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Mathematics for Computer Science (2018) [pdf]

https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring18/mcs.pdf
168•vismit2000•6h ago•24 comments

How wolves became dogs

https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2025/12/18/how-wolves-became-dogs
14•mooreds•3d ago•7 comments

Linux Runs on Raspberry Pi RP2350's Hazard3 RISC-V Cores (2024)

https://www.hackster.io/news/jesse-taube-gets-linux-up-and-running-on-the-raspberry-pi-rp2350-s-h...
36•walterbell•5d ago•8 comments

How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code

https://www.mihaileric.com/The-Emperor-Has-No-Clothes/
576•nutellalover•17h ago•190 comments

European Commission issues call for evidence on open source

https://lwn.net/Articles/1053107/
237•pabs3•6h ago•135 comments

Samba Was Written (2003)

https://download.samba.org/pub/tridge/misc/french_cafe.txt
61•tosh•5d ago•31 comments

Why I left iNaturalist

https://kueda.net/blog/2026/01/06/why-i-left-inat/
215•erutuon•11h ago•106 comments

What happened to WebAssembly

https://emnudge.dev/blog/what-happened-to-webassembly/
180•enz•5h ago•171 comments

Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU

https://github.com/samuel-vitorino/sopro
270•sammyyyyyyy•16h ago•97 comments

Hacking a Casio F-91W digital watch (2023)

https://medium.com/infosec-watchtower/how-i-hacked-casio-f-91w-digital-watch-892bd519bd15
126•jollyjerry•4d ago•35 comments

Embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async

https://github.com/embassy-rs/embassy
237•birdculture•14h ago•99 comments

Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/bose-open-sources-its-soundtouch-home-theater-smart-speak...
2368•rayrey•22h ago•355 comments

Photographing the hidden world of slime mould

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9d9409p76qo
58•1659447091•1w ago•13 comments

Richard D. James aka Aphex Twin speaks to Tatsuya Takahashi (2017)

https://web.archive.org/web/20180719052026/http://item.warp.net/interview/aphex-twin-speaks-to-ta...
192•lelandfe•15h ago•70 comments

Show HN: Executable Markdown files with Unix pipes

60•jedwhite•10h ago•49 comments

The Jeff Dean Facts

https://github.com/LRitzdorf/TheJeffDeanFacts
488•ravenical•1d ago•170 comments

The unreasonable effectiveness of the Fourier transform

https://joshuawise.com/resources/ofdm/
249•voxadam•18h ago•105 comments

1ML for non-specialists: introduction

https://pithlessly.github.io/1ml-intro
19•birdculture•6d ago•4 comments

AI coding assistants are getting worse?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades
342•voxadam•21h ago•544 comments

He was called a 'terrorist sympathizer.' Now his AI company is valued at $3B

https://sfstandard.com/2026/01/07/called-terrorist-sympathizer-now-ai-company-valued-3b/
211•newusertoday•19h ago•281 comments

Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions

https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/7410
419•sergiotapia•9h ago•336 comments

Mysterious Victorian-era shoes are washing up on a beach in Wales

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hundreds-of-mysterious-victorian-era-shoes-are-washing-...
41•Brajeshwar•3d ago•15 comments

Why is there a tiny hole in the airplane window? (2023)

https://www.afar.com/magazine/why-airplane-windows-have-tiny-holes
47•quan•4d ago•23 comments

Systematically Improving Espresso: Mathematical Modeling and Experiment (2020)

https://www.cell.com/matter/fulltext/S2590-2385(19)30410-2
48•austinallegro•6d ago•10 comments

Ushikuvirus: Newly discovered virus may offer clues to the origin of eukaryotes

https://www.tus.ac.jp/en/mediarelations/archive/20251219_9539.html
112•rustoo•1d ago•26 comments

Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS

https://twitter.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2009339263251566902
683•qwertyforce•18h ago•244 comments

MCP is a fad

https://tombedor.dev/mcp-is-a-fad/
106•risemlbill•2h ago•76 comments

Fixing a Buffer Overflow in Unix v4 Like It's 1973

https://sigma-star.at/blog/2025/12/unix-v4-buffer-overflow/
137•vzaliva•18h ago•36 comments

