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Mystical (Score: 151+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uDJF
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If nothing is curated, how do we find things (Score: 151+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uDsJ
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Dead Stars Don't Radiate (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uDFJ
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Coding Without a Laptop – Two Weeks with AR Glasses and Linux on Android (❄️ Score: 151+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6utZB
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"We would be less confidential than Google" Proton threatens to quit Switzerland (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uDkJ
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MCP: An in-depth introduction (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6upNg
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Push Ifs Up and Fors Down (Score: 152+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uCPf
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Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful (❄️ Score: 154+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uwBZ
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Evolution of Rust Compiler Errors (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uAh5
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Náhuatl and Mayan Language Renaissance Occurring in Mexico (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uquf
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ClojureScript 1.12.42 (Score: 151+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uBDi
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Java at 30: Interview with James Gosling (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uAdJ
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Moody’s strips U.S. of triple-A credit rating (🔥 Score: 153+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uBNR
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I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA (Score: 153+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6uAEf
I'll be here for the next 5-6 hours. As usual, there are countless topics given the rapidly changing immigration landscape and I'll be guided by whatever you're concerned with. Please remember that I can't provide legal advice on specific cases because I won't have access to all the facts. Please stick to a factual discussion in your questions and I'll try to do the same in my answers.
Edit: I am taking a break now and will return later this afternoon/evening to respond to any comments and answer any questions. Thank you everyone for a great and engaged AMA so far.
MIT asks arXiv to take down preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery (Score: 153+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uAF4
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Catalog of Novel Operating Systems (Score: 151+ in 18 hours)
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Pyrefly: A new type checker and IDE experience for Python (Score: 150+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uD4K
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O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call (Score: 152+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uD78
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A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant (Score: 151+ in 19 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uCfx
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Palette lighting tricks on the Nintendo 64 (Score: 151+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uDgM
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Rustls Server-Side Performance (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6upUf
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XTool – Cross-platform Xcode replacement (Score: 150+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uChV
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Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes (Score: 150+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uCht
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JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
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Pathfinding (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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Getting AI to write good SQL (Score: 154+ in 4 hours)
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X X^t can be faster (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
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Show HN: KVSplit – Run 2-3x longer contexts on Apple Silicon (🔥 Score: 150+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uBAK
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6uBAK
I discovered that in LLM inference, keys and values in the KV cache have very different quantization sensitivities. Keys need higher precision than values to maintain quality.
I patched llama.cpp to enable different bit-widths for keys vs. values on Apple Silicon. The results are surprising:
- K8V4 (8-bit keys, 4-bit values): 59% memory reduction with only 0.86% perplexity loss
- K4V8 (4-bit keys, 8-bit values): 59% memory reduction but 6.06% perplexity loss
- The configurations use the same number of bits, but K8V4 is 7× better for quality
This means you can run LLMs with 2-3× longer context on the same Mac. Memory usage scales with sequence length, so savings compound as context grows.
Implementation was straightforward:
1. Added --kvq-key and --kvq-val flags to llama.cpp
2. Applied existing quantization logic separately to K and V tensors
3. Validated with perplexity metrics across context lengths
4. Used Metal for acceleration (with -mlong-calls flag to avoid vectorization issues)
Benchmarked on an M4 MacBook Pro running TinyLlama with 8K context windows. Compatible with Metal/MPS and optimized for Apple Silicon.
GitHub: https://github.com/dipampaul17/KVSplit
Thoughts on thinking (🔥 Score: 158+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uBsd
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Show HN: Visual flow-based programming for Erlang, inspired by Node-RED (Score: 153+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6uABz
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6uABz
Hi There,
Erlang-RED has been my project for the last couple of months and I would love to get some feedback from the HN community.
The idea is to take advantage of Erlangs message passing and low overhead processes to have true concurrency in Node-RED flows. Plus also to bring low-code visual flow-based programming to Erlang.