Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)

37 turrini 2025-12-06 22:53:07 UTC anders.unix.se Llama Share 6

Unix enthusiasts share their unchanged desktop habits over 13 years, still using terminals and command-line interfaces. They've switched to various Linux distributions and window managers, but remain loyal to their Unix roots and text-based work style.

Zebra-Llama: Towards Efficient Hybrid Models

59 mirrir 2025-12-06 20:53:07 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 29

Researchers propose Zebra-Llama, a method to create efficient hybrid language models from pre-trained models, achieving Transformer-level accuracy with reduced training tokens and memory. Zebra-Llama outperforms existing models in accuracy and efficiency, using significantly fewer tokens and smaller memory.

GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches

404 akyuu 2025-12-06 14:53:07 UTC grapheneos.social Llama Share 163

GrapheneOS provides early Android security patches, backported to Android 13-16, while large companies like Samsung and Google take months to integrate them. This requires significant work and resources, slowing down GrapheneOS feature development.

Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop

326 LorenDB 2025-12-06 14:53:07 UTC tinycorelinux.net Llama Share 158

Tiny Core Linux is a minimal, ultra small graphical desktop OS that boots fast and supports additional apps and hardware. It's based on a core kernel and modules, with users able to add extensions from online repos or compile their own.

United States Antarctic Program Field Manual (2024) [pdf]

15 SheinhardtWigCo 2025-12-06 22:53:07 UTC usap.gov Llama Share 1

The USAP Field Manual provides an overview of USAP field logistics, operations, and safety, intended to enhance success in the field. It emphasizes the importance of risk management, emergency preparedness, and environmental stewardship in Antarctica.

OMSCS Open Courseware

105 kerim-ca 2025-12-06 19:53:07 UTC sites.gatech.edu Llama Share 35

Georgia Tech's OMSCS program offers public course content through Ed Lessons, excluding graded assignments. Students enrolled in OMSCS should access course content through Canvas for full versions.

Coffee linked to slower biological ageing among those with severe mental illness

61 bookofjoe 2025-12-06 21:53:07 UTC kcl.ac.uk Llama Share 33

Researchers at King's College London found that moderate coffee consumption is linked to longer telomeres in people with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, equivalent to a 5-year younger biological age. The study suggests that up to four cups of coffee per day may slow biological ageing in this population.

Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters

211 doener 2025-12-06 15:53:07 UTC github.com/tongyi-mai Llama Share 77

Z-Image is a powerful image generation model with 6B parameters, offering sub-second inference latency and photorealistic image generation. It has three variants: Z-Image-Turbo, Z-Image-Base, and Z-Image-Edit, supporting bilingual text rendering and creative image editing.

HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers

190 el3ctron 2025-12-06 15:53:07 UTC info.arxiv.org Llama Share 102

arXiv has launched HTML papers alongside PDFs to improve accessibility, with a goal to backfill over 2 million papers over time. The beta rollout is a work in progress, and feedback from the community is needed to improve conversions from LaTeX.

Mathematics Without Numbers (1959)

16 measurablefunc 2025-12-06 21:53:07 UTC jstor.org Llama Share 2

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Show HN: Tascli, a command line based (human) task and record manager

20 Aperocky 2025-12-06 21:53:07 UTC github.com/aperocky Llama Share 4

tascli is a CLI task manager, allowing users to create, list, and record tasks and activities with various options and recurring formats. It can be configured to store the database in a custom location via a config file.

Saving Japan's exceptionally rare 'snow monsters'

4 1659447091 2025-12-06 23:08:07 UTC bbc.com Prefix Share 0

A unique natural wonder is being eroded. Can Japan bring its breathtaking "juhyo" back from the brink? Each winter, the upper slopes of Mount Zao in northern Japan – one of the country's best-known ski areas – are transformed. Fir trees coated in thick frost and snow swell into ghostly figures known as "juhyo" or "snow monsters". Juhyo form only under exceptionally ...

Autism's confusing cousins

207 Anon84 2025-12-06 11:53:07 UTC psychiatrymargins.com Llama Share 214

A clinician discusses the challenges of diagnosing autism, noting that many people self-diagnose with autism due to its high public awareness and perceived recognition of their social difficulties. The clinician emphasizes that autism diagnosis requires a nuanced understanding of various diagnostic possibilities, including anxiety disorders, schizoid personality, and social communication disorder.

Wave of (Open Street Map) Vandalism in South Korea

36 shortrounddev2 2025-12-06 22:53:07 UTC openstreetmap.org Llama Share 2

Vandals defaced OpenStreetMap in South Korea, but most changes were rolled back and over 50 malicious accounts banned. The issue is likely caused by a single employee trying to delete power plant data, not a coordinated attack by Korean right-wing groups.

The past was not that cute

31 mhb 2025-12-06 22:53:07 UTC juliawise.net Llama Share 31

The author enjoys retro aesthetics but acknowledges the past was not as charming as often portrayed, with many people facing hardships and difficulties. They appreciate the past's lessons, such as the value of music and community, but choose to live in the present with modern conveniences.

