Show HN: A game where you build a GPU

Simple self-distillation improves code generation

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A large language model can improve at code generation using its own raw outputs through simple self-distillation, which fine-tunes the model on its own samples. This method improves model performance on harder problems and generalizes across different model scales and variants.

Show HN: TurboQuant-WASM – Google's vector quantization in the browser

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TurboQuant is a vector compression library that achieves near-optimal distortion rate with ~4.5 bits/dim compression. It supports fast dot product and decoding without decompression.

Show HN: sllm – Split a GPU node with other developers, unlimited tokens

Shared LLM access via cohort subscriptions

Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta

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Some Unusual Trees

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You found a 1975 Encyclopaedia Britannica set and discovered unusual trees like mangroves, banyans, and ombús. These trees have unique features such as massive canopies, hollow leaves, and extraordinary seeds.

Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw

Anthropic is changing its policy for third-party harnesses, requiring extra usage and a pay-as-you-go option starting April 4. A one-time credit and discounts for pre-purchased extra usage are being offered to ease the transition.

Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs

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Apple is allowing a driver to be signed, eliminating the need to disable System Integrity Protection. The driver is designed for LLMs and can be compiled with Docker.

Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth

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Nasa's Artemis II crew took high-resolution images of the Earth as they headed to the Moon. The images show the Atlantic Ocean, atmosphere, and auroras, with the Earth appearing upside down.

Components of a Coding Agent

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The article discusses coding agents, which are software systems that use large language models (LLMs) to perform coding tasks, and explains how they work by collecting information, packaging it into prompts, and executing tools to improve usability and reliability. The six main components of coding agents include repo view, stable prompt prefix, tool access, context compaction, structured ...

12,000 AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit

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…k/Ceph, and Dapr Complete all topics from Todo.md including SQL functions, configuration guides, troubleshooting runbooks, architecture comparisons, SDK tutorials, and operator deployment pattern...

The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House

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Cheap code from AI agents is creating idiosyncratic, sprawling software tools, but also overwhelming open source projects with poor submissions. To thrive, open source needs tools and conventions to make attention cheap and let good ideas surface among the noise.

The Indie Internet Index – submit your favorite sites

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The user shares various personal websites and projects, including a schedule maker, game websites, and indie internet index. These websites showcase a range of topics, from education and games to art and personal projects.

Training mRNA Language Models Across 25 Species for $165

We built an end-to-end protein AI pipeline covering structure prediction, sequence design, and codon optimization using CodonRoBERTa-large-v2. This pipeline outperformed ModernBERT and scaled to 25 species with a species-conditioned system.

Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years

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Nicholas Carlini used Claude Code to find multiple Linux kernel vulnerabilities, including a 23-year-old bug. The AI model required minimal oversight to find the bugs, highlighting its potential for discovering security vulnerabilities.

Mbodi AI (YC P25) Is Hiring

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Mbodi AI is a robotics startup that uses AI to make robots learn and operate like humans. They're hiring a Senior Robotics Engineer to design and tune systems for reliable robot behavior.

Electrical Transformer Manufacturing Is Throttling the Electrified Future

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The most-disliked people in the publishing industry

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The sociology of literature studies how literature is created and defined by institutions, but often overlooks the reputational dynamics that drive the publishing industry. Laura McGrath's book Middlemen explores the role of literary agents in shaping literary excellence and prestige in the industry.

What life looks like on the most remote inhabited island

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Photographer Julia Gunther and writer Nick Schönfeld documented life on Tristan da Cunha, a remote island in the South Atlantic. The island's 221 residents work together to maintain daily life due to extreme isolation.

OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability

OpenClaw before 2026.3.28 has a privilege escalation vulnerability in the /pair approve command path. A caller with pairing privileges can exploit this to approve device requests with broader scopes, including admin access.

iNaturalist

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iNaturalist is a social network for naturalists! Record your observations of plants and animals, share them with friends and researchers, and learn about the natural world.

German men 18-45 need military permit to leave country for longer than 3 months

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Germany's new military law requires men to obtain approval before leaving the country for over 3 months due to potential war threats. The law aims to boost the armed forces to 260,000 by 2035, but conscription remains voluntary for now.

The smallest ELF executable (2021)

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The author created a 120-byte Linux executable that prints "Hello, world!" by overlapping ELF and program headers, removing unnecessary metadata, and packing code into unused bytes. This tiny executable is a result of extreme minimization tricks that continue to be possible on modern 64-bit Linux, despite the limitations imposed by the ELF format.

Herbie: Automatically improve imprecise floating point formulas

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Herbie is a tool that improves the accuracy of floating-point expressions. It helps find and fix inaccuracies in code.
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Online sports betting leads to financial strain for bettors, with a recent report from the New York Federal Reserve showing a 10% spike in credit delinquencies among gamblers. The ease of access to sports gambling is harming consumer financial health by increasing debt levels.

Run Linux containers on Android, no root required

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Podroid spins up a lightweight Alpine Linux VM on your phone using QEMU with a serial terminal and Podman container runtime. It allows running containers and persisting packages across reboots.

Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor

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The user struggled with focus due to being easily distracted and over-caffeinated from constantly responding to urgent issues. They conducted an experiment by using only their laptop screen for a month and found it helped them stay focused and intentional with their computer use.

We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant

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The team created a virtual filesystem called ChromaFs to power their documentation assistant, allowing it to explore documentation like a codebase without the need for real sandboxes. ChromaFs uses a Chroma database to provide instant session creation, zero marginal compute cost, and built-in role-based access control, replacing the need for expensive sandboxes.

Astronomers Find a Third Galaxy Missing Its Dark Matter

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Astronomers have long argued that dark matter is the invisible scaffolding that holds galaxies together. Without its immense gravitational pull, the rotational spins of galaxies would force them to simply fly apart. But now, scientists have found a string of galaxies that seem to be missing their dark matter entirely. The latest in this string, known as NGC 1052-DF9, is described in a new ...

The Technocracy Movement of the 1930s

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The technocracy movement, founded in 2021, aimed to replace democracy with a system led by engineers and technicians, but it failed and is now largely forgotten. However, its ideas have unconsciously influenced the 21st century tech elite, who pursue a similar philosophy through more covert means.