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  Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s ---- - 28 minutes ago | 18 points | 4 comments - URL: https://github.com/Niko1221/Strata - Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49953495 - Summary: Strata is an open-source inference engine that runs the 125-billion-parameter Qwen3.8-Flash-Next AI model on consumer PCs with NVIDIA or AMD GPUs (12GB+ VRAM), 32GB+ RAM, and 80GB disk. It offers one-click install for Windows/Linux, with setup via AI assistants or m...

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  The Heilbronn Problem ---- - a day ago | 9 points | 1 comments - URL: https://math.tejstead.com/heilbronn/ - Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49939637 - Summary: The Heilbronn Problem asks how to place n points in a unit-area region so that the smallest triangle formed by any three points has the largest possible area, denoted A(n). This site collects the best known configurations for three container shapes: squares, triangles, and optimal convex regions. Each entry provides exa...

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  Emitting metadata early makes building/checking Rust up to twice as fast ---- - 8 hours ago | 51 points | 8 comments - URL: https://github.com/PowderworksCode/headstart - Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49951218 - Summary: The GitHub repository "headstart" by PowderworksCode introduces a tool that allows dependent Rust crates to start compiling before their dependencies finish type-checking. It works by having rustc write early metadata files after interface c...

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  Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening ---- - 6 minutes ago | 4 points | 0 comments - URL: https://automatictransmission.khoury.northeastern.edu/ - Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49954882 - Summary: The study, conducted with Consumer Reports, tested 21 connected vehicles and 30 companion apps to assess data privacy. Key findings: 19 of 21 vehicles contacted third parties (including advertisers/trackers) over Wi-Fi; 7 of 30 apps transmitted sensit...

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  A Map of Every Lighthouse on the Planet ---- - 2 days ago | 3 points | 0 comments - URL: https://mapped.earth/lighthouses/world - Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933461 - Summary: This is a webpage from mapped.earth showcasing every lighthouse in the world, displayed on a map with their real light cycles. The site includes navigation to various map features like globe, rivers, pulse, lightning, rainfall, UV, films, blog, and about. It highlights specific regions: Scotland, Br...

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  What I learnt co-leading an AI Safety bootcamp for legal and governance practit ---- - 8 minutes ago | 4 points | 0 comments - URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KtAug62dYRgAS8sqJ/what-i-learnt-co-leading-an-ai-safety-bootcamp-for-legal-and - Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49955839 - Summary: The author co-led an AI Safety bootcamp for legal and governance practitioners in East Sussex, organized by ML4Good and EquiStamp. The five-day program brought together 19 senior legal,...

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  Show HN: Dataviz, ranked daily from GitHub, NPM, PyPI and CRAN ---- - 15 minutes ago | 3 points | 0 comments - URL: https://awesomedataviz.com/ - Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49956183 - Summary: Awesome Dataviz is an open, community-curated directory of 290 data visualization tools, including charting libraries, mapping toolkits, graph visualizers, and dashboards. It ranks tools using live GitHub, npm, PyPI, and CRAN data refreshed daily. The site offers browsing by category...

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  The CISA Alert: Security Beyond Solitary Confinement ---- - 20 minutes ago | 4 points | 0 comments - URL: https://jnior.com/blog/the-cisa-alert-security-beyond-solitary-confinement/ - Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49956416 - Summary: The blog post discusses CISA's urgent warning about Internet-exposed operational technology (OT) and the need for stronger security. While acknowledging the importance of authentication and network protections, the author argues that requ...

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  Software Engineering Is Dead. Long Live Product Engineering ---- - 27 minutes ago | 5 points | 0 comments - URL: https://newsletter.chainofthought.show/p/software-engineering-is-dead-long - Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49956358 - Summary: The article argues that AI has made coding cheap, shifting the role of engineers from writing code to product engineering—understanding user needs and providing context to AI agents. Laurie Voss, npm co-founder, compares this to 1960s syste...

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  'Neanderthals Among Us' by Peter Sahlins Review ---- - 22 hours ago | 6 points | 0 comments - URL: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/neanderthals-among-us-peter-sahlins-review - Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49947565

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  Building a RAG Pipeline for Semantic Code Search ---- - 58 minutes ago | 17 points | 0 comments - URL: https://blog.jetbrains.com/ai/2026/09/building-a-rag-pipeline-for-semantic-code-search-a-developer-diary-and-field-notes/ - Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49956148 - Summary: This blog post from JetBrains describes the development of Air Context, a RAG pipeline for semantic code search that helps LLM coding agents find relevant code. The first part covers parsing, chunking, a...

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  A parasitic Fibonacci computation inside /usr/bin/top ---- - 2 days ago | 14 points | 4 comments - URL: https://seriot.ch/computation/terminfo/ - Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49935250 - Summary: The article demonstrates that ncurses terminfo's parameter expansion language can simulate a two-counter Minsky machine, making it computationally universal under idealized unbounded counters and expansion steps. It provides examples: an addition machine (4+9=13) and a Fibona...

