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What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres (Score: 150+ in 17 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hNya
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hNya
Visualizing World War II (Score: 157+ in 19 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hN8N
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hN8N
How to find exploits in video games (❄️ Score: 151+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hFfe
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hFfe
Brian Kernighan Reflects on Unix: A History and a Memoir [video] (Score: 151+ in 21 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hMjX
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hMjX
Optimizing a WebGPU Matmul Kernel for 1 TFLOP (Score: 150+ in 18 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hMza
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hMza
The Silurian Hypothesis (Score: 150+ in 21 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hLTn
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hLTn
This morning for no obvious reason, I remembered the Fuel Rats (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hNA7
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hNA7
YubiKey still selling old stock with vulnerable firmware (Score: 154+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6hNep
FYI, YubiKey is apparently still selling old stock with firmware vulnerable to the EUCLEAK attack instead of disposing of them, as a reader of Fefe's Blog reported:
https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=99ccc8dc
Bjorn: A powerful network scanning and offensive security tool for Raspberry Pi (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hKhS
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hKhS
How I ship projects at big tech companies (🔥 Score: 161+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hNgH
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hNgH
All the data can be yours: reverse engineering APIs (❄️ Score: 154+ in 5 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hvjZ
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hvjZ
The death and life of prediction markets at Google (Score: 154+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hMr2
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hMr2
Welcome to the Antarctic Fire Department (Score: 150+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hL5J
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hL5J
Show HN: Krita RGBA Tech – Bringing Realistic Metal to Life in Open-Source Art (Score: 153+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hL7a
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hL7a
Krita's v4.2+ RGBA brushtips let you paint with dimensionality, and it's a technology that Photoshop doesn't have (≖‿ゝ≖)
It lets the creator do things like emulating light direction, making brushstrokes look 3D.
I used them to make a set of metallic brushes. If there are any FOSS artists around, feel free to test them out.
(p.s. Yes, I am learning Github so I probably made repository mistakes - apologies in advance lol)
I Sent an Ethernet Packet (Score: 156+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hLqq
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hLqq
Making a trading Gameboy: A pocket exchange and algo trading platform (Score: 150+ in 23 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hMAM
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hMAM
The EdTech Revolution Has Failed (🔥 Score: 152+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hPJf
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hPJf
When muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows (🔥 Score: 157+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hPGM
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hPGM
Leaving and Waving (Score: 154+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hNVT
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hNVT
Marine pilot loses command after ejecting from F-35B that kept flying (❄️ Score: 151+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hJgv
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hJgv
Bus Number – The GitHub plugin my coworkers asked me not to write (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hNkN
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hNkN
Adventures in Probability (❄️ Score: 150+ in 1 week)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hpqh
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hpqh
I Don't Have Spotify (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hNdX
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hNdX
Improving Steam Client Stability on Linux (Score: 154+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hNap
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hNap
The business of gutting failed Bay Area tech companies (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hMgg
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hMgg
Standing desk might be as bad as sitting all day (Score: 150+ in 20 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hKWT
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hKWT
Virtual Windows 3.11 Computer (Score: 150+ in 15 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hLcD
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hLcD
Behaviors reveal sophisticated tool use and possible “pranking” among pachyderms (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hLnL
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hLnL
Show HN: Chonkie – A Fast, Lightweight Text Chunking Library for RAG (Score: 150+ in 21 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hK2m
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hK2m
I built Chonkie because I was tired of rewriting chunking code for RAG applications. Existing libraries were either too bloated (80MB+) or too basic, with no middle ground.
Core features:
- 21MB default install vs 80-171MB alternatives
- 33x faster token chunking than popular alternatives
- Supports multiple chunking strategies: token, word, sentence, and semantic
- Works with all major tokenizers (transformers, tokenizers, tiktoken)
- Zero external dependencies for basic functionality
Technical optimizations:
- Uses tiktoken with multi-threading for faster tokenization
- Implements aggressive caching and precomputation
- Running mean pooling for efficient semantic chunking
- Modular dependency system (install only what you need)
Benchmarks and code: https://github.com/bhavnicksm/chonkie
Looking for feedback on the architecture and performance optimizations. What other chunking strategies would be useful for RAG applications?
Visual Basic 6 rebuilt in C# – complete with form designer and IDE in browser (🔥 Score: 153+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6hLCx
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6hLCx