Why Conviva replaced mmap with io_uring in its Rust query engine, what went wrong under real production load, and why the first rewrite ended up 60% slower.

Some thoughts on Astra and newfangled long-horizon models.

Neijuan,[a] sometimes known by the English term involution, is a Chinese term that describes a condition in which a system, institution, or competitive process continues to intensify in effort, complexity, or participation without a corresponding increase…

Cherenkov radiation is a form of energy that we can perceive as a blue glow emitted when the electrically charged particles that compose atoms.

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We tested RTK (Rust Token Killer) with Claude Code on Fable 5.0, and OpenCode with DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 on Terminal-Bench 2.1.

How frictionless technologies teach us to prefer our own company – and why research leaders should worry.

Adam Mosseri says Instagram engagement can fall by half on a chronological feed and that satisfaction drops sharply, as Australia consults on forcing platforms to offer the option.

3/ lol. Imagine being some Chinese intel/mil actor shipping all of your prompts to an American AI company because your Frontier Chinese AI company is just a Claude wrapper.

And remember Joshua Wong: political prisoner, democracy champion, braveheart.

Working with Google, Collabora built the first RDK-based Chrobalt reference platform for third-party devices, enabling next-generation YouTube deployments on embedded TV platforms.

A Claude Code status line showing how big your session has got and what the next turn costs before you type - Field-Logic-Ltd/ClaudeStatsBar

Why are corporate jobs disappearing on a mass scale?

Discover how cheap money kept pointless corporate jobs alive, why tech giants began cutting thousands of workers, and how AI is coming for the busywork that remains.

This is the story of a corporate…

“For thousands of families, the Sept. 11 attack did not end when the fires were extinguished. It simply changed form,” writes Raja Flores.

A better Hacker News reader for following stories, filtering noise, and keeping up with discussions.

In a Slack message seen by TechCrunch, Matt Mullenweg told Automattic employees he’s back in control of the company, days after its board put him on leave. Automattic has not yet confirmed the apparent reversal.