Shopify moves back to Native from React Native

320 fnthawar2 2026-09-10 14:23:01 UTC shopify.engineering Llama Share 211

Shopify is moving from React Native to Swift and Kotlin due to advancements in coding models, allowing for faster development without sacrificing performance. This change will enable Shopify's teams to build mobile apps more efficiently with the help of artificial intelligence.

Rust Is Tier-1 Language at Microsoft

233 mmastrac 2026-09-10 14:23:01 UTC rustfoundation.org Llama Share 111

Microsoft has invested heavily in Rust, making it a Tier-1 language for internal development alongside C++, C#, and TypeScript. The company's MSVC backend, now connected to Rust via rustc_codegen_utc, enables seamless interoperability between the two languages.

Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra

35 seelos 2026-09-10 15:32:01 UTC cognition.com Llama Share 6

The new coding model SWE-2 achieves 50.0% on FrontierCode 1.1 Main, within one point of Fable 5.1, while being 64% cheaper than its predecessor SWE-1.7 and outperforming GPT-6 Astra at a quarter of the cost.

More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math

43 pred_ 2026-09-10 15:23:01 UTC mathstodon.xyz Llama Share 282

Tristan Buckmaster questioned OpenAI's transparency about using his conversations with ChatGPT for training data. He felt misled by their response, which he perceived as dishonest and lacking explanation or evidence.

Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls

185 thelastgallon 2026-09-10 11:23:01 UTC pv-magazine.com Llama Share 147

Hitachi introduces Y-series EcoCute CO2 heat pump water heaters in Japan with 370-liter and 460-liter models launching in November 2026. The new range supports daytime electricity tariffs and PV-linked energy management with a five-year manufacturer warranty.

DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

735 Liwink 2026-09-10 06:23:01 UTC twitter.com/deepseek_ai Full Share 388

🚀 Introducing DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: smarter, faster, more efficient. 🔹 Introducing the smallest model in our new architecture family, with native visual understanding. 🔹 Designed for greater capability, faster inference, higher throughput, and scaling to larger models. 1/6

What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?

255 soheilpro 2026-09-10 09:23:01 UTC devblogs.microsoft.com Llama Share 120

Windows XP uses a one-pass random selection algorithm to choose the initial profile picture, utilizing RtlRandomEx with GetTickCount() as the seed. This approach is efficient and avoids complications if directory contents change during execution.

List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games

200 haunter 2026-09-10 12:23:01 UTC consumerrights.wiki Llama Share 62

Four California PlayStation buyers sued Sony Interactive Entertainment, alleging they received a limited license rather than ownership for hundreds of dollars spent on digital goods. The complaint claims the store's checkout language violates California's digital-goods transparency law.

Neki

20 simon_weber 2026-09-10 15:46:01 UTC planetscale.com Llama Share 0

Neki is a sharded Postgres database built from lessons learned running large MySQL clusters, addressing common issues like table size and backup times. It offers an online operations model with features like schema changes, version upgrades, and resharding through a single psql connection.

>10x More Efficient Pretraining

27 ronfriedhaber 2026-09-10 14:23:01 UTC magic.dev Llama Share 7

The authors have developed a highly efficient pretraining recipe for large language models, achieving over 10x better compute efficiency than leading open-weight base models. This allows them to train trillion-parameter models with significantly less computational resources.

Neki by PlanetScale

19 handfuloflight 2026-09-10 15:50:01 UTC neki.dev Llama Share 1

Neki scales Postgres horizontally to handle hundreds of millions of QPS and petabytes of data by splitting hot shards, rebalancing capacity, and moving traffic through topology changes. Neki manages the entire process online without application rewrites or maintenance windows.

Stockfish 19

182 atiedebee 2026-09-10 08:23:01 UTC stockfishchess.org Llama Share 117

Stockfish 19 has been released with improved strength and features, offering a stronger play and more accurate analysis. The new release brings an Elo gain of up to 44 points and is available for download at stockfishchess.org/download.

To write non-fiction, draw the trunk, then the rest of the tree

46 DanielVZ 2026-09-10 12:23:01 UTC devz.cl Llama Share 8

The author shares their struggles with staying awake in class and writing skills, but credits reading and writing for helping them succeed in history despite poor attendance. They offer advice on structuring essays by identifying a central theme, thesis, and supporting arguments to engage readers.

Casablanca: How An Unproduced Play Marched into Movie History

8 mdp2021 2026-09-10 15:54:01 UTC thecollector.com LocalLLM Share 1

Casablanca, released in 1942, became a cultural phenomenon due to its timely release during WWII and its iconic lines. The film's plot and characters reflect the complexities of war, love, and moral choices, resonating with audiences then and now.

iPhone Duo

1332 thecosmicfrog 2026-09-09 18:23:01 UTC apple.com Llama Share 2317

The iPhone Duo offers a spacious display, multitasking capabilities, and compact design. It features essential controls on the side for easy access and comes with various accessories like a 100% fiber-based box for packaging.

Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?

520 dmitrybrant 2026-09-10 02:23:01 UTC rivendell.dmitrybrant.com Llama Share 219

User controls a park where the speed of light is 5 km/h, demonstrating relativistic effects like length contraction and time dilation. The user can accelerate, stop, and observe these effects by moving around the park with W A S D keys and mouse.

Python sets and dictionaries can have quadratic-time performance

12 ibobev 2026-09-10 14:23:01 UTC lemire.me Llama Share 3

The author discusses the limitations of Python's dict data structure, which is often assumed to be O(1) or constant-time. In reality, its performance can degrade due to collisions and memory constraints.

Serverless DTLS

4 mlhpdx 2026-09-10 15:52:01 UTC proxylity.com Prefix Share 1

DTLS Listeners add TLS-style encryption and authentication to UDP applications without changing the datagram transport model. Clients establish a DTLS 1.2 or DTLS 1.3 session with the Listener's assigned domain and port. Proxylity decrypts authenticated application data and delivers the plaintext payload to your configured Destinations. Responses from your application are encrypted and ...

The first drink-driving conviction may have happened in London

10 beardyw 2026-09-10 15:23:01 UTC ianvisits.co.uk Llama Share 11

A London taxi driver, George Smith, was convicted of drink-driving in 1897 after crashing his electric cab. He was fined 20 shillings for being drunk while driving and pleaded guilty to the charge.

Show HN: Filament – Fast data movement engine in Go

11 ikswolzok 2026-09-10 14:23:01 UTC github.com/galaxy-io Llama Share 0

Filament is a data replication engine that moves data from sources to sinks using various methods. It can be run as a service, deployed on own infrastructure, or embedded in an application.

Who Dung It? (Turdle.fun)

11 nb_quant 2026-09-10 14:23:01 UTC turdle.fun Full Share 14

Hints compare body size using length and breadth. Bigger, smaller, or similar.

What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks

623 evakhoury 2026-09-09 17:23:01 UTC tautology.town Llama Share 378

Visa and Mastercard are card networks that facilitate transactions between cardholders, issuers, and merchants. They don't issue cards or manage point-of-sale systems, but instead connect these parties to enable secure transactions.

Don't Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables

24 Brajeshwar 2026-09-10 15:29:01 UTC blog.jim-nielsen.com Llama Share 26

A man found two old cables in his "Big Box of Cables" and realized he needed them, rekindling motivation and purpose. He hopes to pass on the lesson to his future kids about not discarding useful items.

Show HN: Art – draw one stroke, let symmetry complete it

65 cyb0rg0 2026-09-10 09:23:01 UTC mrdee.in Full Share 26

Recolour keeps the geometry and re-runs the palette. Inks below are for drawing — metallics and gradient inks shift colour as the stroke travels outward.

Discrete Dipole Approximation Code Ddscat 7.2 (2012)

8 doener 2026-09-10 13:23:01 UTC arxiv.org LocalLLM Share 1

DDSCAT 7.2 is an open-source Fortran-90 tool for electromagnetic scattering calculations using the discrete dipole approximation. It supports complex geometries, MPI/OpenMP, and provides near-field electric field data.

Liesegang Rings

19 surprisetalk 2026-09-10 11:23:01 UTC chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com Full Share 4

Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives

418 bookofjoe 2026-09-09 17:23:01 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 739

Researchers found that self-driving cars crash significantly less often than human drivers, with evidence showing a 27% reduction in pedestrian crashes and up to 39% fewer property-damage claims. Studies also show that Waymo's robotaxis have given millions of paid rides with a 92% reduction in fatal or serious-injury crashes compared to human drivers.

Larger Pacific striped octopus

114 olalonde 2026-09-10 05:23:01 UTC en.wikipedia.org Llama Share 53

The Pacific striped octopus, also known as the Harlequin octopus, is a social species that forms groups of up to 40 individuals and exhibits unique mating behaviors. It has been found in tropical waters of the Eastern Pacific and can reproduce multiple times throughout its life.

Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting

342 jacquesm 2026-09-10 14:23:01 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 133

User reports that a checkbox they disabled months ago is still active, raising concerns about OpenAI's data handling practices. The user questions the company's integrity and suggests others may have experienced similar issues with their settings being re-enabled.

No Man's Sky Cosmos

431 Limb 2026-09-09 16:23:01 UTC nomanssky.com Llama Share 434

New features have been added to No Man's Sky, including a star system map, deep-space points of interest, and the ability to mine resources from asteroids. The game also includes new player titles and rewards for accomplishments at these points of interest.