You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account
In the before times, and living in a blissful bubble of European citizenship, I never thought a lot about what I would need to prepare when visiting the UK. But, starting February 2026, new immigration rules for the UK are being enforced. Citizens of 85 additional countries (including the USA and European countries) will need […]
Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users
Hi HN, I recently noticed that an YC company (Run ANywhere, W26) sent me the following email: From: Aditya Subject: Mikołaj, think you’d like this [snip] Hi Mikołaj, I found your GitHub and thought you might like what we’re building. [snip] I have also received a deluge of similar emails from another AI company, Voice.AI […]
H-Bomb: A Frank Lloyd Wright Typographic Mystery
December 5th, 2025. (Photo by Jonathan Hoefler) Note: This is the first part of a two-article series. Also, it is not paywalled. Enjoy! — Paul The photo above, taken about two and a half months ago, shows the entrance to Unity Temple, a Unitarian Universalist church in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois. Designed […]
From Noise to Image – interactive guide to diffusion
Scroll mode How many possible images are there? Our universe has about 1080 atoms. Now imagine if each atom contained its own universe, with 1080 atoms inside. Even that barely scratches the surface. You’d need about 5,000 layers of atom-universes, nested one inside the next, before you reached the number of possible images the size […]
I don’t know how you get here from ”predict the next word.”
I recently tried refine, an AI tool for refining academic articles, developed by Yann Calvó López and Ben Golub. I sent it the current draft of my booklet on inflation, to see what it can offer. I just used it once so far, with the free trial mode. I will be a regular user forever. […]
Move tests to closed source repo
Move the test suite out of the open source tldraw/tldraw repo and into the closed source repo. Context The tldraw monorepo currently contains ~327 test files across unit, integration, and e2e tests: packages/tldraw: ~148 unit/integration tests (shapes, tools, commands, UI) packages/editor: ~41 unit/integration tests (geometry, managers, tools) packages/store: ~27 unit tests (records, queries, migrations) packages/utils: […]
The happiest I’ve ever been
It was around January 2020. I became the head coach of a youth basketball team. I was a few months into my first job out of college, and I was feeling… empty. I couldn’t explain why, so I set out to fill the void. I built side projects, went drinking with coworkers, and got really […]
RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs
In an illustration of the severity of the current memory shortage, HP Inc. CFO Karen Parkhill said that RAM has gone from accounting for “roughly 15 percent to 18 percent” of HP PCs’ bill of materials in its fiscal Q4 2025 to “roughly 35 percent” for the rest of the year. Parkhill was speaking during […]
Jane Street Hit with Terra $40B Insider Trading Suit
Crypto’s most infamous collapse is back in the spotlight, and this time the blast radius reaches deep into Wall Street. A new lawsuit doesn’t just revisit the $40 billion Terra-Luna meltdown; it questions whether one of the world’s most sophisticated trading firms saw the collapse coming and moved first. If the allegations hold up in […]
Show HN: ZSE – Open-source LLM inference engine with 3.9s cold starts
Ultra memory-efficient LLM inference engine. ZSE is designed to run large language models with minimal memory footprint while maintaining high performance. Our key innovation is the Intelligence Orchestrator that provides smart recommendations based on your available (not total) memory. Key Features 🧠 zAttention: Custom CUDA kernels for paged, flash, and sparse attention 🗜️ zQuantize: Per-tensor […]