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| 91. | Job loss and cortisone mania (tilschuenemann.de) | |
| 186 points | 2026 | author tilschuenemann showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey, that's my post on the frontpage, what is it doing here?!? I've been working on my blog lately, and having only a few posts up and no readership, I'm now blown away…” | ||
| 92. | UUIDv7: Timestamps aren’t time-ordered and other oddities (alexsci.com) | |
| 185 points | 2026 | author 8organicbits showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for reading the post. I haven't seen UUIDv5 used very often but I'll have to think about the idempotency angle more. One thing that concerns me is that UUIDv5 is…” | ||
| 93. | Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS (github.com) | |
| 184 points | 2026 | author allenleee showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“:) Great point. You're totally right. Apple Vision is generally way faster and more accurate on Apple Silicon. Pure Mac-only, I'd use it. (also smaller) Main reason I…” | ||
| 94. | SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering (alphapixeldev.com) | |
| 181 points | 2026 | author XenonofArcticus showed up | their comment | thread
“Article author here (not the lead programmer on the Slughorn project tho). Yes, LLMs were used to help write this article and there are tells. I can smell them too.…” | ||
| 95. | When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python (sethmlarson.dev) | |
| 178 points | 2026 | author SethMLarson showed up | their comment | thread
“that's a good idea. A straightforward way to exploit an implementation differential like this is if you have a software system that contains two different…” | ||
| 96. | How to engineer an AI harness for game development (kylekukshtel.com) | |
| 177 points | 2026 | author kkukshtel showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It's definitely not my intention to try and describe ways for making game development be more turnkey. I'm more trying to directly address ways to make non-one-shot…” | ||
| 97. | Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage (github.com) | |
| 176 points | 2026 | author murerkinn showed up | their comment | thread
“It mostly came from a personal need rather than trying to answer "what would this look like on object storage?" I wanted something with as little infrastructure as…” | ||
| 98. | Fixing Tool-Call Accuracy in vLLM (ubicloud.com) | |
| 172 points | 2026 | author jesdo showed up | their comment | thread
“Figuring out how to integrate the LLM, the inference and serving engine, and the constrained decoding implementation such that you get the intended output and overall…” | ||
| 99. | Footguns with Postgres “at time zone 'UTC'” (bookofrevenue.com) | |
| 169 points | 2026 | author tanin showed up | their comment | thread
“Wow, thank you for testing it. I did test it on my own laptop (Seattle). I didn't know this. Thank you.” | ||
| 100. | JIT Compiling Code in 5μs (malisper.me) | |
| 167 points | 2026 | author malisper showed up | their comment | thread
“Let me know if you have any questions about the post or about pgrust.” | ||
| 101. | Bbtree: Fastest Ordered Map (bbtree.xiangpeng.systems) | |
| 163 points | 2026 | author xiangpeng showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“first of all, thank you for taking time to read the AI slop, you probably already spend more time than I do on this repo, appreciated! The inline key: yes, it applies to…” | ||
| 102. | Curvature Beziers: Improving on a timeless recipe (acko.net) | |
| 162 points | 2026 | author unconed showed up | their comment | thread
“To clarify, I meant B-splines _lack local control_ like Catmull-Rom splines, not that the latter is an instance of the former. Though indeed, all cubic splines are just…” | ||
| 103. | iPod Classic 6G in QEMU (reddit.com) | |
| 162 points | 2026 | author dmonterocrespo showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The hypotheses were based on the fact that other emulations used different paths to reach the playback device. For example, I analyzed Rockbox to see how they managed to…” | ||
| 104. | The CSS Zen Garden dream, finally shipped (josprague.com) | |
| 159 points | 2026 | author yosito showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Like a lot of people on HN, Dave Shea's CSS Zen Garden is how I learned CSS in the first place. Building stylesheets for that one HTML file taught me to think about CSS…” | ||
| 105. | Markdown in /src (htmx.org) | |
| 156 points | 2026 | author recursivedoubts showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi there. I wrote this as a bit of speculation since I'm seeing more and more agent based coding in my consulting. One thing to say given some of the comments here: in…” | ||
