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The Joy of Playing Grandia, on Sega Saturn

https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2025/11/27/the-joy-of-playing-grandia-on-sega-saturn/
30•tosh•1h ago•2 comments

LLM from scratch, part 28 – training a base model from scratch on an RTX 3090

https://www.gilesthomas.com/2025/12/llm-from-scratch-28-training-a-base-model-from-scratch
30•gpjt•6d ago•0 comments

No ARIA is better than bad ARIA

https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/practices/read-me-first/
55•robin_reala•6d ago•15 comments

Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/icons-in-menus/
562•ArmageddonIt•15h ago•229 comments

Epsilon: A WASM virtual machine written in Go

https://github.com/ziggy42/epsilon
45•ziggy42•1w ago•10 comments

The universal weight subspace hypothesis

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05117
287•lukeplato•10h ago•102 comments

Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far

https://www.grocerydive.com/news/kroger-ocado-close-automated-fulfillment-centers-robotics-grocer...
175•JumpCrisscross•11h ago•154 comments

Manual: Spaces

https://type.today/en/journal/spaces
63•doener•11h ago•7 comments

Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1

https://jepsen.io/analyses/nats-2.12.1
369•aphyr•16h ago•134 comments

Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20251209_02/
319•lattis•20h ago•147 comments

Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices

https://office365itpros.com/2025/12/08/microsoft-365-pricing-increase/
390•taubek•21h ago•455 comments

AMD GPU Debugger

https://thegeeko.me/blog/amd-gpu-debugging/
253•ibobev•19h ago•45 comments

Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden

https://andyljones.com/posts/horses.html
415•pbui•10h ago•324 comments

Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle

https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-jailbroken-kindle
289•Quizzical4230•18h ago•66 comments

Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents

https://www.trynia.ai/
113•jellyotsiro•18h ago•75 comments

IBM to acquire Confluent

https://www.confluent.io/blog/ibm-to-acquire-confluent/
403•abd12•21h ago•325 comments

Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?

https://martinalderson.com/posts/has-the-cost-of-software-just-dropped-90-percent/
291•martinald•16h ago•433 comments

Trials avoid high risk patients and underestimate drug harms

https://www.nber.org/papers/w34534
126•bikenaga•16h ago•38 comments

A thousand-year-long composition turns 25 (2024)

https://longplayer.org/news/2024/12/31/a-thousand-year-long-composition-turns-25/
23•1659447091•4h ago•5 comments

The Lost Machine Automats and Self-Service Cafeterias of NYC (2023)

https://www.untappedcities.com/automats-cafeterias-nyc/
78•walterbell•10h ago•24 comments

Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/paramount-skydance-hostile-bid-wbd-netflix.html
324•gniting•20h ago•329 comments

Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables

https://nkinternet.com/2025/12/08/hunting-for-north-korean-fiber-optic-cables/
260•Bezod•18h ago•92 comments

Cassette tapes are making a comeback?

https://theconversation.com/cassette-tapes-are-making-a-comeback-yes-really-268108
95•devonnull•5d ago•148 comments

Periodic Spaces

https://ianthehenry.com/posts/periodic-spaces/
19•surprisetalk•5d ago•6 comments

OSHW: Small tablet based on RK3568 and AMOLED screen

https://oshwhub.com/oglggc/rui-xin-wei-rk3568-si-ceng-jia-li-chuang-mian-fei-gong-yi
82•thenthenthen•5d ago•34 comments

Show HN: Fanfa – Interactive and animated Mermaid diagrams

https://fanfa.dev/
114•bairess•4d ago•26 comments

Microsoft Download Center Archive

https://legacyupdate.net/download-center/
168•luu•3d ago•24 comments

AI should only run as fast as we can catch up

https://higashi.blog/2025/12/07/ai-verification/
165•yuedongze•17h ago•145 comments

A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos

https://blog.pkh.me/p/48-a-series-of-tricks-and-techniques-i-learned-doing-tiny-glsl-demos.html
186•ibobev•18h ago•24 comments

GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst

https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/06/github-actions-package-manager.html
408•robin_reala•1d ago•236 comments
Open in hackernews

Epsilon: A WASM virtual machine written in Go

https://github.com/ziggy42/epsilon
45•ziggy42•1w ago

Comments

karel-3d•1h ago
How does this compare with wazero?
ncruces•1h ago
So far, seems interpreter only, lots simpler, etc.

I'd be interested to understand the goal behind it better.

Imustaskforhelp•54m ago
I knew I remember your name working with something of sqlite and golang

https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3

Man I really enjoy golang and cross portability and wazero + sqlite could still be cross portable which is super fascinating

What are your thoughts on https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite (postgres in wasm)?

Also what were the goal behind a pure golang solution via wazero + wasm sqlite as you had made?

Was it cross platform support, if so, what are your thoughts on zig, I have seen a project use zig + golang to create cross platform C language support but I think that adding zig into the picture complicates the build process so there are tradeoffs and I am interested to hear your opinions about it!

ncruces•17m ago
Started as fun "what if" side project, but kept me interested for 3 years now. Turns out it's actually useful.

It's pretty portable: with some caveats, it works pretty much everywhere Go does. Performance is bad outside amd64/arm64, but for most popular OS/platforms it's fine. See this for an overall picture (these are the platforms I test): https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/wiki/Support-matrix

I bet you could do the similar with pglite, but this (and helping out with wazero) already consumes all my spare time.

Gys•1h ago
This could have been a Show HN?

Also: would be nice to see wazero (https://github.com/wazero/wazero) mentioned. What was the reason to create Epsilon as an alternative?

gjvc•1h ago
why so critical? why divert attention? why bother about the title prefix?
ziggy42•1h ago
> What was the reason to create Epsilon as an alternative?

I wanted to build something fun, I did not check for existing implementations on purpose. I ended up putting more effort than I originally expected into this and now it's starting to look like it could be actually useful, almost by accident.

_s_a_m_•1h ago
Are these hipster projects optimizing for non-searchability?
simonw•1h ago
Do you have any plans to add timeouts or some other mechanism for limiting the amount of CPU a webassembly call can use?

I'm always interested in options for using WebAssembly as a sandbox to run untrusted code, but one of the things I need to protect against is an infinite loop.

(I had Claude knock up an experimental Python binding to try Epsilon out, notes from that here: https://github.com/simonw/research/tree/main/epsilon-python-... )

hardwaresofton•31m ago
Congratulations on the progress and getting the engine out there!

One nice thing about interpreters versus JIT compilers is that they can be used in places like iOS without too much fuss (AFAIK you have to bundle all the WASM you will run though, or something like that).

I'm biased since I work on it, but any considerations around adding support for the Component Model? It's more complex than the base spec of course but incredibly robust -- really the present/future of "modern" WebAssembly across languages.