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Show HN: One More Letter

2026-07-15 @ 23:10:10Points: 10Comments: 5

Nul Characters in Strings in SQLite

2026-07-15 @ 23:03:45Points: 8Comments: 0

Metal-Organic Frameworks, Chemistry's New Miracle Materials

2026-07-15 @ 23:00:31Points: 18Comments: 5

The Anti-Mac User Interface (1996)

2026-07-15 @ 22:52:36Points: 28Comments: 4

SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions

2026-07-15 @ 22:42:58Points: 53Comments: 25

LLM Networking with MikroTik

2026-07-15 @ 22:23:27Points: 18Comments: 4

P2P local file transfer based on WebRTC

2026-07-15 @ 22:22:08Points: 18Comments: 10

Speculative Growth and the AI "Bubble" [pdf]

2026-07-15 @ 21:39:21Points: 46Comments: 40

We don't use AI in any of our design or production processes

2026-07-15 @ 21:36:49Points: 84Comments: 79

Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]

2026-07-15 @ 21:16:36Points: 51Comments: 14

Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly

2026-07-15 @ 21:00:17Points: 103Comments: 57

Here are a few things you might find interesting:

- This is fully end to end encrypted! We use the WISP protocol for TCP-over-websockets.

- There is a novel WASM->JS JIT for experimental site speedup

- This port cost over 25k in opus/fable tokens for debugging and JIT research

This was just a fun experiment to push the boundaries of WebAssembly. For a more usable "browser in browser" experience, we also built https://github.com/HeyPuter/browser.js that eats a bit less RAM.

Grok Build is open source

2026-07-15 @ 20:24:58Points: 195Comments: 227

Brainless: Shadcn components that look like Claude Code, Codex and Grok

2026-07-15 @ 19:42:53Points: 76Comments: 14

Voxatron

2026-07-15 @ 19:40:23Points: 49Comments: 15

Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel

2026-07-15 @ 19:27:59Points: 84Comments: 13

Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

2026-07-15 @ 18:12:45Points: 576Comments: 143

Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Software Engineers

2026-07-15 @ 17:01:02Points: 1

Collection of Digital Clock Designs

2026-07-15 @ 16:33:15Points: 164Comments: 34

Show HN: misa77 - a codec that decodes 2x faster than LZ4 (at better ratios)

2026-07-15 @ 15:58:59Points: 124Comments: 39

It has the following characteristics:

  - SOTA decompression throughput in its ratio class
  - Decent ratios (comparable to LZ4 at high effort levels)
  - Slow compression
Most of the gains can be attributed to reducing branches and making decompression very friendly to out-of-order cores, by using a smart format.

Results on the tarred Silesia corpus on Intel x86-64 follow:

  codec       decode      ratio    encode
  misa77 -0   5219 MB/s   42.64%   54.5 MB/s
  misa77 -1   4274 MB/s   39.65%   51.2 MB/s
  lz4         2505 MB/s   47.59%   371 MB/s
  lz4hc -12   2531 MB/s   36.45%   7.31 MB/s

Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU

2026-07-15 @ 15:34:05Points: 218Comments: 140

Towards a harness that can do anything

2026-07-15 @ 14:08:28Points: 163Comments: 82

Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)

2026-07-15 @ 13:22:00Points: 238Comments: 123

Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important

2026-07-15 @ 11:27:35Points: 278Comments: 238

Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources

2026-07-15 @ 03:32:45Points: 317Comments: 188

Book prizes don't work how you think

2026-07-14 @ 22:19:01Points: 51Comments: 22

Show HN: Low-latency local LLM runner via OpenJDK Panama FFM (Java 22)

2026-07-14 @ 14:40:46Points: 24Comments: 3

I have zero-allocation on the hot paths, memory segments for prompts and tokens are allocated once inside confined Arenas. Raw pointers pass straight through down to the low C level. This avoids primitive array cloning and heap churn.

I mapped out the native structures from llama.cpp and whisper.cpp while matching the compiler's padding to maintain safe memory access.

I bundle pre-compiled native binaries in the jar for easy deployment.

This execution engine provides the foundation I need for work I'm doing on a spatio-temporal memory layer (L-TABB) to replace RAGs. I'd love to get technical feedback to polish any issues while I continue working on the next layer. Deep-dives from anyone hacking on Project Panama or low-latency systems in modern JDK would be very appreciated!

I'm much better with code than prose, so I'll let the code do most of the talking.

Happy Hacking! /David

Code: https://libargus.cc Project Landing Page: https://projectargus.cc

Tambara Equipment

2026-07-14 @ 14:15:40Points: 6Comments: 0

Designing APIs for Agents

2026-07-13 @ 16:15:41Points: 36Comments: 18

MITS: Rockets, Calculators, and Personal Computers

2026-07-13 @ 13:20:34Points: 25Comments: 1

Command Line Interface Guidelines

2026-07-12 @ 13:28:31Points: 44Comments: 2

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