Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity

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Engineers who overbuild and create complex systems are often rewarded over those who ship simple solutions. This is because complexity is often perceived as smart and impressive, even if it's not necessary.

Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable

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@[email protected] It will fully support using other operating systems including users making their own builds of GrapheneOS. It's part of our hardware requirements. We'll likely be able to make hardened builds of firmware and drivers which can be released in an official way for easy builds without needing to extract anything from the GrapheneOS or Motorola OS factory images.

"It Turns Out"

The author criticizes Paul Graham's use of the phrase "it turns out" as a way to avoid making a genuine argument. This phrase is often used to convey unexpected information, but can also be used to mask a lack of evidence or a weak argument.

Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide – Unsloth Documentation

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Qwen3.5 model family supports fine-tuning with Unsloth, offering both vision and text fine-tuning options with various VRAM requirements. The model can be fine-tuned using transformers v5, with bf16 LoRA setups recommended for MoE models and 256GB VRAM required for Qwen3.5-122B-A10B.

Glaze by Raycast

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Glaze is a desktop app builder that lets users describe what they want and build it, with features like file system access and menu bar integration. It offers a free tier and paid plans starting at $20/month with daily credits to build apps.

Apple Introduces MacBook Neo

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Apple unveiled MacBook Neo, a new laptop with a breakthrough price, featuring a 13-inch Liquid Retina display, A18 Pro chip, and up to 16 hours of battery life. Starting at $599, MacBook Neo is Apple's most affordable laptop ever.

Chimpanzees Are into Crystals

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RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello

This document describes a new Transport Layer Security (TLS) extension called Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) that encrypts the ClientHello message to protect sensitive information. ECH uses Hybrid Public Key Encryption (HPKE) and is supported in TLS 1.3, DTLS 1.3, and newer versions of the TLS and DTLS protocols.

Agentic Engineering Patterns

Patterns for getting the best results out of coding agents like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex. See my introduction for more on this project.

RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F#

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A new regex engine called RE# was developed in F# that outperforms other industrial regex engines and supports intersection, complement, and context-aware lookarounds with linear-time guarantees. The engine uses a derivative-based approach and minterm compression to achieve high performance and supports leftmost-longest matching with bidirectional scanning.

Libre Solar – Open Hardware for Renewable Energy

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The new Open Educational Resource (OER) explains how to develop, produce and use components in DC energy systems Within our community forum we aim to join forces and build renewable energy components together

The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do

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Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. If you ever want a good laugh, ask an academic to explain what they get paid to do, and who pays them to do it. In STEM fields, it works like this: the university pays you to teach, but unless you’re at a liberal arts college, you don’t actually get promoted or recognized for your teaching. Instead, you get promoted and ...

Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring

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Jiga streamlines product sourcing by connecting engineers with vetted manufacturers and automating administrative tasks. This saves time and reduces costs, allowing engineers to focus on actual work.

Charging a three-cell nickel-based battery pack with a Li-Ion charger [pdf]

A Li-Ion charger can safely charge a 3S nickel pack up to 4.2 V with little energy applied once full. This method reduces thermal issues and possibly provides longer cell life.

Elevator Saga: The elevator programming game (2015)

A CPU that runs entirely on GPU

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The NeuralCPU is a GPU-based CPU that uses trained neural networks for all arithmetic operations, achieving speeds of 4,975 IPS and inverting the conventional CPU's MUL vs ADD performance. It supports two modes: Neural Mode, where every operation is a forward pass through a trained model, and Fast Mode, where the ALU uses native torch arithmetic for maximum throughput.

Better JIT for Postgres

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pg_jitter is a PostgreSQL JIT compilation provider that adds three alternative JIT backends - sljit, AsmJit, and MIR - delivering faster compilation and competitive query execution. It provides native code generation with microsecond-level compilation times.

Greg Knauss Is Losing Himself

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The author enjoys coding for the process, not just the end result, but feels pressure from AI and quick apps making their work seem less valuable. They're focusing on what makes their app unique, personality, feel, and polish, to stand out in a crowded market.

Show HN: Stacked Game of Life

Simulation

Bet on German Train Delays

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Browse live ICE, IC & EC prediction markets. Pick a train, predict the delay, and win from the pool. Updated every 2 minutes.

Modern Illustration: Archive of illustration from c.1950-1975

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Modern Illustration is a project by illustrator Zara Picken, featuring print artefacts from her extensive personal collection. Her aim is to preserve and document outstanding examples of mid-20th century commercial art, creating an accessible resource for understanding illustration history.

Apple Announces Low-Cost 'MacBook Neo' with A18 Pro Chip

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Apple announced the MacBook Neo, a low-cost Mac with an A18 Pro chip, 8GB of RAM, and a 13-inch display for $599. It features a 16-hour battery life, Wi-Fi 6E, and is Apple's most affordable laptop ever.

Claude's Cycles [pdf]

Claude Opus 4.6 solved an open problem in automatic deduction and creative problem solving by finding a generalization for odd values of m. The solution was discovered through a series of explorations and involved a novel approach called fiber decomposition.

The JVG algorithm could break RSA-2048 encryption with fewer than 5k qubits

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Researchers at the Advanced Quantum Technologies Institute announced a breakthrough algorithm that accelerates the timeline for a quantum computer to break encryption standards. The Jesse-Victor-Gharabaghi algorithm could allow a quantum computer to break RSA-2048 encryption with fewer than 5,000 qubits in 11 hours.

Graphics Programming Resources

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This page offers a collection of resources for learning graphics programming, including tutorials, books, and articles on topics like OpenGL, Vulkan, ray tracing, and rendering techniques.

Did Alibaba just kneecap its powerful Qwen AI team?

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Show HN: I made a zero-copy coroutine tracer to find my scheduler's lost wakeups

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The user created coroTracer to track down logical deadlocks and broken state machines in M:N coroutine schedulers, which traditional tools cannot catch. coroTracer is an out-of-process tracer that uses shared memory and a separate engine to track state changes and detect issues like lost wakeups and coroutine leaks.

Weave – A language aware merge algorithm based on entities

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Weave is a Git merge tool that resolves conflicts by comparing semantic entities, not just lines. It automatically handles false conflicts in multi-agent codebases with zero regressions.

A Visual Guide to DNA Sequencing

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When the Human Genome Project (HGP) released its initial draft sequence in 2001, President Bill Clinton hailed it as “the most wondrous map ever produced by mankind.” After more than ten years of work, an estimated $3 billion in research costs, and a “genome war” with Craig Venter’s private company, Celera Genomics, the project had produced a nearly complete sequence of a human genome.1 UK ...

Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language

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Wouter von Oortmersen's VoxRay Games released The Builder's Update for Voxile, a voxel-based survival game with ray tracing and co-op multiplayer. Voxile's custom engine, Lobster, enables fast prototyping and record-speed compile times.