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This article discusses the extensive and often hidden technology that goes into modern cars, from sensors and computers to complex software systems that control various functions. It highlights the rapid technological advancements in the automotive industry and the increasing role of technology in vehicle design and operation.

The article discusses how to measure the CPU time spent by the current thread in a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) using the `sun.management.ThreadMXBean` class. It provides code examples and explains the importance of accurately tracking CPU usage for performance optimization and resource management.

The article discusses how GitHub IDs can be used to identify and track individuals, raising privacy concerns. It explores potential solutions to address these issues, such as using alternate identifiers or implementing privacy-enhancing measures on the platform.

The article discusses the challenges and best practices for serving large-scale machine learning models, including considerations around infrastructure, model optimization, and monitoring to ensure reliable and efficient model deployment.

Hi HN,

I built an open-source AI agent that has already indexed and can search the entire Epstein files, roughly 100M words of publicly released documents.

The goal was simple: make a large, messy corpus of PDFs and text files immediately searchable in a precise way, without relying on keyword search or bloated prompts.

What it does:

- The full dataset is already indexed - You can ask natural language questions - Answers are grounded and include direct references to source documents - Supports both exact text lookup and semantic search

Discussion around these files is often fragmented. This makes it possible to explore the primary sources directly and verify claims without manually digging through thousands of pages.

Happy to answer questions or go into technical details.

Code: https://github.com/nozomio-labs/nia-epstein-ai

CacheKit is an open-source library that provides a simple and flexible caching solution for Ruby applications, allowing developers to easily cache and manage data to improve performance and reduce load on backend systems.

This afternoon I posted some tips on how to present a new* programming language to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608577. It occurred to me that HN has a tradition of posts called "The {name} programming language" (part of the long tradition of papers and books with such titles) and it might be fun to track them down. I tried to keep only the interesting ones:

https://news.ycombinator.com/thelang

Similarly, Show HNs of programming languages are at https://news.ycombinator.com/showlang.

These are curated lists so they're frozen in time. Maybe we can figure out how to update them.

A few famous cases:

The Go Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=934142 - Nov 2009 (219 comments)

The Rust programming language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1498528 - July 2010 (44 comments)

The Julia Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3606380 - Feb 2012 (203 comments)

The Swift Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7835099 - June 2014 (926 comments)

But the obscure and esoteric ones are the most fun.

(* where 'new' might mean old, of course - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23459210)

The article explores the controversy surrounding the 2026 JP Morgan Conference, examining the claims and counter-claims made by organizers and attendees regarding the event's purpose, content, and impact on the financial industry.

The article explores the Emacs Widget library, a powerful tool for building interactive user interfaces within the Emacs text editor. It discusses the library's functionality, its advantages, and how it can be leveraged to create custom, highly-interactive applications and interfaces.

1000 Blank White Cards is a participatory art project where participants create their own unique cards and add them to a collective deck, resulting in a customized and ever-evolving card game. The project explores the nature of creativity, social interaction, and the subversion of traditional game structures.

The article explores various shell tricks and techniques, such as using aliases, functions, and environmental variables to enhance productivity and efficiency when working in the command line. It also covers useful shell commands and how to customize the shell prompt.

This job listing seeks a DevOps Platform AI Infrastructure Engineer to work on building and scaling AI infrastructure at Sei, a Y Combinator-backed startup. The role involves developing and maintaining the AI platform, optimizing cloud resources, and collaborating with the data science and engineering teams.

The article discusses the potential drawbacks of collaboration in game development, emphasizing that having multiple people work on a game doesn't necessarily lead to better results. It explores the importance of clear communication, a unified vision, and individual responsibility in producing a successful game.

The article discusses the concept of 'no management needed' and how companies can thrive without traditional management structures. It explores the benefits of empowering employees, fostering self-organization, and creating a culture of responsibility and accountability.

Tulip CC is an open-source cloud-based collaborative coding platform that allows multiple users to work on the same code in real-time. The platform supports a range of programming languages and provides features like real-time code editing, code sharing, and version control.

The article discusses the emergence of AI-generated music on Bandcamp, a popular platform for independent musicians. It highlights the growing trend of artists exploring the use of artificial intelligence in music creation and the potential implications for the music industry.

exa-d is our internal data processing framework that stores the web in S3. It helps deal with the complexity of data at (web) scale using specific design decisions like declarative typed dependencies and enabling sparse updates.

Gleam.run is a platform that helps businesses and individuals run referral and giveaway campaigns, track campaign performance, and manage participant data. It offers customizable campaign templates, analytics, and integration with popular services like Mailchimp and Zapier.

The article discusses the concept of 'End of Life' (EOL) in the context of digital content, exploring how digital platforms and content creators can responsibly manage the lifecycle of online content and handle its eventual expiration or removal.

This article discusses the rationale behind Ramp's development of a background agent, a tool that allows users to manage their accounts and transactions seamlessly in the background while they focus on other tasks. The article highlights the benefits of this feature, including improved productivity and user experience.

The article discusses the problem of AI scrapers that exploit music metadata platforms, leading to service disruptions and challenges for the platforms' operators. It highlights the need for better mechanisms to prevent misuse and protect the integrity of these platforms.

The article provides a step-by-step guide on how to create a basic website, covering topics such as choosing a domain, setting up hosting, building the website with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and deploying the site.

I built Nogic, a VSCode extension currently, because AI tools make code grow faster than developers can build a mental model by jumping between files. Exploring structure visually has been helping me onboard to unfamiliar codebases faster.

It’s early and rough, but usable. Would love feedback on whether this is useful and what relationships are most valuable to visualize.

The article discusses the development of a new device that can accurately measure water levels in tidal areas, helping scientists better understand coastal ecosystems and their response to changes. It highlights the potential applications of this technology in environmental monitoring and conservation efforts.

Hi HN — I built Microwave, a native iOS app for browsing and posting short-form videos, similar to TikTok, but implemented as a pure client on top of Bluesky / AT Protocol.

There’s no custom backend: the app reads from and publishes to existing ATproto infrastructure. The goal was to explore whether a TikTok-like experience can exist as a thin client over an open social protocol, rather than a vertically integrated platform.

Things I’d especially love feedback on:

  - Whether this kind of UX makes sense on top of ATproto

  - Client-only tradeoffs (ranking, discovery, moderation)

  - Protocol limitations I may be missing

  - Any architectural red flags

https://archive.md/cBIzm

Axis Lang is a new programming language designed to be a simple and powerful alternative to existing languages. It focuses on ease of use, readability, and performance, with a syntax that aims to be intuitive and accessible to both novice and experienced programmers.