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SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering

2026-09-30 @ 13:50:50Points: 98Comments: 43

Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available

2026-09-30 @ 13:36:37Points: 72Comments: 93

Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use

2026-09-30 @ 10:49:32Points: 189Comments: 184

Pi.dev: You Said No MCP

2026-09-30 @ 09:55:23Points: 514Comments: 296

September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy

2026-09-30 @ 07:12:31Points: 469Comments: 355

RSS Feeds for Last.fm

2026-09-30 @ 03:00:05Points: 117Comments: 40

Floppy Emu Hardware Failure Analysis Results

2026-09-29 @ 23:10:26Points: 51Comments: 9

NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor

2026-09-29 @ 23:03:38Points: 111Comments: 98

Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?

2026-09-29 @ 22:36:14Points: 845Comments: 358

U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels

2026-09-29 @ 19:30:17Points: 273Comments: 163

Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites

2026-09-29 @ 19:08:01Points: 363Comments: 99

Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries

2026-09-29 @ 18:19:02Points: 351Comments: 260

Dots: Always-on agents

2026-09-29 @ 17:07:57Points: 727Comments: 615

GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price

2026-09-29 @ 17:06:45Points: 1038Comments: 918

Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language

2026-09-29 @ 16:18:26Points: 143Comments: 66

America.gov

2026-09-29 @ 14:04:57Points: 737Comments: 672

Ask HN: What are you reading?

2026-09-29 @ 13:44:43Points: 402Comments: 808

I'm plowing through the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, which is not particularly challenging as sci-fi/LitRPG goes, but entertaining enough. I'm also wrapping up Doctorow's _Enshittification_, and I'm looking for something a little meaty to keep the brain working...

Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026

2026-09-29 @ 13:34:20Points: 293Comments: 100

How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent

2026-09-29 @ 12:43:29Points: 573Comments: 314

Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev

2026-09-29 @ 11:06:25Points: 193Comments: 10

NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart

2026-09-29 @ 10:10:20Points: 292Comments: 334

Show HN: JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot

2026-09-29 @ 10:05:56Points: 110Comments: 25

Robot is equipped with camera, distance sensor, buzzer, moves head and arms with 3 servo motors and has an animated display. It can recognise objects and respond to it. We build it with idea this should be fun project people can 3D print and build at home themself.

Mathematical Origami

2026-09-29 @ 06:45:46Points: 99Comments: 22

When oil prices spike, where does the money go?

2026-09-29 @ 04:14:11Points: 146Comments: 148

Solving Factorio Quality

2026-09-29 @ 02:27:54Points: 235Comments: 85

Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet

2026-09-28 @ 20:28:08Points: 81Comments: 6

Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display

2026-09-28 @ 16:18:57Points: 334Comments: 50

Show HN: Using 2D DFT, dithering, etc. to maximize eInk manga image quality

2026-09-28 @ 15:39:42Points: 71Comments: 20

Full details on what KCC does is in the readme with plenty of photos!

KCC has been under continuous development since 2012 and has code sign on both Windows and macOS. Also available on Linux.

-the current kcc dev

Getting out of the way: my robotics crash course

2026-09-28 @ 15:12:43Points: 50Comments: 12

A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work

2026-09-28 @ 14:46:07Points: 359Comments: 78

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