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Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously

https://andonlabs.com/blog/why-we-built-pion

240•lukaspetersson•6h ago•251 comments

Amazon vs. Perplexity – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/26-1444/26-1444-2026-08-04.html

141•neom•2h ago•147 comments

Show HN: Macros with a Behringer FCB1010 MIDI Pedalboard in macOS

https://github.com/JamesRyanATX/fcbnerd

4•fretlessjazz•15m ago•0 comments

Distributed Systems Classics (2017)

https://nvartolomei.com/dist-sys-classics/

212•grep_it•7h ago•42 comments

Charts built for Chat

https://dbtcharts.com/blog/charts-built-for-chat/

32•thingsilearned•1h ago•10 comments

Compressing a Flag to 11 Bits

https://read.vantezzen.io/miniflags

25•bennett_dev•2d ago•9 comments

OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability

https://tenderlovemaking.com/2026/09/11/what-a-time-to-be-alive/

339•gregnavis•10h ago•289 comments

A Beginning for Mathematics

https://www.daniellitt.com/blog/2026/9/13/a-beginning-for-mathematics/

151•robinhouston•7h ago•87 comments

How my e-reader lost its stripes

https://www.serpentine.com/posts/2026/x3-stripes/

130•simonmic•6h ago•18 comments

Principles for Fast Tokio Applications

https://dial9-rs.github.io/blog/principles-for-fast-tokio-applications/

154•carllerche•7h ago•34 comments

XCancel service is suspended until further notice

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393•gaganyaan•13h ago•716 comments

Why don't machine learning research agents overfit?

https://www.amazon.science/blog/why-dont-machine-learning-research-agents-overfit

93•Betelbuddy•6h ago•53 comments

Cloudflare AKE cuts origin HelloRetryRequests from 52% to 3.7%

https://blog.cloudflare.com/automatic-key-exchange-for-origins/

73•iamsyr•6h ago•21 comments

Optimizing a Spin-Lock

https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/optimizing-a-spin-lock/

26•signa11•2d ago•11 comments

GPT-5.6 Luna vs. GPT-6 Astra: Is a $1.20 Model Good Enough for Code Review?

https://entelligence.ai/blogs/gpt-5.6-luna-vs-gpt-6-astra-is-a-1.20-model-good-enough-for-code-re...

81•theanonymousone•3h ago•97 comments

Show HN: Neobrutalism.dev – Just added Base UI support and added new color theme

https://www.neobrutalism.dev/

127•samke-•7h ago•58 comments

An atlas of periodic solutions to the three-body problem

https://www.threebodyorbits.com/

325•danielmorozoff•2d ago•74 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

287•david927•1d ago•901 comments

Cua (YC P25) Is Hiring a Founding Technical GTM Lead

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cua/jobs/1IWEKVH-founding-technical-gtm-lead

1•frabonacci•6h ago

Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/09/14/microsoft-patches-windows-and-excel-breaks-au...

181•Alephinitesimal•7h ago•96 comments

Largest known Roman mosaic, beneath Baths of Trajan, opens to the public

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/14/largest-roman-mosaic-opens-to-the-public

40•bookofjoe•10h ago•6 comments

Notes on gotchas while migrating 35kb preprompts from Opus to self-hosted Ollama

https://patrickmccanna.net/notes-on-migrating-large-prompts-away-from-anthropic-openai-to-self-ho...

106•0o_MrPatrick_o0•9h ago•58 comments

Show HN: Nari Qwen3-TTS and Qwen3-ASR – High accuracy, low latency and cost

https://narilabs.com/blog/nari-labs-leads-coval-voice-ai-benchmarks/

58•toebee•7h ago•12 comments

EuroBirdPortal – Live bird movements across Europe

https://www.eurobirdportal.org/ebp/en/

212•NKosmatos•14h ago•63 comments

Adversarial Fashion Makes a Statement on AI Panopticon

https://spectrum.ieee.org/adversarial-fashion

89•rbanffy•9h ago•43 comments

Dario, Please

https://pop.rdi.sh/dario-please/

202•0x5FC3•8h ago•94 comments

Truncated SVD (2023)

https://brashandplucky.com/2023/09/09/truncated-svd.html

40•ibobev•7h ago•7 comments

Show HN: Pelican-bicycle alternatives

https://gally.net/temp/20260914pelican-alternatives/index.html

105•tkgally•9h ago•41 comments

Trying to Make a Loop Auto-Vectorize

https://jsgroth.dev/blog/posts/trying-to-make-a-loop-auto-vectorize/

65•zdw•4d ago•15 comments

Backprop Alternative: Augmented Lagrangian Predictive Coding

https://pub.sakana.ai/pc-alm/

21•guld•5h ago•4 comments

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Compressing a Flag to 11 Bits

https://read.vantezzen.io/miniflags

25•bennett_dev•2d ago

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Smalltalker-80•54m ago

Nobody? Okay then: "Fun with flags!". There, I said it.

jtxt•44m ago

Cool project and results! https://vantezzen.github.io/miniflags/

kjgkjhfkjf•39m ago

In case anyone else was curious about using a lookup table: there are there are fewer than 256 recognized countries or territories [1], so 8 bits should be enough for a key.

This would be superior to the 11-bit encoding presented here because it handles complexities such as coats of arms. It would also handle bizarre situations such as two countries having almost identical flags [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territor...

[2] https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/country-flags-that-resem...

opiotrek•37m ago

but then you have to have the svg built into decoder. will they be smaller than 5KB?

also then it's no different from a svg sprite

porphyra•11m ago

you could also exploit the fact that some flags may appear more frequently than others and use huffman encoding or something to encode the commonly used flags in a shorter sequence than rarely-mentioned countries, and save some bits on average

ano-ther•35m ago

Cool idea. Interesting that Indonesia, Poland and Monaco with very similar two-stripe designs have different compression rates (11, 14 and 17 respectively). Probably the aspect ratio that also gets encoded.

pimlottc•31m ago

Surprised this didn’t mention heraldry, which has what’s basically a DSL for coats-of-arms:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazon

mabster•11m ago

Loved the title. I was like "that's 10 bits too many for a flag!" Haha