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Rewriting a Commercial Engine in Jai

https://polygonjs.com/blog/why-i-rewrote-polygon-from-scratch
9•frading•2d ago

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frading•2d ago
This is a recap of the reasons that led me to bite the bullet and rewrite an engine I used to sell and ship commercial projects.
EdwardDiego•13m ago
I got a 406 Not Acceptable because this website doesn't like my browser.

https://imgur.com/a/uF2CxfT

Which means this website doesn't even know how HTTP 4xx codes work (406 is about content negotiation) and is also being rather pathetically pedantic about user agents.

So, to you polygonjs.com, I say, 469 Go Fuck Yourself.

We should be more ambitious with the software we build

https://danluu.com/ambitious/
404•ltratt•11h ago•346 comments

Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models

https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/how-we-deploy-trillion-parameter-frontier-models-on-cerebras
150•gmays•7h ago•53 comments

How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made

https://kottke.org/26/10/how-japanese-dried-bonito-is-made
33•bookofjoe•2d ago•9 comments

The Goose Programming Language

https://aardappel.github.io/goose/
381•bobbydigitales•14h ago•246 comments

SpeedCrunch 1.1

https://www.speedcrunch.org/
144•LordNibbler•13h ago•24 comments

Small Programs and Languages

https://ratfactor.com/cards/pl-small
106•andsoitis•11h ago•7 comments

America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?

https://www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the-fall-of-the-creative-class
352•gnabgib•10h ago•348 comments

Why Gopher in 2026?

https://gopher.muffinlabs.com/sdf.org/users/nervtoji/phlog/001.txt
74•andsoitis•9h ago•24 comments

I Built a Stereo Vision Board for Hardware Hackers

https://rootkitlabs.com/2026/10/06/i-built-a-stereo-vision-board-for-hardware-hackers/
75•machinehum•4d ago•12 comments

I don't understand quantum physics (2018)

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~doug/quantum_physics/index.html
315•rramadass•23h ago•250 comments

FreeDNS

https://freedns.afraid.org/
291•esher•17h ago•75 comments

The Importance of Limitations for Creativity and Learning (2023)

https://ratfactor.com/cards/limitations
69•andsoitis•11h ago•18 comments

Social dynamics of toxic metal industry in medieval Europe

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/social-dynamics-of-toxic-metal-industry...
47•XzetaU8•4d ago•18 comments

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/
1585•sohkamyung•2d ago•246 comments

Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and apps

https://www.aikido.dev/blog/python-packages-vulnerable-node2shell-brotli-cve-2026-111497
311•theanonymousone•1d ago•152 comments

Pragtical v3.14 Lua-based text editor adds menus, floating views, and sessions

https://pragtical.dev/blog/pragtical-v3140-release
15•rd07•4d ago•1 comments

Tablesample Picks Rows

https://boringsql.com/posts/tablesample/
3•surprisetalk•2d ago•0 comments

A story of a Figma bug that wasn't a bug at all (2021)

https://aresluna.org/this-is-a-story-of-a-figma-bug/
28•jllyhill•3d ago•1 comments

In Rainbows

https://hitogata.neocities.org/Rainbows
27•surprisetalk•2d ago•8 comments

The St. Helena 5 pence coin shows Jonathan, a roughly 190 year old tortoise

https://de.numista.com/9866
115•schleck8•16h ago•36 comments

GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000's cards

https://github.com/Zagitta/gpu-unlock
246•fragebogen•23h ago•71 comments

Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/neural-chip-decodes-interactions-between-brain-r-2/
105•giuliomagnifico•17h ago•37 comments

Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin

https://stealmybitcoin.com/
474•cloudlandsdev•12h ago•295 comments

Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab

https://blog.roku.com/developer/gitlab-move
286•cxr•17h ago•198 comments

Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/physicists-trap-a-single-antimatter-particle-for-a-month/
304•mooreds•3d ago•86 comments

Bbtree: Fastest Ordered Map

https://bbtree.xiangpeng.systems/post/
108•aoli-al•14h ago•11 comments

Rewriting a Commercial Engine in Jai

https://polygonjs.com/blog/why-i-rewrote-polygon-from-scratch
10•frading•2d ago•2 comments

Five Qwen3.8-27B models match Fable 5 Using GVS5H Harness

https://github.com/slee-persis/GVS5H
160•rzk•5h ago•56 comments

How close can pure functional programming get to C?

https://rtfeldman.com/fp-vs-c
268•stmonty•1d ago•93 comments

A practical guide to AI image generation, from diffusion to agents

https://danielball.com/notes/ai_image_generation.html
270•westsmith•4d ago•88 comments