LLMs reward expertise

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Using large language models like LLMs requires domain knowledge to get the most out of them. A skilled prompter like Terence Tao can steer the model with expertise in the domain, but this skill is not easily replicable by following tips.

Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone

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Swiftlet is a Swift + Metal runtime for Qwen3-Next and Qwen3.5/3.6 models, allowing them to run on iPhone with 2.5 GB of RAM. It streams weights from storage and activates only 3B parameters per token.

Devtools must be open source

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Software engineers used to rarely write personal software, but now agents can easily manage customizing software, making it easier to personalize and maintain. Agents can build and manage custom software with minimal programming, allowing for more efficient and flexible use of software.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)

Bucket Robotics: Senior Fullstack Engineer, San Francisco, CA (On-site) - Own massive surface area, build customer-facing app, scale internal tooling, and design data pipelines. Product-minded engineer with systems thinking and curiosity.

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

Several professionals with AI, data, and software engineering backgrounds are seeking roles in various locations, including Brazil, Canada, India, Russia, and the US, with expertise in technologies like Python, SQL, Generative AI, LLMs, and Rust. They are looking for opportunities as Senior AI Engineers, Applied AI, Search/Relevance, RAG, Data/AI Lead, and AI Solutions roles, with some open ...

Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage

That time when I failed the Microsoft interview

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The year was 2015, halfway through my Computer Science bachelor’s degree. I had spent a few months contributing to open source and my confidence levels were high, so I thought: why not aim for a summer internship at Microsoft? Microsoft, of all places, might sound like a weird company to target in 2026. Back then, however, they were cool (in my book at least). I was impressed by their work on ...

Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale

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Workers AI optimizes large models on GPUs by quantizing the KV cache to FP8, compressing model weights to INT4, and protecting the cache with integrity checks. These techniques enable efficient serving of models like Kimi K-series and GLM with no change in accuracy, supporting more customers at lower costs.

MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video

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MiniMax H3 is a next-generation open-weights video model that generates 2K video with real stereo sound up to 15 seconds. It combines text, images, video, and audio inputs with a prompt to create a single video clip, reducing five tasks into one model.

Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code

The user uses coding assistants to fast-forward through boring parts of projects, but manually types generated code to understand and adapt it, valuing comprehension over productivity. This workflow helps them build a mental model of their codebase and detect potential issues, allowing them to work faster and more efficiently.

200 Milliseconds

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See what really happens in the ~200ms after you press Enter: a single HTTP request traced in real time through DNS, TCP, TLS, the Linux kernel, Node's event loop, and Postgres β€” then back to the pixel. Scroll distance equals time.

Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years

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There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]

Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs

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I'm joining ClickHouse to lead ClickHouse Labs, a research team focused on advancing database technology. Our goal is to conduct impactful research and transform ideas into technology that benefits users, building on ClickHouse's strong foundation and exploring emerging AI and agentic technologies.
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Microsoft's Windows 365 Link is a thin client with limited functionality, requiring a Windows 365 Cloud PC connection. It features a secure-by-design architecture with locked EFI Secure Boot and BitLocker, similar to Windows RT devices.

Replacing the Kobo Libra H2O Battery

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User had a Kobo Libra H2O with a faulty battery, which was difficult to replace due to lack of suitable options. They found a replacement battery on Ali Express and successfully replaced it with a soldering iron and basic tools.

ZX Spectrum System Tour: Text Mode

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The author is exploring the ZX Spectrum's machine language capabilities, discussing how to load and run machine code, interact with the system variables, and print text to the screen. The author also covers how to read keyboard and joystick input, and provides a simple example program that demonstrates these capabilities, paving the way for more complex projects like the Manic Mechanic game.

How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood

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The entertainment industry in Los Angeles has been experiencing a production migration due to rising costs and tax incentives offered by other cities, leading to a decline in physical production in Hollywood. This migration has resulted in a widening gap between where stories are set and where they are filmed, with many productions choosing locations based on financial considerations rather ...

Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents

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Effortless cloud coding agents that feel good to use.

Frame selection is the whole game: notes on making LLMs watch video

The user built a local pipeline called "claude-real-video" to feed a model a video, not just a transcript, to improve understanding. The pipeline selects keyframes and fuses them with a transcript to create a package that vision-capable models can read.

Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library

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Bonsai is a UI library for building performant, reactive web applications in OCaml, inspired by Elm. It allows for composable state machines and incremental rendering, making it easy to manage state and UI updates.

Twenty Years of Pandoc

John MacFarlane created the document converter pandoc in 2006 using the Haskell programming language, which he chose for its strong type system and clean representation of structured documents. Over the next 20 years, pandoc evolved into a powerful tool supporting 51 input and 76 output formats, with over 600 contributors and a reputation for reliability and determinism, despite the potential ...

Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed

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A Canadian town, St. Mary's, has been plagued by a 20-year-old fish sauce stench from abandoned vats, but cleanup efforts have finally begun. The resulting fish sauce, if processed, might have a unique flavor profile due to prolonged fermentation, with notes of rancidity, amines, and possibly sweetness.

Massively Parallel Postgres Backups

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PlanetScale's backup system for sharded databases uses parallelism to minimize production impact and achieve petabyte-scale backups in hours, with techniques like spinning up backup-specific nodes and replaying Write-Ahead Logs. The system uses object storage, WAL archiving, and hybrid replay to ensure consistent backups, and is designed to be transparent and easy to use, with automated ...

AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU

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AirLLM is a library that reduces inference memory usage for large language models, allowing them to run on a single GPU card without quantization or pruning. It supports various models, including Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, and more, and can be used with a simple one-line initialization.

Battle of the Beams

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The Battle of the Beams was a period of World War II when the German Air Force used radio navigation systems to bomb the UK, but the British countered with jamming and deception signals. The Germans eventually abandoned the concept due to British interference.

KisakCOD – Open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer

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Copy COD4 game files to bin/(BUILD_TYPE)/* for development. Use AI for assistance, but remain responsible for code committed.

The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020)

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The Dunning-Kruger effect may not be a real bias in human thinking as it can be replicated with random data and is likely due to measurement error and unreliability. The effect was originally described as people overestimating their competence in areas they are not skilled at, but this may be an artefact of how the data was measured.