Why You Should Tune Code Before Your Garbage Collector Optimising your memory allocations in Java could make far more difference than your choice of Garbage Collector and may even change which is the best garbage...
Go's concurrency is one of the main reasons people like the language. You write go f(), send values through channels, and the runtime scheduler runs thousands of goroutines on just a few OS threads. It feels effortless...
Decommissioned NVIDIA enterprise GPUs are one of the last remaining sources of idle VRAM. K80 with 24GB of GDDR5 sells for $60, P100-16GB for around $75 and V100-16GB for under $200. Shortcomings and all, it’s important...
9th of July 2026 F rustrated by my arXiv submission being moved into the "on hold" queue, I did what any reasonable person would do in this situation: an analysis of arXiv submission delay times since 2015. • • •...
Jul. 12, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT The Department of Government Efficiency, which carried out the most transformative restructuring of the federal government in a generation, has formally ended — with no public accounting of...
The result, up front Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer is the most accurate on-device speech engine we tested. It beat every Whisper model we ship, including Whisper Small, on both the clean and the noisy half of LibriSpeech,...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: A state-owned newspaper in China recently published a satellite image of a data center in Gainesville, Va., writing in English that the development of...
DankMaterialShell (DMS) 1.5 "The Wolverine" is here! This release introduces Frame Mode, a new connected surface that ties the whole shell together, native DankCalendar integration, Hyprland Lua config and enhanced...
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is reportedly ending its deal with Flock Safety, a surveillance company that helps law enforcement track vehicles using thousands of its license plate cameras placed across the...
As rights advocates decry the detention of United States Congressman Ro Khanna by armed Israeli settlers, Israel and its allies are launching political attacks to discredit the progressive legislator. Israeli officials...
Last year, I published an article titled “It’s hard to build an oscillator”: The title alluded to the fact that there’s no shortage of oscillator circuits on the internet, but many of them use unusual parts, need weird...
2026-07-13 5 min read Bot mitigation is an adversarial game: attackers adapt, defenders respond, and the cycle continues. At Cloudflare, we stay ahead by combining visibility across our global network with signals from...
Just after noon on a Saturday last month, a Skydio X10 quadcopter hovered about 200 feet over a San Francisco apartment complex, watching police chase a man hiding behind a parked car. The target of this manhunt lay...
"This is some Jane Street sht." That was the reaction from a Director of Engineering at a Fortune 500 company. Firewalls that decide on application data, like an HTTP header rather than only an IP address and a port,...
"Git and email are the two really only tools I use," Linus Torvalds said at Open Source Summit India 2026. But ZDNet reports that he also shared his thoughts on Rust, C, and patch-checking tools: "I use Google as a way...
July 12, 2026 I’ve been using Photoshop since the mid-90s. First at school, with Photoshop 3, then through work. I bought my first boxed copy of CS2 in 2005, then upgraded to CS5 in 2010. I subscribed to Photoshop...
If I had time, I would go down a different route: I would to let an agent come up with a tool assisted speedrun for a hackable game. The agent would be nudged in the prompt to analyze the game and write custom tools to...
Berkshire Hathaway just reported a record $397.4 billion in cash and T-bills, 59% of its investable portfolio. After fourteen straight quarters of net equity selling, a streak that has continued unbroken under new CEO...
Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. This graph is one of them. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most important parts of...
What is this? This app simulates an analog stylus tracing a vinyl groove in slow motion, using microscopic physics rather than a visual approximation: Hertz/Winkler contact, viscoelastic damping, and rigid-body...
"Japan's experimental reusable rocket took off and safely landed in a first test flight Saturday," reports the Associated Press, as Japan "seeks to achieve the technology key to cut launch costs and compete in the...
Every way analytics tools recognise a returning browser, from cookies and localStorage to fingerprints and salted hashes, exactly what Margin computes, and the trade-offs vendors don't usually print. "Unique visitors"...
Last year, my wife and I went on a 5,025 Km Interrail adventure. We got the month-long unlimited pass and saw 10 Countries in 30 Days. That was a bit too intense. So this year we got the 15 travel days in 2 months...
I harass the sea with my tiny boat and am called a pirate, you do it with a great fleet and are called a king. Anthropic is actively campaigning to end software engineering. They need you to believe they can do that...
July 12, 2026 So I was optimizing a domain-specific compressor the other day, as one does. One important problem was chunking the input string and optimally choosing the most compact encoding for each chunk (different...
Skip to content Most communities and organisations evaluate their gatherings by what was decided. What was on the agenda, what was agreed, what actions were allocated and to whom. These are reasonable things to track...
colordx, webgl, gpu, performance, color · 8 min read · published Jun 11, 2026
✑ 2026-07-12 penmanship The crime The redemption I love writing in cursive, shaping each word in one long stroke. If you grew up learning the Latin alphabet, you likely don’t realize how much joy it sucks out of cursive...
The latest adventure for the kooky camera looks skyward. Chris Graue Musician and retro tech fan Chris Graue made headlines last month after using a Game Boy Camera to take a photo of Jupiter. Obviously, a Game Boy...
America "is facing what's projected to become the largest labor shortage in its history," according to experts interviewed by the Washington Post: Economists warn that the worsening labor problem, due in part to a...
I’m an intergalactic space warrior and leader of the Recyclons from planet Sigma IX. I came to Earth in 2017 and stood against Prime Minister Theresa May (as ‘Lord Buckethead’), going went viral (in a non-Covid way)...
Posted on July 9, 2026 • 93 views I was deep into investigating a performance issue with Letta Desktop lately; the story was same old same old, the greater the use, the slower the product. This seemed pretty obvious to...
Muscle Car Legends · Part 3 of 21 The ‘Cuda Story: How Plymouth Got Here The 426 Hemi: An Engine That Deserves Its Own Legend The Body: Aggression as Design Philosophy The Numbers Game: Rarity and What It Means Cultural...
We don't allow genai text on HN itself - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.htmlgenerated and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079. How to enforce this is a separate question, of course, but the...
CALCULIX A Free Software Three-Dimensional Structural Finite Element Program Version 2.23 is available Last updated: 1. Nov 17:46:29 CET 2025 CalculiX is a package designed to solve field problems. The method used is...
Allegheny County has not conducted periodic, regular property reassessments since the 1970s. As a result, assessed values have drifted further and further away from actual market values, creating inequities for...