Prefix sums at gigabytes per second with ARM NEON
Suppose that you have a record of your sales per day. You might want to get a running record where, for each day, you are told how many sales you have made since the start of the year. day sales per day running sales 1 10$ 10 $ 2 15$ 25 $ 3 5$ 30 […]
Neural Boids
Those aren’t boids. I’m calling them noids – neural boids. No hand-written rules. A small neural network takes in what each agent can see and outputs a steering force. 1,922 learned parameters. That’s the entire program! But before I explain how they work, I want to talk about real birds. How real birds flock A […]
We should revisit literate programming in the agent era
Literate programming is the idea that code should be intermingled with prose such that an uninformed reader could read a code base as a narrative, and come away with an understanding of how it works and what it does. Although I have long been intrigued by this idea, and have found uses for it in […]
Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
I don’t know if I’m the only one, but I see lots of clearly AI generated posts recently in HN and mostly coming from new accounts (green), it is more noticeable in the Show HN section. I wish the team can either restrict new accounts from posting or at least offer a default filtering where […]
Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds
Global Threat Intercept — Real-Time Geospatial Intelligence Platform ShadowBroker is a real-time, full-spectrum geospatial intelligence dashboard that aggregates live data from dozens of open-source intelligence (OSINT) feeds and renders them on a unified dark-ops map interface. It tracks aircraft, ships, satellites, earthquakes, conflict zones, CCTV networks, GPS jamming, and breaking geopolitical events — all updating […]
AI doesn’t replace white collar work
ai_doesnt_replace_work AI doesn’t replace white collar work Andrew [email protected] 8, 2026 Two recent experiences where I had questions needing some external input: One, I saw a word (the word was Pareve but it’s unimportant) and I didn’t know what it meant. I thought it had something to do with food and religious practices and my […]
Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package
Sundar Pichai’s new pay package could be worth $692 million. Per a filing first spied by the FT, Alphabet has structured a three-year deal for its Google CEO that could make him one of the highest-paid executives on the planet — but most of it is tied to performance, including new stock incentives linked to […]
Monster Is the Machine
The Bovadium Fragments: Together with The Origin of BovadiumBy J. R. R. Tolkien.William Morrow, 2025.Hardcover, 144 pages, $26.99. Reviewed by Ben Reinhard. When Russell Kirk decried the automobile as “a mechanical Jacobin”—a revolutionary naturally destructive of traditional ways of life and all “the more powerful for being insensate”—he was very much a voice crying in […]
WSL Manager
English | 简体中文 | Deutsch | Español | 日本語 Preview with Lightmode WSL Distro Manager is a free and open source app that provides a user-friendly graphical interface for managing Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) distributions. With WSL Distro Manager, you can easily install, uninstall, update, backup and restore WSL distros, as well as configure […]
Based on its own charter, OpenAI should surrender the race
Back in 2018, OpenAI published a charter, which includes a self-sacrifice clause: We are concerned about late-stage AGI development becoming a competitive race without time for adequate safety precautions. Therefore, if a value-aligned, safety-conscious project comes close to building AGI before we do, we commit to stop competing with and start assisting this project. We […]