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Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

(developer.nvidia.com/blog/introducing-cuda-rust-two-tracks-for-writing-gpu-kernels/)

636 points by nonmaskable 21 hours ago | loading comments

Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes

(ryan.science/blog/keys-not-included)

150 points by Ryan5453 5 hours ago | loading comments

My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it

(jakeasmith.com/blog/http-build-url/)

76 points by jakeasmith a day ago | loading comments

The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac

(www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/events/strings02/dirac/speach.html)

26 points by rramadass 4 days ago | loading comments

Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres

(rohanbansal.com/qorl)

528 points by polyphilz 14 hours ago | loading comments

Comparison of Malloc() Algorithms

(egbert.net/blog/articles/comparison-of-arena-architecture-in-malloc.html)

59 points by egberts1 2 days ago | loading comments

Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard

(mimo.xiaomi.com/rl/)

420 points by krackers 12 hours ago | loading comments

One Year of Sponsored Servo Development

(servo.org/blog/2026/09/15/one-year-of-sponsorship/)

6 points by AshleysBrain 11 minutes ago | loading comments

Cloudflare/Security-Audit-Skill

(github.com/cloudflare/security-audit-skill)

42 points by donk8r 4 hours ago | loading comments

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Backups Aren't Simple

(filipovski.net/2026/09/16/backups-arent-simple.html)

224 points by afilipovski 12 hours ago | loading comments

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Small programming tricks

(will-keleher.com/posts/small-programming-tricks-matter/)

505 points by signa11 16 hours ago | loading comments

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Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus

(www.amazon.science/blog/developing-provably-correct-rust-code-with-verus)

104 points by Betelbuddy 3 days ago | loading comments

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Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs

(arxiv.org/abs/2609.16338)

196 points by matt_d 11 hours ago | loading comments

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A 32-year-old bug walks into a Telnet server

(labs.watchtowr.com/a-32-year-old-bug-walks-into-a-telnet-server-gnu-inetutils-telnetd-cve-2026-32746/)

52 points by paimapi a day ago | loading comments

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The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve

(johnjwang.com/post/2026/09/15/engineering-behind-us-strategic-petroleum-reserve)

194 points by johnjwang a day ago | loading comments

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The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind

(gcaptain.com/the-return-of-sail-power-cargo-ships-are-turning-back-to-the-wind/)

84 points by gumby 8 hours ago | loading comments

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OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework

(openspec.dev/)

135 points by etoxin 9 hours ago | loading comments

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Lucasart's Afterlife

(togameforlife.wordpress.com/2023/12/09/on-lucasarts-afterlife/)

3 points by Bondi_Blue a day ago | loading comments

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AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran

(www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/aws-says-it-cant-restore-some-data-from-mideast-facilities-struck-by-iran-ddcb7e5d)

382 points by berkeleyjunk a day ago | loading comments

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PCB is brought to you by Fable 5

(a6mzero.com/posts/this-pcb-is-brought-to-you-by-fable-5/)

89 points by jasonpeacock 3 days ago | loading comments

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HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?

(harnesstax.github.io/)

117 points by matt_d 10 hours ago | loading comments

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Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

(github.com/arnegiacomo/fugleramme)

2151 points by arnemunthekaas 2 days ago | loading comments

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Performance Improvements in .NET 11

(devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvements-in-net-11/)

279 points by soheilpro 2 days ago | loading comments

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Jev Ultrafast: A browser agent with a dynamic, indexed action space

(github.com/browser-use/jev-ultrafast)

47 points by rahimnathwani 5 hours ago | loading comments

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Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries

(untranslatedjp.substack.com/p/japans-book-scene-is-quietly-moving)

180 points by herbertl 4 days ago | loading comments

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Reversing Factorio's RNG

(gegell.github.io/posts/factorio-rng/)

198 points by jheitmann 5 days ago | loading comments

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US interest rates raised for first time in three years

(www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw4gmlyvj422o)

48 points by higginsniggins 9 hours ago | loading comments

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Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough

(www.bbc.com/news/articles/c60m3k28j81mo)

37 points by marc__1 7 hours ago | loading comments

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Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"

(evanhahn.com/posts/2026-09-13-programmers-dislike-reduce/)

147 points by vinhnx 3 days ago | loading comments

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Reverse-engineered Jev-like model

(github.com/vinnylarouge/jevlike)

120 points by rochansinha 14 hours ago | loading comments