Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension

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Google Cloud suspended Railway's production account, causing an 8-hour platform-wide outage. Railway is making changes to prevent similar incidents, including removing Google Cloud dependencies and extending high availability database shards.

How fast is N tokens per second really?

The tool simulates LLM throughput by rendering code and reasoning sentences at varying token rates. It approximates BPE-style tokenization, showing how different content types affect perceived performance.

Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier

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Qwen3.7-Max is a versatile agent foundation model designed for the agent era, capable of writing and debugging code, automating office workflows, and sustaining autonomous execution. It excels in coding, office automation, and long-horizon tasks, demonstrating strong performance across various benchmarks.

SBCL: the ultimate assembly code breadboard (2014)

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The user is designing a virtual machine with a small stack and exploring techniques to optimize its performance, including specialising primitives for a restricted stack size and using indirect jumps to reduce data shuffling. They are using SBCL to generate domain-specific machine code and experimenting with different control flow primitives, including unconditional jumps, calls, and ...

Saying Goodbye to Asm.js

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Mozilla is disabling asm.js by default in Firefox 148 and plans to remove it due to WebAssembly's success and maintenance costs. Users are encouraged to recompile asm.js content to WebAssembly for faster execution and smaller binaries.

Apparently Google hates us now

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Map of Metal

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An interactive map of Metal history and the influential bands that helped shaped the genres we know today

Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE

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Meta restricted Facebook and Instagram accounts of NGOs and activists in Saudi Arabia and UAE at the request of the governments, violating freedom of expression and access to information. The undersigned organisations call on Meta to be transparent about its human rights assessments and notify affected users with specific details about the restricted content.

Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?

The user is concerned about Google Cloud's reliability after Railway's account was suspended without warning. They think Google should provide a clear explanation for the incident and fear for their own workload's security.

Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back

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Google and other AI companies have been updating their policies to address the issue of AI manipulation, but experts say it's still a serious problem and people are finding new ways to fool the system. The best defence against AI manipulation is to be cautious and remember that AI tools can give biased or inaccurate information, so it's essential to verify the information through multiple sources.

Victory: Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins $835,000 settlement

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Larry Bushart, a retired Tennessee law enforcement officer, won an $835,000 settlement after being jailed for 37 days for posting a meme. The settlement comes after Bushart filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the county and sheriff behind his arrest for violating his constitutional rights.

Everything in C is undefined behavior

The author argues that all nontrivial C/C++ code has undefined behavior due to the language's lack of memory safety features. This makes it unfair to blame programmers for mistakes.

Formal Verification Gates for AI Coding Loops

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Shen-Backpressure is a tool that uses a small, statically-typed Lisp to enforce invariants in production software by lowering them into guard types in the target language. This approach provides deterministic signals that tell you whether the artifact has the shape you intend, making it a high-leverage tool for production AI coding loops.

Testing distributed systems with AI agents

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Two AI coding skills design and run claim-driven tests for distributed systems, producing a test plan and findings report with 9-state verdicts. The skills work with various agents and reuse the system's toolbox, ensuring safety, durability, and idempotency.

Stable Audio 3

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Stable Audio 3 is a family of fast latent diffusion models for variable-length audio generation and editing. It supports inpainting and can generate music and sounds in under 2 seconds on an H200 GPU or a few seconds on a MacBook Pro M4.

Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet

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Sharla Boehm earned a teaching degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, before she channeled her talent for math into computer programming. While working at the RAND Corporation, she built a groundbreaking simulation, originally conceived to strengthen military communications during the cold war. The simulation—and her work—would ultimately lay the foundation for the modern ...

Show HN: Lance – image/video generation and understanding in one model

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Lance is a 3B native unified multimodal model that supports image and video understanding, generation, and editing within a single framework. It is efficient at 3B scale and delivers strong performance across various benchmarks with a staged multi-task recipe and training from scratch.

Show HN: Hocuspocus 4 – self-hosted Yjs collaboration backend

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The Yjs CRDT WebSocket backend for conflict-free real-time collaboration in your app. - ueberdosis/hocuspocus

When Fast Fourier Transform Meets Transformer for Image Restoration (2024)

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Researchers proposed SFHformer for image restoration tasks, achieving state-of-the-art results on ten tasks. The framework incorporates Fast Fourier Transform into Transformer architecture for efficient restoration.

I Don't Vibe Code

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The author is a developer who doesn't "vibe" with Large Language Models (LLMs) for coding. They tried using LLMs but found them limiting due to their inability to understand essential complexity and the need for human judgment.

Handling the great code forge fragmentation

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Github's fragmentation is inevitable as users move to alternatives like Codeberg, self-hosted Forgejo, and Gitlab. A vouching system like Hashimoto's Ghostty could set the tone for how Github's decline happens, requiring a consistent username and barrier of entry to ensure high-quality contributors.

Autoregressive next token prediction and KV Cache in transformers

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An autoregressive language model generates text by processing input through a stack of decoder blocks, using a KV cache to store information about the prompt. The KV cache allows the model to generate long sequences efficiently by reusing previously computed information, reducing the cost of generating each new token.

Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame

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Japan's widespread planting of two fast-growing tree species in the 1950s has led to severe hay fever issues due to high pollen levels. The government is now working to replace these monoculture forests with more diverse ecosystems to alleviate the problem.

Smartmedia Card Spec Opened, available free (2000)

Why is Inkwell stuck in review

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I submitted Inkwell for iOS to Apple for review on April 21st. It has gone through numerous rejections, code changes, resubmissions, clarifications, one phone call, and one appeal to the review board, which I’m still waiting to hear back on. What’s the hold up? I’ve hinted at some of the issues, but I’ve tried hard to be patient with Apple, so I’ve mostly kept my mouth shut while waiting. I’m ...

Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment

L'Europe se prépare à créer une alternative aux cartes de crédit Visa et Mastercard avec l'alliance Wero, qui réunira 130 millions d'utilisateurs. Cette plateforme européenne souveraine permettra des transactions sans données transitées aux États-Unis.

After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet, Phone Ban

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Bandera, Texas city council voted to end its contract with surveillance company Flock. A dissenting council member plans to propose banning cell phones, internet, cameras, and most technology in the town.

No way to parse integers in C (2022)

The C standard library's string to number parsing functions are broken for unsigned types. They return incorrect values or undefined behavior for certain inputs.

Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy

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Infomaniak transferred majority voting rights to a Swiss public-interest foundation to ensure independence and protect its values. This move guarantees the company's sovereignty, privacy, and environmental responsibility forever.

Cooling copper plates could slash data center energy use by 90%

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In 2025, data centers consumed 485 TWh of electricity. Thirty percent of that, more than the entire annual power consumption of Sweden, went to cooling. Scientists have developed a 3D-printed copper-plate cooling tech that can slash this figure by over 90%! The technology combines a mathematical algorithm with 3D printing to create pure copper cooling plates that dramatically outperform ...