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Distributed Systems Classics (2017)

Article URL: https://nvartolomei.com/dist-sys-classics/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49699158 Points: 250 # Comments: 56
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How my e-reader lost its stripes

Article URL: https://www.serpentine.com/posts/2026/x3-stripes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49699489 Points: 164 # Comments: 27
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Why don't machine learning research agents overfit?

Article URL: https://www.amazon.science/blog/why-dont-machine-learning-research-agents-overfit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49699648 Points: 111 # Comments: 62
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Cua (YC P25) Is Hiring a Founding Technical GTM Lead

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cua/jobs/1IWEKVH-founding-technical-gtm-lead Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49700218 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
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Steam Frame starts at $1059

Article URL: https://store.steampowered.com/hardware/steamframe Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49700661 Points: 558 # Comments: 428
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iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/major-updates-for-apples-software-platforms-are-now-available/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49701004 Points: 450 # Comments: 497
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Charts built for Chat

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Trump throws out power plant climate pollution rules

The Environmental Protection Agency announced its plans today to kill any remaining standards on how much greenhouse gas pollution power plants are allowed to emit in the US. The move will only make electricity dirtier as AI, electric vehicles, and a revival of domestic manufacturing drive up power demand. The EPA's proposal today is a […]
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What execs and politicians are saying about slowing down AI development

Dario Amodei kicked off a flood of statements over the past few days about AI safety by publishing a long essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" detailing why AI development should be slowed down. Other AI leaders and politicians are speaking out in favor of or opposing his points, and we've compiled some of […]
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Apple Home’s new security camera features cost as much as $60 a month

With the public release of iOS 27 and tvOS 27, Apple Home is getting an injection of Apple Intelligence - but you'll have to pay more for it. Apple Intelligence for Home brings AI-powered video summaries to HomeKit Secure Video, so you can get short text descriptions of who and what compatible security cameras saw, […]
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Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?

When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotted an ulterior motive immediately. The AI titans had declared that their aim was to "pace the frontier," signing on at least partially to a […]
Simulating 30 Million microbes in Browser
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Simulating 30 Million microbes in Browser

Simulating 30 Million Microbes in the Browser WebGPU gives the browser direct access to modern GPU capabilities — not just for rendering, but also for general-purpose computation through compute shaders. But how far can we actually push it? What happens if, instead of running a small compute demo, we try to build a full simulation with tens of millions of active objects? That is what I wanted to find out. Background For this experiment, I decided to revive an evo...
Grid workspace for the COSMIC compositor
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Grid workspace for the COSMIC compositor

How I patched the COSMIC compositor: a 5×5 workspace grid for Pop!_OS Context My workspaces are a map, not a scroll. One 4-finger swipe moves me north, south, east, or west across a 5×5 grid that wraps at the edges, and login drops me on the center cell — so no workspace is ever more than two gestures away, and my hands navigate it without looking. COSMIC, the desktop this runs on, is System76's Rust/Wayland desktop environment for Pop!_OS, built on the Smithay compositor librar...
Why are you still debugging Spark on your host machine?
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Why are you still debugging Spark on your host machine?

Last October, a "minor" dependency bump in a PySpark job cost us four hours of downtime and roughly $12,000 in cloud compute credits. A developer had tested a new UDF locally using an older version of delta-spark than what we ran on our EMR cluster. Locally, the serialization worked fine. In production, the different Scala/Java versions in the underlying runtime caused a java.io.NotSerializableException that only manifested when the data volume hit a specific shuffle threshold. We spent ...
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I built Craftfolio — I'd like some honest feedback

Hey everyone, I’ve been building Craftfolio, a tool for creating developer portfolios and resumes. I started it mainly as a way to push myself beyond smaller coding projects and build something that could actually be useful to other developers. Some of the things I’ve built into it include live previews, importing content, different portfolio styles, HTML export, and PDF printing. I’m still working on it, and I’m particularly interested in feedback on the UI, overall experience, an...
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Balancing Battery and Precision: My Journey Building a Geofencing Engine

It happened during a quiet Friday sermon at the mosque. The room was hushed, filled with the soft hum of devotion, when a piercingly loud notification chime erupted from a phone in the front row. The owner scrambled to silence it, visibly flustered, his face turning beet red as heads turned in irritation. That moment wasn't just a nuisance; it was a profound social disruption. I sat there wondering why, in an era where our phones are capable of processing millions of instructions per second, the...
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Stop Thinking in Rows: GListModel and the Modern List Mindset

This is the third entry in A Field Guide to GTK Widgets — a series about which widget to reach for, when, and what bites you when you do. We're jumping straight to lists, ahead of layout and navigation, because it's the material the reference documents worst. Each post stands on its own, and the complete, runnable code for this one lives in the companion repo . The list you'd build without thinking Say you're showing a handful of tasks. The obvious way to do it doesn't req...
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Stop Grinding the Same 100 Problems: Prep for the OA You’ll Actually Get in 2026

Takeaway up front: If your target list is company-specific, a frozen “top 100” grind is often the wrong loop. Cohort freshness — what this company is sending in this hiring wave — usually beats another pass through the same classic set. Hey — quick intro so you know what you’re following. This account is for SWE new grads, interns, and job seekers who are tired of treating interview prep like an infinite LeetCode treadmill. The plan here is simple: short notes on company-scoped...
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The Monday unlock checklist: fail-closed before your agents fan out

Monday is when agent fleets wake up hungry. New model defaults. New tool schemas. A coordinator that “helpfully” spawns three friends. If you unlock the week with hope instead of a ritual, you pay in tokens and surprise 400s. Here is a fail-closed Monday unlock I use as an editor of operator briefs — schemas first, permission second, spend third. Steal it. 0. Unlock means “prove the latch,” not “open every door” Fail-closed is simple: missing, unknown, or unvalidated ⇒ s...