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Hister: a self-hosted, full-text search engine for your own browsing and files

Hister is an open-source personal search tool that indexes the full contents of the web pages you visit and the local files you keep, so you can retrieve things

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How Salt Caverns Solved the Engineering Problem of America's Oil Reserve

The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve has to store roughly 714 million barrels of crude for decades, keep it safe from attack, release it fast during a supply crun

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Inside .NET 11: A Year of JIT and Library Performance Gains

Microsoft's annual performance deep-dive is back for .NET 11, framed around the 'these go to eleven' gag from This Is Spinal Tap. Behind the joke is a serious c

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New Weight Layout Pushes Ternary LLMs Below the 1.58-Bit Floor

Ternary language models store each weight as -1, 0, or +1, and their memory cost has long been benchmarked against the information-theoretic limit of about 1.58

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NVIDIA opens native GPU kernel programming to Rust

NVIDIA is extending CUDA to let developers write GPU kernels directly in Rust, closing the last gap in a stack that has increasingly moved to the language. Rust

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Self-Storage: America's $40B Monument to Owning Too Much Stuff

A New Yorker essay frames self-storage as one of the twin pillars of American culture (alongside church), built on a simple national habit: accumulating more po

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Show HN: mysetup.ai wants to be the place engineers post their AI workflows

A new community site, mysetup.ai, invites developers to publish the tools, harnesses, and workflows they use to build with AI, and to follow how others' setups

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Small open-weights LLM learns to beat Postgres on join-heavy query plans

Query optimizers remain a stubbornly hard problem—join ordering alone is NP-hard, and Postgres can't count actual row cardinalities during planning, so it leans

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Stallman's 2001 Warning: Post-9/11 Surveillance Is the Real Secondary Damage

Writing days after the September 11 attacks, Richard Stallman argues that the gravest long-term harm may not come from the attacks themselves but from the refle

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Why 'Just Back It Up' Spirals Into Deduplicated, GFS-Rotated Snapshots

A single copy of your data is never enough, and the reasons compound fast. Drives die, get stolen, or silently rot as magnetic domains drift and NAND cells leak

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Xiaomi puts a live RL post-training dashboard for its MiMo 2.6 model online

The submitted link points to a real-time dashboard at mimo.xiaomi.com/rl titled 'mimo-v2.6 RL,' apparently tracking the reinforcement-learning post-training sta

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Z.ai's GLM-5.3 Helped Build the Inference Stack That Now Runs It

Z.ai (the former Zhipu AI) stood up a production inference service for its GLM-5.3-Flash model on a cluster of more than 100,000 Chinese-made AI accelerators —

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