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Writing an LLM from scratch, part 22 – training our LLM

https://www.gilesthomas.com/2025/10/llm-from-scratch-22-finally-training-our-llm
19•gpjt•28m ago•0 comments

Apple M5 chip

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-unleashes-m5-the-next-big-leap-in-ai-performance-for...
908•mihau•11h ago•1008 comments

IRS Open Sources its Fact Graph

https://github.com/IRS-Public/fact-graph
29•ronbenton•45m ago•3 comments

Claude Haiku 4.5

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-haiku-4-5
395•adocomplete•7h ago•172 comments

Next Steps for the Caddy Project Maintainership

https://caddy.community/t/next-steps-for-the-caddy-project-maintainership/33076
67•francislavoie•2h ago•9 comments

YouTube seems to be down

https://www.youtube.com/
84•alexpadula•33m ago•33 comments

ImapGoose

https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2025/10/15/introducing-imapgoose/
17•xarvatium•1h ago•1 comments

I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'

https://blog.daviddodda.com/how-i-almost-got-hacked-by-a-job-interview
683•DavidDodda•11h ago•359 comments

Gerald Sussman - An Electrical Engineering View of a Mechanical Watch (2003)

https://techtv.mit.edu/videos/15895-an-electrical-engineering-view-of-a-mechanical-watch
23•o4c•1w ago•3 comments

Bringing NumPy's type-completeness score to nearly 90%

https://pyrefly.org/blog/numpy-type-completeness/
31•todsacerdoti•1w ago•17 comments

Are hard drives getting better?

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/are-hard-drives-getting-better-lets-revisit-the-bathtub-curve/
103•HieronymusBosch•6h ago•48 comments

Zed is now available on Windows

https://zed.dev/blog/zed-for-windows-is-here
140•meetpateltech•7h ago•45 comments

Blood-Sharing Drug Trend Fuels Global HIV Surge

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/world/asia/bluetoothing-drug-blood-sharing.html
7•zahlman•4d ago•0 comments

Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable

https://www.vincentuden.xyz/blog/pdf-reader
129•vincent-uden•2h ago•86 comments

Pwning the Nix ecosystem

https://ptrpa.ws/nixpkgs-actions-abuse
229•SuperShibe•10h ago•39 comments

Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC client

https://github.com/squidowl/halloy
272•culinary-robot•12h ago•76 comments

Recursive Language Models (RLMs)

https://alexzhang13.github.io/blog/2025/rlm/
62•talhof8•6h ago•16 comments

How First Wap tracks phones around the world

https://www.lighthousereports.com/methodology/surveillance-secrets-explainer/
51•mattboulos•1h ago•9 comments

Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecture

https://www.unkey.com/blog/serverless-exit
278•vednig•12h ago•177 comments

F5 says hackers stole undisclosed BIG-IP flaws, source code

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/f5-says-hackers-stole-undisclosed-big-ip-flaws-sou...
121•WalterSobchak•10h ago•59 comments

A kernel stack use-after-free: Exploiting Nvidia's GPU Linux drivers

https://blog.quarkslab.com/./nvidia_gpu_kernel_vmalloc_exploit.html
126•mustache_kimono•10h ago•10 comments

Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research

https://pearlab.icrl.org/
27•walterbell•1w ago•5 comments

US Dept of Interior denies canceling largest solar project after axing review

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/department-interior-cancels-review-nevada-solar-project-trump/80...
16•toomuchtodo•54m ago•0 comments

Recreating the Canon Cat document interface

https://lab.alexanderobenauer.com/updates/the-jasper-report
83•tonyg•9h ago•7 comments

Garbage collection for Rust: The finalizer frontier

https://soft-dev.org/pubs/html/hughes_tratt__garbage_collection_for_rust_the_finalizer_frontier/
107•ltratt•12h ago•106 comments

A Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway

https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemma-ai-cancer-therapy-discovery/
17•alexcos•5h ago•2 comments

The brain navigates new spaces by 'darting' between reality and mental maps

https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/brain-navigates-new-spaces-by-flickering-between-reality-a...
131•XzetaU8•1w ago•48 comments

Americans' love of billiards paved the way for synthetic plastics

https://invention.si.edu/invention-stories/imitation-ivory-and-power-play
55•geox•1w ago•28 comments

Helpcare AI (YC F24) Is Hiring

1•hsial•12h ago

M5 MacBook Pro

https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/
298•tambourine_man•11h ago•409 comments
Open in hackernews

Zed is now available on Windows

https://zed.dev/blog/zed-for-windows-is-here
140•meetpateltech•7h ago

Comments

nwah1•3h ago
Is it on winget?
janpio•2h ago

  > winget search zed
  Name                             Id                                Version     Match                             Source
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Zed Preview                      ZedIndustries.Zed                 0.208.4-pre Moniker: zed                      winget
So not fully updated yet it seems.
metaltyphoon•1h ago
Soon https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/pull/303728
8cvor6j844qw_d6•3h ago
> Zed isn't an Electron app; we integrate directly with the underlying platform for maximal control.

