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3D Walkable ASCII City in One HTML File [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YtygAx_C6A
1•COMMENT___•1m ago•0 comments

Retailers Want AI to Solve Online Shopping's Biggest Problem

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-21/zalando-zara-use-ai-virtual-try-ons-to-tackle-...
1•thm•5m ago•0 comments

A Hairy Situation

https://lostgirls.home.blog/2019/09/11/a-hairy-situation-the-peculiar-case-of-antonietta-gonzalez/
1•jruohonen•6m ago•0 comments

Budgeting resources in a Managed Postgres service

https://clickhouse.com/blog/protect-postgres-from-supporting-processes
1•saisrirampur•11m ago•0 comments

English ↔ Claudish Translator

https://programasweights.com/claudish
2•leumon•12m ago•0 comments

In-browser offline PDF tools

https://www.ihatepdf.cv/
2•porridgeraisin•18m ago•1 comments

Her Brain Was Broken. It Was Fixed with Sound–Not a Scalpel

https://www.wired.com/story/brain-focused-ultrasound/
3•nabbed•20m ago•0 comments

Linus Torvalds Endures a Debug Session from Hell, "Enormously Helped" by AI

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Debug-AI
3•meerita•20m ago•0 comments

Living at the Hinge of History

https://henryaj.substack.com/p/living-at-the-hinge-of-history
1•eatitraw•21m ago•0 comments

Crt.sh Seems Down

https://crt.sh/
3•gregsadetsky•22m ago•0 comments

HN: NIF – codec de imagem neural com benchmarks reproduzíveis vs. JPEG/WebP/AVIF

https://github.com/gabrielphilipus/NIF-Neural-Image-Format
1•gabrielphilipus•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ePub reader that lets your coding agent read along

https://github.com/baturyilmaz/readingisfun
1•arbayi•22m ago•0 comments

What broke when I stopped trusting my own validator

https://invoicehub.dev/blog/validation-harness-findings
1•dev_awesome•23m ago•0 comments

Manim: Framework for Creating Mathematical Animations

https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim
2•pykello•23m ago•0 comments

MIT requires every student to know how to swim. But why?

https://www.wgbh.org/news/education-news/2026-02-16/mit-requires-every-student-to-know-how-to-swi...
1•gaws•23m ago•2 comments

Aussie visits Retrofest UK 2026 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2mM-pLecK4
1•skibz•23m ago•0 comments

NetBSD and My Life (2005)

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/09/10/0000.html
3•gnyeki•24m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What's your daily driver keyboard?

2•robbiet480•25m ago•7 comments

If you're not using AI to attack your own systems, your adversaries will

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/22/if-youre-not-using-ai-to-attack-your-own-systems-...
1•Alephinitesimal•25m ago•0 comments

hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/8/7.html
29•zdw•27m ago•2 comments

Nvidia Customers Notified About AI-Related Price Hikes Above 15%

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-22/nvidia-customers-notified-about-ai-related-pri...
1•spenvo•29m ago•0 comments

Watts My Bill: Monitor Data Center Effects on Electricity Prices

https://wattsmybill.org/
1•gaws•29m ago•0 comments

China joins Europe in scrapping Windows for Linux

https://www.zdnet.com/article/china-drops-windows-for-linux/
4•wslh•29m ago•0 comments

Half of Nigeria's population lives in cities

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/half-of-nigerias-population-lives-in-cities
1•karakoram•30m ago•0 comments

Victor Niederhoffer, Trader Who Went Boom and Bust (Twice), Dies at 82

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/business/victor-niederhoffer-dead.html
1•paulpauper•31m ago•0 comments

Rich Countries Spend 60 Times as Much on Healthcare per Person as Poor Countries

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/rich-countries-spend-60-times-as-much-on-healthcare-per-...
1•karakoram•31m ago•0 comments

Niall Ferguson: Elon's Favorite Sci-Fi Prophet Was Wrong

https://www.thefp.com/p/niall-ferguson-future-ai-tech-economics-space
1•paulpauper•31m ago•0 comments

Welcome to Model Constitution

https://modelconstitution.com/p/welcome-to-model-constitution
1•paulpauper•32m ago•0 comments

Did NYC pass SF Bay Area in tech? A perspective from job postings data

https://corvi.careers/blog/did-nyc-pass-sf-bay-area-tech-openings/
1•sp1982•32m ago•0 comments

Electric Cars Are Taking Off Quickly in Latin America

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/electric-cars-are-taking-off-quickly-in-latin-america
3•karakoram•33m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Is it time to run the LLM engines on the CPU?

3•roschdal•45m ago

Comments

dtagames•41m ago
You always could. It's just slower and less efficient because most of what a model query needs to do is matrix multiplication and the GPU is optimized for that.
bigyabai•29m ago
It depends, how much coal are you comfortable burning?
roschdal•14m ago
In the future we could have CPUs which are better suited for llms, with GPU-like properties built in.