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Continuous batching from first principles

Continuous batching from first principles

🔥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: TL;DR: in this blog post, starting from attention mechanisms and KV caching, we derive continuous batching by optimizing for throughput. If you've ever used Qwen, Claude, or any other AI chatbot, you've probably noticed something: it takes a while for the first word of the response to appear, and then words appear one-by-one on your screen with (hopefully) a regular and fast-paced frequency. That's because at the heart of it, all LLMs are just fancy next token predictors. An LLM first processes your entire prompt…
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Error payloads in Zig

đź’Ą Check out this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Feb 13, 2026 I do error payloads in Zig by making a union(enum)-based Diagnostics type for each function. These types have special methods which remove code bloat at call sites. A Diagnostics type can be defined inline, and the errorset of a function can generated from the Diagnostic’s enum tag. pub fn scan( db: *c.sqlite, diag: *diagnostics.FromUnion(union(enum) đź’¬), ): diagnostics.Error(@TypeOf(diag))!void đź’¬ My diagnostics module as a gist The generated type is a wrapper around an optional payload. It generates an error set type from…
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OpenClaw, OpenAI and the future

OpenClaw, OpenAI and the future

🚀 Read this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: tl;dr: I’m joining OpenAI to work on bringing agents to everyone. OpenClaw will move to a foundation and stay open and independent. The last month was a whirlwind, never would I have expected that my playground project would create such waves. The internet got weird again, and it’s been incredibly fun to see how my work inspired so many people around the world. There’s an endless array of possibilities that opened up for me, countless people trying to push me into various directions, giving me…
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Dutch Defence Secretary Boldly Claims F-35 Software Could Be ‘Jailbroken’

Dutch Defence Secretary Boldly Claims F-35 Software Could Be ‘Jailbroken’

✨ Explore this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Addressing the F-35’s operational independence from the U.S. amid tensions between Europe and the Trump administration, Secretary Gijs Tuinman made the claim to Dutch radio station BNR Nieuwsradio.  The bold claim, the veracity of which is unverifiable from an outside perspective, came as part of a wider dialogue over the operational independence of the F-35 Lightning II – now the Netherlands’ only fighter aircraft.Addressing the F-35’s operational independence from the U.S. amid tensions between Europe and the Trump administration, Secretary Gijs Tuinman made the claim…
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40 AGs Push Senate Kids Online Safety Act

40 AGs Push Senate Kids Online Safety Act

đź’Ą Read this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: A bloc of 40 state and territorial attorneys general is urging Congress to adopt the Senate’s version of the controversial Kids Online Safety Act, positioning it as the stronger regulatory instrument and rejecting the House companion as insufficient. The Act would kill online anonymity and tie online activity and speech to a real-world identity. Acting through the National Association of Attorneys General, the coalition sent a letter to congressional leadership endorsing S. 1748 and opposing H.R. 6484. We obtained a copy of the letter for…
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[2602.10177] Towards Autonomous Mathematics Research

[2602.10177] Towards Autonomous Mathematics Research

đź’Ą Explore this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: [Submitted on 10 Feb 2026 (v1), last revised 12 Feb 2026 (this version, v2)] Authors:Tony Feng, Trieu H. Trinh, Garrett Bingham, Dawsen Hwang, Yuri Chervonyi, Junehyuk Jung, Joonkyung Lee, Carlo Pagano, Sang-hyun Kim, Federico Pasqualotto, Sergei Gukov, Jonathan N. Lee, Junsu Kim, Kaiying Hou, Golnaz Ghiasi, Yi Tay, YaGuang Li, Chenkai Kuang, Yuan Liu, Hanzhao Lin, Evan Zheran Liu, Nigamaa Nayakanti, Xiaomeng Yang, Heng-Tze Cheng, Demis Hassabis, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Quoc V. Le, Thang Luong View a PDF of the paper titled Towards Autonomous Mathematics Research,…
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Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars From New York City’s Public Hospitals

Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars From New York City’s Public Hospitals

🚀 Explore this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: New York City’s public hospital system is paying millions to Palantir, the controversial ICE and military contractor, according to documents obtained by The Intercept. Since 2023, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation has paid Palantir nearly $4 million to improve its ability to track down payment for the services provided at its hospitals and medical clinics. Palantir, a data analysis firm that’s now a Wall Street giant thanks to its lucrative work with the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence community, deploys its software to…
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TechPaula/LT6502: A 6502 based laptop design

TechPaula/LT6502: A 6502 based laptop design

đź’Ą Explore this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A 6502 based laptop design Yes, I know I'm crazy, but I figured why not. I'm enjoying working the PC6502 project but having a little tower of PCBs on the sofa isn't the best. It's very simple, these are the specs 65C02 running at 8MHz 46K RAM BASIC in ROM 65C22 VIA (for timers and some IO) 9" DIsplay (with built in font/simple graphics) Built in keyboard Compact Flash for storage 10000mAh battery built in USBC powered/charged Serial Console 1 internal expansion slot Assembled front…
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Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega’s consoles, has died

Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega’s consoles, has died

đź’Ą Discover this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Hideki Sato, the designer behind virtually every Sega console, and the company’s former president, has died age 77.Japanese games outlet Beep21 reports that Sato passed away this weekend.Sato and his R&D team were responsible for the creation of Sega’s arcade and home console hardware, including the Master System, Genesis / Mega Drive, Saturn, and Dreamcast.The engineer joined Sega in 1971 and was the company’s acting president between 2001 and 2003. He left the company in 2008.“From the beginning, Sega’s home console development has always been…
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Niche Hunt — App ideas people actually want

Niche Hunt — App ideas people actually want

🔥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: The math is simple: if it costs almost nothing to build an app, it costs almost nothing to clone an app. And if cloning is free, subscription pricing dies. We're already seeing this play out in the numbers. Apple's App Store got 557K new submissions in 2025, up 24% from 2024 (source: Appfigures). That's not because people suddenly got more creative. It's because building an app went from a $50K project to a weekend with Claude. What happens to pricing For apps that run…
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