Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents

Effortless cloud coding agents that feel good to use.

Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

Devtools must be open source

The age of personalized software is here.

200 Milliseconds

See what really happens in the ~200ms after you press Enter: a single HTTP request traced in real time through DNS, TCP, TLS, the Linux kernel, Node's event loop, and Postgres — then back to the pixel. Scroll distance equals time.

There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]

LLMs reward expertise

Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code

Frame selection is the whole game: notes on making LLMs watch video

An LLM can afford about 150 images per video, so which frames you keep decides everything. Engineering notes from claude-real-video: adaptive scene detection, three-channel deduplication, and fusing frames with the transcript on one clock.

They Forgot What Happened Last Time: Hacking the Windows 365 Link [video]

The Windows 365 Link is a thin client, running a special edition of Windows 11, that can only connect to a "Windows 365 Cloud PC" and is ...

Replacing the Kobo Libra H2O Battery

Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage

Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years

Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs

I am excited to announce that I am joining ClickHouse, Inc. to establish and lead a new research team at ClickHouse Labs.

ZX Spectrum System Tour: Text Mode

Now that we've taken a look at the kind of control that the Spectrum's BASIC gives us over the hardware, it's time to dip down into machine language and see what is offered to us there. There's quite a bit more to cover in this realm, and I expect it's going to end up spread…

MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video

An open-weights omni-modal video model with real stereo sound and 2K output — this powerful model is greatly optimized in ComfyUI and can run locally on a 3060.

How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood

The economics behind where movies are filmed, why Hollywood left Los Angeles, and whether audiences can tell the difference.

Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale

Serving frontier models like Kimi and GLM means fighting for GPU memory. Here's how we quantize KV caches, compress model weights, and add integrity checks to serve them faster, cheaper, and safely.