TinyIce: Single-binary Icecast2-compatible server (auto-HTTPS, multi-tenant)
Run it, and you’ve got a ready Icecast server in seconds. Notice: This is a side project. Use it at your own risk. While it implements security best practices, it has not undergone an independent audit. TinyIce is a lightweight, high-performance, and secure Icecast2-compatible streaming server written in Go. It is designed to be self-contained, […]
Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s Best Drama You’ve Probably Never Heard Of (2021)
The best thing the show’s writers ever did was realize that Joe wasn’t the most interesting character. Subsequent seasons trace the dissolution of his complex, as he finds himself confronting the limits of his charisma and the consequences of his actions. It’s the death of the antihero, and in its place rises a show imbued […]
Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity
In 1987, economist and Nobel laureate Robert Solow made a stark observation about the stalling evolution of the Information Age: Following the advent of transistors, microprocessors, integrated circuits, and memory chips of the 1960s, economists and companies expected these new technologies to disrupt workplaces and result in a surge of productivity. Instead, productivity growth slowed, […]
BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs
An open-source CUDA compiler that targets AMD GPUs, with more architectures planned. Written in 15,000 lines of C99. Zero LLVM dependency. Compiles .cu files straight to GFX11 machine code and spits out ELF .hsaco binaries that AMD GPUs can actually run. This is what happens when you look at NVIDIA’s walled garden and think ”how […]
Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway
Asteroids travel steadily, occasionally leaving observable distance. It has been a while since our last release, and now it’s finally here! AsteroidOS 2.0 has arrived, bringing major features and improvements gathered during its journey through community space. Always-on-Display, expanded support for more watches, new launcher styles, customizable quick settings, significant performance increases in parts of […]
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is our most capable Sonnet model yet. It’s a full upgrade of the model’s skills across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design. Sonnet 4.6 also features a 1M token context window in beta. For those on our Free and Pro plans, Claude Sonnet 4.6 is now the […]
Chess engines do weird stuff
Things LLM people can learn from Training method Since AlphaZero, lc0-style chess engines have been trained with RL. Specifically, you have the engine (search + model) play itself a bunch of times, and train the model to predict the outcome of the game. It turns out this isn’t necessary. Good model vs bad model is […]
Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
13 years ago, we launched Watsi.org with a Show HN [1]. For nearly a year, this community drove so much traffic that we couldn’t list patients fast enough. Then pg saw us on HN, wrote us our first big check, and accepted us as the first YC nonprofit (W13). The next few years were a […]
Trata (YC W25) Is Hiring Founding Engineers (NYC)
We’re killing Bloomberg chat (their crown jewel). We’re building the fastest growing network of buyside investors. We facilitate voice conversations between investors on demand and are creating a library of these transcripts for our users to read. We work with a lot of interesting folks and some of the most well known funds in the […]
So You Want to Build a Tunnel
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] It seems like homemade tunnels are kind of having a moment. Just about everywhere I look, it feels like someone is carving new spaces from the ground and documenting the process online. Colin Furze might be the quintessential example, with his wild tunnel […]