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Microsoft's 90s Weapon That Made Windows Fast [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH0BYAkPj78
2•csense•1h ago

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WarOnPrivacy•1h ago
The baited answer is something I haven't run across before.

    a highly classified internal Microsoft project codenamed "Microsoft LEGO".
    aka: the Basic Block Tool (BBT).

    the BBT operated on the compiled binaries. 
    Shuffling the internal basic blocks of the code improved
    efficiency and sped up execution.

    a basic block is a sequence of straight-line code that has exactly
    one entry point and one exit point, with no jumps or branches 
    in between. Microsoft engineers could rearrange them within the
    binary to optimize how the processor handled the instruction

The delicious irony of Anthropic bemoaning distillation

https://twitter.com/ejzim/status/2072692694036660517
1•MrBuddyCasino•50s ago•0 comments

Rubix Redis Bridge

https://github.com/rubix-studios-pty-ltd/rubix-redis-bridge
1•rubixvi•2m ago•0 comments

Lotus: Optimized Agentic and LLM Bulk Processing

https://github.com/lotus-data/lotus
1•handfuloflight•9m ago•0 comments

The end of paper retirement processing at the Office of Personnel Management

https://twitter.com/spikebrehm/status/2072422555101561154
2•MrBuddyCasino•15m ago•0 comments

Hackers On Planet Earth is back in Manhattan next month

https://www.hope.net/
1•fashiontechguru•18m ago•1 comments

GPT-5.5-Cyber built a zlib fuzzing lab in a day

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/07/02/field-reports-from-patch-the-planet/
1•wslh•20m ago•0 comments

Don't Train the Model, Evolve the Harness

https://huggingface.co/spaces/joelniklaus/harness-optimization
1•emersonmacro•21m ago•0 comments

Automated Accounting, Financial Reporting and Tax Management

https://maxint.com/blog/maxint-2-24-release
1•pcvetkovski•26m ago•0 comments

Trump's Windfall Has Few Known Global Precedents

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/world/europe/trump-world-leaders-corruption-wealth.html
2•Alien1Being•27m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Once you make your money from vibe coding innumerable products, then?

1•keepamovin•33m ago•0 comments

Private Credit Keeps $14B Trapped in Bid to Outlast Storm

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-02/private-credit-keeps-14-billion-trapped-in-bid...
1•petethomas•33m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do you get your open-source product good traction?

1•akarshhegde18•33m ago•1 comments

Blue Owl hit by $4.7B of redemption requests as investor exodus persists

https://www.ft.com/content/b302a86d-f6eb-4d47-b90b-523c1c19b3fa
1•petethomas•33m ago•0 comments

'Humanity is a privilege': Umar Khalid on his six years in a jail without trial

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/30/umar-khalid-interview-six-years-indian-jail-without...
2•thunderbong•34m ago•1 comments

Using precision editing to study human embryo development shows master gene

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/first-use-of-precision-editing-to-study-human-embryo-developm...
2•gmays•40m ago•0 comments

Open letter to Anthropic: keep Claude Fable 5 in existing paid plans

https://keepfable.org
2•SpitSalute•43m ago•1 comments

FlickerScope – are your LEDs giving you a headache? stop guessing

https://github.com/snokamedia/flickerscope
1•snoka•48m ago•0 comments

Wikipedia Is Up (2001)

https://web.archive.org/web/20010506042824/www.nupedia.com/pipermail/nupedia-l/2001-January/00068...
2•downbad_•49m ago•0 comments

A few thought about snarky answers on StackOverflow (2019)

https://www.cargocultcode.com/solving-the-zalgo-regex/
1•downbad_•49m ago•0 comments

Tradeoffs in Complexity, Abstraction, and Generality

https://www.lesswrong.com/s/EL2YvcrPNHrGgzPnZ/p/HNJwteaxpRYfLaQt7
1•parksb•50m ago•0 comments

Google's exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat

https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/googles-exponential-path-to-climate-wrecking-digital-bloat/
2•colinprince•52m ago•2 comments

Why AI Is Collapsing: How China Is Winning. [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXJf7vL8k94
1•Bender•53m ago•1 comments

Thanks but No Thanks

https://twitter.com/xopzuey/status/2072838561275969717
2•znort_•55m ago•2 comments

How Many People Have Ever Lived in the United States?

https://danielfetz.io/p/how-many-people-have-ever-lived-in-the-united-states
1•paulpauper•1h ago•0 comments

AI is 'not smart' so what's next in artificial intelligence?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6gr0xkyr3o
3•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•0 comments

Core dump epidemiology: fixing an 18-year-old bug

https://openai.com/index/core-dump-epidemiology-data-infrastructure-bug/
2•stopachka•1h ago•0 comments

I vibe coded a programming language, but I'd rather learn C the old way

1•alonsovm44•1h ago•0 comments

Some Basic LLM Etiquette

https://steenbok.space/blog/ai-etiquette/
1•sporkl_l•1h ago•0 comments

How AI Became More Expensive Than the Workers It Replaced [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfaZZPjA3g0
2•Bender•1h ago•0 comments

The Safari MCP server for web developers

https://webkit.org/blog/18136/introducing-the-safari-mcp-server-for-web-developers/
2•coloneltcb•1h ago•0 comments