fp.

Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres

https://rohanbansal.com/qorl

342•polyphilz•4h ago•67 comments

Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16338

104•matt_d•2h ago•10 comments

Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/introducing-cuda-rust-two-tracks-for-writing-gpu-kernels/

100•nonmaskable•12h ago•39 comments

Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard

https://mimo.xiaomi.com/rl/

191•krackers•3h ago•51 comments

Backups Aren't Simple

https://filipovski.net/2026/09/16/backups-arent-simple.html

31•afilipovski•3h ago•11 comments

Small programming tricks

https://will-keleher.com/posts/small-programming-tricks-matter/

354•signa11•7h ago•173 comments

OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework

https://openspec.dev/

19•etoxin•38m ago•2 comments

The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve

https://johnjwang.com/post/2026/09/15/engineering-behind-us-strategic-petroleum-reserve

45•johnjwang•1d ago•7 comments

Reversing Factorio's RNG

https://gegell.github.io/posts/factorio-rng/

117•jheitmann•4d ago•12 comments

Performance Improvements in .NET 11

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvements-in-net-11/

123•soheilpro•1d ago•23 comments

AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/aws-says-it-cant-restore-some-data-from-mideast-facilities-...

172•berkeleyjunk•1d ago•147 comments

Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/canda-eu-membership-australia-us-trade-b3050...

38•doener•48m ago•4 comments

Accurate Models of AMD Matrix Cores

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14845

53•matt_d•4h ago•6 comments

Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries

https://untranslatedjp.substack.com/p/japans-book-scene-is-quietly-moving

74•herbertl•4d ago•27 comments

Reverse-engineered Jev-like model

https://github.com/vinnylarouge/jevlike

47•rochansinha•4h ago•7 comments

How good are frontier models at physics?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13009

58•qt31415926•4h ago•26 comments

Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

https://github.com/arnegiacomo/fugleramme

2046•arnemunthekaas•1d ago•236 comments

Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-x-mozilla/

518•vertigoruntime•15h ago•182 comments

Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14858

178•bananaflag•10h ago•49 comments

Anatomy of a Texture

https://agentlien.github.io/texture/

69•Agentlien•9h ago•12 comments

Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"

https://evanhahn.com/posts/2026-09-13-programmers-dislike-reduce/

71•vinhnx•2d ago•125 comments

Destroy After Reading: photocopiers,cheap paper and DIY gave metal it's look

https://www.truegrittexturesupply.com/blogs/news/destroy-after-reading

6•pigeons•2d ago•1 comments

WalShadow: Sub-second Postgres replication to ClickHouse from physical WAL

https://clickhouse.com/blog/introducing-walshadow

35•spathak•5d ago•5 comments

Training Text-to-Image Models 3.6× Faster

https://www.linum.ai/field-notes/jit-ddt

25•schopra909•6h ago•2 comments

Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera

https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-flock-camera-data-shows-how-system-works/

439•driverdan•10h ago•208 comments

Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort (2022)

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/06/Vectorized%20and%20performance%20portable%20Quicksort.html

161•mococa•5h ago•25 comments

The DeepMind Institute

https://institute.deepmind.com/

131•vertigoruntime•9h ago•43 comments

Why Does the Universe Expand?

https://cosmicave.org/2026/09/15/why-does-the-universe-expand/

10•the__alchemist•3h ago•1 comments

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kyber/jobs/eturrAR-forward-deployed-engineer

1•asontha•11h ago

I replaced my brown-noise browser tab with a menu bar app

https://oldmanrahul.com/2026/09/14/hush/

10•oldmanrahul•10h ago•0 comments