When did Google get so weird?

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The user had a weird experience with Google's AI overview after searching for old tweets about Dario Saric, and wondered why the search engine assumed they were looking for emotional support instead of links. They felt that Google has lost its purpose as a search engine with the introduction of LLMs.

Ember-1

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Fireworks Research introduces Ember-1, a specialized model that delivers Kimi K3's quality with 40% fewer tokens. Ember-1 is built on Kimi K3 and learned to cut unnecessary reasoning while keeping the thinking that matters.

Lunar Terminator Paradox

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The lunar terminator paradox occurs when looking at a full moon after sunset, appearing to point upwards due to Earth's perspective. The program simulates this phenomenon, showing how the moon's illuminated side points up regardless of its position in the sky.

Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?

The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026

The author has made significant progress in contributing to the SIMD library, specifically Fearless SIMD. They discuss various approaches to using SIMD instructions on different architectures, including multiversioning and function-level optimization. The author concludes that NEON is a more practical choice for ARM-based systems due to its simplicity and performance advantages over AVX-512.

Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi

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Lofi Cities is a free web app that generates animated pixel-art city nights with endless lofi music, available on various cities worldwide. The app offers customizable settings and features like weather, track selection, and social interactions without requiring an account or cookies.

There is more to code review than (automatable) detection

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The article argues that coding agents can supersede human code review, but the author disagrees due to issues with intent, comprehensibility and contextual knowledge. The author believes that humans bring a level of expertise and social accountability that machines cannot replicate.

Don't couple your Go code to GitHub

The Go programming language allows namespace-based code fetching, but this can lead to coupling with a specific hosting provider. Using custom domains is a solution to avoid this issue and make it easier to switch between different hosting platforms.

Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM

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Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM, allowing users to describe language model steps and optimize them against labeled examples. It provides various optimizers that can improve models by rewriting instructions or training weights, with tools like ReqLLM for accessing external models.

S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past

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Amazon S3's dominance is due to its advantages, but its hardware assumptions are becoming obsolete as SSD prices drop and modern datacenter networks improve. To build a true replacement for S3, we need initiative from cloud providers, not just technological advancements.

What I did at Recurse Center

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The author spent the summer at Recurse Center, a programming retreat in Brooklyn, where they participated in various projects and study groups. They learned about modern LLMs and agents through Agentic Adventures and Practical Deep Learning.

In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life

A biologist and an evolutionary biologist discovered two new species of a single-celled organism called Paulinella in a motel room. The discovery brings the world's known total to six photosynthetic Paulinella species, made by a team led by Dr. Van Etten.

Oral history of John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis [video]

Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights

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The author successfully repaired their 10-year-old bike lights by replacing the battery, using minimal electronics skills and guidance from online resources. The repair cost around $20 CAD and has allowed the author to use the lights again without recharging.

Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)

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The article discusses the importance of writing efficient code, particularly in applications where performance matters. It highlights that native languages like C++ can be used to achieve high performance but requires knowledge and familiarity with good practices. The article also introduces Data-Oriented Design (DOD) as a way of thinking that focuses on data storage and design to create ...

My Recent Woodworking Projects

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The author recounts their journey from a failed GCSE woodworking project to building a functional gate, raised bed, and shelves, highlighting the importance of YouTube tutorials and incremental skill development. They reflect on the satisfaction of creating "good enough" DIY projects despite imperfections.

Previously unheard recordings of John Coltrane, captured by Frank Tiberi

A New Experiment Meta-Strategy

The Cartesian Hand: In-Hand Manipulation with All-Linear Fingers

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General Robotics Lab at Duke University - Building discovery machines that learn, act, and collaborate by discovering how the world works. Research in embodied intelligence, robotics, AI, machine learning, and human-robot collaboration.

Flip Fluid on Flip Dots

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The author successfully implemented a FLIP (Fluid Implicit Particle) fluid simulation on a flipdot electromechanical display, achieving seamless tiling and fast updates. The project involved desoldering individual dots from old Hanover displays, mounting them onto new circuit boards with custom-designed H-bridge chips.

Fragment of oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey

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Archaeologists have discovered a 3,400-year-old fragment of the Treaty of Kadesh, the world's oldest known peace treaty. The ancient Egyptian and Hittite leaders signed it around 1269 B.C. to mark the end of a lengthy war between their empires.

Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests

Fakecloud provides a local AWS environment for development and testing without requiring an account or paid plan. It supports 3,932 API operations and 30+ service-to-service integrations, allowing developers to use the normal AWS SDK against localhost.

The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures

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The author criticizes Jev, an AI model that returns typed values with probability estimates, for being opaque and not requiring users to build evals and a ground-truth pipeline. This makes it difficult to understand the model's limitations and potential failures.

EV Sales Are Booming in Europe with Gasoline at $10 a Gallon

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Faster prompt lookup drafting in llama.cpp

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The author optimized prompt lookup decoding in llama.cpp, achieving a 140x speedup by leveraging Daniel Lemire's PR and their own performance optimizations. The changes improved latency per drafted token, static cache load time, and memory usage.

Self-Hosting on the Dark Web

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This site is now accessible via Tor as a hidden service with end-to-end encryption. The Tor Project, a nonprofit organization, maintains the network to advance human rights and freedoms online.

KICKI: a DECsystem1060

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KICKI, a dual PDP-10 model KI10, is being restored with the goal of running again. The project involves upgrading its memory and power supply to improve efficiency and stability.

Video CDs Break Windows Explorer

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Copying VCD files in Windows Explorer can cause system instability due to a bug introduced with 2023 updates. The issue is often reproduced by copying the MPEGAV folder, which leads to a "broken" state requiring a restart of the PC.

Show HN: TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out

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On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted

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The author has used Vim for 20 years, writing numerous documents and relying on its persistent undo feature. They were disappointed with NeoVim's handling of persistent undo, which deleted their existing files without warning or explanation.