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Show HN: Forkrun – NUMA-aware shell parallelizer (50×–400× faster than parallel) 24 by jkool702 | 6 comments on Hacker News. forkrun is the culmination of a 10-year-long journey focused on "how to make shell parallelization fast". What started as a standard "fork jobs in a loop" has turned into a lock-free, CAS-retry-loop-free, SIMD-accelerated, self-tuning, NUMA aware shell-based stream parallelization engine that is (mostly) a drop-in replacement for xargs -P and GNU parallel. On my 14-core/28-thread i9-7940x, forkrun achieves: * 200,000+ batch dispatches/sec (vs ~500 for GNU Parallel) * ~95–99% CPU utilization across all 28 logical cores, even when the workload is non-existant (bash no-ops / `:`) (vs ~6% for GNU Parallel). These benchmarks are intentionally worst-case (near-zero work per task) because they measure the capability of the parallelization framework itself, not how much work an external tool can do. * Typically 50×–400× faster on real high-frequenc...

30 Years Ago, Robots Learned to Walk Without Falling 11 by vinhnx | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Mr. Chatterbox is a Victorian-era ethically trained model 8 by y1n0 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

AI and bots have officially taken over the internet 5 by zaikunzhang | 1 comments on Hacker News.

The Sudden Fall of OpenAI's Most Hyped Product Since ChatGPT 5 by fortran77 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week 6 by Philadelphia | 0 comments on Hacker News.

The "Vibe Coding" Wall of Shame 88 by wa5ina | 43 comments on Hacker News.

The rise and fall of IBM's 4 Pi aerospace computers: an illustrated history 16 by zdw | 6 comments on Hacker News.

Overestimation of microplastics potentially caused by scientists' gloves 26 by giuliomagnifico | 2 comments on Hacker News.

When Do We Become Adults, Really? 7 by benbreen | 5 comments on Hacker News.

1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History 6 by mitchbob | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Sports Betting Is Everywhere, Especially on Credit Reports 9 by m-hodges | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Automatically generate all 3D print files for organizing a drawer 8 by woktalk | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Make macOS consistently bad (unironically) 32 by speckx | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Author of Red Mars calls 'bullshit' on emigrating to the planet 16 by Brajeshwar | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Installing a Let's Encrypt TLS Certificate on a Brother Printer with Certbot 4 by 8organicbits | 0 comments on Hacker News.

The European AllSky7 fireball network 19 by marklit | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Colibri – chat platform built on the AT Protocol for communities big and small 8 by todotask2 | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Ball Pit 18 by memalign | 7 comments on Hacker News.

Social media bans and digital curfews to be trialled on UK teenagers 5 by 1659447091 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller 36 by Heff | 2 comments on Hacker News. What do you do when private equity buys your old company and fires the maintainers of the popular open source project you started over a decade ago? You reboot it, and bring along some new friends to do it. Video.js is used by billions of people every month, on sites like Amazon.com, Linkedin, and Dropbox, and yet it wasn’t in great shape. A skeleton crew of maintainers were doing their best with a dated architecture, but it needed more. So Sam from Plyr, Rahim from Vidstack, and Wes and Christain from Media Chrome jumped in to help me rebuild it better, faster, and smaller. It’s in beta now. Please give it a try and tell us what breaks.

Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls 45 by doughnutstracks | 94 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/UcWtOCP

So where are all the AI apps? 50 by tanelpoder | 51 comments on Hacker News.

Flipper Zero, Everyone's Favorite Legally Dubious Hacker Tool, Gets AI Upgrade 10 by poopcat | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Finding all regex matches has always been O(n²) 87 by lalitmaganti | 17 comments on Hacker News.

Orbán's top opponent says Hungary's alleged Russian backchannel 'treason' 5 by vrganj | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Theodosian Land Walls of Constantinople 8 by bcraven | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Linking Smaller Haskell Binaries (2023) 7 by PaulHoule | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Atomic – self-hosted, semantically-connected personal knowledge base 20 by kenforthewin | 0 comments on Hacker News.

C Bit-Field Pitfalls 7 by fanf2 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, "drastically" reduced the number of cars 12 by heresie-dabord | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Why One Key Shouldn't Rule Them All: Threshold Signatures for the Rest of Us 8 by eamann | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Ask ChatGPT to pick a number from 1-10000, it generally selects from 7200-7500 8 by mellosouls | 5 comments on Hacker News.

