I have a theory that software drives people insane

283 rglover 2026-09-10 17:12:11 UTC graybeard.ing Llama Share 109

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.

Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft

494 mmastrac 2026-09-10 14:12:11 UTC rustfoundation.org Llama Share 274

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.

Genuine Creativity Is Your New Moat (2026)

38 virgil_disgr4ce 2026-09-10 19:12:11 UTC inventbuild.studio Llama Share 23

The author reflects on the Flash era of web development, where experimentation and creativity led to innovative ideas, but also resulted in bad ones. Today, generative AI tools are lowering the barrier to entry for new websites and apps, but true innovation requires human creativity and experimentation.

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

219 seelos 2026-09-10 16:12:11 UTC cognition.com Llama Share 102

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More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math

354 pred_ 2026-09-10 13:12:11 UTC mathstodon.xyz Llama Share 455

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

163 gumby 2026-09-10 16:12:11 UTC gizmodo.com Full Share 31

Shopify moves back to Native from React Native

556 fnthawar2 2026-09-10 14:12:11 UTC shopify.engineering Llama Share 387

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.

Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE

89 weierstass 2026-09-10 16:12:11 UTC codeberg.org Full Share 36

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.

Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom

58 aanet 2026-09-10 18:12:11 UTC musictheory.pugetsound.edu Full Share 27

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Neki

152 simon_weber 2026-09-10 16:12:11 UTC planetscale.com Llama Share 56

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.

Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video]

86 tosh 2026-09-10 16:12:11 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 43

Don't Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables

90 Brajeshwar 2026-09-10 16:12:11 UTC blog.jim-nielsen.com Llama Share 70

A man found two old cables in his "Big Box of Cables" and realized he needed them, rekindling motivation and purpose. He hopes to pass on the lesson to his future kids about not discarding useful items.

JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation

34 Skinney 2026-09-10 18:12:11 UTC openjdk.org Llama Share 16

The goal is to improve startup and warmup time for Java applications by compiling code to native code in a training run, storing it in an AOT cache for use in subsequent production runs. This approach combines the benefits of static compilation with the agility and portability of dynamic compilation, allowing Java applications to achieve peak performance while adapting to changing workloads.

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

34 cdnsteve 2026-09-10 17:12:11 UTC tokenstead.ai Llama Share 14

Cognition's SWE-2 model achieves 50.0 on FrontierCode, beating SWE-1.7 by 15 points and outperforming Claude Fable 5.1 by one point, at a claimed 64% lower cost than Fable. The model excels in Terminal-Bench 2.1 with the highest score of 92.8, but lags behind GPT-6 Astra in this benchmark by a significant margin.

DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

871 Liwink 2026-09-10 06:12:11 UTC twitter.com/deepseek_ai Full Share 493

🚀 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

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

247 thelastgallon 2026-09-10 11:12:11 UTC pv-magazine.com Llama Share 201

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.

>10x More Efficient Pretraining

99 ronfriedhaber 2026-09-10 15:12:11 UTC magic.dev Llama Share 51

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.

Silicon Valley Is Transforming the Military-Industrial Complex

97 paimapi 2026-09-10 16:12:11 UTC costsofwar.watson.brown.edu Llama Share 143

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.

Schemy Lisp En DOS

63 AlexeyBrin 2026-09-10 17:12:11 UTC sled.neocities.org Llama Share 11

SLED is a symbolic Lisp interpreter that runs on DOS and its emulators, with features inspired by Scheme. It has built-in functions, standard library, and special forms for data manipulation and interaction with the system.

Neki is sharded Postgres by PlanetScale

98 handfuloflight 2026-09-10 16:12:11 UTC neki.dev Llama Share 23

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.

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

307 soheilpro 2026-09-10 09:12:11 UTC devblogs.microsoft.com Llama Share 149

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

290 haunter 2026-09-10 13:12:11 UTC consumerrights.wiki Llama Share 98

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.

iPhone Duo

1378 thecosmicfrog 2026-09-09 20:12:11 UTC apple.com Llama Share 2394

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.

Python sets and dictionaries can have quadratic-time performance

63 ibobev 2026-09-10 14:12:11 UTC lemire.me Llama Share 29

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.

Stockfish 19

240 atiedebee 2026-09-10 08:12:11 UTC stockfishchess.org Llama Share 140

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.

Macbeth and His Problems

70 apophatic 2026-09-10 15:12:11 UTC porticoquarterly.com Llama Share 26

The play Macbeth is notoriously difficult to stage due to its complex magic and supernatural elements, tone, and motivation. The script's ambiguity regarding the nature of these elements can be challenging for audiences.

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

71 DanielVZ 2026-09-10 12:12:11 UTC devz.cl Llama Share 24

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.

Show HN: DOOM in the kernel, or fibers in eBPF

23 ayles 2026-09-10 17:12:11 UTC ayles.github.io Llama Share 6

The BPF Capsule project successfully compiles and runs a game, DOOM, inside the Linux kernel without using a kernel module. The code is compiled to bytecode for a small register machine and loaded with the bpf(2) system call, then attached to a hook. The verifier checks the program's safety before running it in the JIT compiler.

Show HN: MultiMatte, a Promptable Image Background Removal Model

22 snyy 2026-09-10 16:12:11 UTC usefeyn.com Llama Share 4

Researchers introduced MultiMatte, a background removal model that can be aimed with words, improving on SAM 3's image segmentation. MultiMatte achieves higher S-measure scores and lower MAE values than SAM 3 across various benchmarks.

Casablanca: How an unproduced play marched into movie history

36 mdp2021 2026-09-10 16:12:11 UTC thecollector.com Llama Share 12

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.