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GPT-6 Astra

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/
1449•kibae•9h ago•1208 comments

.name Termination

https://neil.fraser.name/news/2026/09/03/
1480•pavel_lishin•13h ago•401 comments

Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight

https://gwern.net/xanadu
27•andsoitis•2h ago•3 comments

Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s

https://inference-docs.cerebras.ai/models/overview
483•altertable•9h ago•146 comments

The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM86DBOqgPM
229•feb•2d ago•156 comments

How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language

https://news.mit.edu/2026/how-mit-research-project-became-global-programming-language-0831
30•theanonymousone•3d ago•6 comments

From Hookswitch to Grave

https://computer.rip/2026-06-14-hookswitch-to-grave.html
8•Sniffnoy•1h ago•0 comments

A Mysterious Kidney Disease Has Arrived in Texas

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/ckdu-kidney-disease-immigration/
11•johntfella•1h ago•15 comments

Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/artificial-beaver-dams-california
187•speckx•11h ago•60 comments

Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly

https://babyloniantwins.com/blog/porting-a-1993-amiga-game-to-godot/
222•rabahs•13h ago•66 comments

K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models

https://ifm.ai/blog/k2/
271•karimf•12h ago•87 comments

Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

https://armature.tech/blog/which-tools-coding-agents-install
127•screm•6h ago•48 comments

GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet

https://www.sciencealert.com/gps-glitched-across-the-us-by-as-much-as-33-feet-scientists-have-nev...
142•thread_id•1d ago•85 comments

Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived

https://anyhumanever.com/
499•thinkingemote•13h ago•249 comments

New type of dice guarantees no tie when deciding who goes first

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7328614
65•colinprince•2d ago•48 comments

Virtual Threads for a scripting language in Java 8 without Loom

https://jactl.io/blog/2026/08/28/jactl-virtual-threads
14•jaccomo•2d ago•1 comments

Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap

https://www.kedglobal.com/artificial-intelligence/newsView/ked202607210007
219•gmays•1d ago•65 comments

Xanadu was waiting for agents

https://zed.dev/blog/agentic-xanadu
97•nsm•2d ago•38 comments

GLP-1s are being linked to fewer serious infections, including TB

https://gizmodo.com/ozempic-and-other-glp-1s-are-being-linked-to-fewer-serious-infections-includi...
78•gumby•5h ago•41 comments

Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer

https://tasklet.ai/careers/customer-success-engineer
1•mayop100•6h ago

Unusual Suspects

https://neal.fun/unusual-suspects/
128•beeperboy95•1d ago•24 comments

How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PLisnSFir8y5AHkmP/how-concerned-should-we-be-about-astra-s-recurrent
103•yurivish•10h ago•61 comments

The true horror of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories lies in their confessions

https://yalereview.org/article/emily-ogden-edgar-allan-poe
62•lermontov•1d ago•23 comments

A PCB business card with a batteryless LED, powered by the phone that taps it

https://www.kevin.md/the-business-card-that-lights-up.md/
53•thekevintang•2d ago•17 comments

Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2095453567955968398
294•tosh•16h ago•200 comments

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3

https://arcprize.org/blog/astra
177•vignesh_warar•8h ago•114 comments

The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/08/23/the-asteroid-currently-hitting-frontend-web-development/
96•codechicago277•8h ago•111 comments

How to get a free .arpa domain

https://hawksley.dev/blog/get-free-arpa-domain
127•ethanhawksley•3d ago•13 comments

The browser's main thread is expensive

https://kciter.so/posts/the-expensive-main-thread/en/
383•kciter•2d ago•135 comments

Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

348•halcdev•12h ago•530 comments
Open in hackernews

How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language

https://news.mit.edu/2026/how-mit-research-project-became-global-programming-language-0831
31•theanonymousone•3d ago

Comments

maxall4•38m ago
I really want to like Julia. It has a nice type system, a good ecosystem, reasonable syntax, and it’s far faster than Python. But there are several issues with its DX that prevent me from using it: the most severe of which being the complete lack of a cache for the JIT (or JIT like system), inducing multi second compile times for scripts that run in <100ms. There are some external packages that try to solve this issue, but they are far from first-party quality, and, in my experience, are quite buggy.

(I last tried Julia a few years ago; perhaps this has been improved since?)

adgjlsfhk1•29m ago
a between session cache had been merged for 1.14 (release expected within 6-12 months).
muragekibicho•25m ago
Julia uses 1-based indexing. It's competes with R and Matlab for the same set of users. Both R and Julia have their core functions written in C++. Absolutely nothing new.

From my experience, grad students use Julia when their PI thinks a new programming language will help differentiate their next NSF proposal among vast funding requests.

adgjlsfhk1•9m ago
> Both R and Julia have their core functions written in C++. Absolutely nothing new.

imo this isn't really a good summary. Julia is one of the 3 languages to have done an exascale HPC run https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.10292v1 (Fortran and C are the other 2). Some parts of the compiler are written in c++ (the llvm interface), but doing codegen with llvm is much more similar to C/Rust/Fortran than R/Matlab

Alien1Being•22m ago
Thought that it would be about Lisp....
manwe150•11m ago
It was about lisp ;)

Secret mode: ./julia —-lisp