Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI

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Announcement We are happy to announce that ggml.ai (the founding team of llama.cpp) are joining Hugging Face in order to keep future AI truly open. Georgi and team are joining HF with the goal of s...

The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)

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Taalas developed a platform to transform AI models into custom silicon, resulting in faster, cheaper, and lower power hardware. Their first product, a hard-wired Llama 3.1 8B, achieves 10X faster performance, 20X lower cost, and 10X lower power consumption than current state-of-the-art solutions.

Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment

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The Financial Times offers a limited time deal with savings based on annual price, then $75 per month after February 25th. Cancel anytime during the trial period for complete digital access to quality journalism on any device.

Untapped Way to Learn a Codebase: Build a Visualizer

The author learns an unfamiliar codebase by starting with a bug report, reducing it to a minimal case, and understanding the code involved in the bug. They use visualization to see how the code flows through the system.

I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs

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In 2017, WikiLeaks published Vault7 - a large cache of CIA hacking tools and internal documents. Buried among the exploits and surveillance tools was something far more mundane: a page of internal developer documentation with git tips and tricks. Most of it is fairly standard stuff, amending commits, stashing changes, using bisect. But one tip has lived in my ~/.zshrc ever since. Over time, a ...

Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI

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Download the latest DMG from the Releases page, open it, and drag the app to Applications. That's it — no Xcode or developer tools needed.

Mothers (YC X26) Is Hiring

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The Rediscovery of 103 Hokusai Lost Sketches (2021)

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Hokusai's 103 sketches for The Great Picture Book of Everything were rediscovered in 2019 after being lost for over a century. The British Museum acquired the sketches, which showcase Hokusai's wide range of subjects, including mythical beings, historical figures, and landscapes.

Gemini 3.1 Pro

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Gemini 3.1 Pro is released with improved core reasoning, achieving a 77.1% score on ARC-AGI-2 benchmark, more than double the previous version. It enables advanced problem-solving in various applications, including code-based animation, complex system synthesis, and creative coding.

Web Components: The Framework-Free Renaissance

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Modern browsers support web components, custom elements, and native event systems, allowing developers to build sophisticated interfaces without frameworks like React or Angular. Web components offer stability, reduced complexity, and smaller bundle sizes, making them a viable alternative for new projects, especially for smaller teams or solo developers.

Consistency diffusion language models: Up to 14x faster, no quality loss

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Natalia sold clips to 48 of her friends in April, and then she sold half as many clips in May. To find the total number of clips Natalia sold in April and May, we need to calculate the number of clips she sold in May first. Since she sold half as many clips in May as in April, we can find the number of clips she sold in May by dividing the number of clips she sold in April by 2.

Raspberry Pi Pico 2 at 873.5MHz with 3.05V Core Abuse

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The RP2350 chip in the Pico 2 can be overclocked to 873.5MHz with a 3.05V core voltage. Diminishing returns are seen above 700MHz, and the chip remains hardy despite extreme temperatures and high voltages.

Defer available in gcc and clang

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The C language's defer feature is now available in clang-22 and can be used with a workaround in gcc-9 and later. This feature allows for cleanup handling without specific software infrastructure or libraries.

Minions – Stripe's Coding Agents Part 2

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Minions are Stripe’s homegrown coding agents, responsible for more than a thousand pull requests merged each week. Though humans review the code, minions write it from start to finish. Learn how they work, and how we built them.

AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton

Companies that treat AI as an extension of their workforce, amplifying human capability, see transformative results. The AI exoskeleton model, where AI handles scale and humans interpret meaning, is a more effective approach than autonomous agents.

Reading the undocumented MEMS accelerometer on Apple Silicon MacBooks via iokit

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This project reads raw 3-axis acceleration data from Apple Silicon's M1/M2/M3/M4 chips via IOKit HID callbacks. It uses ballistocardiography to estimate heart rate via mechanical vibrations transmitted through the laptop chassis.

I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure

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The author built their startup on European infrastructure, choosing providers like Hetzner, Scaleway, and Bunny.net for compute, storage, and CDN services. They self-hosted services to maintain data sovereignty and avoid American dependencies.

Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024)

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The user shares their 4-year experience leading infrastructure at a startup, highlighting key decisions made and lessons learned, including choosing AWS over GCP, using EKS over ECS, and leveraging tools like Terraform, Notion, and PagerDuty. They emphasize the importance of simplicity, flexibility, and automation in infrastructure management, and provide recommendations for tools and ...

Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

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Log incidents with severity and location, link them to appliances and vendors, and resolve them when fixed. A vendor directory with contact info, quote history, and every job they've done for you. Attach files—manuals, invoices, photos—directly to projects and appliances. Stored in the same SQLite file.

FreeCAD

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FreeCAD is an open-source 3D modeler for designing real-life objects with parametric modeling and various tools. It's a highly customizable and extensible software with a strong community and no licensing fees.

US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

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Notes on Clarifying Man Pages

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The user is discussing ways to improve man pages, specifically to make them easier to navigate and understand. They mention several examples of well-designed man pages, such as the rsync and strace man pages, which use categories and summaries to organize options.

Silicon Valley engineers were indicted for allegedly sending secrets to Iran

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Three Iranian nationals were indicted for stealing trade secrets from Google and other tech companies and transferring data to Iran. They face up to 10 years in prison and fines for conspiracy, theft, and obstruction of justice.

A beginner's guide to split keyboards

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Split keyboards offer ergonomic benefits by separating hands, reducing wrist bending and shoulder tension. Choosing the right keyboard involves considering factors like key count, form factor, and budget, with options ranging from affordable DIY kits to premium, custom-made devices.

PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months

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PayPal notified customers of a data breach after a software error exposed sensitive info for nearly 6 months. The breach affected small business loan app users, with exposed info including Social Security numbers.

Fast KV Compaction via Attention Matching

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Researchers developed Attention Matching to compact long contexts in latent space, preserving attention mass and achieving up to 50x faster compaction with little quality loss. This approach decomposes into simple subproblems, allowing for efficient solutions and significant improvements in compaction time versus quality.

An ARM Homelab Server, or a Minisforum MS-R1 Review

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The user purchased a Minisforum MS-R1 ARM server for their homelab, replacing power-hungry HPE towers. They installed Fedora and used it as a hypervisor, but encountered some issues with NIC drivers and UEFI configuration.

America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks

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Economic shocks, not procrastination, are the dominant predictors of saving regret. Institutional design, such as Singapore's mandatory retirement savings, can mitigate the effects of shocks and reduce regret.

Pi for Excel: AI sidebar add-in for Excel

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Pi for Excel is an AI agent that lives inside Excel, making changes and doing research using various models. It has 16 built-in tools and supports extensions, auto-save, and workbook recovery.

Micropayments as a reality check for news sites

Rick Bruner makes the case for micropayments to help legit news sites generate revenue and counter misinformation, citing the success of mobile games in getting users to spend money on in-app purchases. The survival of legit sites depends on marketers leveling up to more sophisticated methods, such as attribution tracking and randomized experiments, to counter Big Tech's manipulation of ...