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GPS and Time Dilation – Special and General Relativity

https://philosophersview.com/gps-and-time-dilation/
1•mistyvales•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Witnessd – Prove human authorship via hardware-bound jitter seals

https://github.com/writerslogic/witnessd
1•davidcondrey•1m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I built a clawdbot that texts like your crush

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1•IsruAlpha•3m ago•0 comments

Scientists reverse Alzheimer's in mice and restore memory (2025)

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251224032354.htm
1•walterbell•6m ago•0 comments

Compiling Prolog to Forth [pdf]

https://vfxforth.com/flag/jfar/vol4/no4/article4.pdf
1•todsacerdoti•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Cymatica – an experimental, meditative audiovisual app

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1•_august•9m ago•0 comments

GitBlack: Tracing America's Foundation

https://gitblack.vercel.app/
2•martialg•9m ago•0 comments

Horizon-LM: A RAM-Centric Architecture for LLM Training

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04816
1•chrsw•9m ago•0 comments

We just ordered shawarma and fries from Cursor [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WALQOiugbWc
1•jeffreyjin•10m ago•1 comments

Correctio

https://rhetoric.byu.edu/Figures/C/correctio.htm
1•grantpitt•10m ago•0 comments

Trying to make an Automated Ecologist: A first pass through the Biotime dataset

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/trying-to-make-an-automated-ecologist
1•crescit_eundo•14m ago•0 comments

Watch Ukraine's Minigun-Firing, Drone-Hunting Turboprop in Action

https://www.twz.com/air/watch-ukraines-minigun-firing-drone-hunting-turboprop-in-action
1•breve•15m ago•0 comments

Free Trial: AI Interviewer

https://ai-interviewer.nuvoice.ai/
1•sijain2•15m ago•0 comments

FDA Intends to Take Action Against Non-FDA-Approved GLP-1 Drugs

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12•randycupertino•17m ago•3 comments

Supernote e-ink devices for writing like paper

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3•janandonly•19m ago•0 comments

We are QA Engineers now

https://serce.me/posts/2026-02-05-we-are-qa-engineers-now
1•SerCe•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Measuring how AI agent teams improve issue resolution on SWE-Verified

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01465
2•NBenkovich•19m ago•0 comments

Adversarial Reasoning: Multiagent World Models for Closing the Simulation Gap

https://www.latent.space/p/adversarial-reasoning
1•swyx•20m ago•0 comments

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1•onesandofgrain•28m ago•0 comments

Layoffs Surge 118% in January – The Highest Since 2009

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9•karakoram•28m ago•0 comments

Papyrus 114: Homer's Iliad

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1•mwenge•28m ago•1 comments

DicePit – Real-time multiplayer Knucklebones in the browser

https://dicepit.pages.dev/
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Turn-Based Structural Triggers: Prompt-Free Backdoors in Multi-Turn LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14340
2•PaulHoule•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Agent Tool That Keeps You in the Loop

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Why Every R Package Wrapping External Tools Needs a Sitrep() Function

https://drmowinckels.io/blog/2026/sitrep-functions/
1•todsacerdoti•31m ago•0 comments

Achieving Ultra-Fast AI Chat Widgets

https://www.cjroth.com/blog/2026-02-06-chat-widgets
2•thoughtfulchris•33m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Runtime Fence – Kill switch for AI agents

https://github.com/RunTimeAdmin/ai-agent-killswitch
1•ccie14019•36m ago•1 comments

Researchers surprised by the brain benefits of cannabis usage in adults over 40

https://nypost.com/2026/02/07/health/cannabis-may-benefit-aging-brains-study-finds/
2•SirLJ•37m ago•0 comments

Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist, apocalypse linked to the 'end of modernity'

https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-thiel-antichrist-greta-thunberg-end-of-modernity-billionaires/
4•randycupertino•38m ago•2 comments

USS Preble Used Helios Laser to Zap Four Drones in Expanding Testing

https://www.twz.com/sea/uss-preble-used-helios-laser-to-zap-four-drones-in-expanding-testing
3•breve•44m ago•0 comments
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Time Between The Lines: how memory access affects performance (2015)

https://bitbashing.io/memory-performance.html
11•signa11•9mo ago

Comments

GarvielLoken•9mo ago
This is actually what DOTS (Unity’s Data-Oriented Technology Stack) do in Unity, so very good to use a game engine as an example! It reportedly is just as enourmous of an performance gain as you show in the article.

https://unity.com/dots

LorenPechtel•9mo ago
Yup, memory access dominates an awful lot of things. We keep obsessing about more and faster cores, but if they're just waiting on memory it doesn't really do that much. A while back I did an experiment with the Sieve of Eratosthenes--and found that with modern systems the scattered memory access dominates. Finding all primes up to value X was much faster by brute force than using the Sieve. The brute force approach runs entirely from the L1 cache, the only operations outside it are writes. The Sieve ensures the only cache hits are from prefetching.

While this is obviously an extreme case the reality is that one must consider the cost of precalculated data, you can do quite a few operations for the cost of reading one answer from a table that doesn't fit cache. And there can be substantial benefits when iterating multi-dimensional arrays correctly. A total flip from when I started out where you considered the cost in memory from precalculating (is it worth the memory to build this table of square roots??) to now where the cost in time from looking up the answer (is it worth the memory fetch to look up that square root? Nope.)

mikewarot•9mo ago
I imagine coprocessors that don't have separate memory or instructions... they are effectively huge arrays of look up tables, so that the instructions have the data flow through them. We're at the stage where this is possible for all but the biggest of LLMs.

A side effect of doing this mapping, even without the hardware, is that the mapping makes a given task inherently parallel, and much, much easier to spread across low cost CPUs. I think of it as a universal solvent for computation.