Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin

852 fnthawar2 2026-09-10 14:41:44 UTC shopify.engineering Llama Share 572

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.

More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math

730 pred_ 2026-09-10 13:41:44 UTC mathstodon.xyz Llama Share 671

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.

YuE2 · Frontier Music with Symbolic Planning

60 sexy_seedbox 2026-09-11 00:41:44 UTC map-yue2.github.io Llama Share 48

YuE2 and Suno v5 achieve high scores on WildSongBench, with YuE2 reaching 6.9632 in the best-of-8 setting. MERT2-30s and MERT2-FS dominate MARBLE metrics for emotion recognition, while SheetSage2 achieves SOTA on 10 of 13 benchmark metrics for music transcription.

Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory

57 jonifico 2026-09-10 23:41:44 UTC system76.com Llama Share 34

System76's Thelio Mira AI workstations offer affordable, GPU-focused hardware for local AI development with various configuration options. The systems come with a limited warranty and support for Linux distributions, including Pop!_OS and Ubuntu.

OpenAI Agents API

170 aquir 2026-09-10 20:41:44 UTC developers.openai.com Llama Share 104

The Agents API provides access to the Codex harness through an OpenAI-managed API, allowing applications to interact with agents in a sandbox environment. Sessions are managed by OpenAI, while applications provide tools and choose their execution environment.

Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables

362 Brajeshwar 2026-09-10 15:41:44 UTC blog.jim-nielsen.com Llama Share 272

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.

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

365 seelos 2026-09-10 15:41:44 UTC cognition.com Llama Share 155

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.

Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds

75 rguiscard 2026-09-11 01:41:44 UTC upsocl.com Llama Share 29

ngela Karime Venegas Hernández, a 16-year-old Mexican student, invented "Vortex Tech", a device that extinguishes fires using sound waves. It has been tested successfully on various materials and is set to represent Mexico at an international fair.

Google will buy half the electricity of a nuclear power plant

119 lukaspetersson 2026-09-11 01:41:44 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 90

Google invests €13bn in Finland's AI infrastructure, including a 22-year contract to buy up to half the electricity from a nuclear power plant. The deal is expected to support over 37,000 jobs and boost Finland's GDP by €3.6bn annually.

Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images (2025)

285 gumby 2026-09-10 15:41:44 UTC spinoff.nasa.gov Llama Share 45

A Singaporean archaeologist used NASA's decorrelation stretch technique to uncover 200 previously hidden paintings at Angkor Wat, revealing faded images that were invisible to the naked eye. The technique, originally developed for satellite imagery, has been widely applied in various fields including archaeology and tattoo preservation.

The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac

108 auberonedu 2026-09-10 22:41:44 UTC auberon.xyz Llama Share 69

A WebGPU shader on an untrusted site can hang a Mac's graphics, making the desktop UI unusable until a restart is forced by clicking a link. Apple has not prioritized fixing this issue despite its potential to be annoying and violating user trust.

NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami

73 mckn1ght 2026-09-10 21:41:44 UTC ntsb.gov Llama Share 116

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a runway excursion accident involving Air Flight 7598 at Miami International Airport on September 6, 2026. The NTSB has recovered and read the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder, which will be reviewed to produce a written transcript.

Customizing my Compaq MX-11800 keyboard

18 NetOpWibby 2026-09-11 00:41:44 UTC blog.webb.page Llama Share 4

The author customized their Compaq MX-11800 keyboard with Gateron Milky Yellow Pro switches and a classic Mac look, but encountered issues with soldering and compatibility. They eventually found a solution by using Mill-Max sockets to hotswap switches and restored the keyboard's functionality.

Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom

177 aanet 2026-09-10 17:41:44 UTC musictheory.pugetsound.edu Full Share 79

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Neki – Sharded Postgres

213 simon_weber 2026-09-10 16:41:44 UTC planetscale.com Llama Share 114

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.

LLM Visualizer – Build a Transformer from Scratch

7 evo_9 2026-09-11 02:52:44 UTC jayvisaria.github.io Full Share 2

Interactive step-by-step visualizer for large language models. Explore tokenization, embeddings, self-attention, training, and modern architectures like RoPE, GQA, and MoE.

