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Dear Time Lords: Freeze Computers In 1993

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🔥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: This is a semi-satirical / joking-not-joking post (spun out of a private mastodon post) that I will be taking absolutely no questions or comments about. If it does not amuse you please do not tell me in gruesome well-actually detail why it is a bad idea.My proposal: Computers should have stopped in 1993.One might argue that I was an impressionable teenager in 1993 and so probably this is "just nostalgia speaking" but I think it is not true: the technologies I had access to…

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Frikallo/parakeet.cpp: Ultra fast and portable Parakeet implementation for on-device inference in C++ using Axiom with MPS+Unified Memory and Cuda support

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🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Fast speech recognition with NVIDIA's Parakeet models in pure C++. Built on axiom — a lightweight tensor library with automatic Metal GPU acceleration. No ONNX runtime, no Python runtime, no heavyweight dependencies. Just C++ and one tensor library that outruns PyTorch MPS. ~27ms encoder inference on Apple Silicon GPU for 10s audio (110M model) — 96x faster than CPU. Model Class Size Type Description tdt-ctc-110m ParakeetTDTCTC 110M Offline English, dual CTC/TDT decoder heads tdt-600m ParakeetTDT 600M Offline Multilingual, TDT decoder eou-120m ParakeetEOU 120M Streaming…

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The Hunt for Dark Breakfast – Ryan Moulton’s Articles

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💥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: It started with a flash of insight like a thunderbolt in a snow storm, the sort of insight that can only be induced by high altitude hypoxia and making breakfast.  “Breakfast is a vector space. You can place pancakes, crepes, and scrambled eggs on a simplex where the variables are the ratios between milk, eggs, and flour. We have explored too little of this manifold. More breakfasts can exist than we have known.” Like all such hypoxia-addled-brain thoughts, it was a successful tweet. I stood…

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Two Insider Cases We’ve Recently Closed

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: As a regulated exchange, we ban insider trading. In the past year, we’ve opened 200 investigations and frozen a number of flagged accounts. Of those investigations, over a dozen have become active cases.We’ve received questions from customers about how we identify violations and enforce our rules. So, we’re releasing information about two insider trading cases we’ve recently closed. Investigations take time, and there will be more that we’ll disclose on our notices page, similar to how CME Group and others do.Today’s cases: The first concerns a…

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Founding Reliability & Performance Engineer at LiteLLM

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✨ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TLDR LiteLLM is an open-source AI gateway (36K+ GitHub stars) that routes hundreds of millions of LLM API calls daily for companies like NASA, Adobe, Netflix, Stripe, and Nvidia. We're at $7M ARR, 10 people, YC W23. When LiteLLM goes down, our customers' entire AI stack goes down. We need someone who makes sure that doesn't happen. You'd be the first dedicated reliability hire. You'll own reliability, performance, and production stability end-to-end. Nobody will tell you how to do it What this job actually is…

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Hydroph0bia (CVE-2025-4275) – a fixed SecureBoot bypass for UEFI-compatible firmware based on Insyde H2O, part 3

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🚀 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: This post is likely the final one about a vulnerability I dubbed Hydroph0bia (as a pun on Insyde H2O) aka CVE-2025-4275 or INSYDE-SA-2025002. This part is about checking how Insyde fixed the vulnerability and if it's possible to bypass their fixes. It is always interesting to see how a vulnerability with a massive supply chain impact gets fixed by different OEMs, and how fast they could distribute the fix across their fleets. There been 10 days since the embargo end, and so far the only…

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Netflix Backs Out of Warner bros. Deal, Paramount Poised to Win

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💥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: In a stunning twist, Netflix is declining to raise its bid for Warner Bros., positioning David Ellison’s Paramount as the winner in the battle for the fabled studio. Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters released a statement Thursday outlining their decision, namely that the deal is “no longer financially attractive” and that it “was always a ‘nice to have’ at the right price, not a ‘must have’ at any price.” “The transaction we negotiated would have created shareholder value with a clear path to…

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Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War \ Anthropic

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💥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries.Anthropic has therefore worked proactively to deploy our models to the Department of War and the intelligence community. We were the first frontier AI company to deploy our models in the US government’s classified networks, the first to deploy them at the National Laboratories, and the first to provide custom models for national security customers. Claude is extensively deployed across the Department…

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flamestro/deff: interactive, side-by-side file review for git diffs with per-file navigation, vertical and horizontal scrolling, syntax highlighting, and added/deleted line tinting

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🚀 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: My name is deff deff is a Rust TUI: interactive, side-by-side file review for git diffs with per-file navigation, vertical and horizontal scrolling, syntax highlighting, and added/deleted line tinting. Run the installer script from this repository: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/flamestro/deff/main/install.sh | bash Installer source: https://github.com/flamestro/deff/blob/main/install.sh The script checks for cargo, clones this project into a temporary directory, installs it, and removes the temporary checkout. If you have local edits (including untracked files) and want to review them before committing, run: deff --include-uncommitted This opens the side-by-side…

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OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation | OsmAnd

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🔥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Offline navigation is a lifeline for travelers, adventurers, and everyday commuters. We demand speed, accuracy, and the flexibility to tailor routes to our specific needs. For years, OsmAnd has championed powerful, feature-rich offline maps that fit in your pocket. But as maps grew more detailed and user demands for complex routing increased, our trusty A* algorithm, despite its flexibility, started hitting a performance wall. How could we deliver a 100x speed boost without bloating map sizes or sacrificing the deep customization our users love? The…

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