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  1. Assembly Nights (2021)

  2. Postmortem: The Tuesday Our AI Bill Had No Owner

    I've read a lot of postmortems. The best ones aren't about blame. They're about the gap between what...

  3. Valkey 9.2's new rdbcompression lz4 setting cuts a 1M-row RDB from 178MB to 35MB

    Valkey 9.2.0-rc1's whole-stream LZ4 RDB compression shrank a million-row JSON dataset from about 178MB to 35MB, an 80% cut the old per-string LZF default barely touches. It does nothing for replication unless a second, undocumented-in-the-release-notes setting is also flipped.

  4. Let It Die: The Lazy Email Agent on TabPFN, Gemma and Temporal

    This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady ...

  5. I Earned a Seat at GitHub Universe. It'll Stay Empty, and That's Not Fair

    Why Am I Writing This? I'm writing this to show how unfair the world we live in can be,...

  6. 👻 The $249 Ghost Sale

    Before I get into it, I just want to say that my recent unemployment has left me a vast amount of...

  7. MacOS Extensions Pack for the Apple Network Server v1.0

  8. Three Times My Test Failed and the LLM Was Right

    A test fails, and the reflex is: the code is wrong. Debug the code, fix the code, move on. That...

  9. Virtual and Real World Combine at LAN Party (1998)

  10. My Passion for Coding Isn't 404. It's 503.

    Last month, I signed up for a hackathon. I opened a fresh file and named it ideas.md. Forty-eight...

  11. An examination of lost firefly species of the US and Canada

  12. From Ancient Epigraphy to 3D Proteins: Exploring google-deepmind/science-skills & Building Custom Plugins in Google Antigravity

    Exploring the open-source (Apache 2.0 / CC-BY 4.0) architecture of Google Antigravity's Science Plugin (v1.3.1) and Google Cloud MCP endpoints (Vertex AI, BigQuery, Cloud Run) with a 3D WebGL Biomolecular Studio and 3 custom plugins.

  13. Decompiling Fast Food Tycoon 2: Drawing the World

  14. I'm Not on the DEV Team. I Still Debugged Their Missing Badges From Public Code. (And My First Test Was Wrong.)

    I’m not on the DEV team. I don’t have an admin panel, production database access, or internal Slack....

  15. From confession to conspiracy: How the Wedgewood fake polls story spread

  16. 👾 Nested Bookmarks Organizer for Chrome w/Custom Ticker

    ✨ Finally, some positive excitement! ✨ I went on a tiny mission last night to build something I...

  17. Everyone Clicks 'I Agree.' No One Reads Them: I Fine-Tuned a 4B Model with Tinker to Catch Unfair Terms of Service in 30 Seconds

    A 9,000-word contract scanned in 30 seconds. How I fine-tuned Qwen 4B with Tinker on the LexGLUE UNFAIR-ToS benchmark to catch arbitration waivers, unilateral changes, and liability caps.

  18. Gemma 4 on a 4 GB GPU in Plain PyTorch: From Out of Memory to Faster Than llama.cpp

    On a 4 GB GTX 1650 Ti, Gemma 4 E2B does not fit in 16-bit, and Transformers' own 4-bit path runs out of memory on its first forward pass. Kept in Google's QAT 4-bit end to end, with a few Triton kernels and a CUDA graph, plain PyTorch decodes at 88 tok/s, 1.07x llama.cpp on the same card, and holds the full 131,072-token context.

  19. LimonOS Custom x86-64 Kernel

  20. 188-Year-Old Mystery of Photography's First Human Subjects Solved

  21. Humanizer has about 60,000 stars. On 12 public tasks my linter plugin scored 2.67 higher

    ai-slop-linter against six humanizer tools and no tool: 12 public tasks, graded blind, 58.67 of 60 against 56. On a held-out set the top tools tied.

  22. A Love Letter to the Super Dimension Fortress

  23. Sloth Reads: an open model reads my read-later pile overnight, then reads me the good ones

    This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady ...

  24. Show HN: Encarta 95 Web