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There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

https://danluu.com/perf-opt/

16•Jach•46m ago

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ungreased0675•27m ago

But software seems to be getting slower and less user friendly by the hour.

stopIiiiit•6m ago

Because it's not built with client side optimization in mind any more. It's built with circular investment in mind.

Big tech funds startups (through obfuscated legal and financial means) and that funding goes straight back into big tech cloud hosting and SaaS services.

tobinfekkes•6m ago

Wow, my browser's Reader Mode saved my bacon on this one.

Otherwise, I would have left immediately.

I'm all for speedy, simple, plaintext websites, but it is a negligible amount of work in 2026 to throw some barebones CSS in and make it approachable.

There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

https://danluu.com/perf-opt/

17•Jach•46m ago•4 comments

Kobo can run apps now

https://bandarlabs.github.io/Cobalt/

440•thepoet•9h ago•148 comments

Felony Bench

https://www.felonybench.com/

527•colinprince•10h ago•226 comments

Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM

https://rust-glancer.github.io/blog/hello-world/

26•matklad•6h ago•16 comments

Three important steps in my maturation process

https://thomasdullien.github.io/posts/2026-08-21-three-important-steps-in-my-maturation-process/

52•tdullien•3h ago•10 comments

Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/08/10/scientists-release-biggest-2d-map-of-the-universe/

150•NKosmatos•7h ago•48 comments

Show HN: OzBrain, a shared brain for knowledge between agents and your team

https://ozbrain.com

38•dariusmonsef•2h ago•12 comments

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

https://kagi.com/changelog#11296

1016•speckx•11h ago•341 comments

I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases

https://lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa

451•gavide•12h ago•50 comments

Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/samuel-tunick-deleted-phone-felony.html

567•floathub•13h ago•740 comments

HN: The Good Parts (2016)

https://danluu.com/hn-comments/

18•adletbalzhanov•1h ago•6 comments

Initial focus for our partnership with Motorola is a regular non-folding device

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117136278553665985

7•Cider9986•50m ago•1 comments

People of ACM – Russ Cox

https://www.acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2026/russ-cox

93•signa11•4d ago•11 comments

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/vision/

465•dares2573•15h ago•143 comments

AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/08/18/does-ai-stop-children-from-learning

235•dash2•2d ago•290 comments

SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/salespatriot/jobs/M46X6YX-forward-deployed-engineer

1•maciejSz•4h ago

How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms

https://nari-labs.com/blog/qwen3-tts-speed-cost-frontier/

106•toebee•10h ago•28 comments

Autolith: A programming agent with a live runtime

https://www.lambda-symbolics.com/autolith

24•vismit2000•1d ago•2 comments

I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip

https://pointinthecloud.com/2026-08-19-144600.html

120•colinprince•10h ago•29 comments

Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

https://github.com/adnanakil/nobuzz/blob/main/README.md

204•aakil•11h ago•144 comments

New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson

https://precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/08/16/new-worlds/

206•speckx•12h ago•146 comments

A look under our trunk: what's in our compute

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/08/look-under-our-trunk/

95•ra7•1d ago•50 comments

Everyone says assembly is untyped—everyone is wrong

https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2026/08/20/designing-odins-inline-asm/

39•adamrezich•1d ago•14 comments

Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler (2023)

https://tumbleforth.hardcoded.net/

56•vicek22•6h ago•8 comments

OTel isn't going well (and I made a spreadsheet about it)

https://matduggan.com/otel-isnt-going-well-and-i-made-a-spreadsheet-about-it/

19•hn_acker•8h ago•4 comments

GitHub, autoscaling, and the component substitution fallacy

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/08/19/github-autoscaling-and-the-component-substitution-fallacy/

28•jonemi•1d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Rex, a parallel functional language for scientific workflows

https://github.com/peterkelly/rex

9•peterkelly•4d ago•0 comments

I'm becoming AI-blind

https://cymerys.com/w/im-becoming-ai-blind

269•rcymerys•14h ago•281 comments

The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2uAsJ5EPAw

160•neom•3d ago•11 comments

Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout

https://invertingvision.com/2026/08/10/kodaks-pre-invented-lunar-orbiter-camera-or-the-fate-of-sa...

55•cainxinth•11h ago•3 comments