Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer

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Jimi Hendrix created groundbreaking sound using a modular analog signal chain with pedals and a Marshall amplifier. He used a systematic approach to manipulate the nonlinear complexities of the system for maximum expression.

The Om Programming Language

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The Om language is a proof of concept at an early stage, requiring additional operations and optimizations before it can be useful. It is a concatenative language with prefix notation, using a unique panmorphic type system where all data values are represented as operands.

Making MCP cheaper via CLI

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MCP overcharges by dumping entire tool catalogs upfront, while CLI and Anthropic's Tool Search use lazy loading to reduce costs. CLI is cheaper and works with any model, while Tool Search is Anthropic-only and more expensive.

Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective

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Buses in the US have close stop spacing, slowing them down and reducing ridership. Optimizing stop spacing can speed up buses, increase ridership, and save resources.

Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Windows Insiders receive Notepad and Paint updates with new features including Markdown support, a Notepad welcome experience, and AI-powered coloring book in Paint. Users can provide feedback in the Feedback Hub under Apps > Notepad or Apps > Paint.

Dissecting the CPU-memory relationship in garbage collection (OpenJDK 26)

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The traditional pause time metric for measuring garbage collection (GC) performance is no longer sufficient due to the increasing complexity of modern GC algorithms and the decoupling of pause time from machine resources. A new Java API and unified logging mechanism in OpenJDK 26 provide a precise and internal accounting of the collector's work, enabling developers to understand the ...

Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs

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Researchers used LLMs to identify individuals from anonymous online posts with high precision, posing significant privacy concerns. To mitigate this, platforms should restrict data access and LLM providers should implement stronger safety guardrails.

Learnings from 4 months of Image-Video VAE experiments

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Researchers built an Image-Video VAE to compress images and videos into a compact latent space for diffusion models, but found that better compression doesn't always track with VAE stability or downstream generation quality. They discovered that over-optimizing reconstruction quality can hurt the model's chance to disentangle data into a semantically meaningful space, and that aligning the ...

Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid

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US electricity demand rose 2.8 percent in 2025, driven by increased coal use and solar growth. Solar power surpassed hydroelectric power for the first time, but coal use increased due to rising natural gas costs and tariffs.

Access to a Shared Unix Computer

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Why isn't LA repaving streets?

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How to fold the Blade Runner origami unicorn (1996)

The Misuses of the University

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A history professor at Johns Hopkins University is jaded by the university's 150th anniversary celebration, feeling that it's more about prestige and rankings than academic values. He's concerned about the university's finances, donor influence, and the impact of new buildings and programs on the institution's core mission.

Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go

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gotreesitter is a Go implementation of tree-sitter that outperforms the CGo binding, supporting incremental parsing and query execution. It includes 205 grammars and supports language detection, highlighting, and tagging.

PA Bench: Evaluating Frontier Models on Multi-Tab Pa Tasks

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Browser-based and computer-use agents are becoming increasingly popular for automating consumer workflows that involve interacting with web applications through clicks, typing, and navigation. Many of these workflows mirror how humans use personal assistant tools today—by coordinating information across multiple applications such as email, calendars, and booking platforms. However, it remains ...

Trellis AI (YC W24) is hiring deployment lead to accelerate medication access

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Trellis builds AI agents to automate healthcare operations, providing patients with life-saving medicine access. The company is backed by top investors and seeks a detail-oriented professional for a client-facing role.

Devirtualization and Static Polymorphism

Virtual dispatch enables polymorphism but comes with overhead due to pointer indirection and larger object layouts. Static polymorphism or compiler flags like link-time optimization can reduce this overhead by resolving calls at compile time.

Never buy a .online domain

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The author bought a .online domain through Namecheap's promo and it was flagged as an unsafe site by Google, causing a serverHold status. The author is now stuck in a loop trying to get the flag removed and the domain reactivated.

GNU Texmacs

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GNU TeXmacs is a free editing platform for technical documents with a wysiwyg interface. It offers a user-friendly framework for editing text, math, graphics, and more, with export options to PDF and Postscript.

The First Fully General Computer Action Model

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We designed FDM-1, a computer use model that can learn unsupervised from the internet and train on 11 million hours of video data. FDM-1 is the first model to scale computer action models with long-context training and can perform tasks like CAD and driving a car.

Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats

Our AI engine creates customized venue lists in seconds, vetting properties for reliability and quality. Venue partners respond to requests within 24 hours with our smart quote system.

New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes

User suspects HN has been overrun with bots, citing unusual posting patterns and comments. Analysis of comments from new accounts shows higher use of symbols and mentions of AI/LLMs.

Claude Code Remote Control

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Remote Control allows you to start a task on your machine and pick it up from another device. It runs locally and keeps your environment and project configuration available.

Leaked Documents Show Meta Cracking Down on Access to Abortion Information

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Meta's AI chatbot blocks abortion discussions with minors, but allows content on eating disorders and depression. The company's policies prioritize conservative views, contradicting its stance on other health issues.

Text-Based Google Directions

Minimalistic directions service for feature phones and low-bandwidth users, suitable for public transport directions. No JavaScript required, supports screen readers and terminal-based browsers.

US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives

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Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin

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To install Django Control Room with specific panels, use pip install dj-control-room[redis,cache,urls]. Add the panels to INSTALLED_APPS and include their URLs in the main URL configuration.

Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)

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Denmark's digitalisation ministry plans to switch to open-source software to reduce US tech dependence. The move aims to achieve "digital sovereignty" and save costs by replacing Microsoft products with LibreOffice.

ECS Survivors Parts VII – X

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Well, a lot of time has passed since the last time I made an update to the ECS Survivors project. Life has a way of well... getting in the way of things, or you could also say I got a bit lazy. But at long last, I've come to tell you all about the shiny new features that ECS Survivors holds! In this instalment of the series, I'll cover the many systems and features that were ...

LLM=True

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The user has a monorepo with a Typescript project using turbo for build management, which dumps irrelevant build output to stdout. They want to optimize this and set environment variables to reduce context pollution.