Have a Fucking Website

264 asukachikaru 2026-03-18 04:33:18 UTC otherstrangeness.com Llama Share 139

Websites are essential for businesses and creators as they provide control and permanence, unlike social media platforms that can change rules or delete accounts. Having a website allows you to own your content and reach clients directly through email, which is less susceptible to being taken away.

JPEG Compression

51 vinhnx 2026-03-18 05:33:18 UTC sophielwang.com Llama Share 1

JPEG uses a human perceptual bias to separate brightness from color, reducing color detail without degrading visual fidelity. It applies the discrete cosine transform, quantizes coefficients, and uses entropy coding to store a compact image description.

A Decade of Slug

549 mwkaufma 2026-03-17 19:33:18 UTC terathon.com Llama Share 50

The Slug Algorithm, developed in 2016, renders fonts directly from Bézier curves on the GPU, achieving high-quality results and robustness. The algorithm's patent has been dedicated to the public domain, allowing anyone to freely implement it without a license.

Mistral AI Releases Forge

318 pember 2026-03-17 21:33:18 UTC mistral.ai Llama Share 52

Mistral AI's Forge system allows enterprises to build AI models grounded in their proprietary knowledge, enabling them to train models on internal data and align AI with their unique operations. Forge supports continuous adaptation and enables organizations to build models that reflect institutional intelligence, operate within their domain context, and evolve alongside their knowledge and processes.

Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'

635 crtasm 2026-03-17 15:33:18 UTC tomshardware.com Llama Share 224

A hacker revealed a "Bliss" exploit that can hack the Xbox One, a previously "unhackable" console. The hack uses voltage glitching to compromise the console's security, allowing for unsigned code loading and game decryption.

Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track

346 guidoiaquinti 2026-03-17 19:33:18 UTC fidget-spinner.github.io Llama Share 170

The CPython JIT project has achieved its performance goals for macOS AArch64 and x86_64 Linux, with 11-12% and 5-6% speedups respectively. The project's success is attributed to a combination of luck, the right people, and effective software engineering practices, including breaking down complex problems and encouraging new contributors.

Ndea (YC W26) is hiring a symbolic RL search guidance lead

0 2026-03-18 07:02:18 UTC ndea.com Llama Share

Ndea is hiring researchers/engineers for deep learning in search guidance, focusing on neuro-symbolic AI. To apply, send an email with impressive work, relevant experience, or referrals to [email protected].

More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your own firmware

170 iosifnicolae2 2026-03-18 01:33:18 UTC openhardware.directory Full Share 12

Hardware you own, software you choose. Buy a board, flash your firmware, and build exactly what you need. Browse ESP32, Zigbee, LoRa, and smart home devices with full specs, pinouts, and firmware compatibility.

Show HN: Pgit – A Git-like CLI backed by PostgreSQL

4 ImGajeed76 2026-03-18 06:33:18 UTC oseifert.ch Prefix Share 0

TL;DR: Built a Git-like CLI backed by PostgreSQL with automatic delta compression. Import any git repo, query its entire history with SQL. Benchmarked on 20 real repositories (273,703 commits): pgit outcompresses git gc --aggressive on 12 out of 20 repositories, while giving you full SQL access to every commit, file version, and change pattern. Then I gave an AI agent a single prompt and it ...

Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system

298 stefankuehnel 2026-03-17 20:33:18 UTC github.com/gsd-build Llama Share 146

GSD is a meta-prompting system for Claude Code and other AI tools that helps build projects consistently and efficiently. It uses context engineering and spec-driven development to ensure high-quality results.

Show HN: The Lottery of Life

11 atulvi 2026-03-18 06:33:18 UTC claude.ai Full Share 8

Spin the wheel to discover Earth's creatures weighted by actual population. Learn fascinating facts about nematodes, insects, and animals in this interactive educational experience.

The pleasures of poor product design

83 NaOH 2026-03-18 01:33:18 UTC inconspicuous.info Llama Share 30

Katerina Kamprani created The Uncomfortable, a project featuring deliberately inconvenient everyday objects, to express herself and have fun. The project has evolved over 15 years, with Kamprani creating around 50 designs, mostly digital renderings, and a few real-world prototypes.

Show HN: Sub-millisecond VM sandboxes using CoW memory forking

124 adammiribyan 2026-03-18 00:33:18 UTC github.com/adammiribyan Llama Share 25

A user uses the ZeroBoot API to execute a Python script that prints random numbers. The API uses Firecracker to boot a VM and pre-load the runtime, with a working prototype but not production-ready.

SSH has no Host header

79 apitman 2026-03-18 05:33:18 UTC blog.exe.dev Llama Share 61

We have a challenge with shared IPv4 addresses for multiple VMs on exe.dev, where SSH connections have no equivalent of a Host header. We use a pool of public IPv4 addresses and user-public key tuples to uniquely identify and route SSH connections to the correct VM.

Write up of my homebrew CPU build

6 wwarren 2026-03-18 06:33:18 UTC willwarren.com Prefix Share 0

So in Part 2 I simulated the whole design in Logisim-Evolution and tweaked it until I was happy. I was emboldened, and felt pretty confident that I wasn’t going to make any Big Mistakes with the real hardware… This post covers what actually happened when I started building the physical thing. Spoiler: it was humbling. There are backwards LEDs, floating address lines, cursed EEPROMs, ...

