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Pre-Release of Polars 2.0

https://pola.rs/posts/announcing-polars-2/
65•komape•1h ago

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benrutter•35m ago
> We don’t aim to make a big feature release of Polars 2.0. In fact we hope it to be a boring experience for you. The reason we bump this major version is that we can get rid of design decisions made in the past that currently block us and then we want to change defaults to more sensible settings that will benefit a greater audience

I know this take reveals me as a very dull person, but I love seeing projects take semver seriously like this! Version bumps should really be about removing deprecated cruft rather than shiny new features.

I've used polars for a while now, and their focus on stability was a big part if convincing me to make the jump initially!

Bluestein•15m ago
"Tranquil development" (vs. "hype-driven shipping") :)

Pre-Release of Polars 2.0

https://pola.rs/posts/announcing-polars-2/
67•komape•1h ago•3 comments

Muse Spark 1.3

https://developer.meta.com/ai/models/muse-spark/
557•bvaldivielso•13h ago•379 comments

Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2016)

https://scienceblog.com/b-three-schoolgirls-in-kinsale-pulled-up-a-pea-plant-covered-in-warts-and...
16•DamonHD•1h ago•5 comments

Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/3-8-flash-and-3-8-flash-c...
998•bratao•17h ago•567 comments

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https://kciter.so/posts/the-expensive-main-thread/en/
5•kciter•1d ago•0 comments

LLMs and Self-Referentiality

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10046
32•mavdol04•1d ago•15 comments

The Computer Museum of America reclamation project

https://computer-museum.org/wp/
37•rbanffy•2d ago•11 comments

Holden's Lightning Flight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden%27s_Lightning_flight
148•ColinWright•2d ago•28 comments

Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them

https://trellner.com/reports/manufactured-sources-behind-ai-recommendations/
403•jakobgreenfeld•18h ago•194 comments

Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/technology/google-ad-tech-remedies.html
368•donohoe•17h ago•275 comments

Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?

https://help.mistral.ai/en/articles/455207-can-i-opt-out-of-my-input-or-output-data-being-used-fo...
435•teekert•20h ago•194 comments

Higher Multipoles of the Cow

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00506
63•MrOrelliOReilly•1d ago•20 comments

Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex

https://werwolv.net/posts/file_format_reverse_engineering/
193•carlos-menezes•2d ago•34 comments

Fable 5.1 World Modeling

https://github.com/PhiloLabs/fable51-worlds
235•surreal_•12h ago•69 comments

Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s

57•lloydarmbrust•10h ago•65 comments

Show HN: OwnTime – a chess clock for your day's priorities

https://owntime.app/
71•fmos•1d ago•37 comments

Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle

https://www.science.org/content/article/world-s-biggest-dark-matter-detector-spots-single-weird-p...
287•randycupertino•19h ago•99 comments

Wendell Berry has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/us/wendell-berry-dead.html
183•Curiositry•2d ago•96 comments

Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them

https://studyfinds.com/aging-brains-blend-memories-together-instead-of-forgetting-them-study-finds/
271•mdp2021•19h ago•116 comments

Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023)

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-matter-of-millimeters-the-story-of-qantas-flight-32-bdaa62d...
127•gumby•14h ago•78 comments

Engineering of the fastest WebAssembly interpreters

https://wasmi-labs.github.io/blog/posts/wasmi-v2.0/
88•herobird•1d ago•8 comments

Exit the Cave

https://turtlespace.blog/p/exit-the-cave
252•akkartik•18h ago•91 comments

Async Rust vs RTOS showdown (2022)

https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/65/async-rust-vs-rtos-showdown/
85•kooi•14h ago•43 comments

Altair Basic Interpreter Source Code (1975) [pdf]

https://images.gatesnotes.com/12514eb8-7b51-008e-41a9-512542cf683b/34d561c8-cf5c-4e69-af47-3782ea...
57•Eridanus2•12h ago•33 comments

A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards

https://clui.org/collections/los-alamos-business-cards/selection-cards
165•1970-01-01•2d ago•42 comments

We could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cache-transcoding/
109•torutofu•1d ago•45 comments

Poisson Disk Sampling

https://stripeacross.com/posts/poisson-disk-sampling/
158•vismit2000•18h ago•19 comments

Nango (YC W23) is hiring across eng, product and GTM (SF and remote)

https://nango.dev/careers
1•bastienbeurier•11h ago

Reasons robotics is hard

https://secondthoughts.ai/p/14-reasons-robotics-is-hard
90•ddp26•10h ago•50 comments

WebLLM: high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine

https://github.com/mlc-ai/web-llm
114•saikatsg•18h ago•20 comments