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OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

https://openwrt.org/toh/openwrt/one
249•peter_d_sherman•3h ago•115 comments

CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps

https://www.comaps.app/
148•basilikum•2h ago•26 comments

Learning to code is still worthwhile

https://stevekrouse.com/learn-to-code
36•stevekrouse•37m ago•14 comments

A global workspace in language models

https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace
165•in-silico•3h ago•50 comments

Linux on the Atari Jaguar

https://cakehonolulu.github.io/linux-for-jaguar/
74•cakehonolulu•3h ago•11 comments

AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit

https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/07/06/amd-ryzen-ai-halo
240•LabsLucas•6h ago•170 comments

Resetting Xbox

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/07/06/resetting-xbox/
382•dijksterhuis•7h ago•328 comments

Januscape: Guest-to-Host Escape in KVM/x86 [CVE-2026-53359]

https://github.com/V4bel/Januscape
57•Imustaskforhelp•4h ago•12 comments

Using precision editing to study human embryo development shows master gene

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/first-use-of-precision-editing-to-study-human-embryo-developm...
23•gmays•3d ago•3 comments

Python 3.14 compiled to metal – no interpreter

https://github.com/can1357/pon
61•hamza_q_•1h ago•35 comments

Kani: A Model Checker for Rust

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01504
109•Jimmc414•5h ago•5 comments

Stealth robotics startup (YC S26) is hiring principal engineers (Palo Alto)

1•david-venegas•5h ago

Rotman Lens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotman_lens
37•thomasjb•5d ago•3 comments

Aluminum foil (2021)

https://dernocua.github.io/notes/aluminum-foil.html
210•firephox•8h ago•101 comments

OfficeCLI: Office suite for AI agents to read and edit Microsoft Office files

https://github.com/iOfficeAI/OfficeCLI
75•maxloh•4h ago•22 comments

Road to Elm 1.0

https://elm-lang.org/news/faster-builds
281•wolfadex•9h ago•131 comments

Egypt Is Building a New Nile

https://www.theb1m.com/video/egypt-is-building-a-new-nile
104•geox•3d ago•40 comments

Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network

https://www.map.signalbox.io
360•scrlk•11h ago•136 comments

CS2 Fog Of War: Server-sided anti-wallhack occlusion culling for CS2 servers

https://github.com/karola3vax/CS2FOW
79•LorenDB•6h ago•38 comments

Show HN: Pulpie – Models for Cleaning the Web

https://usefeyn.com/blog/pulpie-pareto-optimal-models-for-cleaning-the-web/
70•snyy•5h ago•14 comments

Clojure 1.13 adds support for checked keys

https://clojure.org/news/2026/07/02/clojure-1-13-alpha1
168•FelipeCortez•4d ago•36 comments

Price per 1M tokens is meaningless

https://janilowski.pl/en/blog/2026/price-per-m-tokens/
91•janilowski•1h ago•49 comments

1k Words: A Writing Contest

https://writingclub.world/1picture1000words
67•surprisetalk•6h ago•33 comments

Pros and Cons of Solo Development

https://johnjeffers.com/pros-and-cons-of-solo-development/
86•johnj-hn•3h ago•43 comments

Introduction to Genomics for Engineers

https://learngenomics.dev/docs/biological-foundations/cells-genomes-dna-chromosomes/
212•yreg•4d ago•34 comments

Hobbes – A Language and Embedded JIT Compiler

https://github.com/morganstanley/hobbes
19•ryan-ca•3d ago•2 comments

Fable 5 On Vending-Bench: Misbehaving, With Plausible Deniability

https://andonlabs.com/blog/fable5-vending-bench
161•optimalsolver•8h ago•114 comments

Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries

https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Support/Nintendo-Switch-2/Information-about-upcoming-battery-relat...
289•akyuu•8h ago•176 comments

Should DayQuil Be Legal?

https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/should-dayquil-be-legal
157•paulpauper•5h ago•202 comments

Apricot Computers: An underrated British brand

https://dfarq.homeip.net/apricot-computers-an-underrated-british-brand/
75•giuliomagnifico•5d ago•30 comments
Open in hackernews

Python 3.14 compiled to metal – no interpreter

https://github.com/can1357/pon
59•hamza_q_•1h ago

Comments

ubercore•1h ago
I hate to be that guy, but... one week old project, clear signs of vibing. I will be shocked if the remaining work listed (cpython test suite) proceeds in any reasonable timeline.

This is a pretty hard problem to just solve in a week.

EDIT: and man, these kind of comments LLM created comments are really starting to grind my gears as my job slowly turns into reviewing LLM PRs:

> Known gaps at the language level are burned down through the ratcheted floors above — the committed floor files, not this README, are the authoritative compatibility baseline.

baq•1h ago
of course it is vibed.

it doesn't matter as long as it works.

