Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming

The rules emphasize measuring performance before optimizing, using simple algorithms and data structures, and prioritizing data organization for efficient programming.

Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework

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Researchers release a paper on measuring progress toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) using a cognitive taxonomy framework. A $200,000 hackathon is launched to develop evaluations for key cognitive abilities in AI systems.

JPEG Compression

JPEG uses a human perceptual bias to separate brightness from color, reducing color detail without degrading visual fidelity. It applies the discrete cosine transform, quantizes coefficients, and uses entropy coding to store a compact image description.

Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer

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UVR Karaoke separates vocals from instrumentals and scores singing in real-time with adjustable volume and lyrics alignment. It supports various file formats, controllers, and platforms, with GPU acceleration and automatic video audio extraction.

Pandas Exercises for Data Analysis (Interactive)

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This is an interactive version of the popular 101 pandas exercises. the first run may take a few seconds to initialize. # task: bin np series to 10 groups of equal size import pandas as pd ser = df. how to get the row number of second largest value of 'taste' for 'banana'? # task: find the positions of numbers that are multiples of 3 from s

Write up of my homebrew CPU build

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The user built a prototype of a computer called WCPU-1 using a breadboard and encountered several issues including backwards LEDs, floating address lines, and EEPROM glitches, but eventually got it working at 1 MHz with 256 bytes of RAM. The user plans to create a final version of the computer on a single PCB, remove the Arduino, and add features such as an overflow flag and debouncing ...

Mistral AI Releases Forge

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Mistral AI's Forge system allows enterprises to build AI models grounded in their proprietary knowledge, enabling them to train models on internal data and align AI with their unique operations. Forge supports continuous adaptation and enables organizations to build models that reflect institutional intelligence, operate within their domain context, and evolve alongside their knowledge and processes.

A Decade of Slug

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The Slug Algorithm, developed in 2016, renders fonts directly from Bézier curves on the GPU, achieving high-quality results and robustness. The algorithm's patent has been dedicated to the public domain, allowing anyone to freely implement it without a license.

How the Eon Team Produced a Virtual Embodied Fly

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Researchers created a virtual fly using a brain model and a virtual body, demonstrating how an embodied brain controls a virtual body. The model shows how the fly navigates, eats, and grooms itself, but has limitations and simplifications.

Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'

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A hacker revealed a "Bliss" exploit that can hack the Xbox One, a previously "unhackable" console. The hack uses voltage glitching to compromise the console's security, allowing for unsigned code loading and game decryption.

Celebrating Tony Hoare's mark on computer science

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Tony Hoare was a renowned computer scientist who made significant contributions to the field, including the Quicksort algorithm and Hoare logic.

Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track

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The CPython JIT project has achieved its performance goals for macOS AArch64 and x86_64 Linux, with 11-12% and 5-6% speedups respectively. The project's success is attributed to a combination of luck, the right people, and effective software engineering practices, including breaking down complex problems and encouraging new contributors.

Show HN: Pgit – A Git-like CLI backed by PostgreSQL

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pgit is a Git-like CLI backed by PostgreSQL that outcompresses git gc --aggressive on 12 out of 20 repositories while making the entire history SQL-queryable. An AI agent produced a full codebase health report on Neon's repo in under 10 minutes using pgit's SQL interface and built-in analyses.

More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your own firmware

Various development boards and microcontrollers are described including ESP32, ESP32-S3, and RK3588 with features such as WiFi, Bluetooth, and sensor networks. These boards support various applications including smart home, IoT, and wearable devices with options for programming and customization.

Ndea (YC W26) is hiring a symbolic RL search guidance lead

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Ndea is hiring researchers/engineers for deep learning in search guidance, focusing on neuro-symbolic AI. To apply, send an email with impressive work, relevant experience, or referrals to [email protected].

The pleasures of poor product design

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Katerina Kamprani created The Uncomfortable, a project featuring deliberately inconvenient everyday objects, to express herself and have fun. The project has evolved over 15 years, with Kamprani creating around 50 designs, mostly digital renderings, and a few real-world prototypes.

(Media over QUIC) on a Boat

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MoQ is a protocol that allows for efficient live streaming by splitting streams into tracks and only transmitting them when subscribed to, making it ideal for bandwidth-constrained environments. It also supports prioritization, path migration, and multi-path extensions to ensure reliable and scalable live streaming.

Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system

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GSD is a meta-prompting system for Claude Code and other AI tools that helps build projects consistently and efficiently. It uses context engineering and spec-driven development to ensure high-quality results.

Have a fucking website

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Websites are essential for businesses and creators as they provide control and permanence, unlike social media platforms that can change rules or delete accounts. Having a website allows you to own your content and reach clients directly through email, which is less susceptible to being taken away.

Show HN: Sub-millisecond VM sandboxes using CoW memory forking

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A user uses the ZeroBoot API to execute a Python script that prints random numbers. The API uses Firecracker to boot a VM and pre-load the runtime, with a working prototype but not production-ready.
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A CME impact on March 19th could produce a G2-class geomagnetic storm with auroras at mid-latitudes. Over 10,000 Starlink satellites now orbit Earth, outnumbering pre-2019 satellites five to one.

Why AI systems don't learn – On autonomous learning from cognitive science

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Researchers propose a learning architecture inspired by human and animal cognition, integrating two learning modes and a meta-control system. This framework aims to adapt to dynamic environments across evolutionary and developmental timescales.

Unsloth Studio

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Unsloth Studio is a no-code web UI for training, running, and exporting open models locally. It supports multi-GPU inference, various models, and data recipes, with a beta version available for testing.

A tale about fixing eBPF spinlock issues in the Linux kernel

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The developers of Superluminal, a CPU profiler, encountered a kernel freeze issue while capturing performance data on a Fedora 42 machine with kernel 6.17.4-200, which they were able to reproduce on a physical machine. After narrowing down the issue to a minimal eBPF repro, they discovered that the freeze was caused by an interaction between two eBPF programs using the rqspinlock, which ...

It Took Me 30 Years to Solve This VFX Problem – Green Screen Problem [video]

Leviathan (1651)

Thomas Hobbes wrote Leviathan in 1651, dedicating it to his friend Sidney Godolphin. He argues that a commonwealth is an artificial man, created by art, with the sovereign as its artificial soul.

Electron microscopy shows ‘mouse bite’ defects in semiconductors

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Cornell researchers used high-resolution 3D imaging to detect atomic-scale defects in computer chips. This method could improve debugging and fault-finding in modern electronics, including phones, AI data centers, and quantum computing.

Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks

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Launch an autonomous AI agent with sandboxed execution in 2 lines of code

The AgentExecutor pipeline from OnPrem.LLM creates autonomous agents for complex tasks using various tools, with options for cloud and local models. Custom tools can be defined as Python functions or callables for enhanced functionality.

Launch HN: Kita (YC W26) – Automate credit review in emerging markets

Carmel and Rhea, founders of Kita, automate credit review for lenders in emerging markets using VLMs to extract financial data from messy documents. Kita's document intelligence product, Kita Capture, is free to try and aims to improve lending workflows through automation and fraud detection.