Sounds great. Looking forward to doing a simple test run with Astro SSG

twoquestions•2h ago
It's extremely refreshing to see the editor's memory and processor usage be smaller than the webapp tab I'm working on.

I'm really liking it thus far!

eviks•2h ago
Its binary is half a gig in size, so just like a browser, nothing fresh about that.
zamadatix•1h ago
Size on disk is about 64x less relevant than size in RAM for me. To give Zed some credit in this area, it's statically linked and the Linux binary is half the size as the Windows one.
Rohansi•1h ago
What could they be statically linking to have a 400MB executable?
kstrauser•1h ago
It has a huge amount of treesitter modules, etc., statically compiled into the executable. They're not all loaded the instant you fire it up.
rovingeye•1h ago
The windowing is pretty broken if you use system scaling https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/40272
olive-n•1h ago
I installed the beta a week or two ago. Many of the files I tried opening in it just did not work at all. It can only open utf-8 encoded files.

That is not a problem for code, but if you just want to open some random .txt file or .csv file, these are often enough not utf-8 encoded, especially if they contain non English text.

The github issue for this is showing progress, but I think it's a mistake to promote the editor to stable as is.

jsheard•1h ago
Have they implemented subpixel font rendering by now? I remember that being a sticking point when it came to Linux because they had designed their custom UI renderer around the Macs ubiquitous HiDPI displays, leading to blurry fonts for the much, much larger proportion of Linux (and Windows) users who still use LoDPI displays.
typpilol•1h ago
No lol
sapiogram•1h ago
Idk about subpixel font rendering, but font rendering on Linux looks massively better after a patch last week: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992#issuecomme...
jsheard•1h ago
That "after" image is still rendered with greyscale AA rather than subpixel, but whatever they changed did make it more legible at least.
pulsartwin•1h ago
I'm glad there's finally some progress in that direction. If they actually implement subpixel RGB anti-aliasing, it would definitely be worth considering as an alternative. It's been surprising to see so many people praise Zed when its text rendering (of all things) has been in such a state for so long.
TranquilMarmot•1h ago
I tried it out on macOS and have a 1440p external monitor that the fonts just look horrible on. Looks fine on the laptop's "retina" display but blurry enough every else that it actually gave me a headache after a few hours.
_fzslm•1h ago
I have waited for this for months... but it's still only an x86_64 binary!

I love my ARM Surface Pro, and Zed would make a wonderful editor on this hardware. If anyone from Zed is reading this, please think about it!

sunshowers•1h ago
I build Zed for Windows aarch64 from source -- works great, though the build process is quite slow on my 16GB Surface Pro. Definitely hoping for official binaries, though!
_fzslm•1h ago
I think I got as far as installing the Visual Studio Installer so I could install Visual Studio and I just bailed on that whole thing, lol. I'll have to take some time out on a weekend to take another look :)
mathnode•1h ago
I tried it for a bit. But unless you want to use their choice of lsp/linter/whatever from what you are used to, then you will waste even more time customising zed to your needs from your previous solution.
1a527dd5•1h ago

  [Window Title]
  Critical

  [Main Instruction]
  Unsupported GPU

  [Content]
  Zed uses DirectX for rendering and requires a compatible GPU.

  Currently you are using a software emulated GPU (Microsoft Basic Render Driver) which
  will result in awful performance.

  For troubleshooting see: https://zed.dev/docs/windows
  Set ZED_ALLOW_EMULATED_GPU=1 env var to permanently override.


