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LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

https://browsergate.eu/
113•digitalWestie•33m ago•38 comments

Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU

https://lemonade-server.ai
117•AbuAssar•2h ago•28 comments

Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket

https://kathmandupost.com/money/2026/03/27/inside-nepal-s-fake-rescue-racket
77•lode•2h ago•20 comments

IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-04-02-ibm-announces-strategic-collaboration-with-arm-to-shape-the-f...
158•bonzini•4h ago•90 comments

Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom

https://undark.org/2026/04/01/sweden-schools-books/
259•novaRom•2h ago•139 comments

Significant Raise of Reports

https://lwn.net/Articles/1065620/
90•stratos123•4h ago•46 comments

Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)

https://blogit.michelin.io/clojure-programming/
106•smartmic•5h ago•43 comments

Enabling Codex to Analyze Two Decades of Hacker News Data

https://modolap.com/publication/hn-analysis-1
22•ronfriedhaber•3h ago•7 comments

Gone (Almost) Phishin'

https://ma.tt/2026/03/gone-almost-phishin/
84•luu•2d ago•39 comments

Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?

https://spencermortensen.com/articles/email-obfuscation/
213•jaden•10h ago•65 comments

Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise LiteLLM

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/mercor-says-it-was-hit-by-cyberattack-tied-to-compromise-of-ope...
89•jackson-mcd•1d ago•26 comments

Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9665
217•Strilanc•13h ago•69 comments

Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-On-Linux-Tops-5p
528•hkmaxpro•10h ago•253 comments

Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it

https://bytemash.net/posts/subscription-bombing-your-signup-form-is-a-weapon/
216•homelessdino•9h ago•136 comments

EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

https://blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordpress/
614•elithrar•21h ago•454 comments

Reinventing the Pull Request

https://lubeno.dev/blog/reinventing-the-pull-request
34•bkolobara•6d ago•25 comments

Artemis II Launch Day Updates

https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/01/live-artemis-ii-launch-day-updates/
984•apitman•20h ago•843 comments

Emacs-libgterm: Terminal emulator for Emacs using libghostty-vt

https://github.com/rwc9u/emacs-libgterm
22•signa11•3d ago•2 comments

Telli (YC F24) is hiring engineers, designers, and more (on-site, Berlin)

http://hi.telli.com/join-us
1•sebselassie•6h ago

A new C++ back end for ocamlc

https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14701
209•glittershark•14h ago•18 comments

New laws to make it easier to cancel subscriptions and get refunds

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg0v36ek2go
93•chrisjj•4h ago•38 comments

DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/dram-pricing-is-killing-the-hobbyist-sbc-market/
535•ingve•16h ago•458 comments

ReactOS Shows Improved Stability and 64-Bit Support at Chemnitz Linux Days 2026

https://old.reddit.com/r/reactos/comments/1sa26yu/back_from_chemnitz_linux_days_2026/
28•jeditobe•1h ago•6 comments

Order and Tension

https://slab.org/2026/03/22/order-and-tension/
9•surprisetalk•3d ago•0 comments

Built a cheap DIY fan controller because my motherboard never had working PWM

https://www.himthe.dev/blog/msi-forgot-my-fans
47•bobsterlobster•2d ago•15 comments

Fast and Gorgeous Erosion Filter

https://blog.runevision.com/2026/03/fast-and-gorgeous-erosion-filter.html
195•runevision•2d ago•19 comments

Show HN: I built a DNS resolver from scratch in Rust – no DNS libraries

https://github.com/razvandimescu/numa
19•rdme•3h ago•11 comments

Show HN: Git bayesect – Bayesian Git bisection for non-deterministic bugs

https://github.com/hauntsaninja/git_bayesect
298•hauntsaninja•4d ago•42 comments

What Gödel Discovered (2020)

https://stopa.io/post/269
80•qnleigh•2d ago•13 comments

AI for American-produced cement and concrete

https://engineering.fb.com/2026/03/30/data-center-engineering/ai-for-american-produced-cement-and...
203•latchkey•20h ago•115 comments
Open in hackernews

Enabling Codex to Analyze Two Decades of Hacker News Data

https://modolap.com/publication/hn-analysis-1
22•ronfriedhaber•3h ago

Comments

mike_hearn•1h ago
I don't quite understand how Modolap differs from just asking AI to use any other OLAP engine? Both your website and the github readme just emphasise that it's idiosyncratic and your personal approach, without explaining what that is or why anyone should care.
ronfriedhaber•1h ago
Appreciate the feedback. I shall certainly revamp the README; it is rather stale.

> "how Modolap differs from just asking AI to use any other OLAP engine"

There presently exist two components, the OLAP query engine and the remote infrastructure service. The service enables systems like Codex (or developers as well) to manage datasets, maintain version control over queries, and offload the computational burden to dedicated machines. This is especially beneficial given the current trend of running agents inside micro-VMs.

In addition, it is designed with AI usage in mind. There is significant value in co-design. One could argue that models can use Polars or DuckDB just as well, and that there is no room for improvement, but I do not think this is true.

bastawhiz•29m ago
What room for improvement is there?
esafak•2m ago
I don't get the value proposition either; your landing page is underdeveloped. Tracking the query history is trivial. Offloading computation could be done with Polars Cloud or MotherDuck. Can you expand on the "manage datasets" part?
throwaway290•38m ago
HN data is open? Under what conditions it's distributed?
bastawhiz•28m ago
There's an API link at the bottom of every page.
zeroxfe•27m ago
I've done this kind of thing many times with codex and sqlite, and it works very well. It's one prompt that looks something like this:

- inspect and understand the downloaded data in directory /path/..., then come up with an sqlite data model for doing detailed analytics and ingest everything into an sqlite db in data.sqlite, and document the model in model.md.

Then you can query the database adhoc pretty easily with codex prompts (and also generate PDF graphs as needed.)

I typically use the highest reasoning level for the initial prompt, and as I get deeper into the data, continuously improve on the model, indexes, etc., and just have codex handle any data migration.