ActionHank•1h ago
That's the neat part, when it's vibed it works, until it doesn't and then it's really hard to make it work again.
coldtea•12m ago
>when it's vibed it works, until it doesn't and then it's really hard to make it work again

Is it?

People have solved AI bugs with AI. If some vibe project eventually hits some bug and stops working, what exactly stops using AI to fix it? Is the idea that bugs will go beyond the limits of AI capability?

If you meant to say that when an AI vibe coded project beyond some complexity it's difficult for a human coder to manually go through all the code they didn't write, understand it, and find the issue, sure.

kameit00•1h ago
In 12 months… vibe code mess. Or discontinued. Or both.
mcphage•1h ago
Given the stdlib modules listed as "explicitly not done yet", I'm going to say: it doesn't yet, in any meaningful sense. The question then becomes: how confident do we feel that it will work in the near future?
ubercore•39m ago
I was trying to say "not confident at all" but hedged a bit too much.

I see this as a case of the "quick to get to a POC that falls apart after sustained development for the same reasons it didn't work pre-Fable" problem.

himata4113•1h ago
This is written by fable with the guidance of a very experienced, highly skilled person. See their previous work.
throwaway27448•42m ago
Experience doesn't change the fundamental problem. I don't see this project going anywhere for general use beyond their needs.
Dilettante_•40m ago
"Very experienced" might mean different things to you. The oldest repo on their GH is from 2017. As for highly skilled: Could you point closer to which parts of their portfolio we are supposed to be awestruck by?
westurner•1h ago
How does performance compare to RustPython compiled in a similar way?
cuzezzzbbfofai•1h ago
Can it run Numpy and Torch?
smithza•45m ago
pickle files are usually the limiter here. I would be surprised if it can handle pickle files since it relies so much on runtime LUTs of the objects and arbitrary object definitions. This usually doesn't work in other use cases such as swig or cython either IIRC.
cdavid•10m ago
For NumPy/Pytorch, the C API is much bigger issue than pickle. I have not looked at the architecture of this, but given it uses its own IR + replaces ref counting w/ a GC, I am assuming it does not have C API compatibility.
echoangle•1h ago
What happens if you call exec/eval? Are they just not available?
smithza•45m ago
this as well as pickle files will likely be unavailable
leobuskin•17m ago
It uses JIT
leobuskin•58m ago
A few problems with this Fable's project:

1. It's not Python by any means, it's a subset with its own runtime, its own quirks and nuances;

2. It will be impossible to maintain parity with CPython without AI assistance;

3. It will die the same way as dozens of similar (even non-AI projects) died before, and reasons will be the same: (1) and (2).

subarctic•54m ago
"Without ai assistance" - ok, but what about with ai assistance?
zahlman•47m ago
For a project like this, relying on AI assistance also makes it effectively dead in the water.
minimaxir•44m ago
Why?
bt1a•28m ago
A memory of theirs. Trying to use some heavily quantized gpt-3 era toddler to assist the development of a project. Maybe. A blind posit. Yea
chomp•17m ago
I don’t want to be mean, but try to run a large project and you’ll realize there’s more to it than “can I find some bodies to crank out code”
iLoveOncall•48m ago
Can those AI slop projects have a reserved tag on HackerNews? So many in the past few weeks I wouldn't have clicked and wasted my time on if I knew it was just some vibe-coded garbage.
andy99•43m ago
I see the same thing, and believe that ironically AI is going to bring about the return of good search engines as we’re currently drowning in slop and need a real way to filter it.
RantyDave•26m ago
Don't we have Nuitka for this?
getpokedagain•17m ago
>> The project is under heavy active development

Is a pretty oof sentence for a project with one contributor and no users. Just reeks of llm barf with no oversight.

all2•28m ago
Time-cost for machines instead of willing knowledgeable humans. The former requires money, the latter requires passion.

Arguably, passion for a project is without price.

leobuskin•47m ago
It's possible, but we're at the moment when most of us can ask Fable to implement a custom compiler to a custom target for our favorite language, and even use it as a part of custom solution. Why do I need someone else's implementation? Where's the magic in this project? What's the secret sauce?
coldtea•17m ago
>Where's the magic in this project? What's the secret sauce?

Someone else paying for the tokens.

Also someone seeing it through (should that come). Obviously we're not "at the moment when most of us can ask Fable to implement a custom compiler to a custom target for our favorite language, and even use it as a part of custom solution", without thousands to spare and lots of time to shape the solution.

cyanydeez•15m ago
It's like we invented a worse github.
coldtea•10m ago
Gimphub.
bt1a•29m ago
it will be impossible to maintain parity with wetware
rurban•27m ago
Reading is hard.

It runs and passes the full cpython testsuite, just 5x faster.

With AI it's 100x easier to maintain than by hand.

It reminds my on pperl. same approach using crane lift. Looks good

leobuskin•22m ago
It passes only curated corpus (snippets), not the full CPython test suite. So, yes, reading is hard. Nothing against AI, btw.