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If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe

https://madcampos.dev/blog/2026/07/accessibility-from-scratch/
50•treve•1h ago•8 comments

Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/
847•vimarsh6739•11h ago•214 comments

The lost joy of music piracy

https://www.pigeonsandplanes.com/read/music-piracy-what-cd-oink-nine-inch-nails-streaming
15•mcgin•1h ago•1 comments

SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions

https://mort.coffee/home/sqlite-editions/
187•gnyeki•7h ago•75 comments

Bluesky Trademarks ATProto

https://atproto.com/blog/at-protocol-trademark
55•chaosharmonic•4h ago•21 comments

Grok Build is open source

https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build
362•skp1995•9h ago•397 comments

1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored

https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/explore-1300-beautiful-wildlife-illustrations-from-the-19th-c...
24•gslin•2h ago•1 comments

Making 768 servers look like 1

https://planetscale.com/blog/making-768-servers-look-like-1
27•hisamafahri•2h ago•6 comments

Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]

https://www.siegelendowment.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/fortune-david-siegel-open-source-ai.pdf
143•bilsbie•8h ago•53 comments

G# – A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics

https://davidobando.github.io/gsharp/
73•serial_dev•4d ago•32 comments

Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/stripe-advent-offer-buy-paypal-more-than-53-billion-sour...
410•rvz•1d ago•223 comments

Can LLMs Perform Deep Technical Comprehension of Computer Architecture Papers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11859
18•Jimmc414•3h ago•1 comments

High-Bandwidth Flash offers efficient storage for model weights

https://spectrum.ieee.org/high-bandwidth-flash
26•Gaishan•1d ago•7 comments

Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used

https://www.frank.computer/blog/2025/05/just-a-tool.html
13•cratermoon•1h ago•7 comments

My Throw Decides My Aim

https://thegustafson.com/blog/my-throw-decides-my-aim
11•usernotfoundrn•1h ago•2 comments

The Last Picture Show: A Conversation with George Lucas

https://a-rabbitsfoot.com/editorial/confessions/the-last-picture-show-a-conversation-with-george-...
9•Michelangelo11•1d ago•2 comments

Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU

https://www.neomindlabs.com/2026/06/08/running-gemma-4-26b-at-5-tokens-sec-on-a-13-year-old-xeon-...
264•neomindryan•14h ago•171 comments

Launch HN: Coasty (YC S26) – An API for computer-use agents

https://coasty.ai/docs
31•nkov47•13h ago•7 comments

LLM Networking with MikroTik

https://blog.greg.technology/2026/07/14/llm-networking-with-mikrotik.html
68•gregsadetsky•7h ago•31 comments

Rebuilding My Homelab with Compose, Ruby, IPv6, and No Kubernetes

https://www.petekeen.net/homelab-resolved/
4•zrail•4d ago•1 comments

Metal-Organic Frameworks, Chemistry's New Miracle Materials (2018)

https://chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/meet-metal-organic-frameworks-chemistry%E2%80%99s-new-miracle...
50•andsoitis•6h ago•12 comments

The Tokio/Rayon Trap and Why Async/Await Fails Concurrency

https://pmbanugo.me/blog/why-async-await-complect-concurrency
32•LAC-Tech•3h ago•30 comments

Job queues are deceptively tricky

https://typesanitizer.com/blog/job-queues.html
57•ingve•1d ago•14 comments

Command Line Interface Guidelines

https://clig.dev/
103•subset•3d ago•21 comments

Open Source, Free Tier Capable Whispr Using Cloudflare AI

https://github.com/PrestigePvP/Voicebox
10•TreDub•2h ago•3 comments

CatchCat – Pokémon Go for Cats, IRL

https://www.catchcat.lol/
35•marojejian•5d ago•7 comments

Show HN: One More Letter

https://playonemoreletter.com/
59•hmate9•6h ago•39 comments

Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel

https://elbowgreasegames.substack.com/p/misfits-attic-announces-duskers-20
108•spacemarine1•10h ago•33 comments

Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly

https://developer.puter.com/labs/firefox-wasm/
170•coolelectronics•8h ago•90 comments

Voxatron

https://www.lexaloffle.com/voxatron.php
82•lsferreira42•10h ago•20 comments
Open in hackernews

Making 768 servers look like 1

https://planetscale.com/blog/making-768-servers-look-like-1
27•hisamafahri•2h ago

Comments

alightsoul•1h ago
Load balancers, microservices and horizontal scaling?
jdw64•1h ago
Looks like the GIF is fully built out in code. It's really nice to look at, well made, and easy to understand too. I wonder what program or code they used. I'd love to know.

p.sI thought it was a GIF, but it's an iframe. That was a nice little surprise.

gurjeet•48m ago
Specifically, it's an JS-controlled/animated SVG embedded in an iframe.
jdw64•43m ago
Yeah, I'm looking at it in developer mode. It's using a GSAP timeline approach to update SVG properties. I'm curious how they handle security and caching for something like this. It looks like they're using Tailwind, at least. but this approach is really clean and nice.

It really feels like the best way to learn is by studying other people's code.

aarvin_roshin•58m ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48925420
drdexebtjl•50m ago
What about sequences? The example shows an auto-incrementing user ID. How’s that possible without contention between all shards? Is the proxy responsible for sequences?

What about foreign keys? Do they all have to live on the same shard? How do you do distributed transactions?

On cross-shard reads: how do you do sorting? And cross-shard joins?

I’d love to be proven wrong, but I suspect the 768 servers look like 1 only on the very surface, and you’ll get wildly different characteristics from cross-shard and single-shard queries.

I personally would prefer if they _didn’t_ look like 1 if they can’t behave like 1.