Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart

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See a recreation of the Project Hail Mary in-ship navigation computer with accurate star data from the GAIA DR3 mission.

Slumber a TUI HTTP Client

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Slumber is a terminal-based HTTP client with TUI and CLI modes for easy interaction. It uses a YAML file for configuration and is designed to be easy to use, configurable, and sharable.

CODA: Rewriting Transformer Blocks as GEMM-Epilogue Programs

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CODA is a GPU kernel abstraction that optimizes Transformer training by reparameterizing computations as GEMM-plus-epilogue programs. This abstraction achieves high performance across representative Transformer workloads by preserving GEMM performance and exposing composable epilogue primitives.

The surprising story behind the first British person in space

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Helen Sharman became the first British person in space in 1991 aboard the Soviet Soyuz TM-12 space capsule. She was picked from 13,000 applicants after hearing an advert on the radio.

Cleve Moler has died

You don't have permission to access "http://www.mathworks.com/company/aboutus/founders/clevemoler.html" on this server.

Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD

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The user migrated their blog from a 10-year-old Digital Ocean VPS running Ubuntu 16.04 to a Hetzner virtual machine with FreeBSD, citing security concerns with the outdated Ubuntu system. They set up a FreeBSD server with Jails and Bastille for managing Jails.

The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics

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The global smartphone market is facing a crisis due to a shortage of memory chips, which has led to a sharp increase in prices and a decline in sales, especially among budget smartphone makers. The shortage is caused by a surge in demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for artificial intelligence applications, which has led to a reallocation of wafer capacity away from commodity DRAM and ...

Was my $48K GPU server worth it?

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The author built a 6x 6000 Ada GPU server, "grumbl", for $48K to support independent research, and calculated that it would take a year of 85%+ utilization to match cloud rental rates. The server has paid for itself and now saves the author $90-$105 per day.

Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess

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The user praises uv's speed but criticizes its poor CLI experience, especially when updating dependencies. They suggest improvements, including a dedicated outdated command and safer default version constraints.

Using Kagi Search with Low Vision

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The user experienced visual fatigue while using a cluttered search engine but found relief with Kagi, a paid search engine offering ad-free search and customizations. Kagi's features, such as lenses, bangs, and custom CSS, helped the user navigate search results more efficiently with low vision.

Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)

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The author is a hacker who splits his year between the Maasai Mara and Silicon Valley, struggling to edit his massive video archive. He built a custom indexer using Claude Code and DaVinci Resolve to make his archive queryable in English.

The death of the brick and mortar toy store

Mycorrhizal Fungi, Nature's Key to Plant Survival and Success

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Mycorrhizal fungi form beneficial relationships with plant roots, providing nutrients and protection. Adding mycorrhizal fungi to soil can improve plant growth, health, and survival, reducing the need for fertilizers and pesticides.

Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored

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On July 16, 1945, the world entered the nuclear age with the Trinity test, a massive explosion above a New Mexico desert. The test captured on film and witnessed by scientists and soldiers was an awe-inspiring, blindingly bright event.

Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines

Python 3.15.0b1 introduces features like lazy imports, tachyon profiler, and improved asyncio with TaskGroup cancellation. New features also include ContextDecorator improvements, threading utilities, and enhancements to collections.Counter and json.load/json.loads.

Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps

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Freenet is a decentralized platform for apps, allowing peer-to-peer communication, collaboration, and commerce without relying on big tech. It's a global network of peers, with apps running in browsers, unstoppable and secure.

Flipper One – we need your help

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Flipper One is a massive open-source project that aims to create a truly open Linux hardware platform with full mainline Linux kernel support, expandable hardware, and a custom GUI framework. The project is seeking community help to overcome technical and financial challenges, and contributors can participate in various sub-projects, including hardware, software, and user interface development.

Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans

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Spotify's new feature "Reserved" sets aside concert tickets for premium subscribers, giving them a better chance at buying them. The feature will be available in the US this summer, partnering with Live Nation to identify dedicated fans.

Launch HN: Runtime (YC P26) – Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on a team

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Runtime is a platform that connects environments, automates tasks, and provides live visibility into every session, allowing teams to build, deploy, and manage coding agents from a single dashboard. It offers customizable sandboxes, integrations, and guardrails, and can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud, with policies and audit logs following the team across both.

Multi-Stream LLMs: new paper on parallelizing/separating prompts, thinking, I/O

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Researchers improved AI agents by allowing multiple parallel streams of computation, enabling simultaneous reading and writing, and improving efficiency, security, and monitorability. This change remedies limitations in chat models, such as inability to act while reading or thinking.

Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods

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Waymo's robotaxi got stuck in a flooded Atlanta street, prompting the company to pause service in the city. Waymo is investigating the incident and has faced previous issues with its robotaxis, including illegal passing of stopped school buses and a crash in Santa Monica.

Deciphering the Hashihara Castle Town Map

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MOTOORI Norinaga drew the Hashihara Castle Town Map at 19, depicting a culturally vibrant town with named shrines, temples, and rivers. The map is a blueprint of a castle town ruled by the HASHIHARA family, envisioned by Norinaga as a young scholar.

Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

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Redis offers persistence, complex data operations, and native sharding, but is more complex. Memcached is simpler, faster for basic caching, but lacks persistence and flexibility.

Google's Antigravity bait and switch

Google's new Antigravity update unexpectedly replaced the user's preferred IDE with a conversational prompt box, breaking their workflow. The user had to completely purge their system and reinstall the legacy IDE to restore functionality, losing their chat history and settings in the process.

We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot

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Google is testing new ad formats with Gemini models to provide helpful answers and connect people with businesses. The formats include Conversational Discovery ads, Highlighted Answers, AI-powered Shopping ads, and Business Agent for Leads, designed to make decision-making easier and more confident.

News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism

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Major news publishers are blocking the Internet Archive due to concerns about AI companies scraping their content. Over 340 local news sites in the US are limiting the Internet Archive's access, with some citing concerns about intellectual property and others wanting to control how their content is used.

Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police

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Seattle Shield is a secretive public-private network sharing intelligence with law enforcement, including corporations and military agencies, to prevent terrorism but raises concerns about accountability and potential misuse. The network has been criticized for labeling protesters as potential terrorists and creating a surveillance system of informants that benefits private economic interests.

The Hardware Lottery

The hardware lottery, where research ideas succeed or fail based on available software and hardware, has historically obfuscated research progress and delayed signaling of promising research directions. Closer collaboration between hardware, software, and machine learning research communities is necessary to overcome the limitations of domain-specialized hardware and unlock new machine ...

Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)

The user created a project called git-commit-folders that allows users to explore their Git repository as a filesystem where every commit is a folder, aiming to give users intuition on how Git works under the hood. The project uses FUSE, NFS, and WebDav to mount the filesystem, but the user encountered several issues, including duplicated code, NFS stale file handle errors, and performance ...

Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP

Haakam, Michael, and Adi from AgentMail created Agent.Email, a signup flow for AI agents, to address the irony of agents needing human credentials. They're seeking feedback on their restricted-until-claimed trust model and exploring additional security measures for secure sign-ups.