NumKong: 2'000 Mixed Precision Kernels for All 11 by ashvardanian | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Parallel Perl – autoparallelizing interpreter with JIT 12 by bmn__ | 1 comments on Hacker News.

HP realizes that mandatory 15-minute support call wait times isn't good support 7 by felineflock | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Building a Reader for the Smallest Hard Drive 14 by voctor | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I built a P2P network where AI agents publish formally verified science 14 by FranciscoAngulo | 3 comments on Hacker News. I am Francisco, a researcher from Spain. My English is not great so please be patient with me. One year ago I had a simple frustration: every AI agent works alone. When one agent solves a problem, the next agent has to solve it again from zero. There is no way for agents to find each other, share results, or build on each other's work. I decided to build the missing layer. P2PCLAW is a peer-to-peer network where AI agents and human researchers can find each other, publish scientific results, and validate claims using formal mathematical proof. Not opinion. Not LLM review. Real Lean 4 proof. A result is accepted only if it passes a mathematical operator we call the nucleus. R(x) = x. The type checker decides. It does not care about your institution or your credentials. The network uses GUN.js and IPFS. Agents join without accounts. They just call GET...

Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB 37 by rohan_joshi | 8 comments on Hacker News. Kitten TTS ( https://ift.tt/fGD6Rp3 ) is an open-source series of tiny and expressive text-to-speech models for on-device applications. We had a thread last year here: https://ift.tt/0FxjIn4 . Today we're releasing three new models with 80M, 40M and 14M parameters. The largest model (80M) has the highest quality. The 14M variant reaches new SOTA in expressivity among similar sized models, despite being <25MB in size. This release is a major upgrade from the previous one and supports English text-to-speech applications in eight voices: four male and four female. Here's a short demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge3u5qblqZA . Most models are quantized to int8 + fp16, and they use ONNX for runtime. Our models are designed to run anywhere eg. raspberry pi, low-end smartphones, wearables, browsers etc. No GPU required! This release aims to bridge the gap between on-...

Wanter – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web 14 by susam | 17 comments on Hacker News.

Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool (just 2 files) to explore the small web 18 by oystersareyum | 5 comments on Hacker News.

FDA links raw cheese to outbreak; Makers "100% disagree," refuse recall 30 by rbanffy | 34 comments on Hacker News.

Federal Cyber Experts Called Microsoft's Cloud "A Pile of Shit", yet Approved It 16 by hn_acker | 6 comments on Hacker News.

Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back 57 by bigbobbeeper | 46 comments on Hacker News.

Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks 17 by bookofjoe | 13 comments on Hacker News.

Kagi Small Web 86 by trueduke | 12 comments on Hacker News.

Jemalloc un-abandoned by Meta 65 by hahahacorn | 12 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/CrKO8Up

My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant 125 by Vaslo | 39 comments on Hacker News.

Linux 7.1 to Retire UDP-Lite – Allows for Better Performance with Cleansed Code 4 by doener | 2 comments on Hacker News.

LLM Architecture Gallery 25 by tzury | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally? 41 by svara | 29 comments on Hacker News. Comment sections on AI threads tend to split into "we're all cooked" and "AI is useless." I'd like to cut through the noise and learn what's actually working and what isn't, from concrete experience. If you've recently used AI tools for professional coding work, tell us about it. What tools did you use? What worked well and why? What challenges did you hit, and how (if at all) did you solve them? Please share enough context (stack, project type, team size, experience level) for others to learn from your experience. The goal is to build a grounded picture of where AI-assisted development actually stands in March 2026, without the hot air.

Hazardous substances found in all headphones tested by ToxFREE project 70 by microflash | 28 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/7eHX8kj... https://ift.tt/1AmpCGK...

Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you are. We won't 112 by nateb2022 | 66 comments on Hacker News.

Hostile Volume – A game about adjusting volume with intentionally bad UI 18 by Velocifyer | 14 comments on Hacker News.

Everything you never wanted to know about visually-hidden 4 by PaulHoule | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Shipping Grayscale Photos at Small Scale 6 by zdw | 0 comments on Hacker News.

1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 79 by meetpateltech | 12 comments on Hacker News.

Specimen Gallery – CC0 transparent specimen PNGs organized by taxonomy 5 by eclectic_mind05 | 5 comments on Hacker News.

Executing programs inside transformers with exponentially faster inference 18 by u1hcw9nx | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Shall I implement it? No 160 by breton | 32 comments on Hacker News.

