Launch HN: Hypercubic (YC F25) – AI for COBOL and Mainframes
Unmatched Risk Mitigation Prevent system failure and millions in downtime caused by the vanishing knowledge of your SMEs. Accelerated Time-to-Value Delivers production-ready knowledge assets and AI assistance in weeks, not months, rapidly cutting MTTR. Deep Legacy Interoperability Built specifically to integrate with proprietary, mission-critical systems, including COBOL, JCL, and other legacy languages. Retain Enterprise Knowledge […]
Unexpected things that are people
panlegal expressions of personhood It’s widely known that Corporations are People. This is universally agreed to be a good thing; I list Target as my emergency contact and I hope it will one day be the best man at my wedding. But there are other, less well known non-human entities that have also been accorded […]
Cops Can Get Your Private Online Data
Can the cops get your online data? In short, yes. There are a variety of US federal and state laws which give law enforcement powers to obtain information that you provided to online services. But, there are steps you as a user and/or as a service provider can take to improve online privacy. Law enforcement […]
Asus Ascent GX10
Design Revolutionary AI Performance on Your Desktop The groundbreaking ASUS Ascent GX10 AI Supercomputer, powered by the state-of-the-art NVIDIA® GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip found in the NVIDIA DGX Spark, brings petaflop-scale AI computing capabilities directly to the desks of developers, AI researchers, and data scientists. This innovative device is designed to empower local AI development […]
Ryanair reminds passengers of move to digital boarding pass in own app on nov 12
Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (Thurs, 6 Nov) reminded passengers that from Wed (12 Nov) it will move to 100% digital boarding passes. This means that from Wed (12 Nov) passengers will no longer be able to download and print a physical paper boarding pass but will instead need to use the digital boarding pass […]
Zig (and the Design Choices Within)
Opinion piece: On Zig (and the design choices within) 2025-10-14 dark mode? back? Table of contents (From someone who has spent far too much time thinking about the designs of programming languages) This post is split up into a few sections. I would also like to preface this post with: Existing memory safe languages are […]
Run Nix Based Environments in Kubernetes
You replace build-push-pull image pipelines with a declarative Flox environment, the dependencies of which resolve to hash-addressed packages that live in an immutable, node-local store. Organizations can run their own private, signed binary caches, enabling them to build or mirror packages inside their networks, generate SBOMs and attestations (see SBOMs, below), and point security scanners […]
LLMs are steroids for your Dunning-Kruger
In his 1933 essay “The Triumph of Stupidity,” Bertrand Russell remarked that “the problem with the world is that the stupid are cocksure, while the intelligent are full of doubt.” This is something I often think about when ChatGPT hits me up with another “that’s a fantastic idea” when the idea is clearly anything but […]
Show HN: Tiny Diffusion – A character-level text diffusion model from scratch
A character-level language diffusion model for text generation. The model is a modified version of the nanochat gpt implementation and is trained on Tiny Shakespeare! It is only 10.7 million parameters, so you can try it out locally! Installation
Time to Start De-Appling
I‘ve done such a thorough job of de-Googling that I forgot to show up for a meeting with someone, because I hadn’t checked my Google calendar in ages. (No, they were not amused.) In my defense, I proceeded to explain to them that having de-Googled, I was also in the process of de-Appling, which is […]