A lot of progress was made since last year, and I made some of it! After last year’s survey I started contributing to the SIMD library that seemed the most promising. One thing led to another, and now I’m a … Read more
The roots aren’t deep but the seeds are planted. As a low level language, Rust is perfectly suitable for making user interfaces the old fashioned way, with native APIs. However, competing in today’s world typically means supporting many platforms, and … Read more
The space of AI-assisted coding is evolving rapidly. This is an attempt at staying up to date with the latest developments, by capturing popularity and user sentiment of coding models from Hacker News comments. Updated daily. I wanted the ability … Read more
In 2025, the Kdenlive team continued grinding to push the project forward through steady development, collaboration, and community support. Over the past year we’ve found a nice balance between adding new features, bug fixing, polishing the user interface, and improving … Read more
I’m kind of a person who secretly (well, not THAT secretly) wants to own a bunker. A bunker, solar panels, generators, ability to run off the grid, own mesh networks and a Starlink antenna. There’s something appealing in that idea, … Read more
Macroeconomics, DIY Hardware and AI-Driven Voting Pools I downloaded every Show HN post since the site was launched and ran them through a hierarchical topic model. I set out to discover what the Hacker News community finds interesting but in … Read more
Section 04 Model Snapshot Model benchmarks for GPT-5.1, Claude Sonnet 4.5, GPT-5-Codex, Claude Opus 4.5, and Gemini 3 Pro to understand how they behave as backends for coding agents across latency, throughput, rate limits, cold starts, cost, and tokenization efficiency.
The ability to write kernel code in Rust was explicitly added as an experiment — if things did not go well, Rust would be removed again. At the 2025 Maintainers Summit, a session was held to evaluate the state of … Read more
This empirical study offers a data-driven perspective on how LLMs are actually being used, highlighting several themes that nuance the conventional wisdom about AI deployment: 1. A Multi-Model Ecosystem. Our analysis shows that no single model dominates all usage. Instead, … Read more
When GitHub Copilot was launched in 2021, the fact that its training data included a vast amount of Open Source code publicly available on GitHub attracted significant attention, sparking lively debates regarding licensing. While there were issues concerning conditions such … Read more