Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer
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Jane Street Hit with Terra $40B Insider Trading Suit
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First Website (1992)
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RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs
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Artist who "paints" portraits on glass by hitting it with a hammer
Simon Berger is a Swiss artist known for his unique glass and metal sculptures. His minimalist artworks explore the interplay of light, form, and movement, creating visually striking and thought-provoking pieces.
Making MCP cheaper via CLI
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Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
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How Will OpenAI Compete?
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Show HN: ZSE – Open-source LLM inference engine with 3.9s cold starts
I've been building ZSE (Z Server Engine) for the past few weeks — an open-source LLM inference engine focused on two things nobody has fully solved together: memory efficiency and fast cold starts.
The problem I was trying to solve: Running a 32B model normally requires ~64 GB VRAM. Most developers don't have that. And even when quantization helps with memory, cold starts with bitsandbytes NF4 take 2+ minutes on first load and 45–120 seconds on warm restarts — which kills serverless and autoscaling use cases.
What ZSE does differently:
Fits 32B in 19.3 GB VRAM (70% reduction vs FP16) — runs on a single A100-40GB
Fits 7B in 5.2 GB VRAM (63% reduction) — runs on consumer GPUs
Native .zse pre-quantized format with memory-mapped weights: 3.9s cold start for 7B, 21.4s for 32B — vs 45s and 120s with bitsandbytes, ~30s for vLLM
All benchmarks verified on Modal A100-80GB (Feb 2026)
It ships with:
OpenAI-compatible API server (drop-in replacement)
Interactive CLI (zse serve, zse chat, zse convert, zse hardware)
Web dashboard with real-time GPU monitoring
Continuous batching (3.45× throughput)
GGUF support via llama.cpp
CPU fallback — works without a GPU
Rate limiting, audit logging, API key auth
Install:
----- pip install zllm-zse zse serve Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct For fast cold starts (one-time conversion):
----- zse convert Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct -o qwen-7b.zse zse serve qwen-7b.zse # 3.9s every time
The cold start improvement comes from the .zse format storing pre-quantized weights as memory-mapped safetensors — no quantization step at load time, no weight conversion, just mmap + GPU transfer. On NVMe SSDs this gets under 4 seconds for 7B. On spinning HDDs it'll be slower.
All code is real — no mock implementations. Built at Zyora Labs. Apache 2.0.
Happy to answer questions about the quantization approach, the .zse format design, or the memory efficiency techniques.
Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective
The article argues that the United States has too many bus stops, which can lead to inefficiencies and longer travel times. It suggests that reducing the number of bus stops and increasing the distance between them could improve the speed and reliability of bus service.
Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better
My partner, Nick Hodges, and I, David Millington, have been on the Internet for a very long time -- since the Usenet days. We’ve seen it all, and have long been frustrated by bad comments, horrible people, and discouraging discussions. We've also been around places where the discussion is wonderful and productive. How to get more of the latter and less of the former?
Current moderation tools just seem to focus on deletion and banning. Wouldn’t it be helpful to encourage productive discussion and teach people how to discuss and argue (in the debate sense) better?
A year ago we started building Respectify to help foster healthy communication. Instead of just deleting bad-faith comments, we suggest better, good-faith ways to say what folks are trying to say. We help people avoid: * Logical fallacies (false dichotomy, strawmen, etc.) * Tone issues (how others will read the comment) * Relevance to the actual page/post topic * Low-effort posts * Dog whistles and coded language
The commenter gets an explanation of what's wrong and a chance to edit and resubmit. It's moderation + education in one step. We want, too, to automate the entire process so the site owner can focus on content and not worry about moderation at all. And over time, comment by comment, quietly coach better thinking.
Our main website has an interactive demo: https://respectify.ai. As the demo shows, the system is completely tunable and adjustable, from "most anything goes" to "You need to be college debate level to get by me".
We hope the result is better discussions and a better Internet. Not too much to ask, eh?
We love the kind of feedback this group is famous for and hope you will supply some!
Tech Companies Shouldn't Be Bullied into Doing Surveillance
The article discusses the dangers of tech companies being pressured by governments to conduct surveillance on their users, arguing that this undermines user privacy and trust in these platforms. It emphasizes the need for tech companies to resist such government pressure and protect their users' digital rights.
Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers
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The Hydrogen Truck Problem Isn't the Truck
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Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs
Pdf: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.16800 (via https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16800)
The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830)
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The Om Programming Language
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Learnings from 4 months of Image-Video VAE experiments
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Show HN: OpenSwarm – Multi‑Agent Claude CLI Orchestrator for Linear/GitHub
I built OpenSwarm because I wanted an autonomous “AI dev team” that can actually plug into my real workflow instead of running toy tasks. OpenSwarm orchestrates multiple Claude Code CLI instances as agents to work on real Linear issues. It: • pulls issues from Linear and runs a Worker/Reviewer/Test/Documenter pipeline • uses LanceDB + multilingual-e5 embeddings for long‑term memory and context reuse • builds a simple code knowledge graph for impact analysis • exposes everything through a Discord bot (status, dispatch, scheduling, logs) • can auto‑iterate on existing PRs and monitor long‑running jobs Right now it’s powering my own solo dev workflow (trading infra, LLM tools, other projects). It’s still early, so there are rough edges and a lot of TODOs around safety, scaling, and better task decomposition. I’d love feedback on: • what feels missing for this to be useful to other teams • failure modes you’d be worried about in autonomous code agents • ideas for better memory/knowledge graph use in real‑world repos Repo: https://github.com/Intrect-io/OpenSwarm Happy to answer questions and hear brutal feedback.
How to fold the Blade Runner origami unicorn (1996)
See also: https://geekydadcrafts.com/2019/01/10/the-blade-runner-unico...
Dissecting the CPU-memory relationship in garbage collection (OpenJDK 26)
The article explores the trade-offs between CPU and memory usage in the context of garbage collection, highlighting the importance of understanding the performance characteristics of different garbage collection algorithms and their impact on application behavior.
The First Fully General Computer Action Model
Quasi-Zenith Satellite System
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An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop
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The Misuses of the University
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Trellis AI (YC W24) is hiring deployment lead to accelerate medication access
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GNU Texmacs
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Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go
This started as a hard requirement for my TUI-based editor application, it ended up going in a few different directions.
A suite of tools that help with semantic code entities: https://github.com/odvcencio/gts-suite
A next-gen version control system called Got: https://github.com/odvcencio/got
I think this has some pretty big potential! I think there's many classes of application (particularly legacy architecture) that can benefit from these kinds of analysis tooling. My next post will be about composing all these together, an exciting project I call GotHub. Thanks!
Access to a Shared Unix Computer
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Never buy a .online domain
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