Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs
Large models can’t fit on smartphones. Datacenters can’t sustain them. PrismML is building ultra dense intelligence to solve both. 14× less memory 8× faster 5× less energy 1-bit Bonsai 8B The first commercially viable model with 1-bit weights. Requiring only 1.15GB of memory, 1-bit Bonsai 8B was engineered for robotics, real-time agents, and edge computing. […]
Ministack (Replacement for LocalStack)
Core AWS services plus real infrastructure — RDS runs actual databases, ElastiCache runs real Redis, ECS starts real Docker containers, Athena executes real SQL via DuckDB (when installed). 🪣 S3 Buckets, objects, versioning, encryption, lifecycle, CORS, Object Lock, replication REST/XML 📨 SQS Queues, FIFO, DLQ, batch, visibility JSON+Query 📢 SNS Topics, subscriptions, fanout to SQS, […]
I Traced My Traffic Through a Home Tailscale Exit Node
I set up Tailscale years ago but only used it for “reach my own devices” use cases. This week I finally set up a proper home exit node: a tiny dedicated LXC on my Proxmox box (1 vCPU, 512 MB RAM, basically just Tailscale). To verify it worked, I pinged my home servers and they […]
Why Inventing Color TV Was So Difficult [video]
Show HN: My open-world voxel game with a magic system, playable in the browser
Wildmagic is in early access. It’s playable, it’s growing, and buying now gets you everything that comes next. ✨ More Spells & Combos New ways to break things 🌍 New Biomes More places, more secrets ⚔ Tougher Rivals Smarter wizards who fight back harder 🌐 Multiplayer Shared worlds with friends
OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says
“An OkCupid spokeswoman said Clarifai contacted the company in 2014 ‘about collaborating to determine if they could build unbiased AI and facial recognition technology’ and that the dating site ‘did not enter into any commercial agreement then and ha[s] no relationship with them now.’ She did not address whether Clarifai had gained access to OkCupid’s […]
Costco sued for seeking refunds on tariffs customers paid
Customers are hoping that consumer protection laws will require Costco to refund money they paid due to tariffs. The proposed class includes “all persons in the United States who purchased goods from Costco during the period February 1, 2025, through February 24, 2026, that were subject to tariffs” that Donald Trump unlawfully imposed under the […]
Show HN: How This Graybeard Built the Fastest and Freest Postgres BM25 Search
Modern ranked text search for Postgres. Simple syntax: ORDER BY content ’search terms’ BM25 ranking with configurable parameters (k1, b) Works with Postgres text search configurations (english, french, german, etc.) Fast top-k queries via Block-Max WAND optimization Parallel index builds for large tables Supports partitioned tables Best in class performance and scalability 🚀 Status: v1.0.0 […]
Cohere Transcribe: Speech Recognition
Cohere is announcing Transcribe, a state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) model that is open source and available today for download. Speech is rapidly becoming a core modality for AI-enabled workloads and automations — from meeting transcription and speech analytics to real-time customer support agents. Our objective was straightforward: push the frontier of dedicated ASR model […]
Tell HN: Chrome says ”Suspicious Download” when trying to download yt-dlp
> Chrome itself is ”a tool to download files from Google’s servers.” …legitimately. While Google (I will reinforce: Google, not everyone) sees downloading of the videos and other content from the YouTube by third-party services as illegitimate because of YouTube’s ToS. After all, they’re making money from the YouTube Premium and ”Download” option provided by […]