Why AI systems don't learn – On autonomous learning from cognitive science

90 aanet 2026-03-17 22:33:18 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 27

Researchers propose a learning architecture inspired by human and animal cognition, integrating two learning modes and a meta-control system. This framework aims to adapt to dynamic environments across evolutionary and developmental timescales.

A tale about fixing eBPF spinlock issues in the Linux kernel

73 y1n0 2026-03-18 01:33:18 UTC rovarma.com Llama Share 2

The developers of Superluminal, a CPU profiler, encountered a kernel freeze issue while capturing performance data on a Fedora 42 machine with kernel 6.17.4-200, which they were able to reproduce on a physical machine. After narrowing down the issue to a minimal eBPF repro, they discovered that the freeze was caused by an interaction between two eBPF programs using the rqspinlock, which ...

Unsloth Studio

258 brainless 2026-03-17 15:33:18 UTC unsloth.ai Llama Share 50

Unsloth Studio is a no-code web UI for training, running, and exporting open models locally. It supports multi-GPU inference, various models, and data recipes, with a beta version available for testing.

I Simulated 38,612 Countryle Games to Find the Best Strategy

15 st0ffregen 2026-03-18 04:33:18 UTC stoffregen.io Llama Share 4

The user created a solver for the geography game Countryle using feedback from the game to narrow down the search space and determine the most informative next guess, using a combination of modules including direction, temperature, and population. The solver was able to reach the target country in 2.85 guesses on average and identified Libya as the best starting guess, but further ...

It Took Me 30 Years to Solve This VFX Problem – Green Screen Problem [video]

223 yincrash 2026-03-17 18:33:18 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 93

Electron microscopy shows ‘mouse bite’ defects in semiconductors

54 hhs 2026-03-18 00:33:18 UTC news.cornell.edu Llama Share 11

Cornell researchers used high-resolution 3D imaging to detect atomic-scale defects in computer chips. This method could improve debugging and fault-finding in modern electronics, including phones, AI data centers, and quantum computing.

Honda is killing its EVs

301 sylvainkalache 2026-03-17 07:33:18 UTC techcrunch.com Llama Share 622

Honda has halted its electric vehicle programs citing US tariffs and Chinese competition, but lacks a viable EV strategy. This move will put Honda behind in electric drivetrains and software-defined vehicles, potentially leading to its decline in the automotive industry.

Launch HN: Kita (YC W26) – Automate credit review in emerging markets

37 rheamalhotra1 2026-03-17 22:33:18 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 5

Carmel and Rhea, founders of Kita, automate credit review for lenders in emerging markets using VLMs to extract financial data from messy documents. Kita's document intelligence product, Kita Capture, is free to try and aims to improve lending workflows through automation and fraud detection.

Forget Flags and Scripts: Just Rename the File

18 Uptrenda 2026-03-18 04:33:18 UTC robertsdotpm.github.io Llama Share 21

Programs can read their filenames to extract configuration, making them self-contained, portable, and instantly shareable. Renaming the file changes its behavior, eliminating the need for setup or instructions.

Launch an autonomous AI agent with sandboxed execution in 2 lines of code

29 wiseprobe 2026-03-18 01:33:18 UTC amaiya.github.io Llama Share 4

The AgentExecutor pipeline from OnPrem.LLM creates autonomous agents for complex tasks using various tools, with options for cloud and local models. Custom tools can be defined as Python functions or callables for enhanced functionality.

Leviathan (1651)

43 mrwh 2026-03-18 03:33:18 UTC gutenberg.org Llama Share 15

Thomas Hobbes wrote Leviathan in 1651, dedicating it to his friend Sidney Godolphin. He argues that a commonwealth is an artificial man, created by art, with the sovereign as its artificial soul.

Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks

225 bookofjoe 2026-03-17 12:33:18 UTC phys.org Full Share 123

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Review of Microsoft's ClearType Font Collection (2005)

6 precompute 2026-03-18 05:33:18 UTC typographica.org Prefix Share 0

The first five hundred years of typography (as opposed to calligraphy) were all about the printed page. Until recently, the most carefully designed type on computer screens was simply a placeholder for the final printed version. The promise of “what you see is what you get” was really based on a little white lie. The type on the screen would of course be coarser, and there was no hope ...

Switzerland Built an Alternative to BGP

29 jonbaer 2026-03-18 06:33:18 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 5

SCION is a new internet routing architecture developed at ETH Zürich that replaces the 40-year-old foundation of BGP with a fundamentally redesigned vessel, addressing vulnerabilities such as route hijacks and route leaks. Despite its success in Switzerland, SCION's adoption has been slow due to standardization, vendor concentration, and the psychological barrier of replacing existing ...

Edge.js: Run Node apps inside a WebAssembly sandbox

128 syrusakbary 2026-03-17 18:33:18 UTC wasmer.io Llama Share 36

Wasmer's Edge.js is a JavaScript runtime that safely runs Node.js workloads for AI and Edge computing, preserving full Node compatibility and isolating unsafe parts of execution using WebAssembly. Edge.js aims to provide fast startup and runtime speeds comparable to other serverless providers, with a goal to make it the most friction-less and efficient runtime for Node workloads in sandboxed ...