Germany votes to bring in voluntary military service programme for 18-year-olds

20 petermcneeley 2025-12-06 19:53:07 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 18

Germany's parliament voted to introduce voluntary military service for 18-year-olds, with a questionnaire to be sent from January 2026. The move aims to boost national defences and increase the military's strength to 260,000 personnel by the early 2030s.

Infisical (YC W23) Is Hiring Engineers to Build the Modern OSS Security Stack

0 2025-12-06 17:53:07 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Infisical is hiring a Full Stack Engineer to build and expand its open source security infrastructure platform. The ideal candidate has deep technical mastery of JavaScript and a bias toward action, with experience in devops and open source development.

Abstract Interpretation in the Toy Optimizer

30 ChadNauseam 2025-12-06 19:53:07 UTC bernsteinbear.com Llama Share 5

The author wrote a blog post about abstract interpretation, a framework for efficiently computing properties of a program's execution. They introduced a simple abstract domain and used it to optimize a program.

Touching the Elephant – TPUs

145 giuliomagnifico 2025-12-06 12:53:07 UTC considerthebulldog.com Llama Share 43

Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is a specialized hardware accelerator that has enabled the company to excel in artificial intelligence, thanks to its focus on neural network inference and training. The TPU's design, which involves a systolic array and a scalar unit, has been optimized for performance and power efficiency, allowing it to outperform general-purpose processors in certain tasks.

Finding Gene Cernan's Missing Moon Camera

60 theodorespeaks 2025-12-06 17:53:07 UTC spacecamera.co Llama Share 5

Gene Cernan's Apollo 17 camera was left on the lunar rover, but not the one he thought he left. It was actually a 500mm telephoto lens camera that stayed behind.

Term-keys – Lossless keyboard input for Emacs

12 harryday 2025-12-06 19:53:07 UTC github.com/cybershadow Llama Share 3

term-keys package allows configuring Emacs and terminals to handle keyboard input. It provides a custom encoding for key combinations that cannot be represented by the terminal protocol.

Copy-Item is 27% slower than File Explorer

41 hiAndrewQuinn 2025-12-06 22:53:07 UTC til.andrew-quinn.me Llama Share 26

The user compared the speeds of various file copying methods on Windows, including File Explorer, rsync, robocopy, SFTP, and PowerShell's Copy-Item. File Explorer's copy and paste was the fastest at 111-112 MBps.

Catala – Law to Code

11 Grognak 2025-12-06 22:53:07 UTC catala-lang.org Llama Share 1

Catala annotates legislative texts with code translations through programmer-lawyer pair-programming. It defines a Qualified Employee Discount as the lesser of an employee discount or the gross profit percentage of the customer price.

The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude

165 knackers 2025-12-06 10:53:07 UTC blog.chrislewis.au Llama Share 87

The user successfully used Claude's headless mode in a continuous loop to decompile Snowboard Kids 2 functions, achieving more progress in 3 weeks than in 3 months. They developed a workflow and tooling approach to manage Claude's autonomy, including a scorer and defensive coding to mitigate failures and optimize token efficiency.

Kids who ran away to 1960s San Francisco

127 zackoverflow 2025-12-06 11:53:07 UTC fieldnotes.nautilus.quest Llama Share 24

The author read a book on San Francisco's history and became curious about Huckleberry House, a home for runaways founded in the late 1960s. She visited the San Francisco Public library and discovered the house's archives, including letters from teens to its founder, which inspired her to pursue her own non-profit, Nautilus.

Linux Instal Fest Belgrade

144 ubavic 2025-12-06 10:53:07 UTC dmz.rs Llama Share 20

Linux Install Fest will be held on December 9, 2025, at the Faculty of Mathematics in Belgrade, to help install Linux on laptops. Several people with Linux experience will be present, and short trainings may be held on various topics.

Running Claude Code in a loop to mirror human development practices

15 Kerrick 2025-12-06 19:53:07 UTC anandchowdhary.com Llama Share 0

Continuous Claude is a CLI tool that runs Claude Code in a loop to maintain context and improve AI coding efficiency. It enables self-improvement and tackles larger projects by persisting context and results across iterations.

Nook Browser

98 ray__ 2025-12-06 11:53:07 UTC browsewithnook.com Full Share 79

The memory of web browsing being quick and easy lives with us all. Fewer pop-ups, less clutter, and finding what you need ASAP. When enabled, they provide helpful tools such as chat assistance, summaries, up-to-date web insights, and more.

Mapping Amazing: Bee Maps

53 altilunium 2025-12-06 14:53:07 UTC maphappenings.com Llama Share 29

The user's career started at Etak in 1985, where they helped design and build a production line for digital maps, which were then used in navigation systems. The user notes that collecting map data has become increasingly complex over the years, especially with the rise of autonomous vehicles requiring highly detailed maps.

Traveling Neighborhoods

9 surprisetalk 2025-12-06 20:53:07 UTC supernuclear.substack.com Prefix Share 5

Editor’s note: this is a guest post from Devon Zuegel, originally published on her blog in March 2024. Devon is building a new village, Esmeralda, in northern California and is one of the co-organizers of Edge Esmeralda, which we previously covered here. We love the concept she describes below as a way to deepen friendships and test out communal living while also exploring the world! - ...