Hacker News with Generative AI

Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust (nvidia.com)
Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres (rohanbansal.com)
Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs (arxiv.org)
Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard (xiaomi.com)
Backups Aren't Simple (filipovski.net)
Small programming tricks (will-keleher.com)
OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework (openspec.dev)
The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (johnjwang.com)
Reversing Factorio's RNG (gegell.github.io)
Performance Improvements in .NET 11 (microsoft.com)
Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU (independent.co.uk)
AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran (wsj.com)
HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents? (harnesstax.github.io)
Reverse-engineered Jev-like model (github.com/vinnylarouge)
Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries (untranslatedjp.substack.com)
Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations (github.com/arnegiacomo)
How good are frontier models at physics? (arxiv.org)
Why Does the Universe Expand? (cosmicave.org)
Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing (mistral.ai)
Destroy After Reading: photocopiers,cheap paper and DIY gave metal it's look (truegrittexturesupply.com)
Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce" (evanhahn.com)
Accurate Models of AMD Matrix Cores (arxiv.org)
Anatomy of a Texture (agentlien.github.io)
Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds (arxiv.org)
I replaced my brown-noise browser tab with a menu bar app (oldmanrahul.com)
Training Text-to-Image Models 3.6× Faster (linum.ai)
Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera (wired.com)
The DeepMind Institute (deepmind.com)
William Buckland's Theology of Geology (historytoday.com)
Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort (2022) (googleblog.com)