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

https://rohanbansal.com/qorl
362•polyphilz•5h ago•70 comments

Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/introducing-cuda-rust-two-tracks-for-writing-gpu-kernels/
137•nonmaskable•12h ago•45 comments

Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16338
117•matt_d•3h ago•11 comments

Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard

https://mimo.xiaomi.com/rl/
205•krackers•4h ago•56 comments

Backups Aren't Simple

https://filipovski.net/2026/09/16/backups-arent-simple.html
43•afilipovski•3h ago•16 comments

Small programming tricks

https://will-keleher.com/posts/small-programming-tricks-matter/
368•signa11•8h ago•178 comments

The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve

https://johnjwang.com/post/2026/09/15/engineering-behind-us-strategic-petroleum-reserve
61•johnjwang•1d ago•11 comments

OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework

https://openspec.dev/
29•etoxin•1h ago•7 comments

Reversing Factorio's RNG

https://gegell.github.io/posts/factorio-rng/
127•jheitmann•4d ago•13 comments

Performance Improvements in .NET 11

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvements-in-net-11/
133•soheilpro•1d ago•25 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...
61•doener•1h ago•16 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-...
189•berkeleyjunk•1d ago•161 comments

Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries

https://untranslatedjp.substack.com/p/japans-book-scene-is-quietly-moving
86•herbertl•4d ago•31 comments

How good are frontier models at physics?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13009
64•qt31415926•4h ago•29 comments

Reverse-engineered Jev-like model

https://github.com/vinnylarouge/jevlike
53•rochansinha•5h ago•8 comments

Accurate Models of AMD Matrix Cores

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14845
55•matt_d•5h ago•6 comments

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

https://github.com/arnegiacomo/fugleramme
2053•arnemunthekaas•1d ago•236 comments

Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-x-mozilla/
520•vertigoruntime•16h ago•184 comments

Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"

https://evanhahn.com/posts/2026-09-13-programmers-dislike-reduce/
77•vinhnx•2d ago•135 comments

Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14858
179•bananaflag•10h ago•49 comments

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

https://www.truegrittexturesupply.com/blogs/news/destroy-after-reading
11•pigeons•2d ago•2 comments

Anatomy of a Texture

https://agentlien.github.io/texture/
71•Agentlien•9h ago•12 comments

Why Does the Universe Expand?

https://cosmicave.org/2026/09/15/why-does-the-universe-expand/
15•the__alchemist•4h ago•4 comments

My website charged AI agents a penny per page. I watched Claude pay it

https://suganthan.com/blog/x402-pay-per-crawl/
3•gmays•47m ago•1 comments

Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera

https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-flock-camera-data-shows-how-system-works/
452•driverdan•10h ago•210 comments

Training Text-to-Image Models 3.6× Faster

https://www.linum.ai/field-notes/jit-ddt
26•schopra909•7h ago•3 comments

The DeepMind Institute

https://institute.deepmind.com/
133•vertigoruntime•9h ago•43 comments

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

https://clickhouse.com/blog/introducing-walshadow
37•spathak•5d ago•5 comments

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

https://oldmanrahul.com/2026/09/14/hush/
13•oldmanrahul•10h ago•5 comments

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kyber/jobs/eturrAR-forward-deployed-engineer
1•asontha•12h ago
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OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework

https://openspec.dev/
26•etoxin•1h ago

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slowmovintarget•47m ago
I've been using this, or more pointedly, I built an agent fleet (bespoke harness) where the planner agent uses OpenSpec to generate the plan. Then turns the tasks into a ticket graph.

It works fairly well, and it is definitely less heavy than SpecKit.

jeremyjh•29m ago
This looks like exactly what I've been thinking I needed. I've tried Superpowers, GSD and oh-my-claude/openagent and mostly they burn more tokens.

Lately I've been using stock OMP and its close to the right balance but not quite enough of the brainstorming and spec maintenance built in. I've tried to layer some simple stuff on myself but with mixed results.

CharlieDigital•24m ago
This section https://openspec.dev/docs/setup links to "Concepts"

Concepts links here: https://github.com/Fission-AI/OpenSpec/blob/main/docs-lab/gu...

All the docs here are the templates rather than the actual file (I presume: https://github.com/Fission-AI/OpenSpec/blob/main/docs/concep...)

Somehow not very confidence inspiring...

silvertab•13m ago
I think they might be in the process of re-designing the site and/or moving docs because it all used to work not that long ago, but the site design was completely different last time I checked.
wyum•17m ago
This is my first time seeing openspec, and it seems to share a similar philosophy to what I've been working on this year.

If you like this / SDD, I'd appreciate your feedback:

https://github.com/spekk-ai/spekk-cli

Similar iterative specs philosophy. Ours is a bit different because we focus on declarative specs and installable agent skills. We chose Go for simplicity and minimal requirements (single binary).

passive•13m ago
I've also been building something like this, and browsing spekk-cli, it's interesting to see that we ended up with similar roles. Might be fun to compare and contrast a couple of these systems. :)
wyre•5m ago
It's just a bundle of skills and md files...

Why does it need to have an entire CLI?