7.1 Earthquake in Japan (data.jma.go.jp)
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the Kumamoto region of Japan on July 28, 2026.
Anxiety runs high as damage mirrors 2016's deadly Kumamoto quake, with tsunami warnings and structural collapses reported.
Hacker News. Daily summary. Top 20 stories.
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the Kumamoto region of Japan on July 28, 2026.
Anxiety runs high as damage mirrors 2016's deadly Kumamoto quake, with tsunami warnings and structural collapses reported.
EU citizens' initiative demands digital identity and age verification remain voluntary.
Split between realists seeing legitimate needs for digital ID and age verification, and defenders of the initiative's voluntary, privacy-focused approach.
Writers should own their domain and treat Substack as a distribution channel, not a home.
Split between those prioritizing platform reach and those arguing for digital sovereignty via self-owned websites.
Article body wasn't reachable. HN discussion still summarized.
Auth issues and refusals from model guardrails dominate, with workarounds offered.
Kimi K3 is a 2.8T-parameter open-weight model with novel efficiency and attention innovations.
Thread splits between architecture enthusiasts praising Kimi K3's novel NoPE/KDA design and skeptics debating distillation versus genuine innovation.
Article body wasn't reachable. HN discussion still summarized.
Strong user demand for a single-page HN reading flow, with many sharing personal workarounds.
Fine-tuning a 9B open model with RL beats frontier models on catalog review at 40x lower cost.
Skepticism about the benchmark; agreement that fine-tuned small models make economic sense for narrow tasks at scale.
A quarterly magazine revisiting events after three months for in-depth, independent analysis.
Broad support for slow news as a mental health antidote, with some sharing personal projects to build it.
Running an open model on a private endpoint feels freeing and cuts ties with providers.
Skepticism about the post being a Modal ad, with two camps on cost versus privacy of local AI.
Kimi Linear outperforms full attention while cutting KV cache by up to 75%.
Old paper, fresh K3 relevance; split on distillation accusations vs. genuine innovation.
Kimi Delta Attention derives from incremental improvements to linear attention, not a single leap.
The title's 'you could have' drew strong pushback, but defenders saw it as a standard math-education framing.
Updates to Tailscale on jailbroken Kindles add SOCKS5/HTTP proxy and TUN modes.
KOReader praised as transformative, but some find UI confusing; privacy concerns raised about Tailscale metadata collection.
The demo scene built customized tools with peculiar, often vibrant user interfaces.
Nostalgia for trackers and disk tools; 'sinus' is just non-English Latin usage.
A GitHub user ported Half-Life to PowerPC Macs running Mac OS 9.
Excitement about the port was tempered by debate over Xash3D's legal and technical status.
KOReader is a document viewer for E Ink devices supporting EPUB, PDF, and more.
Users appreciate KOReader's format support and customization, though some prefer default viewers.
Zig compiler achieves sub-100ms rebuilds via incremental compilation at function granularity.
Praise for Zig's toolchain work, but safety and LLVM backend limitations noted.
A modular, repairable GPS watch with USB-C charging and an open SDK.
Water resistance (IPX5) was the dominant concern, with many calling it a non-starter.
Civic campaign in Casa Grande, Arizona protests Flock surveillance cameras and their expanding capabilities.
Most support the protest; a minority defends surveillance, drawing strong rebuttals citing documented police abuse.
SBCL 2.6.7 adds SB-MANUAL contrib, DOCUMENTATION for DECLARATION, ARM64 SIMD support, and AVX512 instructions.
Excitement about new SIMD and AVX512 support, with clarification that they are explicit intrinsics, not auto-vectorization.