Proof of Capture: Apple Reference Image, but open source and using steganography

75 merybenavente 2026-09-10 20:41:44 UTC merybenavente.me Llama Share 51

A new camera technology, Proof of Capture, has been introduced to prove a photo was taken by a camera and not AI generated. This approach uses an invisible watermark in the image pixels to sign a perceptual hash at capture time.

Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE

156 weierstass 2026-09-10 16:41:44 UTC codeberg.org Llama Share 57

A strategy to avoid receiving garbage on Codeberg involves not visiting as an AI scraper or contacting Codeberg. Using a Location directive with konqueror can help choose which changes to use, defaulting to 1 for best speed.

Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft

626 mmastrac 2026-09-10 13:41:44 UTC rustfoundation.org Llama Share 357

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.

iPhone Duo

1418 thecosmicfrog 2026-09-10 03:41:44 UTC apple.com Llama Share 2452

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: Algo-Trading-Skills - 501 agent skills for trading infrastructure

4 HimanshuJ16 2026-09-11 02:41:44 UTC github.com/himanshuj16 Prefix Share 1

501 algorithmic trading skills · 16 engineering domains · 5 regulatory & exchange frameworks · 501 working reference implementations backed by 20,291 unit tests · agentskills.io standard · Works with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex CLI, Cursor, Gemini CLI and any tool that reads SKILL.md · Apache 2.0 ⚠️ Community Project — This is an independent, community-created project. Not ...

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

289 thelastgallon 2026-09-10 11:41:44 UTC pv-magazine.com Llama Share 236

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.

Herdr Studio

11 throwaway888abc 2026-09-11 01:41:44 UTC powerfooi.github.io Llama Share 4

Herdr Studio is a browser-based tool that keeps terminals alive and provides a fast workspace for coding, with features like full terminal streaming and agent awareness. It bridges the gap between local socket API, terminal stream, files, Git operations, and session records.

Recursion into madness

49 surprisetalk 2026-09-10 21:41:44 UTC blog.coredump.cx Llama Share 14

The author explores the limitations of large language models, particularly in image and video editing tools, where recursive processes can lead to chaotic results. Gemini's attempts to rewrite a passage resulted in increasingly bizarre metaphors, demonstrating the model's struggles with open-ended rewrites.

What happens when a GPU writes memory

54 ibobev 2026-09-10 19:41:44 UTC blog.doubleword.ai Llama Share 1

The RTX 4090's L2 cache handles data serialization, and stores are sent to DRAM after a miss. The cache uses a combination of eviction policies to manage space, including writing back dirty lines before evicting them. Fences are used to ensure that data is written durably and visible across the system.

Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026

97 garo-pro 2026-09-10 17:41:44 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 167

Threat actors have increasingly used AI models like Claude to carry out sophisticated cyber operations, including espionage and influence operations. These attacks often involve the use of compromised API keys, session tokens, and devices to accelerate their ability to rapidly scan, exploit, and take over target systems.

JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation

82 Skinney 2026-09-10 17:41:44 UTC openjdk.org Llama Share 28

The goal is to improve startup and warmup time for Java applications by compiling code to native code in a training run, storing it in an AOT cache for use in subsequent production runs. This approach combines the benefits of static compilation with the agility and portability of dynamic compilation, allowing Java applications to achieve peak performance while adapting to changing workloads.

Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video]

152 tosh 2026-09-10 15:41:44 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 75

Setting up OpenCode with Ollama and sbx on Mac

12 etoxin 2026-09-11 01:41:44 UTC tensorsandtokens.com Llama Share 8

The user is using Qwen 3.8 and Gemma4 models for local LLM development on an Apple MacBook Pro, leveraging Opencode and Docker sandboxes for stability and security. They prefer Ollama's ease of use, fast performance on Apple silicon, and stability over other tools like Opencode.

Bitap: My favorite string matching algorithm

4 haeseong 2026-09-11 02:41:44 UTC jo3-l.dev Prefix Share 0

A classic problem is to find the first occurrence of a pattern $P$ in a string $T$. There are various classic algorithms to solve this problem efficiently, such as Boyer-Moore, Knuth-Morris-Pratt, and Two-Way. In this post I want to provide an exposition of a less well-known algorithm, the bitap or shift-and algorithm1, that runs efficiently when the pattern $P$ is relatively short (of length ...