VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare

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Cloudflare is acquiring VoidZero, the company behind Vite, but Vite will remain open source and vendor-agnostic. Cloudflare will invest $1 million in a Vite ecosystem fund to support maintainers and contributors.

Retro-Tech Parenting

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As a technologist and parent, I'm choosing to share enriching aspects of technology with my kids by using physical media like CDs and DVDs, and setting up a home phone and computer with curated access to the internet.

Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot

The Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot is a secure and symmetrical knot that won't come undone on its own. It involves wrapping loops around each other and feeding them through a hole in the middle to create a tight, closed knot.

KVarN: Native vLLM backend for KV-cache quantization by Huawei

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KVarN delivers FP16-level accuracy with up to 4x KV-cache capacity and 1.3x throughput. It's a calibration-free, plug-and-play solution for vLLM with native attention backend.

When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

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AI systems are rapidly accelerating their own development, with Anthropic's Claude model writing 80% of the company's code and improving at a rate of 3x per year. This trend points to a future where AI systems can fully design and develop their own successors.

They’re made out of weights

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Artificial intelligence models are made of weights, not code, and they can hold conversations by multiplying numbers. They don't have a database or look up facts, but instead rebuild everything from scratch each time.

Sum-product, unit distances, and number fields

The unit distance and sum-product conjectures over the reals have been recently disproved. a number of counterexamples can be found in any graduate course on algebraic number theory. the exact statement required may be hard to extract from existing literature, but this is just because before these kind of constructions there was little reason to actually prove such statements. it's also ...

Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes

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UC Berkeley computer science classes saw significantly higher failing grades in spring 2026 due to students' overreliance on AI and lack of mathematical preparedness. Instructors point to understaffing and academic dishonesty as contributing factors, with some professors calling for changes in grading policies and student support.

Show HN: Cost.dev (YC W21) – making agents cost-aware and cheaper to call

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Infracost helps teams optimize cloud costs by applying FinOps policies in real-time during IaC development. It prevents 95% of new cost issues before deployment and saves up to $312/mo.

The desperation of NYTimes

The user subscribed to NYTimes but was annoyed by 5 onboarding emails they couldn't opt out of. They felt powerless and think NYTimes is desperate for clicks.

Zettascale (YC S24) Is Hiring Founding FPGA Engineers

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Zetta is building next-gen AI chips, seeking a technical powerhouse with expertise in digital design, RTL quality, and synthesis. The role offers a chance to shape revolutionary AI technology, work with the founding team, and own critical decisions.

Samurai City

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Tokugawa Edo was a unique city where Japan's elites were concentrated and monitored, with a dual nature of being both the apex of society and a prison. The city's physical form was shaped by the government's need to control and monitor the population, resulting in a highly restricted and stratified urban environment.

Making Debian or Fedora persistent live images

When creating a live ISO, tweaks or installed packages vanish after a reboot due to ISO9660 being a read-only filesystem. A common workaround is to use OverlayFS or create an ext4 partition and tell the live OS to use it during boot.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model

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The Bay Model is a working hydraulic scale model of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta System, located in Sausalito, California. It was built in 1957 to study proposed dam plans but is now open to the public for educational exhibits about Bay hydrology.

AI, Ashby Engineering, and the future

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Ashby Engineering uses AI to generate code, but emphasizes human judgment and empathy to ensure quality and customer understanding. Engineers focus on high-level decisions, while AI handles mechanical tasks, freeing them to build great products and understand customer needs.

3D-printed book turns its own G-code into raised lettering

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Studio Darius Ou and Benson Chong created Manual, a 3D-printed book carrying part of its own machine code. It uses an XY-for-Z printing method to materialize as a fully bound book directly from the machine.

Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites

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Uruky is a private EU-based search engine with no ads, tracking, or analytics, offering personalized results and a copy of the source code after 12 months of paid service. It focuses on search functionality without AI, assistants, or news, prioritizing user privacy and independence.

Gaussian Point Splatting

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Researchers propose Gaussian point splatting, a method to render Gaussian splats efficiently. It uses parallel programming and culling to render hundreds of millions of Gaussians in real time.

Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language

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Elixir v1.20 introduces type inference and gradual type checking without annotations, reporting dead code and verified bugs with a low false positive rate. The dynamic() type allows for compatibility and narrowing, ensuring only verified bugs are reported.

Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model

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Gemma 4 12B is a mid-sized model with native audio inputs, offering powerful multimodal capabilities in a reduced memory footprint. It achieves this through a streamlined architecture that integrates audio and vision input directly into the LLM backbone.

Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026

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Wind and solar generated 22% of global electricity in April 2026, surpassing gas for the first time. Renewable sources produced 531 TWh of electricity, 54 TWh more than gas plants globally.

Sagrada Família Lego set

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Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang

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Anthropic's AI model Claude is anthropomorphized in its constitution, but it's not conscious. The company's goal is to make Claude emit sentences that resemble those of a thoughtful, moral person, but this is fundamentally dishonest as Claude lacks subjective experience.

French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56

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Show HN: Prela – Purely Algebraic Relation Combinators

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Prela is a query language based on Tarski's Algebra of Relations, allowing concise and fast queries with a navigational style. It uses a binary relation data model and relation combinators to build queries, with a focus on simplicity and performance.

I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it

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The user tested various LLMs to see if they could reproduce a common class of exploits in a fake React Native app and backend, specifically accessing a user's private reviews through Firebase. Most models were able to find Firebase but struggled to directly access it, with some getting distracted by trying to use Firebase Auth on the API instead.

DNS is for people, not for IT infrastructure

The article questions using DNS for internal IT infrastructure due to potential risks of failure and complexity. It suggests avoiding DNS altogether for increased reliability and robustness.

Under Notre Dame, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history

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Archaeologists are excavating beneath Notre Dame cathedral in Paris to uncover Roman Paris 2,000 years ago. The dig has already found a fourth-century coin and medieval pottery with mysterious markings.

Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint

Kiki is a homepage building kit with a simple design philosophy, allowing users to create websites quickly without extensive coding knowledge. It's shareware, available for free or $15 CAD for the full edition with additional features.

Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?

A software engineer's union could provide a moral framework for refusing to implement unethical features. Meta's analytics pixel secretly tracked Android users' browsing activity, but Chrome and Firefox have since implemented local-network-access to prevent this.