Show HN: KVSplit – Run 2-3x longer contexts on Apple Silicon

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KVSplit optimizes LLMs on Macs by applying different quantization precision to keys vs values in the attention mechanism. This allows for longer context windows and larger models on consumer hardware with minimal quality degradation.

A Research Preview of Codex

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ClojureScript forks Google Closure to guarantee backward compatibility

ClojureScript has a new release with significant dependency changes, including Google Closure Compiler updated to v20250402 and a new dependency on the Clojure fork of Google Closure Library. This release requires Java 21 and aims to restore stability and versatility to ClojureScript.

Thoughts on thinking

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The author feels their creativity and thinking skills have atrophied due to relying on AI for ideas and completion. They believe true intellectual growth comes from developing thoughts themselves, not just reading AI output.

Methodical Banality

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Renaissance scholar Erasmus and author Rabelais explored the limitations of automated language through their works, highlighting the dangers of relying on pre-programmed responses. Their writings foreshadow the issues with modern language models, which can generate plausible but untruthful responses, lacking social ownership and illocutionary force.

X X^t can be faster

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RXTX algorithm computes matrix product $XX^{t}$ with 5% less multiplications and additions than State-of-the-Art. It uses Machine Learning and Combinatorial Optimization to achieve acceleration.

Show HN: Visual flow-based programming for Erlang, inspired by Node-RED

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The user is creating an Erlang equivalent of Node-RED's backend for low-code visual flow-based programming with concurrency. The project, Erlang-RED, aims to bring Node-RED's extendability, understandability, and usability to Erlang's performance and concurrency.

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA

You'll be available for 5-6 hours and will provide factual discussions on immigration topics, avoiding specific case advice.

MIT asks arXiv to take down preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery

MIT conducted a confidential review of the preprint paper "Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation" and found no confidence in its data and research. The paper will be withdrawn from arXiv due to concerns over research integrity and accuracy.

The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick

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Terrence Malick is a reclusive American director who has perplexed his admirers with films that question the nature of cinema and beauty. He has made 10 films over 50 years, including Badlands, Days of Heaven, and The Tree of Life, which explore themes of American identity, family, and the human condition.

Getting AI to write good SQL: Text-to-SQL techniques explained

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Organizations depend on fast and accurate data-driven insights to make decisions, and SQL is at the core of how they access that data. With Gemini, Google can generate SQL directly from natural language — a.k.a. text-to-SQL. This capability increases developer and analysts’ productivity and empowers non-technical users to interact directly with the data they need. BigQuery Studio in the SQL ...
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Data were obtained from n = 10 observers completing a total of 39,745 trials. saccadic peak velocity correlated significantly with visibility thresholds for absolute movement speed in the opposite (retinal) direction, authors write std: the effect of endpoints appears to be twofold - the difference between these two is evidence that the stimulus was present along the trajectory (here, ...

Java at 30: Interview with James Gosling

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James Gosling, the creator of Java, reflects on the language's 30-year history and its continued relevance in modern computing. Gosling emphasizes the importance of practical utility and reliability in software development, citing Java's enduring success in enterprise environments.

New 'Superdiffusion' Proof Probes the Mysterious Math of Turbulence

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Mathematicians Scott Armstrong, Tuomo Kuusi, and Ahmed Bou-Rabee proved superdiffusion in a simplified turbulent fluid. Their work uses homogenization to rigorously prove a phenomenon observed by Lewis Fry Richardson in 1906.

Foundry (YC F24) Is Hiring – Founding Engineer (ML × SWE)

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Foundry is building a world model through browser agents, focusing on infrastructure for hyper-realistic web simulations, annotation frameworks, and robust RL training environments. They seek a founding engineer to build a browser agent gym and solve hard ML problems at the edge of production.

The first year of free-threaded Python

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The CPython developers released CPython 3.14.0b1 and PyCon 2025 kicked off, marking a significant milestone for free-threaded Python. Quansight played a key role in enabling experimental use of free-threaded Python with real production workflows and contributed to supporting free-threaded Python in various packages and projects.

Show HN: Workflow Use – Deterministic, self-healing browser automation (RPA 2.0)

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Workflow Use generates deterministic workflows from recordings, making Browser Use more reliable and efficient. It's still in early development and not recommended for production use.

Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

Nick Lane's book Transformer explores the Krebs cycle and its role in life, connecting photosynthetic bacteria to human cells and consciousness. The book rethinks energy and living organisms, transforming our understanding of life on Earth.

Material 3 Expressive

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Material 3 Expressive is a new design system born from research, combining emotion-driven UX with usability. It uses color, shape, size, motion, and containment to draw attention and improve user experience.

Show HN: Rv, a Package Manager for R

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rv is a tool for managing R packages in a reproducible, fast, and declarative way. It uses a configuration file to specify project state, including R version, repositories, and dependencies.

What were the MS-DOS programs that the moricons.dll icons were intended for?

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The original Windows 3.1 moricons.dll file contained icons for various programs including Microsoft C Compilers and Microsoft Works. The icons were mapped from executables according to the APPS.INF file.

Taking a look at the next generation of telescopes

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The Extremely Large Telescope is being built in Chile's Atacama Desert with a 39 meter primary mirror, nearly four times larger than the world's largest operational telescopes. It will compete with other large projects like the Giant Magellan Telescope and the Thirty Meter Telescope.

Evolution of Rust Compiler Errors

The author analyzed Rust compiler error messages from 1.01 to 1.57, finding improvements in error reporting, colorful messages, and error spans. The evolution of error messages demonstrates the effort of hundreds of contributors over ten years.

Show HN: SQL-tString a t-string SQL builder in Python

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SQL-tString constructs SQL queries safely by replacing variables with placeholders. It supports optional parameters, conditionals, and multiple dialects.

Stax Museum Bob Abrahamian Collection

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Bob Abrahamian was a Chicago music historian and radio host who championed 'sweet soul' music and amassed a 35,000 item collection. His legacy lives on through the Stax Museum and curated galleries showcasing lesser-known soul artists.

Tower Defense: Cache Control

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The article discusses caching techniques used on the author's sites, including content-hashed static files, CDNs, and short-term cache control headers to reduce latency and load on the origin server. The author also shares strategies for dynamic sites, such as memory caching, single-instancing, and disk caching to protect CPU cycles and upstream APIs.

Returning to My Roots in Hardware

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I left tech consulting to join a product company and found a startup that valued my eclectic skillset. I created a unique application with a 3D printed box, Lego minifig, and NFC tag to showcase my multidisciplinary engineering skills.

The first year of free-threaded Python

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The CPython developers released CPython 3.14.0b1 and PyCon 2025 kicked off, marking a significant milestone for free-threaded Python. Quansight played a key role in enabling experimental use of free-threaded Python with real production workflows and contributed to supporting free-threaded Python in various packages and projects.

LPython: Novel, Fast, Retargetable Python Compiler (2023)

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LPython is a Python compiler that generates optimized machine code for fast execution and seamless interoperability with CPython. It offers Ahead-of-Time (AoT) and Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation with various backends.

Data preparation for function tooling is boring

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