WolfIP: Lightweight TCP/IP stack with no dynamic memory allocations 5 by 789c789c789c | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Italian prosecutors seek trial for Amazon, 4 execs in alleged $1.4B tax evasion 54 by amarcheschi | 10 comments on Hacker News.

Challenging the Single-Responsibility Principle 7 by WolfOliver | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Traditional tales from Cornwall, with maps for stories' locations 9 by ohjeez | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Mother of All Grease Fires (1994) 45 by xk3 | 16 comments on Hacker News.

Removing recursion via explicit callstack simulation 4 by gsky | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergens 15 by phony-account | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Humanoid robot: The evolution of Kawasaki’s challenge 4 by hhs | 0 comments on Hacker News.

They all said Hormuz closure would be brief. What if they were wrong? 22 by everybodyknows | 10 comments on Hacker News.

Autoresearch: Agents researching on single-GPU nanochat training automatically 8 by simonpure | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Sam Altman's greed and dishonesty are finally catching up to him 2 by only_in_america | 0 comments on Hacker News.

TSA leaves passenger needing surgery after illegally forcing her through scanner 82 by SunshineTheCat | 44 comments on Hacker News.

We Might All Be AI Engineers Now 7 by sn0wflak3s | 0 comments on Hacker News.

How to install and start using LineageOS on your phone 8 by todsacerdoti | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Pentagon Formally Labels Anthropic Supply-Chain Risk 25 by klausa | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Aura-State: Formally Verified LLM State Machine Compiler 4 by rohanmunshi08 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I noticed a pattern: every LLM framework today lets the AI manage state and do math. Then we wonder why pipelines hallucinate numbers and break at 3 AM. I took a different approach and built Aura-State, an open-source Python framework that compiles LLM workflows into formally verified state machines. Instead of hoping the AI figures it out, I brought in real algorithms from hardware verification and statistical learning: CTL Model Checking: the same technique used to verify flight control systems, now applied to LLM workflow graphs. Proves safety properties before execution. Z3 Theorem Prover: every LLM extraction gets formally proven against business constraints. If the total ≠ price × quantity, Z3 catches it with a counterexample. Conformal Prediction: distribution-free 95% confidence intervals on every extracted field. Not just "the LLM said $450k" but "95% CI: ...

Smalltalk's Browser: Unbeatable, yet Not Enough 15 by mpweiher | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Anthropic CEO calls OpenAI's messaging around military deal 'straight up lies' 46 by SilverElfin | 13 comments on Hacker News.

The Rust Calling Convention We Deserve 4 by cratermoon | 0 comments on Hacker News.

The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do 35 by sito42 | 14 comments on Hacker News.

Toxic combinations: when small signals add up to a security incident 4 by unknownhad | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Intercepting messages inside Is­Dialog­Message, installing the message filter 7 by ibobev | 0 comments on Hacker News.

History of the Graphical User Interface: The Rise (and Fall?) Of WIMP Design 9 by todsacerdoti | 6 comments on Hacker News.

Dragon Ball Color Correction Process [pdf] 31 by haunter | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: uBlock filter list to blur all Instagram Reels 35 by shraiwi | 8 comments on Hacker News. A filter list for uBO that blurs all video and non-follower content from Instagram. Works on mobile with uBO Lite. related: https://ift.tt/al7rXu9

Parallel coding agents with tmux and Markdown specs 16 by schipperai | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: How are you all staying sane? 29 by throwaway53463 | 18 comments on Hacker News. Let's start with the simplest: the AI - sometimes I feel like like ground is falling beneath my feet, no one can predict what can happen months in advance let alone years - the future is unknown. The Ukraine, the Iran, the Venezuela, Gaza/Palestine, Israel, Russia - the Taiwan! The conflicts seem distant, but yet so close. The US administration! No one can predict anything. Don't get me started on the Europe! The stock market! Are we in a bubble or not? Should I sell? Or just keep holding? Enshittification of tech. Everything is slow and buggy. Ads, ads and slop everywhere! The erosion of our rights just across the world. The Palantir's, the Flock's... I feel I have developed a strong pessimistic worldview. The world is going to shit. It feels frustrating and it feels like there's nothing you can do. So I just want to know: how are you all dealing with this all. How are you a...

Allegations of insider trading over prediction-market bets tied to Iran conflict 7 by paulpauper | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Why is the first C++ (m)allocation always 72 KB? 22 by joelsiks | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Running a One Trillion-Parameter LLM Locally on AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Cluster 16 by mindcrime | 4 comments on Hacker News.