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Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB

https://cactuscompute.com/blog/whistle
252•gmays•3h ago•67 comments

Vitalik Buterin backs crypto ‘bunker mode’ amid rapid AI math advances

https://cointelegraph.com/news/justin-drake-urges-crypto-bunker-mode-as-ai-could-break-wallet-sec...
19•firstcomm•43m ago•1 comments

The value of not getting to the point (2015)

https://ken.arneson.name/2015/11/the-value-of-not-getting-to-the-point/
26•NaOH•56m ago•4 comments

Show HN: K10s – A Clickable Kubernetes TUI (Go, Bubble Tea)

https://github.com/p10node/k10s
43•pierreneter•1h ago•23 comments

Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?

https://www.dgt.is/blog/2026-10-07-deepseek-freek-out/
37•jonotime•19h ago•23 comments

Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program

https://apnews.com/article/h1b-visa-program-vance-microsoft-e7b3a407f822702b269ee277d21343ea
674•alephnerd•4h ago•1138 comments

Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter

https://openrouter.ai/stepfun/step-5-preview
53•AnneWodell•3h ago•18 comments

Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments

http://scottbezek.blogspot.com/2026/10/making-flexible-neon-t-shirt-with-leds.html
12•scottbez1•3h ago•4 comments

License update: AI derivation prohibited on all my art, lore, stories, comics

https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1178/license-update-ai-derivation-prohibited-on-all-my-art-lore...
4•frizlab•17m ago•0 comments

Beauty in DVD Menus

https://vale.rocks/posts/dvd-menus
204•speckx•6h ago•129 comments

OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/open-ai-revenue-nvidia-oracle-coreweave.html
226•mfiguiere•3h ago•133 comments

“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117395269325940185
574•ent101•14h ago•596 comments

Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/archaeologists-are-reconstructing-the-invisible-tec...
73•Hooke•22h ago•36 comments

US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams

https://thequietus.com/news/us-man-given-prison-sentence-for-bot-farming-music-streams/
12•cdrnsf•18h ago•9 comments

OLED burn-in test: 30-month update

https://www.techspot.com/article/3178-oled-burn-in-test/
39•baal80spam•9h ago•18 comments

DuckDB Ducklake

https://github.com/duckdb/ducklake
55•saikatsg•1d ago•3 comments

The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton

https://theconversation.com/the-dawn-of-the-age-of-the-exoskeleton-281804
16•speckx•1d ago•1 comments

Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/man-discovers-his-parents-coffee-machine-used-1tb-of-data-i...
104•ck2•1d ago•51 comments

I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard

https://antonfrolov.substack.com/p/i-hired-an-illustrator-to-draw-my
95•soheilpro•1d ago•4 comments

I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities

https://quesma.com/blog/invisible-cities-one-shot/
299•stared•8h ago•156 comments

A 5.3M-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10546-z
22•bryanrasmussen•1d ago•0 comments

Theranos.World

https://www.theranos.world/
8•kbyatnal•2h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110

https://github.com/anupray95/AI-Agent-on-a-NOKIA
16•anupray•5h ago•3 comments

New CRAM method offers giant boost to compressed memory reads

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/new-linux-tech-compresses-memory-in-ram-as-ram-for-45...
33•danny00•6h ago•15 comments

The Deeply Impersonal Personalized Recruiter Mail

https://blog.pentlander.com/the-deeply-impersonal-personalized-recruiter-mail/
27•speckx•2h ago•24 comments

Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?

36•mariocesar•1d ago•41 comments

4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe

https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2026/10/4-hour-battery-storage-is-cheaper-to-install-than-g...
191•01-_-•3h ago•99 comments

Vanillin provides a sweet solution for chronic wound healing

https://news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2026/10/06/vanillin-provides-a-sweet-solution-for-chronic-wound...
12•geox•8h ago•1 comments

Orkut.com

https://orkut.com/
94•andreynering•5h ago•69 comments

The Slow Formation of Durable Software

https://newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-slow-formation-of-durable-software/
220•benbreen•2d ago•94 comments
Open in hackernews

New CRAM method offers giant boost to compressed memory reads

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/new-linux-tech-compresses-memory-in-ram-as-ram-for-452x-speedup-new-cram-method-offers-giant-boost-to-compressed-memory-reads
32•danny00•6h ago
https://lpc.events/event/20/contributions/2424/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-CRAM-Compressed-RAM

Comments

Kevin_Flynn•6h ago
Ram Doubler, for Mac and Win 3.x, 1996

https://winworldpc.com/product/connectix-ram-double/windows-...

Nice to see its back, with better performance.

History repeated, with refinement.

vfosnar•4h ago
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-CRAM-Compressed-RAM
x0z•4h ago
Thank you <3
dang•31m ago
Added above. Thanks!
eglintondust•4h ago
So can I finally download more RAM?
smallmancontrov•23m ago
https://downloadmoreram.com/

Whoa, new options! I'm downloading the Quantum RAM with Haptic Feedback.

swed420•11m ago
You wouldn't download a car
madduci•4h ago
Finally we can run frontier models locally
throawayonthe•2h ago
one would hope model weights are already high entropy enough and would not be improved by a general-purpose memory compression algo?
sroussey•18m ago
We brute force AI models right now because a) we don’t know better, and b) it’s premature optimization.

I beg to differ on point b, but no one is delaying their next model just so they can concentrate on optimization.

It’s coming though.

One example: https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/28/ai-model-compression-sta...

Another is separating the the intelligence part of the model from the known facts part of the model (which can be better compressed)

tintor•10m ago
Compression doesn't really work for model weights.

Model quantization and model distillation are two techniques to reduce model size.

cwillu•4h ago
The article appears to misunderstand the point of the project, and mostly just describes what zswap already does (writing compressed pages back into ram), rather than talking about cram's hardware-offloaded compression that allows cacheline-level access rather than page-level. (And they appear to be aware that they don't really understand it: “My explanation of CRAM might not be completely correct”)

The phoronix article is better, and I say that as someone who usually detests the quality of phoronix's technical writing.

tancop•2h ago
It's not really about hardware offload, the biggest problem with zswap is that it's swap. The rest of the kernel treats it like a fast SSD (which is still incredibly slow compared to RAM) instead of slower memory that needs a bit of special handling on writes.

NUMA maps a lot closer to what compressed RAM actually is. The subsystem is more aware of CRAMs specifics so it can make better decisions about where to put allocations and everything gets faster. And it's less overhead because swap is not really optimized for frequent direct access but for NUMA it's the most basic function.

cyberclimb•2h ago
the recording of the presentation has got to be on this YT channel but I only scrubbed through 2 videos (8h each) and it's not easy to find

https://www.youtube.com/@LinuxPlumbersConference

not sure where it falls in the schedule here either https://lpc.events/event/20/timetable/#all

tux3•2m ago
Unfortunately the recording is missing audio for half the talk. A frequent issue for the plumbers livestreams this year.