Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky Helicopter Music Video

73 ChrisArchitect 2026-01-18 17:52:29 UTC radiancefields.com Llama Share 19

A$AP Rocky's music video Helicopter features volumetrically captured human performances rendered as dynamic splats. The team used a 56 camera RGB-D array and Evercoast's system to record over 10 terabytes of raw data, allowing for radical freedom in post-production.

Flux 2 Klein pure C inference

11 antirez 2026-01-18 18:03:29 UTC github.com/antirez Llama Share 0

This C library generates images from text prompts using the FLUX.2-klein-4B model, with optional BLAS acceleration and no external dependencies. It can be used for image generation and transformation, with a simple API and automatic memory management.

The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar

42 todsacerdoti 2026-01-18 16:52:29 UTC opensourcesecurity.io Llama Share 21

The original open source "bazaar" has evolved into "Megachurch Open Source" with structured organizations and rules, but the true bazaar still exists with many small, individual projects. The bazaar's chaos and lack of rules can be beneficial, but it's hard to fund and support these projects.

A Social Filesystem

57 icy 2026-01-18 16:52:29 UTC overreacted.io Llama Share 15

The AT protocol is a system that allows social apps to store and manage user data as files in a decentralized filesystem, enabling users to switch between apps and maintain control over their data. The protocol uses a combination of domain names, decentralized identifiers, and a registry to create permanent links to user data that survive hosting and handle changes.

Overlapping Markup

16 ripe 2026-01-18 16:52:29 UTC en.wikipedia.org Llama Share 1

Overlap in markup languages occurs when a document has multiple non-hierarchical structures that interact in a non-hierarchical manner. Various approaches, including standoff XML and graph-based formalisms, have been developed to represent overlapping markup in a non-overlapping language.

Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)

205 tosh 2026-01-18 09:52:29 UTC adamdrake.com Llama Share 124

The author compared Hadoop processing to shell commands for data analysis and found shell commands to be significantly faster. Shell commands achieved a speedup of 235 times over Hadoop.

America is slow-walking into a Polymarket disaster

25 krustyburger 2026-01-18 18:22:29 UTC msn.com Full Share 9

Why is the media obsessed with prediction markets?

Show HN: Lume 0.2 – Build and Run macOS VMs with unattended setup

9 frabonacci 2026-01-18 17:55:29 UTC cua.ai Prefix Share 0

Lume is a VM runtime for building AI agents, running CI/CD pipelines, and automating macOS. It uses Apple's native Virtualization Framework to run macOS and Linux VMs at near-native speed on Apple Silicon. Lume is open-source and MIT licensed. If you find it useful, we'd appreciate a star on GitHub! We're piloting a managed service for customers who want to run cloud macOS ...

More sustainable epoxy thanks to phosphorus

42 JeanKage 2026-01-18 13:52:29 UTC empa.ch Llama Share 14

Empa researchers developed a recyclable, flame-retardant epoxy resin that can be scaled up for industrial production. It has potential applications in coatings, wind turbine construction, and other areas due to its improved fire safety and maintenance features.

Show HN: Xenia – A monospaced font built with a custom Python engine

7 xeniafont 2026-01-18 17:52:29 UTC github.com/loretta1982 Full Share 1

I made this because monofont shouldn't have to be fugly. I use it myself for coding and I always forget its mono. If you want to support an indie coder, buy me a coffee or just download and use for free... enjoy :) in your editor (Sublime Text, VS Code, etc.) or Terminal, set your font face to xenia

Starting from scratch: Training a 30M Topological Transformer

93 tuned 2026-01-18 11:52:29 UTC tuned.org.uk Llama Share 23

Tauformer is a topological transformer that injects domain structure into attention using a Graph Laplacian, replacing dot-product attention with Laplacian-derived scalars. It achieves a good result with a 30M-parameter run, showing a strong early phase and a lucky break to a low validation loss of 1.91.

Sins of the Children (Adrian Tchaikovsky)

7 maxall4 2026-01-18 17:52:29 UTC asteriskmag.com Prefix Share 1

When we reached the weather station it was so comprehensively trashed you’d think it’d been dropped from orbit. Torn apart and the pieces stomped on, the edges corrugated with dents and corroded with fluids. Something on this planet really didn’t want us to know when it was going to rain. “This is coming out of the use-budget,” Greffin said mournfully. She worked in Resources, liaising with ...

Show HN: HTTP:COLON – A quick HTTP header/directive inspector and reference

4 ultimoo 2026-01-18 18:04:29 UTC httpcolon.dev Prefix Share 2

HTTP headers are a fundamental component of the HTTP protocol, which is the backbone of the internet. These headers contain important information about the request and response, such as content type, caching instructions, authentication tokens, and more. By understanding how to read and manipulate HTTP headers, developers can optimize their web applications for performance, security, and ...

A free and open-source rootkit for Linux

103 jwilk 2026-01-18 09:52:29 UTC lwn.net Llama Share 20

A researcher created an open-source rootkit called Singularity for Linux systems to help security researchers investigate new detection and evasion techniques. The rootkit hides its presence, processes, files, and network connections, but can be detected by monitoring system calls and kernel activity.

Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board with PCIe Gen4x16

105 fork-bomber 2026-01-18 09:52:29 UTC cnx-software.com Llama Share 54

The UltraRISC UR-DP1000-powered Milk-V Titan mini-ITX motherboard is now in stock, offering a 2 GHz octa-core RISC-V CPU, up to 64GB memory, and PCIe Gen4 x16 slot. It supports Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora, but software documentation is still in progress.

Show HN: Figma-use – CLI to control Figma for AI agents

64 dannote 2026-01-18 12:52:29 UTC github.com/dannote Llama Share 26

The figma-use CLI allows users to create complex Figma layouts using JSX and React components, and also provides direct commands for simpler operations. It supports various features such as creating frames, text, components, auto-layout, and more, and can be used with LLMs like Claude Code and Cursor.

A pandemic rescue became a 30-year debt trap

9 iancmceachern 2026-01-18 18:24:29 UTC thehill.com Full Share 0

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ThinkNext Design

197 __patchbit__ 2026-01-18 06:52:29 UTC thinknextdesign.com Llama Share 94

ThinkNext Design creates innovative products that blend form and function, delivering value visually, physically, and experientially. Their designs, such as the ThinkPad, have revolutionized the industry with sleek, purposeful, and emotionally resonant designs.

Design systems and shareable browser support

5 robin_reala 2026-01-18 17:52:29 UTC medium.com/flat-pack-tech Prefix Share 0

When we put together a design system, we typically spend a good chunk of that time building components that will live on the web. When we start doing that, there’s an obvious question to ask: what browsers will we support? Regardless of whether we choose to just support the latest evergreen browsers or to go back many versions, if we want to expose this to code the process is typically the ...

Keystone (YC S25) Is Hiring

0 2026-01-18 12:52:29 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

Keystone builds infrastructure for autonomous coding agents with sandboxed environments and event-based triggers. They're hiring a founding engineer to work on core product with TypeScript, React, and AWS.

Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, UK

113 madspindel 2026-01-18 17:52:29 UTC bundesregierung.de Llama Share 23

NATO members strengthen Arctic security as a shared interest, with Denmark's "Arctic Endurance" exercise posing no threat. We stand in solidarity with Denmark and Greenland, upholding sovereignty and territorial integrity.

What is Plan 9?

120 AlexeyBrin 2026-01-18 13:52:29 UTC fqa.9front.org Llama Share 37

Plan 9 is a research operating system developed at Bell Labs in the late 1980s, emphasizing simplicity and clarity. It provides a distributed computing environment with a unique file system and namespace manipulation capabilities.

Echo Chess: The Quest for Solvability (2023)

3 kurinikku 2026-01-18 17:52:29 UTC web.archive.org Prefix Share 1

This story has stirred some great conversations on Hacker News. Many have reached out with great ideas for a v2. If you still want to chime in, just drop me a note. Let’s make Chess more fun in Single-Player. How hard could it be? ☠️ This is the story of venturing too deep, head-first, into the unknown. It all started with a doodle on a piece of paper. This doodle to be exact. I first ...

Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons

442 sea-gold 2026-01-18 07:52:29 UTC icon-sets.iconify.design Full Share 52

Open source vector icons from all popular icon sets: 280043 icons from 204 icon sets.

ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering

1115 alexharri 2026-01-17 18:52:29 UTC alexharri.com Llama Share 124

The user built an image-to-ASCII renderer that utilizes shape to achieve sharp, high-quality ASCII rendering by picking characters based on their shape and applying contrast enhancement effects. The renderer uses a 6D shape vector to capture the shape of ASCII characters and a directional contrast enhancement technique to eliminate staircasing effects and improve readability.

Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro

267 nl 2026-01-18 04:52:29 UTC twitter.com/neelsomani Full Share 244

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How the Lobsters front page works

37 g0xA52A2A 2026-01-18 17:52:29 UTC atharvaraykar.com Llama Share 10

The algorithm ranks stories based on hotness, order, and age, with hotness being the sum of tag modifiers and author boost, order being logarithmic engagement, and age being a linear increase over time. The algorithm allows new stories to rise and penalizes low-quality content, but its effectiveness depends on user participation and moderation.

Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy

377 calcifer 2026-01-18 14:52:29 UTC ossa-ma.github.io Llama Share 281

The author disputes an NYT analyst's claim that OpenAI is going bust, citing $1.4T in commitments and a $260B valuation. They predict OpenAI will hit $1B in ad revenue by 2026 and $25B by 2029.

Profession by Isaac Asimov (1957)

148 bkudria 2026-01-18 03:52:29 UTC abelard.org Llama Share 41

George Platen is an 8-year-old boy who is about to undergo Reading Day, a crucial event in his life where he will be tested for his ability to read. He is nervous and unsure of what to expect.

Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source

27 thunderbong 2026-01-18 16:52:29 UTC optimizedbyotto.com Llama Share 8

The author suggests switching from MySQL to MariaDB due to Oracle's poor stewardship of the MySQL project and its declining popularity. MariaDB is a more open and community-driven alternative.