Shopify moves back to Native from React Native

424 fnthawar2 2026-09-10 14:21:23 UTC shopify.engineering Llama Share 292

Shopify is moving from React Native to Swift and Kotlin due to advancements in coding models, allowing for faster development without sacrificing performance. This change will enable Shopify's teams to build mobile apps more efficiently with the help of artificial intelligence.

Rust Is Tier-1 Language at Microsoft

304 mmastrac 2026-09-10 14:21:23 UTC rustfoundation.org Llama Share 149

Microsoft has invested heavily in Rust, making it a Tier-1 language for internal development alongside C++, C#, and TypeScript. The company's MSVC backend, now connected to Rust via rustc_codegen_utc, enables seamless interoperability between the two languages.

Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra

94 seelos 2026-09-10 16:21:23 UTC cognition.com Llama Share 44

The new coding model SWE-2 achieves 50.0% on FrontierCode 1.1 Main, within one point of Fable 5.1, while being 64% cheaper than its predecessor SWE-1.7 and outperforming GPT-6 Astra at a quarter of the cost.

More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math

138 pred_ 2026-09-10 13:21:23 UTC mathstodon.xyz Llama Share 330

Tristan Buckmaster questioned OpenAI's transparency about using his conversations with ChatGPT for training data. He felt misled by their response, which he perceived as dishonest and lacking explanation or evidence.

NASA Color Trick Was Meant for Mars. Now It's Unveiling Rock Art on Earth

46 gumby 2026-09-10 16:21:23 UTC gizmodo.com Full Share 9

Software Drives People Insane

39 rglover 2026-09-10 16:21:23 UTC graybeard.ing Llama Share 21

Software can turn ordinary people into b-tier Bond villains due to its unique combination of speed, money, complexity, abstraction, and freedom to change. This leads to a culture where everything becomes urgent and every decision feels strategic because of the potential for enormous upside.

Neki by PlanetScale

55 handfuloflight 2026-09-10 16:21:23 UTC neki.dev Llama Share 9

Neki scales Postgres horizontally to handle hundreds of millions of QPS and petabytes of data by splitting hot shards, rebalancing capacity, and moving traffic through topology changes. Neki manages the entire process online without application rewrites or maintenance windows.

Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls

216 thelastgallon 2026-09-10 11:21:23 UTC pv-magazine.com Llama Share 168

Hitachi introduces Y-series EcoCute CO2 heat pump water heaters in Japan with 370-liter and 460-liter models launching in November 2026. The new range supports daytime electricity tariffs and PV-linked energy management with a five-year manufacturer warranty.

Neki

60 simon_weber 2026-09-10 16:21:23 UTC planetscale.com Llama Share 9

Neki is a sharded Postgres database built from lessons learned running large MySQL clusters, addressing common issues like table size and backup times. It offers an online operations model with features like schema changes, version upgrades, and resharding through a single psql connection.

>10x More Efficient Pretraining

59 ronfriedhaber 2026-09-10 14:21:23 UTC magic.dev Llama Share 20

The authors have developed a highly efficient pretraining recipe for large language models, achieving over 10x better compute efficiency than leading open-weight base models. This allows them to train trillion-parameter models with significantly less computational resources.

DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

783 Liwink 2026-09-10 06:21:23 UTC twitter.com/deepseek_ai Full Share 421

🚀 Introducing DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: smarter, faster, more efficient. 🔹 Introducing the smallest model in our new architecture family, with native visual understanding. 🔹 Designed for greater capability, faster inference, higher throughput, and scaling to larger models. 1/6

Casablanca: How an unproduced play marched into movie history

22 mdp2021 2026-09-10 16:21:23 UTC thecollector.com Llama Share 8

The 1942 film Casablanca, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, is a classic Hollywood movie that explores themes of love, loyalty, and sacrifice during World War II. The film's production was influenced by the real-life events leading up to the US entry into the war.

Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE

20 weierstass 2026-09-10 16:21:23 UTC codeberg.org Full Share 8

This git endpoint is seeing a high influx of requests for this repository, to preserve the availability of Codeberg your search request will not be processed. Sorry for the inconvenience and please try again later.

Silicon Valley Is Transforming the Military-Industrial Complex

16 paimapi 2026-09-10 16:21:23 UTC costsofwar.watson.brown.edu Llama Share 9

Anthropologist Roberto González examines the US military-industrial complex's expansion to Silicon Valley, where big tech companies receive multi-billion dollar Defense contracts. This has led to a lack of transparency and substantial spending on ineffective, unpredictable, and unsafe defense products funded by American taxpayers.

What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?

267 soheilpro 2026-09-10 09:21:23 UTC devblogs.microsoft.com Llama Share 132

Windows XP uses a one-pass random selection algorithm to choose the initial profile picture, utilizing RtlRandomEx with GetTickCount() as the seed. This approach is efficient and avoids complications if directory contents change during execution.