  [Skip] [Troubleshoot and Quit]
Ah bummer.
jsheard•1h ago
That's more of an issue with your system than an issue with Zed, you have to veer pretty far from the beaten path to not have proper DirectX nowadays. Are you running Windows in a VM?
1a527dd5•1h ago
No, but I am remoted in to my dev box (over RDP/mstsc).
neurostimulant•1h ago
Maybe try gaming-oriented remote desktop tools, like steam link or sunshine/moonlight. Those work great with directx, assuming you have a working gpu (at least integrated gpu) on your remote box. They also have way better latency, though use a lot more bandwidth.
KetoManx64•39m ago
How am I supposed to ask for permission from IT to install Steam or gaming related tools like Moonshine just to use a code editor?
pezgrande•28m ago
By explaining the advantages over "older" methods. A lot of people use Moonlight/Sunshine for non gaming related stuff, specially considering than the alternatives are all proprietary.
perching_aix•1h ago
What does a text editor have to do to achieve >>awful performance<< when software rendering?
aniviacat•40m ago
I also get that message when opening Zed in a VM. The performance is not actually awful, I can use it just fine.
the__alchemist•1h ago
Is this something like Sublime? Light/responsive editor for one-off files? But maybe with some better introspection? That would fill a niche for me; trying it. FYI download+install is the smoothest experience of any software I've loaded recently I didn't build myself. Going to daily-drive it for a bit and see what's up; promising!
KetoManx64•38m ago
I still Sublime for quick text file changes and then Zed for programming/AI assisted tasks.
evil-olive•12m ago
as a 10+ year Sublime user, Zed is the best of the more "modern" GUI editors I've tried.

I haven't fully switched over to using it as my daily-driver because Zed's heavy reliance on GPU rendering means that it locks up every time I suspend & resume my Linux box [0,1] but I'm optimistic about the progress they're making on it.

0: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7940

1: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/23288

breadwinner•55m ago
I watched the video on the home page and thought it is weird that they spend an inordinate amount of time on frame rate. Who picks an editor based on frame rate?

If you want to talk about perf in the context of a text editor show me how big of a file you can load--especially if the file has no line breaks. Emacs has trouble here. If you load a minified js file it slows to a crawl especially if syntax highlighting is on. Also show me how fast the start up time is. This is another area where Emacs does not do well.

So Zed is available on Windows--but only if you have a x64 processor. Lots of people run Windows on Arm64 and I don't see any mention of Arm64. This is where the puck is heading.

Also noticed Emacs key binding is in beta still.

STKFLT•37m ago
High frame rates (low frame times, really) are essential to responsiveness which, for those who appreciate it, is going to make much more of a difference day to day than the odd hiccup opening a large file (not that zed does have that issue, I wouldn't know as I haven't tried opening something huge).
breadwinner•34m ago
That's an interesting take. For whatever reason, frame rate is not one of my complaints about existing editors such as Emacs, VS Code, etc.
jay_kyburz•35m ago
Yeah, Kate will choke on a large single line file. Its one of the very few issues I bump into from time to time.
scuff3d•33m ago
This always makes me laugh. The editor was barely announced two years ago. They've built it from the ground up with native support now for three different operating systems. They're experimenting with some cool new features, and even though I don't care about it I've heard their AI integration is pretty damn good.

But waaaaah they don't support a processor that accounts for probably less then 10% of Windows Machines

breadwinner•28m ago
Ubiquity is pretty important when you're going to invest in learning a new editor. This is one of the advantages of vim for example. It is available everywhere... linux, windows, terminal, gui, etc.
poly2it•29m ago
It's not just frame rate, but also input delay. If you're using Visual Studio Code, you might be used to waiting 100 ms for a character you typed to appear. My personal workflow is based on Kitty and Neovim, which I've configured so that it can launch within 20 ms. Working without any input delay allows me to explore and edit projects at typing speed. As such, even tiny delays really bother me and make me lose my flow. I would believe Zed's focus on performance is motivated similarly.

Also, I do not believe Windows on Arm64 is a very large demographic? Especially for developers, unless they're specifically into that platform.

breadwinner•24m ago
It is 18% according to this story: https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/projections-show-that-a...
timfsu•53m ago
Unfortunately, I tried to use zed as my daily driver, but the typescript experience was subpar. While the editor itself was snappy, LSP actions like "jump to declaration" were incredibly slow on our codebase compared to VS Code / Cursor.
kundi•46m ago
First, you should fix fundamental operations on Mac and other distributions - for example when you stash or perform operations on files from other tools, it will put the state out of sync.

You can build the most beautiful and fastest IDE, but with this bugs, it’s useless

desireco42•14m ago
I don't use windows, but this is good development as all platforms should be present for editors to be worth using. I am happy Zed user since long time, I am happy it had kept with out demands, with adding AI, Git etc. Also integration of cli tools into AI is excellent and really refreshing.