Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
The Boeing Company | Berkeley, MO | Digital Transformation Architect | Onsite | Full-time We’re modernizing a major aerospace/defense program and need a senior architect to lead the digital transformation: cloud migration, DevOps, CI/CD, IaC, Kubernetes, automation, the works. High autonomy, big scope in the Air Dominance division of Boeing Defense, Space & Security. You’ll […]
DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]
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Show HN: Walrus – a Kafka alternative written in Rust
Walrus is a distributed message streaming platform built on a high-performance log storage engine. It provides fault-tolerant streaming with automatic leadership rotation, segment-based partitioning, and Raft consensus for metadata coordination. Key Features: Automatic load balancing via segment-based leadership rotation Fault tolerance through Raft consensus (3+ nodes) Simple client protocol (connect to any node, auto-forwarding) Sealed […]
Google *Unkills* JPEG XL?
I’ve written about JPEG XL in the past. First, I noted Google’s move to kill the format in Chromium in favor of the homegrown and inferior AVIF. Then, I had a deeper look at the format, and visually compared JPEG XL with AVIF on a handful of images. The latter post started with a quick […]
Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Listen to this post: A common explanation as to why Star Wars was such a hit, and continues to resonate nearly half a century on from its release, is that it is a nearly perfect representation of the hero’s journey. You have Luke, bored on Tatooine, called to adventure by a mysterious message borne by […]
The Penicillin Myth
“I did not invent penicillin. Nature did that. I only discovered it by accident.” —Alexander Fleming Many know the story of Alexander Fleming’s chance discovery of penicillin. Fleming, a bit of an absent-minded professor (and a bit of a slob), left culture plates streaked with Staphylococcus on his lab bench while he went away on […]
Cartographers Have Been Hiding Covert Illustrations Inside of Switzerland’s Maps
A marmot hiding in plain sight in the Swiss Alps The first three dimensions—length, height, and depth—are included on all topographical maps. The “fourth dimension,” or time, is also available on the website of the Swiss Federal Office of Topography (Swisstopo). In the “Journey Through Time,” a timeline displays 175 years of the country’s cartographic […]
A vector graphics workstation from the 70s
This repair has been on the to do list for ages, so let’s finally get to it! In my mind, Tektronix is a brand that makes electronics lab equipment like oscilloscopes and logic analyzers. Turns out, they made quite a few terminals and a couple of computers! A good friend saw this one for sale […]
Why xor eax, eax?
Why xor eax, eax? Written by me, proof-read by an LLM. Details at end. In one of my talks on assembly, I show a list of the 20 most executed instructions on an average x86 Linux desktop. All the usual culprits are there, mov, add, lea, sub, jmp, call and so on, but the surprise […]