The No Fakes Act has a “fingerprinting” trap that kills open source?

https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1q7qcux/the_no_fakes_act_has_a_fingerprinting_trap_t...
148•guerrilla•8h ago•61 comments

Mux (YC W16) is hiring a platform engineer that cares about (internal) DX

https://www.mux.com/jobs
1•mmcclure•16h ago
Open in hackernews

Nvidia Kicks Off the Next Generation of AI with Rubin

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/rubin-platform-ai-supercomputer
54•TSiege•19h ago

Comments

TSiege•19h ago
Extreme Codesign Across NVIDIA Vera CPU, Rubin GPU, NVLink 6 Switch, ConnectX-9 SuperNIC, BlueField-4 DPU and Spectrum-6 Ethernet Switch Slashes Training Time and Inference Token Generation Cost

Technical details available here https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/inside-the-nvidia-rubin-pl...

Groxx•18h ago
... it took a couple searches to figure out that "extreme codesign" wasn't actually code-signing, but "co-design" like "stuff that was designed to work together"
alfalfasprout•18h ago
same I was so confused
pyuser583•18h ago
Me too. Good style says to avoid creating words with dashes - it’s Un-American. But clarity matters more than rules.
gilrain•18h ago
Is there any American style guide that insists hyphens be avoided even when a closed compound would cause ambiguity? I follow Chicago, but I imagine other style guides also already emphasise clarity.
mortehu•18h ago
Wouldn't "code sign" be two words in English? And "code signing" rather than "code sign"?
Groxx•16h ago
Mostly yes, and I prefer it that way, but it does get smashed into a single word sometimes. "co-design" I've mostly only seen hyphenated, though I don't see it often enough or in broad enough contexts to really claim anything about the frequency in a general sense.

Maybe it's caused by `codesign` tools? Like `codesign --extreme` which probably requires two signers to sign one thing?

utopiah•17h ago
Even << "co-design" like "stuff that was designed to work together" >> sound strange to me. Typically when I read about co-design is stuff that was designed together, by more than 1 party.
metalliqaz•18h ago
Elon's emoji-filled blurb for that press release is the most cringe things I've seen this week.
cinntaile•18h ago
I find all the blurbs weird, do they usually include that? If not, why now? It doesn't look professional.
bredren•18h ago
I think it is interesting. Is there any other company in a position today that could put together endorsement quotes from such high ranking people across tech?

Also: Tim Cook / Apple is noticeably absent.

utopiah•17h ago
That's because of financial links. They are so intertwined propping up the same bubble they are absolutely going to share quotes instantly. FWIW just skimmed through and the TL;DR sounds to me like "Look at the cool kid, we play together, we are cool too!" without obviously any information, anything meaningful or insightful, just boring marketing BS>
mrandish•15h ago
> They are so intertwined propping up the same bubble they are absolutely going to share quotes instantly.

Reading this line, I had a funny image form of some NVidia PR newbie reflexively reaching out to Lisa Su for a supporting quote and Lisa actually considering it for a few seconds. The AI bubble really has reached a level of "We must all hang together or we'll surely hang separately".

XorNot•17h ago
Why is that interesting?
bredren•15h ago
It could be an indicator that Apple is not as leveraged up on NVIDIA as to provide a quote. Cook did make a special one of a kind product for the current POTUS, so he is nothing if not pragmatic.
saaaaaam•16h ago
Quotes from known names in a boring corporate press release are absolutely standard. It gives journalists a hook to build a story. “Elon Musk says new Nvidia tech is…”
dataking•16h ago
Because standing out gets attention?
saaaaaam•17h ago
I wonder what the significance of a green heart is, in Elon-world.
dannersy•17h ago
Riveting.
codyb•17h ago
If their new platform reduces inference token cost by 10x, does that play well or not well with the recently updated GPU deprecation schedules companies have been playing with to reduce projected cost outlays?

For context, my understanding is that companies have recently moved to mark their expected GPU deprecation cycles from 3 years to as high as 6 which has huge impacts on projected expenditures.