List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games

234 haunter 2026-09-10 12:21:23 UTC consumerrights.wiki Llama Share 77

Four California PlayStation buyers sued Sony Interactive Entertainment, alleging they received a limited license rather than ownership for hundreds of dollars spent on digital goods. The complaint claims the store's checkout language violates California's digital-goods transparency law.

Python sets and dictionaries can have quadratic-time performance

32 ibobev 2026-09-10 14:21:23 UTC lemire.me Llama Share 10

The author discusses the limitations of Python's dict data structure, which is often assumed to be O(1) or constant-time. In reality, its performance can degrade due to collisions and memory constraints.

To write non-fiction, draw the trunk, then the rest of the tree

56 DanielVZ 2026-09-10 12:21:23 UTC devz.cl Llama Share 17

The author shares their struggles with staying awake in class and writing skills, but credits reading and writing for helping them succeed in history despite poor attendance. They offer advice on structuring essays by identifying a central theme, thesis, and supporting arguments to engage readers.

One resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfire

30 pretext 2026-09-10 16:21:23 UTC interconnects.ai Llama Share 38

A recent AI researcher's resignation citing safety risks has sparked a viral discussion on existential risk and mass extinction, with some experts warning of potential dangers. The incident highlights the need for more transparency and caution in AI development to mitigate risks.

Stockfish 19

201 atiedebee 2026-09-10 08:21:23 UTC stockfishchess.org Llama Share 123

Stockfish 19 has been released with improved strength and features, offering a stronger play and more accurate analysis. The new release brings an Elo gain of up to 44 points and is available for download at stockfishchess.org/download.

iPhone Duo

1345 thecosmicfrog 2026-09-09 18:21:23 UTC apple.com Llama Share 2345

The iPhone Duo offers a spacious display, multitasking capabilities, and compact design. It features essential controls on the side for easy access and comes with various accessories like a 100% fiber-based box for packaging.

Show HN: MultiMatte, a Promptable Image Background Removal Model

7 snyy 2026-09-10 16:21:23 UTC usefeyn.com LocalLLM Share 0

MultiMatte improves background removal using alpha mattes over SAM 3, achieving higher S-measure on benchmarks. It leverages low-rank fine-tuning to maintain text alignment while enhancing segmentation accuracy.

Cognition's SWE-2 achieves 92.8 on Terminal-Bench 2.1

3 cdnsteve 2026-09-10 16:54:23 UTC tokenstead.ai Prefix Share 0

2.8T total params, 104B active per token (MoE) - the Kimi K3 base with Cognition’s post-training on top, and the first time Cognition has scaled RL into the multi-trillion-parameter regime. The base had already been RL-heavy for agentic coding; Cognition’s pass added another 5 to 6 points on most benchmarks. Serving stack: MoE inference on NVFP4 and FP8 kernels with quantization-aware ...

Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?

539 dmitrybrant 2026-09-10 02:21:23 UTC rivendell.dmitrybrant.com Llama Share 231

User controls a park where the speed of light is 5 km/h, demonstrating relativistic effects like length contraction and time dilation. The user can accelerate, stop, and observe these effects by moving around the park with W A S D keys and mouse.

Serverless DTLS

8 mlhpdx 2026-09-10 16:21:23 UTC proxylity.com LocalLLM Share 5

DTLS Listeners enable encrypted UDP transport with TLS-style encryption, preserving datagram boundaries. They support DTLS 1.2/1.3, session resumption, and CID for NAT traversal, ideal for IoT and real-time protocols.

Show HN: Syq – copy files between machines fast (better than rsync)

11 greaber 2026-09-10 15:21:23 UTC greaber.github.io Llama Share 7

The tool allows copying, reorganizing and removing files across machines using rsync protocol. It supports scripting with JSON API or Python SDK, and can be used locally without an SSH server or incoming network port.

The first drink-driving conviction may have happened in London

13 beardyw 2026-09-10 15:21:23 UTC ianvisits.co.uk Llama Share 21

A London taxi driver, George Smith, was convicted of drink-driving in 1897 after crashing his electric cab. He was fined 20 shillings for being drunk while driving and pleaded guilty to the charge.

Show HN: Filament – Fast data movement engine in Go

19 ikswolzok 2026-09-10 14:21:23 UTC github.com/galaxy-io Llama Share 3

Filament is a data replication engine that moves data from sources to sinks using various methods. It can be run as a service, deployed on own infrastructure, or embedded in an application.

Native Python and TypeScript Drivers for ArcadeDB, from OpenAPI and Protobuf

5 lvca 2026-09-10 16:21:23 UTC arcadedb.com LocalLLM Share 0

ArcadeDB now offers native Python and TypeScript clients via HTTP and gRPC, generated from official contracts. These drivers handle multi-model queries and transactions, with built-in support for pagination, streaming, and error handling.

Who Dung It? (Turdle.fun)

13 nb_quant 2026-09-10 14:21:23 UTC turdle.fun Full Share 17

Hints compare body size using length and breadth. Bigger, smaller, or similar.