Hacker News

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

  https://rohanbansal.com/qorl

  359 points, 68 comments, polyphilz, 5 hours ago

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• Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

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

  133 points, 43 comments, nonmaskable, 13 hours ago

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• Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs

  https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16338

  117 points, 11 comments, matt_d, 3 hours ago

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• Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard

  https://mimo.xiaomi.com/rl/

  205 points, 56 comments, krackers, 4 hours ago

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• Backups Aren't Simple

  https://filipovski.net/2026/09/16/backups-arent-simple.html

  41 points, 16 comments, afilipovski, 4 hours ago

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• The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve

  https://johnjwang.com/post/2026/09/15/engineering-behind-us-strategic-petroleum-reserve

  59 points, 11 comments, johnjwang, a day ago

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• Small programming tricks

  https://will-keleher.com/posts/small-programming-tricks-matter/

  367 points, 178 comments, signa11, 8 hours ago

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• OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework

  https://openspec.dev/

  26 points, 7 comments, etoxin, an hour ago

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• Reversing Factorio's RNG

  https://gegell.github.io/posts/factorio-rng/

  126 points, 13 comments, jheitmann, 4 days ago

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• Performance Improvements in .NET 11

  https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvements-in-net-11/

  132 points, 25 comments, soheilpro, a day ago

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• Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU

  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/canda-eu-membership-australia-us-trade-b3050227.html

  60 points, 14 comments, doener, an hour ago

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

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

  188 points, 160 comments, berkeleyjunk, a day ago

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• Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries

  https://untranslatedjp.substack.com/p/japans-book-scene-is-quietly-moving

  84 points, 30 comments, herbertl, 4 days ago

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• How good are frontier models at physics?

  https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13009

  64 points, 28 comments, qt31415926, 5 hours ago

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• Reverse-engineered Jev-like model

  https://github.com/vinnylarouge/jevlike

  51 points, 8 comments, rochansinha, 5 hours ago

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• Accurate Models of AMD Matrix Cores

  https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14845

  55 points, 6 comments, matt_d, 5 hours ago

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

  https://github.com/arnegiacomo/fugleramme

  2052 points, 236 comments, arnemunthekaas, a day ago

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• Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing

  https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-x-mozilla/

  520 points, 184 comments, vertigoruntime, 16 hours ago

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• Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"

  https://evanhahn.com/posts/2026-09-13-programmers-dislike-reduce/

  77 points, 134 comments, vinhnx, 3 days ago

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• Destroy After Reading: photocopiers,cheap paper and DIY gave metal it's look

  https://www.truegrittexturesupply.com/blogs/news/destroy-after-reading

  11 points, 2 comments, pigeons, 2 days ago

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• Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds

  https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14858

  178 points, 49 comments, bananaflag, 10 hours ago

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• Anatomy of a Texture

  https://agentlien.github.io/texture/

  71 points, 12 comments, Agentlien, 10 hours ago

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• Why Does the Universe Expand?

  https://cosmicave.org/2026/09/15/why-does-the-universe-expand/

  14 points, 3 comments, the__alchemist, 4 hours ago

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• Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera

  https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-flock-camera-data-shows-how-system-works/

  452 points, 208 comments, driverdan, 11 hours ago

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• Training Text-to-Image Models 3.6× Faster

  https://www.linum.ai/field-notes/jit-ddt

  26 points, 3 comments, schopra909, 7 hours ago

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• WalShadow: Sub-second Postgres replication to ClickHouse from physical WAL

  https://clickhouse.com/blog/introducing-walshadow

  36 points, 5 comments, spathak, 5 days ago

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• The DeepMind Institute

  https://institute.deepmind.com/

  133 points, 43 comments, vertigoruntime, 10 hours ago

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• I replaced my brown-noise browser tab with a menu bar app

  https://oldmanrahul.com/2026/09/14/hush/

  13 points, 5 comments, oldmanrahul, 11 hours ago

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• Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort (2022)

  https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/06/Vectorized%20and%20performance%20portable%20Quicksort.html

  161 points, 25 comments, mococa, 6 hours ago

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• Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer

  https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kyber/jobs/eturrAR-forward-deployed-engineer

  points, 0 comments, , 12 hours ago

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