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...

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

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WikiLeaks' Vault7 revealed a CIA developer tip to clean stale git branches using git branch --merged, grep, and xargs. This command helps keep local branches organized by deleting merged branches except the current one.

No Skill. No Taste

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The author argues that the illusion of a lower barrier to entry in tech, fueled by LLMs, has led to a surge in poorly crafted and derivative applications. This noise is a perversion of years of skill and taste accumulated by professionals.

Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking

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The author visits San Francisco and notices a city where people are obsessed with AI and startups, with ads everywhere promoting B2B services for entrepreneurs. The author meets Roy Lee, the founder of Cluely, a startup that uses AI to assist people in their work, but whose true intentions and personality are more complex and disturbing.

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.

Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court

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The Supreme Court ruled against President Trump's ability to impose tariffs, citing Congress's power to do so. This decision represents a rare check on Trump's executive authority.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mothers (YC X26) Is Hiring

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The Popper Principle

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Karl Popper's theory of fallibilism revolutionized science by focusing on disproving theories rather than proving them. Popper's critique of Plato's totalitarian ideology in "The Open Society and Its Enemies" exposed the dangers of a closed society that arrests all change.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

The Gay Tech Mafia

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Gay men are overrepresented in Silicon Valley's tech industry, with many achieving success and forming influential networks, but some rumors suggest a "gay tech mafia" where power and intimacy are intertwined. While some of these rumors are exaggerated or unfounded, others hint at a complex web of relationships and social dynamics that can provide advantages to those who are part of the network.

Visible Spectra of the Elements

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2025-09-24: My web host will be performing necessary server maintenance October 1st from midnight to 4:00 a.m. PDT. During this time, the atomic-spectra site may be temporarily unavailable. I am still looking for a full time role if anyone reading this knows of an opening in their organization, either remote or located in the Phoenix, AZ area. It doesn't have to be computer related. ...

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

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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.