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Vienam bans unskippable ads

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Vietnam's Decree No. 342 will regulate online ads starting February 15, 2026, with stricter controls on ad duration and user experience. The decree targets 11 groups of environmentally and health-hazardous goods and services with stricter regulations.

High-Performance DBMSs with io_uring: When and How to use it

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Researchers studied io_uring's benefits in modern database systems, finding it delivers greatest benefits in storage-bound and network-bound workloads. They derived guidelines for designing I/O-intensive systems using io_uring, resulting in a 14% performance improvement in PostgreSQL.

enclose.horse

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A puzzle game about enclosing horses.

Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone

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The user set up "Doom Coding" to code remotely via phone using Tailscale, Termius, and Claude Code. They share a 5-minute setup guide and invite contributions to improve the process.

Launch HN: Tamarind Bio (YC W24) – AI Inference Provider for Drug Discovery

Deniz and Sherry from Tamarind Bio provide AI drug discovery services to biopharma companies using open-source models. Their platform offers a user-friendly interface for non-technical users and supports model pipelines, fine-tuning, and more.

Video Game Websites in the early 00s

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Do you remember what video game developer websites and gaming websites looked like in the early 00s?

Passing of Joe Mancuso author of Masonite (Python web framework)

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Good morning Masonite community, I regret to inform you all that @josephmancuso has passed away due to health complications. Please keep his family in your thoughts during this time. I had the priv...

Show HN: Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilities

Prism.Tools: Standalone web tools for developers. Client-side Formatters, CSS, Security, and Generators. No-install, privacy-focused utilities.

Show HN: Mantic.sh – Search 480k files in 0.46s without embeddings

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Mantic is a code search engine for AI agents that provides fast file ranking without external dependencies. It infers intent from file structure and metadata for retrieval speeds faster than human reaction time.

Show HN: Jax-JS, array library in JavaScript targeting WebGPU

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A new JavaScript library called jax-js allows running machine learning programs in the browser at near-native speeds using WebAssembly and WebGPU technologies. The library is a reimplementation of Google DeepMind's JAX framework and has already been used to train a neural network and perform semantic search on a large text dataset in real-time.

Hierarchical Autoregressive Modeling for Memory-Efficient Language Generation

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Researchers propose PHOTON, a hierarchical model that improves Transformer efficiency by reducing KV-cache traffic and increasing throughput. PHOTON achieves up to 1000x higher throughput per unit memory in long-context and multi-query tasks.

Loongarch Improvements with Box64

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Box64 has released a new version with enhancements and fixes for Steam, Battle.net, and other platforms, including support for RiSC-V, Loongarch, and ARM64. The update includes refactors, speedups, and new features such as prefix opcode decoder and memory footprint optimization, with ongoing work on performance improvements and bug fixes.

Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy (2016)

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The stack fallacy is a mistaken belief that building a higher layer is trivial due to familiarity with lower layers. Companies often fail to compete in new markets because they underestimate the difficulty of understanding customer needs.

I wanted a camera that doesn't exist – so I built it

A hobbyist photographer and programmer built a custom camera body from a Lumix G9ii, inspired by Leica M rangefinders, with a goal of creating a compact and beautiful camera. Despite facing numerous challenges and setbacks, the project provided valuable experience and insights into the complexities of camera design and electronics.

Show HN: 48-digit prime numbers every git commit

A tool called git prime-commit fuzzes commit messages to find a prime SHA-1 hash. It uses distributed computing to find aesthetically satisfying prime numbers in SHA-1 space.

Dude, where's my supersonic jet?

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Supersonic flight is making a comeback with companies like Boom, Astro Mechanica, and Hermeus working on new technologies to make it faster, cheaper, and more efficient. These startups aim to revolutionize air travel with supersonic jets that can fly from New York to London in under 90 minutes.

Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024)

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Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?

The Gmail app is 760.7 MB, one of the top three most bloated apps, while Outlook is 428 MB. Google's other popular apps average 250 MB in size, with some apps like Tesla and Crypto.com reaching 1 GB.

Show HN: llmgame.ai – The Wikipedia Game but with LLMs

Press enter or space to select a node.You can then use the arrow keys to move the node around. Press delete to remove it and escape to cancel. Press enter or space to select an edge. You can then press delete to remove it or escape to cancel.

State of the Fin 2026-01-06

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Jellyfin celebrates its 7th anniversary with a new blog series highlighting ongoing development and community engagement. The team is considering revising their versioning scheme due to user feedback.

Show HN: Stash – Sync Markdown Files with Apple Notes via CLI

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The user uses Apple Notes as their daily note-taking app but wants to sync Markdown files from their workflow to Apple Notes. They created a CLI tool to bridge this gap using AppleScript, Shell scripts, Pandoc, and Bashly.

High-performance header-only container library for C++23 on x86-64

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The B+tree implementation provides significant performance improvements over industry standards for large trees, especially with the hugepage allocator reducing TLB misses and allocation costs. It supports various search modes and allocators, including SIMD-accelerated search and custom hugepage pools.

Using fewer syllables to express numbers

AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention

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AWS has raised prices on its EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML by 15 percent, affecting customers worldwide. This change breaks the assumption that cloud pricing only trends downward, potentially setting a new precedent for future price increases.

My Tamagotchi is an RL agent playing Slither.io

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You are a Machine Learning Engineer with 4+ years of experience leading technical teams and delivering high-impact AI solutions in NLP, computer vision, and agentic applications. Your background is rooted in Physics and Astronomy, with a strong technical foundation in Python, PyTorch, and other tools.

Gemini Protocol Deployment Statistics

The Gemini space has 646,369 URIs, with 560,646 successfully checked recently, including 431,340 serving Gemini content. 457 recently tested URLs have a wrong encoding, mostly self-signed capsules exist.

DatBench: Discriminative, faithful, and efficient VLM evaluations

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Researchers propose three desiderata for evaluating vision-language models: faithfulness, discriminability, and efficiency. They curate existing benchmarks to improve evaluation quality and release two new datasets, DatBench-Full and DatBench, for more efficient and discriminative evaluation.

Repair a ship’s hull still in the river in -50˚C (2022)

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Travelers visited Yakutsk and discovered a unique dockyard where workers cut away ice to repair ships. They use chainsaws to gradually expose the ship's underside, allowing for repairs and construction in the shallow Lena River.

Volkswagen Brings Back Physical Buttons

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Volkswagen is shifting back to physical controls in its electric vehicles, starting with the ID. Polo and potentially the ID.4. The new design features buttons and switchgear for climate control, music playback, and cruise control.