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Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient (🔥 Score: 152+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6znut
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6znut
For HTML Day 2025 [1], I made a web service that displays the current sky at your approximate location as a CSS gradient. Colours are simulated on-demand using atmospheric absorption and scattering coefficients. Updates every minute, without the use of client-side JavaScript.
Source code and additional information is available on GitHub: https://github.com/dnlzro/horizon
[1] https://html.energy/html-day/2025/index.html
A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zkp3
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zkp3
Achieving 10,000x training data reduction with high-fidelity labels (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zhrc
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zhrc
How attention sinks keep language models stable (Score: 150+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ziRy
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6ziRy
Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally? (🔥 Score: 161+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6zkHi
Sam said yesterday that chatgpt handles ~700M weekly users. Meanwhile, I can't even run a single GPT-4-class model locally without insane VRAM or painfully slow speeds.
Sure, they have huge GPU clusters, but there must be more going on - model optimizations, sharding, custom hardware, clever load balancing, etc.
What engineering tricks make this possible at such massive scale while keeping latency low?
Curious to hear insights from people who've built large-scale ML systems.
How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB (Score: 152+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zjm9
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zjm9
Window Activation (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6z2Qx
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6z2Qx
Getting good results from Claude code (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zjuz
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zjuz
The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers (🔥 Score: 155+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zkru
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zkru
Google's Genie is more impressive than GPT5 (🔥 Score: 152+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zjJg
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zjJg
Food, housing, & health care costs are a source of major stress for many people (🔥 Score: 154+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zjgM
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zjgM
US to rewrite its past national climate reports (🔥 Score: 162+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ziY9
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6ziY9
Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big (Score: 151+ in 13 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zgGQ
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zgGQ
GPT-5 leaked system prompt (🔥 Score: 161+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zif8
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zif8
Benchmark Framework Desktop Mainboard and 4-node cluster (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zgBy
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zgBy
I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C (❄️ Score: 156+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zbcW
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zbcW
Dial-up Internet to be discontinued (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zmyt
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zmyt
Lithium compound can reverse Alzheimer’s in mice: study (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zfNg
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zfNg
Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 shortlist (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zjEu
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zjEu
Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy (Score: 156+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zjXk
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zjXk
Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died (🔥 Score: 153+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zkEG
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zkEG
Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers (❄️ Score: 154+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6z5iD
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6z5iD
I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace (🔥 Score: 158+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zkux
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zkux
GPT-5 vs. Sonnet: Complex Agentic Coding (🔥 Score: 150+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zjVZ
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zjVZ
AI is impressive because we've failed at personal computing (🔥 Score: 156+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zjLH
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zjLH
Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation (🔥 Score: 160+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zjaH
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zjaH
Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole (Score: 156+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ziwc
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6ziwc
New executive order puts all grants under political control (Score: 152+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zicf
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zicf
Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked (Score: 151+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zgP2
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zgP2
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Cursed Knowledge (🔥 Score: 153+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6zhQa
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6zhQa