Software Engineering Lobste.rs

lobste.rs is now running on SQLite

Lobste.rs migrated its database from MariaDB to SQLite, resulting in lower CPU and memory usage and reduced VPS costs.

Other Hacker News

An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold

An article about an Englishwoman's sketches of India prior to the advent of photography.

AI/ML Hacker News

MIT's New Method Flags AI Models Trained on CASM Without Generating It

MIT researchers developed a new method to detect if AI models were trained on the CASM dataset without needing to generate the data itself.

Other Hacker News

Show HN: Hackney – Compare Uber, Lyft, Waymo, and Robotaxi Prices

Hackney is a new tool introduced on Show HN that allows users to compare prices across various ride-sharing services like Uber, Lyft, Waymo, and Robotaxi.

Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation

Nous Research, the creator of Hermes agents, is seeking new funding at a valuation of $1.5 billion.

Open Source Phoronix

GNOME OS Creating "Test Center" As Its Take On Apple TestFlight For Experiment Software

GNOME OS is developing a 'Test Center' similar to Apple's TestFlight to facilitate the testing of experimental software and libraries.

Software Engineering Phoronix

Reworked System Call Entry Handling Slated For Linux 7.3

Linux kernel developer Thomas Gleixner is reworking the system call entry handling for the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel to improve code cleanliness and performance.

Hardware/Chips Phoronix

Raspberry Pi 5 IOMMU Driver Being Worked On For The Mainline Linux Kernel

Efforts are underway to bring the Raspberry Pi 5's IOMMU driver into the mainline Linux kernel for better hardware support.

Open Source Phoronix

Cloud Hypervisor 53 Released With Offloaded Snapshot/Restore Daemon

Cloud Hypervisor 53.0 has been released, introducing an offloaded snapshot/restore daemon for this Rust-based VMM.

Other Lobste.rs

Just Let Me Write Digits

A discussion or opinion piece regarding user interface frustrations with digit entry.

Software Engineering Lobste.rs

Human Emacs

Human Emacs is a potential fork of GNU Emacs featuring contributions generated by Large Language Models.

Other Hacker News

‘Asia's cleanest village’ bans tourists on Sundays

A village in Asia has implemented a ban on tourists on Sundays to maintain cleanliness and tranquility.

AI/ML Hacker News

Claude is just Mr. Meeseeks

A discussion comparing the behavior and helpfulness of the AI model Claude to the fictional character Mr. Meeseeks.

Other Hacker News

Collaboration Networks in Brazilian Computer Science

An analysis of collaboration networks within the Brazilian computer science community.

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Manifest Man

A piece discussing the concept of 'Manifest Man', likely related to software manifest files or a conceptual technical discussion.

Hardware/Chips Hackaday

Get your ESP32 Sunny Side Up with this Solar Dev Board

A new solar-powered development board for ESP32, designed for versatile low-power applications.

Hardware/Chips Hackaday

Voltmeter-Based Floating Point Calculator Does It In Style

An electromechanical floating point calculator, the Calcumator 2000, which uses voltmeter readouts for calculations.

Software Engineering Hackaday

The Death of Physical Media and the Real Challenges to Software Archiving

An exploration of the challenges surrounding software archiving in an era where physical media is becoming obsolete.

Hardware/Chips Hackaday

DIY Steam Controller Puck Offers Xbox, Switch, PlayStation Emulation Modes

A DIY project that creates a custom Steam Controller puck supporting emulation modes for Xbox, Switch, and PlayStation.

Hardware/Chips Phoronix

Graviton5 Outperforming Intel Xeon Granite Rapids But Falls Short Of AMD EPYC Turin

Performance benchmarks comparing AWS Graviton5 CPUs against Intel Xeon Granite Rapids and AMD EPYC Turin.