never once needed them. Feature branches did the job just fine - create a branch, do the work, merge it, delete it, and start over. What finally introduced me to worktrees was, of all things, AI…
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The View from RSS
What the web looks like when you subscribe to 2,000 RSS feeds.
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GitHub Monaspace Case Study
Custom Fonts for Github
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Making glass-to-metal seals for homemade vacuum tubes
When making vacuum tubes, the glass is actually the easy part: premade tube stock of almost any size is easily available.
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Doing a Machine Learning PhD While Working in Japan
An American MEXT scholar shares the pros and cons of doing a PhD in Japan, from funding and part-time work to university life and career options.
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A portentous reunion
I just attended my thirtieth college reunion, and there were some clear trends among my mid-life peers. First among them: grave concern for what AI means for our future and for the future of our (broadly young adult) kids.
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A Eureka machine that thinks like nature and explores what AI cannot
IISc is the premier institute for advanced scientific and technological research and education in India.
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LLM Neuroanatomy II: Modern LLM Hacking and Hints of a Universal Language?
In Part 1, I described how duplicating a block of seven middle layers in Qwen2-72B — no weight changes, no training — produced the #1 model on the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard. The method, which I called RYS (Repeat Your Self), was discovered using nothing but hard math probes and EQ-Bench on a pair of RTX 4090s.
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CJIT: C, Just in Time
Run, compile, and link C programs instantly with CJIT.
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Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory
You can go far without writing TLA+ syntax now, but you still need to understand temporal logic.
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Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift
There are many interesting, useful, and fun C libraries in the software ecosystem. While one could go and rewrite these libraries in Swift, usually there is no need, because Swift provides direct interoperability with C. With a little setup, you can directly use existing C libraries from your Swift code.
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SBCL Fibers – Lightweight Cooperative Threads
A draft design document describing lightweight userland cooperative threads for SBCL.
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Linux on the Sega 32X. Who needs hardware synchronization primitives anyway?
How wanting more is not always better
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DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023)
A well-written, *FAST* data science database for your laptop.
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Grace Blackwell needs a new scheduler: 27% more usable GPUs from the same racks
NVL72 puts all 72 GPUs in a rack on one NVLink fabric, but only rack-local jobs get the speedup. How SkyPilot keeps multi-node training and inference on NVLink with topology-aware placement, in-place recovery from GPU failures, and automatic defragmentation.
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The quadratic sandwich
If you have ever tried to minimize a function with gradient descent, you probably noticed that some functions are a joy to optimize and others are a nightmare. The difference often boils down to two properties: strong convexity and L-smoothness. These two concepts define a “sandwich” of quadratic bounds around your…
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Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers
But a Redfin analysis found that AI data centers have benefits: In northern Virginia, taxes on data center equipment are likely contributing to a surge in education spending.
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The OnlyFans Economy of American AI
“The dreamers look skyward with longing. The Internet hums with its usual promise — you will find your people, your myth, your wonder, and maybe your transformation.”
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Apple, What Have You Done?
I've been an Apple user for over a decade and generally very happy with that life choice, but since iOS / iPadOS 26 and MacOS Tahoe were released a few month...
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Microsoft Needs Windows Lite
Microsoft is losing Builders fast. They're switching to MacOS and Linux. The biggest pull keeping people on Windows, outside of shear inertia, is content creation and gaming. However, even these are falling to Linux.