| 106. | Dropping eBPF CPU Cost by About 90% with Memoization (Not AI Gen) (nathannaveen.dev) | |
| 155 points | 2026 | author nathannaveen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“that is a great catch, thanks for pointing it out! If we are protecting a directory, then only people with access will be able to move the dir, so we are assuming that…” | ||
| 107. | Apple Just Lost Me (andregarzia.com) | |
| 154 points | 2026 | author soapdog showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“didn't realise this was posted on this site. AMA.” | ||
| 108. | Stop making swap partitions—use swap files instead (gist.github.com) | |
| 151 points | 2026 | author jenders showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote this years ago before LLMs made it easy to validate guesswork. I’ll update! Good call” | ||
| 109. | You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles (tigrisdata.com) | |
| 148 points | 2026 | author xena showed up | their comment | thread
“My policy for the team is "do not self post to hacker news".” | ||
| 110. | Don't Use AI to Write (paulbakker.io) | |
| 148 points | 2026 | author pbakker showed up | their comment | thread
“There are a number of comments that indicate that I'm using coding agents, and wonder if coding doesn't require the same behavior as writing. Coding agents are…” | ||
| 111. | I guess I'm using WebP now? (anderegg.ca) | |
| 148 points | 2026 | author GavinAnderegg showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm also very much looking forward to using AVIF (and also JPEG XL), but it's another tooling question. I'm really hoping that Pixelmator Pro (now owned by Apple) will…” | ||
| 112. | Doing a Machine Learning PhD While Working in Japan (tokyodev.com) | |
| 147 points | 2026 | author mcyc showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to discuss! One thing to note is that, after I submitted the final draft of this article, the Japanese government ended the MEXT university track or is at least…” | ||
| 113. | Replacing a Rust Enum with a 64-Bit Word Made My Interpreter 17% Faster (pointersgonewild.com) | |
| 143 points | 2026 | author maxime_cb showed up | their comment | thread
“The disassembly for the old enum handling had many spills, simply because the old value enum can't fit in a single register. If you have an instruction that two operands…” | ||
| 114. | Compiler-style optimization for drawing via Skia (arxiv.org) | |
| 143 points | 2026 | author bhargavkk showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“I do think we could apply a similar formal analysis to games, but this is complicated with the inclusion of depth and perception. This is not a concern in 2D…” | ||
| 115. | Meta's Muse appears to use an OpenAI model labeled muse-special (mouse.dev) | |
| 143 points | 2026 | author Aeroi showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I kept digging through the Muse filesystem after my first post hit the front page here this week. Going through my logs I found a background agent that used a model…” | ||
| 116. | 2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up (jkm.dev) | |
| 138 points | 2026 | author jkm_dot_dev showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“no it's not an analysis of the Lost City codebase (though I am a contributor to LC). Most of the knowledge came from my refactor of the #317 RS2 client () though I…” | ||
| 117. | Engineering of the fastest WebAssembly interpreters (wasmi-labs.github.io) | |
| 138 points | 2026 | author herobird showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“ready to answer all your questions! (sorry for the delay, 2nd-chance post)” | ||
| 118. | Is your Postgres migration safe or not safe? (safenotsafe.dev) | |
| 138 points | 2026 | author vira28 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Adding some context. I led the Postgres platform team (2019-23) at Cloudflare and we were supporting 170+ growing product teams. One of the constant asks is schema…” | ||
| 119. | Try Gleam (nchagnet.eu) | |
| 138 points | 2026 | author nchagnet showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote this to show my appreciation of this small-ish but beautiful language.” | ||
| 120. | What reversing, modernising old games tells us about the economic impact of AI (this.os.isfine.org) | |
| 136 points | 2026 | author gmerc showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“It had no problem creating gameboy and NES ROMs for me (order the gameboy from the catalog) was an initial test, I’ve halfway through a demake of dragon strike after…” | ||
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