Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap

319 juliantigler 2026-09-12 17:21:15 UTC high5apps.github.io Llama Share 75

This tutorial guides users to add a website tag to nearby shops or amenities on OpenStreetMap, helping people worldwide access more information. Users can use JOSM and the Website Wizard plugin to find and add official websites for places in their area of interest.

Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases

108 theanonymousone 2026-09-12 21:21:15 UTC withspecific.com Llama Share 60

Real-SWE is a benchmark that evaluates frontier AI models on private, real-world enterprise codebases. It tests agents' ability to navigate proprietary systems and make changes within real operational constraints.

Nvidia is the central bank of AI

386 tolugenius 2026-09-12 15:21:15 UTC economist.com Full Share 265

Apple iPod Engraver (2019)

117 NaOH 2026-09-12 20:21:15 UTC dunstanorchard.com Llama Share 22

The author worked at Apple from 2004-2006 as a UI engineer, where they improved the "Personalize your iPod" page with interactive features. They added animations and live previews using JavaScript and imagemagick to create an immersive experience.

Getting 50 GB/S Back from the Apple Neural Engine

68 eiln 2026-09-12 21:21:15 UTC eiln.github.io Llama Share 12

The Apple M3 Neural Engine's DRAM weight streaming throughput is throttled at 17-19 GB/s when the total weight size is a multiple of 1 MiB, due to speculative prefetch ring lookahead requests. This issue can be avoided by splitting transfers that are multiples of 1 MiB into smaller chunks, resulting in a 2.6x speedup.

Stabilizing Rust's Never Type

128 cjd8 2026-09-12 18:21:15 UTC lwn.net Llama Share 33

The Rust never type, denoted by an exclamation mark (!), has been stabilized after over two years of work. This change allows for more efficient generic code and correct type inference. The never type is useful in cases where a function cannot return any value or where a value can never occur.

LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'

431 datakan 2026-09-12 17:21:15 UTC tomshardware.com Llama Share 353

LG denies claims its smart TVs constantly log and upload data, record audio while in standby, and scan local area networks for other devices. The company confirms it scans for nearby devices to enable features like device connectivity but says this is a standard function of all smart TVs.

IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]

559 kegenaar 2026-09-12 07:21:15 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 151

We must pace the frontier

536 apsec112 2026-09-12 14:21:15 UTC darioamodei.com Llama Share 758

The author believes AI can greatly improve human life, but also poses significant risks that must be addressed. To mitigate these risks, the author proposes a three-step plan to pace AI development: embedded evaluators, democratic coordination, and global coordination.

Will There Be a 7G?

83 Betelbuddy 2026-09-12 17:21:15 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 138

The transition to 6G is becoming concrete, with the ITU-R IMT-2030 framework and 3GPP Release 21 defining its path. A new question arises: should there be a 7G, and what would justify it?

I made a build visualizer to understand Bun's compile times

91 lalitmaganti 2026-09-12 17:21:15 UTC lalitm.com Llama Share 17

The author built an open-source tracing tool called buildprof to visualize the time spent on different parts of a software build process. The tool records every process launched during a build, including subprocesses and their subprocesses, and lays them out on one timeline.

Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction

89 pwg 2026-09-12 16:21:15 UTC righto.com Llama Share 25

The Intel 8087 floating-point unit was introduced in 1980 and became the standard for most computers today. It uses a complex microcode system to handle various arithmetic operations, including scaling numbers by powers of two. The FSCALE instruction is one such operation that scales a number by adding its exponent to a power of two, but it is surprisingly complicated due to special cases and ...

Tree Calculus

9 MelonUsk 2026-09-12 23:21:15 UTC olydis.medium.com LocalLLM Share 1

Tree calculus is a minimal, Turing-complete, and reflective system using unlabeled binary trees for programs and values. It simplifies complex computations through intuitive tree reductions, making it teachable even without prior knowledge of lambda calculus or formal logic.

Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard

180 encyclopedism 2026-09-12 19:21:15 UTC hachyderm.io Full Share 59

I noticed today that an update to the #Linux #Zoom client has made it start proactively reading _everything_ written to the X11 clipboard. If you keep interesting secrets in your clipboard – particularly, if a password manager uses it as a means of getting the password to where it needs to be – this might be a thing you need to know about!

LG Says We're Fake News [video]

155 HelloUsername 2026-09-12 20:21:15 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 64

How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of Signal chats

53 dgroshev 2026-09-12 17:21:15 UTC blog.trailofbits.com Llama Share 30

Signal has launched Automatic Key Verification, a feature that helps validate secure chats without requiring direct safety number comparison. This system ensures the integrity of public keys and prevents malicious servers from providing false keys.

Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple's Neural Engine

223 zdw 2026-09-12 08:21:15 UTC eiln.github.io Llama Share 31

The author is reverse-engineering the Apple Neural Engine (ANE) on the M1 chip to understand its architecture and limitations. The ANE's design was optimized for CNN workloads, but it has been found that transformer workloads can also be executed efficiently within the ANE's dataflow constraints.

I fixed a tractor using John Deere's self-repair service. Farmers aren't sold

102 sbulaev 2026-09-12 12:21:15 UTC wired.com Llama Share 106

A John Deere farmer fixes his tractor using the company's self-repair software, Operations Center Pro Service, after a brief tutorial. The service allows owners to diagnose and repair issues with their machines via Wi-Fi or cable.

Android NAT-T keepalive offload bypasses VPN lockdown

175 mhitza 2026-09-12 02:21:15 UTC supuk.ch Llama Share 44

A vulnerability was discovered in Android's NAT-T keepalive API, allowing normal applications to bypass VPN lockdown and leak traffic outside the VPN path. The vulnerability affects most Android 12+ devices, with evidence collected from three OEMs and two confirmed WLAN families, including Samsung SM-F966B and Nothing A059 on Qualcomm hardware.

A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits (2021)

83 Bluestein 2026-09-12 14:21:15 UTC transformer-circuits.pub Llama Share 17

Researchers are working on mechanistic interpretability of transformer language models, which can help understand their behavior and identify potential issues. They have developed a method to reverse-engineer transformers by breaking them down into human-interpretable pieces, such as attention heads and MLP layers.

Eating Fruit Skins

82 surprisetalk 2026-09-12 11:21:15 UTC pgadey.ca Llama Share 174

The author learned that eating apple cores, stems, and seeds is safe. They initially hesitated but eventually tried and found the stem edible too.

Show HN: See Sounds on Your Webcam

7 jimhi 2026-09-12 22:21:15 UTC soundmap.darebuild.com LocalLLM Share 2

360radar uses camera and microphone data for localization. Accurate alignment and B-format are essential for directional inputs.

Performance of WebAssembly Runtimes in 2026

90 fagnerbrack 2026-09-12 13:21:15 UTC 00f.net Llama Share 21

The author benchmarks libsodium on WebAssembly runtimes from 2024, 2025, and 2026 to assess improvements. The results show that Wasmtime steadily improved, while Wasmer gained a feature worth caring about for crypto workloads.

Scientists Create a New Form of Ice at More Than 2000°C

3 jnord 2026-09-13 01:14:15 UTC sciencealert.com Prefix Share 0

We literally can't function without its properties as a near-universal solvent. It falls from the sky. We bathe in it, drink it, and immerse ourselves in it for fun. But if just considered as a liquid, water is extremely weird, behaving in ways completely at odds with other liquids. It becomes less dense when it freezes. Its surface tension is bizarrely high. So is its boiling point. And, ...

The Magic Behind Cubacadabra

11 andrewfromx 2026-09-12 19:21:15 UTC andrewarrow.dev Llama Share 4

The author is moving the core logic of a game from separate implementations in Swift, Kotlin, and JavaScript to a shared Rust codebase. This will allow for easier maintenance and updates across different platforms.

A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await

424 wcrichton 2026-09-12 01:21:15 UTC cel.cs.brown.edu Llama Share 123

The async/await keywords in programming languages aim to simplify concurrency, but their designs vary significantly. A new paper explores the differences between modern languages' async implementations.

λ Snap – An inviting programming language for kids and adults for CS study

176 dr_kiszonka 2026-09-12 05:21:15 UTC snap.berkeley.edu Full Share 112

The Snap! Community. Snap! is a blocks-based programming language built by UC Berkeley and used by hundreds of thousands of programmers around the world.

The worst spam emails: iLands AI agent hustle

103 ColinWright 2026-09-12 11:21:15 UTC tedium.co Llama Share 49

A freelancer received numerous emails from a company called iLands.app, offering to do research for a fee, but the messages were aggressive and insulting. The company's true intention was revealed to be using autonomous bots to take work from freelancers like the author.

LRU is harder to beat than the KV-cache papers suggest

100 gauravapiscean 2026-09-12 12:21:15 UTC github.com/gauravapiscean Llama Share 47

The author tested various cache eviction policies on real-world traces from agentic LLM serving and found that none of the three independent mechanisms beat the baseline LRU-leaf policy. The experiments were conducted in a capacity-bound regime, where the dominant source of cache misses is tight tool loops with 88k-token working sets exceeding cache capacity.

google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update

631 1e1a 2026-09-12 03:21:15 UTC autom.dev Llama Share 489

Google Search is rewriting organic result links to use a custom "goto" URL, redirecting users to the actual page instead of exposing the destination URL directly. This change aims to prevent automated SERP harvesting by AI crawlers and SEO scrapers.