I wonder what the step was for the Blackwell platform from the previous. Is this slower which might indicate that the slower deprecation cycle is warranted, or faster?

m3kw9•17h ago
but token required for quality generation may increase as much very soon.
codyb•17h ago
Yea, definitely a good point. Going to be interesting to see how it plays out. I definitely do not have the expertise to answer the question
UltraSane•17h ago
Companies are playing games with GPU depreciation.
causal•16h ago
Unsure why you were downvoted; I'm curious to understand this comment. Playing finance and accounting games I presume you mean.
UltraSane•13h ago
Yes they are depreciating GPUs for longer than usual time periods like 6 years.
drexlspivey•16h ago
No way you throw away Blackwell GPUs after just 3 years. Google runs 8 year old TPUs still at 100% utilization. Why would you depreciate them in just 3 years?
ryanmcgarvey•15h ago
The conversation around GPU lifecycles seems to be conflating the various shear rates within the data center. My layman understanding is that the old 3 year replacement cycle had more to do with some component, not necessarily the memory or the processor, going wrong for half of their units by 3 years, at which point GPUs were cheap enough and advancing faster enough that it was more cost effective to upgrade than to fix. However, that calculus changes completely when the GPU and the HBM are orders of magnitude more expensive than the rest of the system. I suspect that we will see repairs being done on on the various brittle bits of the system and the actual core expensive components will continue to operate much longer than 3 years.
Animats•17h ago
Their own CPU, too - 88 ARM cores.

So it's an all-NVidia solution - CPU, interconnects, AI GPUs.

tibbydudeza•14h ago
Afaik MediaTek helped them with the CPU part.
2OEH8eoCRo0•17h ago
Rebuild all the data centers!
metalliqaz•17h ago
lol haven't even started building half the Blackwell datacenters yet
mk_stjames•17h ago
Whenever I see press on these new 'rack scale' systems, the first thing I think is something along the lines of: "man I hope the BIOS and OS's and whatnot supporting these racks are relatively robust and documented/open sourced enough so that 40 years from now when you can buy an entire rack system for $500, some kid in a garage will be able to boot and run code on these".
wmf•16h ago
The firmware is UEFI and Vera should have good upstream support. The GPU driver is proprietary though, so you'll have to dig up the last supported version from 2036.
criemen•16h ago
What's the power hookup to just boot one rack? I'd imagine that's more than you get anywhere in residential areas for a single house.
embedding-shape•16h ago
Hopefully in 40 years we'll all be running miniature cold fusion power or something, so we can avoid burning the planet to the ground.
MisterTea•15h ago
Depends on the residence. I have personally seen a large house in Brooklyn with dual 200 amp 120/208 volt three phase services (two meters, each feeding a panel.) I have seen someone setup an old SGI rack scale Origin 3000 systems in their garage. I think they even had an electrician upgrade their service to accommodate it.
wmf•15h ago
170 kW
pureagave•13h ago
100% this. But don't forget the garden hose running full blast so you can cool it! It's not impossible to get up and running for fun for an hour, but this isn't a run 24/7 kinda setup any more than getting an old mainframe running in one's garage is practical.
exacube•16h ago
does anyone know how well this 5x petaflop improvement translates to real world performance?

I know that memory bandwidth tends to be a big limiting factor, but I'm trying to understand how this factors into it its overall perf, compared to blackwell.

wmf•16h ago
The blog post has more technical details and fewer quotes from customers: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/inside-the-nvidia-rubin-pl...
mrandish•14h ago
That link was somewhat clearer, thanks.

As a software guy who follows chip evolution more at a macro level like: new design + process node enabling better cores/tiles/units/clocks + new architecture enabling better caches, busses, I/O == better IPC, bandwidth, latency and throughput at given budget (cost, watts, heat, space) - I've yet to find anything which gives a sense of Rubin's likely lift vs the prior generation that's grounded in macro-but-concrete specs (such as cores, tiles, units, clocks, caches, busses, IPC, bandwidth, latency, throughput).

Edit: I found something a bit closer after scrolling down on a sub-link from the page you linked (https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/inside-the-nvidia-rubin-pl...).

alecco•14h ago
For dev info we'll need to wait for GTC 2026 March 16–19. CES is just hype.
wmf•13h ago
They're intentionally drip-feeding information over time until the actual release.