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SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
102•valyala•4h ago•17 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
46•zdw•3d ago•12 comments

Brookhaven Lab's RHIC concludes 25-year run with final collisions

https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/brookhaven-labs-rhic-concludes-25-year-run-with-final-collis...
23•gnufx•2h ago•19 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
56•surprisetalk•3h ago•55 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
99•mellosouls•6h ago•178 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
144•AlexeyBrin•9h ago•26 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
102•vinhnx•7h ago•13 comments

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
852•klaussilveira•1d ago•258 comments

I write games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
139•valyala•4h ago•110 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
69•samasblack•6h ago•51 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1094•xnx•1d ago•618 comments

Show HN: A luma dependent chroma compression algorithm (image compression)

https://www.bitsnbites.eu/a-spatial-domain-variable-block-size-luma-dependent-chroma-compression-...
7•mbitsnbites•3d ago•0 comments

Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
64•thelok•6h ago•10 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
236•jesperordrup•14h ago•80 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
519•theblazehen•3d ago•191 comments

Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version

https://github.com/Momciloo/fun-with-clip-path
32•momciloo•4h ago•5 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
94•onurkanbkrc•9h ago•5 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
13•languid-photic•3d ago•4 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
260•alainrk•8h ago•427 comments

A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/a-fresh-look-at-ibm-3270-information-display-system
49•rbanffy•4d ago•9 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
188•1vuio0pswjnm7•10h ago•270 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
616•nar001•8h ago•272 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
36•marklit•5d ago•6 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
125•videotopia•4d ago•39 comments

We mourn our craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
350•ColinWright•3h ago•417 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
100•speckx•4d ago•119 comments

Show HN: Kappal – CLI to Run Docker Compose YML on Kubernetes for Local Dev

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
34•sandGorgon•2d ago•15 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
290•isitcontent•1d ago•38 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
212•limoce•4d ago•119 comments

History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021)

https://web.archive.org/web/20211030011207/https://thejhsshow.com/articles/history-and-timeline-o...
20•brudgers•5d ago•5 comments
Open in hackernews

Embedding Text Documents with Qwen3

https://www.daft.ai/blog/embedding-millions-of-text-documents-with-qwen3
18•kiyanwang•5mo ago

Comments

xfalcox•5mo ago
Just migrated all embeddings to this same model a few weeks ago in my company, and it's a game changer. Having 32k context is a 64x increase when compared with our previous used model. Plus being natively multilingual and producing very standard 1024 long arrays made it a seamless transition even with millions of embeddings across thousands of databases.

I do recommend using https://github.com/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference for fast inference.

ipsum2•5mo ago
What does it mean to generate 1000 float16 array size on a 32k context? Surely the embedding you get is no longer representative of the text.
xfalcox•5mo ago
Depends on your needs. You surely don't want 32k long chunks for doing the standard RAG pipeline, that's for sure.

My use case is basically a recommendation engine, where retrieve a list of similar forum topics based on the current read one. As with dynamic user generated content, it can vary from 10 to 100k tokens. Ideally I would generate embeddings from an LLM generated summary, but that would increase inference costs considerably at the scale I'm applying it.

Having a larger possible context out of the box just made a simple swap of embeddeding models increase quality of recommendations greatly.

markerz•5mo ago
Why would you use sentence level chunking?

I’ve generated embedding for “objects” or whole documents to get similarity scores. Helps with “relevant articles” type features.

I’ve also made embeddings for paragraphs or fixed sized chunks for RAG lookups. Good for semantic search.

I don’t understand why you would want embeddings on sentences.

> Chunking Strategies

> Sentence-level chunking works well for most use cases, especially when the document structure is unclear or inconsistent.