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JPEG Compression

https://www.sophielwang.com/blog/jpeg
171•vinhnx•4d ago•31 comments

Write up of my homebrew CPU build

https://willwarren.com/2026/03/12/building-my-own-cpu-part-3-from-simulation-to-hardware/
54•wwarren•2d ago•5 comments

Mistral AI Releases Forge

https://mistral.ai/news/forge
436•pember•12h ago•83 comments

A Decade of Slug

https://terathon.com/blog/decade-slug.html
604•mwkaufma•14h ago•56 comments

Celebrating Tony Hoare's mark on computer science

https://bertrandmeyer.com/2026/03/16/celebrating-tony-hoares-mark-on-computer-science/
20•benhoyt•3h ago•1 comments

Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/microsofts-unhackable-xbox-one-has-been-h...
675•crtasm•18h ago•232 comments

Show HN: Pgit – A Git-like CLI backed by PostgreSQL

https://oseifert.ch/blog/building-pgit
31•ImGajeed76•1d ago•11 comments

Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track

https://fidget-spinner.github.io/posts/jit-on-track.html
370•guidoiaquinti•15h ago•190 comments

More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your own firmware

https://openhardware.directory
216•iosifnicolae2•4d ago•21 comments

The pleasures of poor product design

https://www.inconspicuous.info/p/the-pleasures-of-poor-product-design
111•NaOH•8h ago•35 comments

Ndea (YC W26) is hiring a symbolic RL search guidance lead

https://ndea.com/jobs/search-guidance
1•mikeknoop•2h ago

Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system

https://github.com/gsd-build/get-shit-done
332•stefankuehnel•13h ago•162 comments

Have a fucking website

https://www.otherstrangeness.com/2026/03/14/have-a-fucking-website/
386•asukachikaru•5h ago•214 comments

Show HN: Sub-millisecond VM sandboxes using CoW memory forking

https://github.com/adammiribyan/zeroboot
149•adammiribyan•19h ago•38 comments

Forget Flags and Scripts: Just Rename the File

https://robertsdotpm.github.io/software_engineering/program_names_as_input.html
35•Uptrenda•5h ago•32 comments

A tale about fixing eBPF spinlock issues in the Linux kernel

https://rovarma.com/articles/a-tale-about-fixing-ebpf-spinlock-issues-in-the-linux-kernel/
93•y1n0•8h ago•5 comments

Unsloth Studio

https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/studio
277•brainless•18h ago•53 comments

Why AI systems don't learn – On autonomous learning from cognitive science

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15381
113•aanet•11h ago•42 comments

Honda is killing its EVs

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/14/honda-is-killing-its-evs-and-any-chance-of-competing-in-the-fut...
322•sylvainkalache•2d ago•684 comments

Electron microscopy shows ‘mouse bite’ defects in semiconductors

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/03/electron-microscopy-shows-mouse-bite-defects-semiconductors
71•hhs•4d ago•15 comments

It Took Me 30 Years to Solve This VFX Problem – Green Screen Problem [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ploi723hg4
238•yincrash•4d ago•96 comments

Review of Microsoft's ClearType Font Collection (2005)

https://typographica.org/on-typography/microsofts-cleartype-font-collection-a-fair-and-balanced-r...
18•precompute•4h ago•1 comments

Aggregated File System (AGFS), a modern tribute to the spirit of Plan 9

https://github.com/c4pt0r/agfs
4•ngaut•3d ago•2 comments

Leviathan (1651)

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3207/3207-h/3207-h.htm
60•mrwh•3d ago•19 comments

(Media over QUIC) on a Boat

https://moq.dev/blog/on-a-boat/
4•mmcclure•4d ago•0 comments

Launch HN: Kita (YC W26) – Automate credit review in emerging markets

43•rheamalhotra1•13h ago•9 comments

Launch an autonomous AI agent with sandboxed execution in 2 lines of code

https://amaiya.github.io/onprem/examples_agent.html
38•wiseprobe•8h ago•14 comments

Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks

https://phys.org/news/2026-03-ryugu-asteroid-samples-dna-rna.html
242•bookofjoe•21h ago•130 comments

I Simulated 38,612 Countryle Games to Find the Best Strategy

https://stoffregen.io/posts/countryle/
23•st0ffregen•1d ago•6 comments

Edge.js: Run Node apps inside a WebAssembly sandbox

https://wasmer.io/posts/edgejs-safe-nodejs-using-wasm-sandbox
141•syrusakbary•15h ago•37 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Pgit – A Git-like CLI backed by PostgreSQL

https://oseifert.ch/blog/building-pgit
31•ImGajeed76•1d ago

Comments

Zardoz84•1h ago
Interesting... could be used to store multiple git repos and do a full text search across the multiple repos ?
ImGajeed76•1h ago
in theory yes. you just need to do the full text search across the databases. pgit doesnt support it but at the end its just postgres under the hood.
killingtime74•1h ago
I love it. I love having agents write SQL. It's very efficient use of context and it doesn't try to reinvent informal retrieval part of following the context.

Did you find you needed to give agents the schema produced by this or they just query it themselves from postgres?

ImGajeed76•1h ago
so most analyses already have a CLI function you can just call with parameters. for those that don't, in my case, the agent just looked at the --help of the commands and was able to perform the queries.
smartmic•1h ago
Of course, we can’t leave out a mention of Fossil here — the SCM system built by and for SQLite.

https://fossil-scm.org/

ImGajeed76•1h ago
yeah fossil is great, but can fossil import the linux kernel (already working on the next post)
thunderbong•29m ago
And fossil itself is an SQLite database!
aljgz•1h ago
Still halfway through reading, but what you've made can unlock a lot of use cases.

> I tried SQLite first, but its extension API is limited and write performance with custom storage was painfully slow

For many use cases, write performance does not matter much. Other than the initial import, in many cases we don't change text that fast. But the simpler logistics of having a sqlite database, with the dual (git+SQL) access to text is huge.

That said, for the specific use case I have in mind, postgres is perfectly fine

ImGajeed76•1h ago
sounds great yes. maybe an SQLite version will come in the future
Fire-Dragon-DoL•39m ago
Wouldn't duckdb be better suited for this? Forgive the stupid question. I just connected "csv as sql" to "git as sql" and duckdb comes to mind
ImGajeed76•34m ago
I did actually look into writing the extension for duckdb. But similar to SQLite the extension possibilities are not great for what I needed. Though duckdb is a great database.