Jemalloc Un-Abandoned by Meta
Meta recognizes the long-term benefits of jemalloc, a high-performance memory allocator, in its software infrastructure. We are renewing focus on jemalloc, aiming to reduce maintenance needs and modernize the codebase while continuing to evolve the allocator to adapt to the latest hardware and workloads. We are committed to continuing to develop jemalloc development with the […]
The “small web” is bigger than you might think
There are currently several initiatives that attempt to reclaim some part of the Internet for non-commercial, personal use; some of these I described in this earlier article. Here I’m using the term “small web” to mean the use of ordinary web browsers and servers, but for private sites, free of advertising and corporate tracking. I’ve […]
Launch HN: Chamber (YC W26) – An AI Teammate for GPU Infrastructure
Meet Chambie, your AIOps teammate Setting up GPU infrastructure across clouds, creating training jobs, and fixing or optimizing them shouldn’t be hard. That’s why we built Chambie, your all-in-one AIOps teammate to accelerate ML team velocity. No more infra setup, no more missed failures. Chambie handles everything automatically.
Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps
Hi HN, we’re Yarik and Vlad from VOYGR (https://voygr.tech/), working on better real-world place intelligence for app developers and agents. Here’s a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNIpcWIE0n4. Google Maps can tell you a restaurant is ”4.2 stars, open till 10.” Their API can’t tell you the chef left last month, wait times doubled, and locals moved on. Maps […]
Apideck CLI – An AI-agent interface with much lower context consumption than MCP
The problem nobody talks about at demo scale Here’s a scenario that’ll feel familiar if you’ve wired up MCP servers for anything beyond a demo. You connect GitHub, Slack, and Sentry. Three services, maybe 40 tools total. Before your agent has read a single user message, 55,000 tokens of tool definitions are sitting in the […]
US Job Market Visualizer – Andrej Karpathy
This is a research tool that visualizes 342 occupations from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook, covering 143M jobs across the US economy. Each rectangle’s area is proportional to total employment. Color shows the selected metric — toggle between BLS projected growth outlook, median pay, education requirements, and AI exposure. Click any tile […]
My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant
I have been watching HomeAssistant’s progress with assist for some time. We previously used Google Home via Nest Minis, and have switched to using fully local assist backed by local first + llama.cpp (previously Ollama). In this post I will share the steps I took to get to where I am today, the decisions I […]
Show HN: Hackerbrief – Top posts on Hacker News summarized daily
Bill C-22: A New Phase for Lawful Access Legislation Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, marks a new phase in the decades-long debate over government access to personal information, following the controversial Bill C-2. Last spring, Bill C-2 faced immediate backlash due to its ”unprecedented rules permitting widespread warrantless access to personal information,” which were […]
Even Faster Asin() Was Staring Right at Me
I don’t normally do follow-ups and never this quick. After posting that last article, it was fun to read the comments on Reddit and Hacker News as they rolled in. I even found other discussions. I couldn’t help wonder, ”Could I have made it even more performant?”. After heading home I decided to take another […]
Comparing Python Type Checkers: Typing Spec Conformance
When you write typed Python, you expect your type checker to follow the rules of the language. But how closely do today’s type checkers actually follow the Python typing specification? In this post, we look at what typing spec conformance means, how different type checkers compare, and what the conformance numbers don’t tell you. A […]