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The Forge We Deserve
Article URL: https://btao.org/posts/2026-05-09-the-forge-we-deserve/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48582147
Points: 40
# Comments: 37
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AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-silently-removes-memory-encryption-from-consumer-ryzen-cpus-leaving-users-unaware-that-they-may-be-vulnerable-security-feature-vanishes-after-newer-agesa-firmware-amd-engineers-go-radio-silent-when-pressed-about-the-change
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48582320
Points: 173
# Comments: 87
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I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle
Article URL: https://rbelmont.mameworld.info/?p=1725
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48582464
Points: 58
# Comments: 45
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Seven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of Cards. But How Many Sloppy Ones?
Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/seven-perfect-shuffles-randomize-a-deck-of-cards-but-how-many-sloppy-ones-20260617/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48582794
Points: 4
# Comments: 1
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Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at 90% lower cost
Article URL: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/hospitals-and-universities-repurposing-drugs-at-90-lower-cost
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583386
Points: 41
# Comments: 9
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Challenging the Narrative of European Decline
Article URL: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/challenging-the-narrative-of-european-478
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583843
Points: 5
# Comments: 0

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The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed
Internal Home Office tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors. It’s moving forward anyway.
🌍 TechCrunch
NASA picks Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for Mars mission, setting up a race with SpaceX
Relativity Space—a rocket maker acquired by former Google executive chair Eric Schmidt last year after stumbling on the path to orbit—might just beat SpaceX to Mars.
🌍 Dev.to
When Your Codebase Starts Slowing You Down...
Every developer knows the feeling. You open a ticket that looks simple. A small change. Maybe one endpoint, one validation rule, one extra field. Then you open the codebase.
The logic is spread across three layers. The naming is inconsistent. Tests are missing or outdated. A dependency throws warnings. One change breaks something unrelated. Suddenly, the “small ticket” is no longer small.
This is where code quality stops being an abstract engineering ideal and becomes something very concre...
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Building a World Cup Bracket Picker with AWS Blocks
AWS just launched AWS Blocks , an open-source TypeScript framework that gives you backend capabilities on AWS without learning infrastructure tools. Everything runs locally without an AWS account. When you're ready, deploy the same code to AWS with zero changes.
In this post, I'll build a full-stack World Cup bracket picker with it. The app lets users:
Pick 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in each of the 12 groups
Predict knockout round winners all the way to the final
Chat with an AI agent ...
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Intermediate DOM Manipulation: Traversing and Event Delegation
The DOM (Document Object Model) is the backbone of modern web development, allowing JavaScript to interact dynamically with HTML documents. While basic DOM manipulation involves simple element selection and modification, intermediate techniques like DOM traversal and event delegation unlock powerful ways to efficiently handle complex user interfaces and interactions.
In this post, we’ll explore:
How to traverse the DOM tree effectively
What event delegation is and why it’s useful
...
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Optimizing LLM Model Performance for Real-Time Applications
Real-time applications, from live coding assistants to conversational voice agents, require LLM latency measured in hundreds of milliseconds, not seconds. Achieving this consistently demands more than a fast model weights file. It requires a systems-level approach that spans model selection, serving infrastructure, client integration, and cost controls. This guide covers the concrete techniques that reduce time-to-first-token (TTFT) and inter-token latency, and where Oxlo.ai fits into a low-late...
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Using LLM for Dialogue Management Tasks
Dialogue management is the logic layer that decides what a conversational system should do next. Traditional implementations rely on finite state machines or intent classifiers that fragment when users stray from expected paths. Large language models can act as flexible dialogue managers, interpreting intent, tracking implicit state across turns, and deciding whether to respond directly, request clarification, or invoke an external tool.
From Rules to Models
Classical dialogue systems sepa...
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Introducing DRM Language Emitter: Language Generation as Motion Through Learned Geometry
Most language models today are built around the Transformer paradigm.
That makes sense.
Transformers work.
They scale.
They dominate modern NLP.
But I wanted to explore a different question:
What if language generation does not need to be modeled as attention over a context window?
What if a model could generate language by carrying an evolving latent state through a learned geometry?
That is the idea behind DRM Language Emitter .
Repository:
https://github.com/...
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Nvidia H100 and GPU Pricing 2026: Buy, Rent, and Cloud Costs Explained
The Nvidia H100 was the workhorse behind nearly every major language model trained between 2023 and 2025, and in 2026 it remains a central line item in any AI infrastructure budget. But H100 pricing is famously hard to pin down: there is no clean sticker price, rental rates swing widely by provider, and newer GPUs like the H200 and B200 are reshaping the value calculation. This guide lays out Nvidia H100 pricing in 2026 across buying, renting, and cloud, compares it to the rest of the lineup, an...
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CRDTs in Kotlin Multiplatform: Kill Your Sync Server
What we're building
By the end of this tutorial, you'll have a working mental model — and working code — for implementing Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types in Kotlin Multiplatform shared code. We'll build an LWW-Register, compare state-based vs operation-based sync strategies, and walk through the architecture that lets you replace your entire sync backend with dumb blob storage.
Let me show you a pattern I use in every project with offline-first requirements.
Prerequisites
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What you actually need to ship an AI agent
Everyone's building agents. Half of them are running. The other half have "active plans."
I've been in both camps. The difference isn't the model. Models have been good enough for a while now. It's everything around the model that nobody talks about in tutorials because tutorials end when the demo works.
This is the stuff that bit me. Take it or leave it.
Why build an agent at all
Worth asking before you pick a framework.
The cases where agents actually make sense — a...

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Deploying Apache DolphinScheduler 3.1.9 Cluster with MySQL Instead of PostgreSQL? A Practical Docker Compose Guide
Background
Today, we'll walk through one of the most requested deployment scenarios in the Apache DolphinScheduler community: deploying an Apache DolphinScheduler 3.1.9 cluster with MySQL as the metadata database using Docker Compose.
As many users know, the official Docker Compose deployment provided by DolphinScheduler uses PostgreSQL as the metadata repository by default. This is mainly because the GPLv2 license of MySQL is not fully compatible with Apache License 2.0, preventing the p...
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CRDT vs OT: Choosing the Right Collaboration Algorithm
Fundamentals: How OT and CRDT actually work
Trade-offs: Complexity, performance, storage, and latency
Use cases: Which algorithm fits which problem
Implementation considerations and popular libraries
Migration paths and hybrid approaches
Practical Application
The choice between CRDT and OT defines your editor’s user experience as much as your infrastructure: offline behavior, amount of metadata, and the engineering surface area for correctness and performance are all direct ...
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State Drift in a Polymarket Trading System Using Event Sourcing
When building a real-time trading system for Polymarket, I assumed strategy and execution would be the hardest parts.
I was wrong.
The real issue was state drift - the system slowly stopped matching reality.
What state drift looked like
Incorrect positions
Duplicate exposure
Mismatch between bot state and real market state
There was no crash, only silent inconsistency.
Why it happens
WebSocket missing updates
Delayed API responses
Partial order fills
Duplicate ...