Software Engineering Hacker News

The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering – Mastering Complexity(2014) [pdf]

A PDF resource focusing on the art of insight and managing complexity in science and engineering.

Other The Verge

The grueling, 630-mile road race where the only fuel is sunlight

Coverage of the Solar Car Challenge, where high school students build solar-powered vehicles.

Software Engineering Hackaday

QT6 brings BASIC to the Web Browser, or Your Computer

QT6 introduces a way to bring the BASIC programming language to web browsers and desktop environments.

Software Engineering Phoronix

FFmpeg Lands Latest AVX-512 Optimization: 1.372x Faster In Pixel Format Conversion

FFmpeg implements new AVX-512 optimizations, significantly improving pixel format conversion speeds.

AI/ML Lobste.rs

Triton language for Alibaba SAIL

Discussion regarding the use of Triton language for Alibaba's SAIL framework.

Software Engineering Hacker News

Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now

Claude Code now utilizes Bun, a fast JavaScript runtime written in Zig (not Rust, as the title implies), for its execution environment.

AI/ML Hacker News

Qwen 3.8 Max Preview

Alibaba Cloud introduces a preview of Qwen 3.8 Max, a new large language model aiming for improved capabilities.

Open Source Hacker News

Blender 5.2 LTS

Blender releases version 5.2 LTS, providing a long-term support version of its open-source 3D creation suite.

Open Source Hacker News

Show HN: OfflineTTS — Free browser-based TTS & STT that runs locally

OfflineTTS is a free, browser-based text-to-speech and speech-to-text tool that runs entirely locally for privacy and accessibility.

Open Source Hacker News

Mirror your GitHub repos to tangled.org automatically

A new tool allows users to automatically mirror their GitHub repositories to tangled.org, an alternative code hosting platform.

Hardware/Chips Hacker News

The Mighty Big Array of Finn Jensen LA8YB

An exploration of a massive antenna array built by Finn Jensen LA8YB, showcasing amateur radio hardware engineering.

AI/ML Hacker News

Ollama: All Aboard Open Models

Ollama continues to expand its support for open-source models, making local LLM deployment more accessible.

AI/ML Hacker News

OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k

OpenAI has reduced the context window size of its Codex model from 372k to 272k tokens.

Hardware/Chips Phoronix

Legion Y700 Gen4 Tablet Powered By Snapdragon 8 Elite Seeing Linux Patches

The Legion Y700 Gen4 tablet featuring the Snapdragon 8 Elite chip is receiving Linux kernel patches to enable mainlining support.

Open Source Phoronix

More ASUS Motherboards To Enjoy Working Sensor Monitoring With Linux 7.3

Upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel updates will expand sensor monitoring support for a wider range of ASUS motherboards.

Hardware/Chips Hacker News

Restoring and Demoing 1960s Vintage Computers at the Computer History Museum [pdf]

A presentation on the restoration and demonstration of vintage 1960s computers at the Computer History Museum.

Homelab/Self-Hosting Reddit SelfHosted

PSA: Check your PiHole/AdGuard lists from BlocklistProject

A warning to PiHole and AdGuard users that blocklists from BlocklistProject have changed their default branch name from master to main, causing 404 errors.

Open Source Reddit SelfHosted

I saw a CI/CD platform called OpenShip. Opinion?

A community discussion regarding the OpenShip CI/CD platform, an emerging open-source project on GitHub.

Other Reddit SelfHosted

DigitalOcean rejects my Nepal Everest Bank Virtual Dollar Card as “Prepaid”. Any workaround?

A user is seeking workarounds for DigitalOcean rejecting their virtual dollar card from Nepal as a prepaid card.

AI/ML Hacker News

Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon

Alibaba's Qwen team is preparing to release Qwen3.8, a new open-weight model, promising advancements in performance and accessibility.