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  Results from the Jane Street hardware puzzle ---- - 2 days ago | 10 points | 0 comments - URL: https://blog.janestreet.com/asic-puzzle-results/ - Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49934078 - Summary: Jane Street published results from their ASIC reverse-engineering puzzle, which asked solvers to determine the function of a small chip from its GDS layout. About 400 people from 30+ countries submitted solutions. The chip was a hardware checker for an 11x11 Star Battle puzzle (&...

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  How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI [video] ---- - 10 hours ago | 8 points | 1 comments - URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLvFTMtw4Jk - Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49951891 - Summary: This is a YouTube page for a video titled "How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with Al" featuring Katie Dill from Stripe, along with standard YouTube navigation links and copyright information.

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  How effective altruism conquered the world (and might yet end it) ---- - 6 hours ago | 10 points | 0 comments - URL: https://www.economist.com/international/2026/10/01/how-effective-altruism-conquered-the-world - Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49953777

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  Remove and Disable Apple Macos27 AI Models Tool ---- - 37 minutes ago | 19 points | 4 comments - URL: https://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI - Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49957116 - Summary: RemoveMacAI is a GitHub tool that disables Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and reclaims disk space by removing its downloaded models. It offers a one-command, fully reversible solution. The tool turns off features like Siri, Writing Tools, Genmoji, Image Playground, ChatGPT extension, s...

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  Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage ---- - 43 minutes ago | 17 points | 4 comments - URL: https://www.1011now.com/2026/09/30/more-questions-than-answers-about-lincolns-google-data-center-water-electricity-usage/ - Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49957068 - Summary: Nebraska data centers must submit annual reports to the state's Department of Water, Energy, and Environment, but some claim usage data as trade secrets. Google's...

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  Homa: The End of TCP for AI Clusters [video] ---- - 38 minutes ago | 6 points | 0 comments - URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ8WWZzoaR0 - Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49957117 - Summary: This content is a YouTube page for a video titled "Homa: The End of TCP for AI Clusters" by John Ousterhout from Stanford. The page includes standard YouTube navigation elements such as links to About, Press, Copyright, Contact, Creators, Advertise, Developers, Terms,...

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  Show HN: Build with Python – a beginner course where your code draws ---- - 2 hours ago | 9 points | 2 comments - URL: https://scimigo.com/en/learn/build-with-python/01-draw-with-python - Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49956771 - Summary: This is a lesson page from SciMigo, a platform for learning programming by watching code run. The lesson, "Draw with Python," is the first in a series and takes about 45 minutes. It teaches function calls, variables, loops,...

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  I asked Claude build a physically accurate O'Neill cylinder you can walk around ---- - an hour ago | 13 points | 7 comments - URL: https://island-three.gruberbuilds.workers.dev/ - Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49957191

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  AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt ---- - an hour ago | 50 points | 20 comments - URL: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-hide-debt-off-balance-sheet - Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49020999 - Summary: A Nikkei Asia investigation found five major US tech giants—Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle—are concealing an estimated $1.65 trillion in off-balance-sheet debt, surpassing their $1.35 trillion in officially reported...

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  Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity ---- - 3 hours ago | 40 points | 11 comments - URL: https://therepublicofletters.substack.com/p/calvin-and-hobbes-and-the-price-of - Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557079 - Summary: This article details Bill Watterson’s uncompromising artistic integrity during and after the ten-year run of *Calvin and Hobbes*. Despite the strip’s massive success in over 2,400 newspapers, Watterson refused lucrative merchandising deals, battling hi...

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  Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request ---- - 49 minutes ago | 28 points | 4 comments - URL: https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/2055992439031185782 - Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48170810 - Summary: Meta is reportedly planning to delete an account with over one million followers belonging to Ahmed, who was arrested and later acquitted in Kuwait during a government crackdown. The action is criticized as capitulating to Kuwaiti authorities.

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  A statement about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia ---- - 11 minutes ago | 4 points | 0 comments - URL: https://www.rightscon.org/rc26-statement/ - Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978386 - Summary: Access Now announced the cancellation of RightsCon 2026 in Zambia just days before the summit was to convene over 2,600 participants. The organization attributes the cancellation to foreign interference, specifically diplomatic pressure from the People's Republi...

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  Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain Campaign ---- - 52 minutes ago | 15 points | 0 comments - URL: https://socket.dev/blog/bitwarden-cli-compromised - Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876043 - Summary: Bitwarden CLI version 2026.4.0 has been compromised as part of the ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign. Socket researchers discovered that attackers exploited a compromised GitHub Action in Bitwarden's CI/CD pipeline to inject malicious code i...