Night update, generated 2026-08-26.
21 new stories since Lunch.
Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters
HN: 825 points, 236 comments (discussion)
I'm glad that DuckDB has a foundation in place and hope it is resilient enough to push the DB forward when the time comes. Out of all the big orgs, Amazon is probably the one that has the least regard for keeping technically interesting projects alive, and the certainly will bulldoze it for some dum...
Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters
HN: 101 points, 70 comments (discussion)
Sources: Hacker News
HN: 647 points, 299 comments (discussion)
Weights on HF here: https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash I decided to take the plunge and get myself four sparks at a decent price (and bought the QSFP cables from AliExpress because they are literally 1/2 the price of Amazon), even knowing Apple was going to release new hardware and there's...
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HN: 497 points, 158 comments (discussion)
Adding to my homelab stack, hopefully it doesn't overthink like the little model. Actually, hoping it thinks a bit less. Wait actually I'm really praying it reasons a bit more directly. But wait, I'm really sure that it must be a bit better.
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Sources: Hackaday
Sources: Hacker News
HN: 408 points, 383 comments (discussion)
Pay 25% from your 2025 profit for harming children since at least 2019 and be able to continue doing so. Sounds like a loss for society and a win for Meta.
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Sources: Hacker News
HN: 372 points, 135 comments (discussion)
Sources: The Register
Sources: Hacker News
HN: 372 points, 165 comments (discussion)
I worked on large scale RAG systems before and can say people vastly underestimate full text search and vastly overestimate embeddings. FTS is really easy, portable and scalable and gets you very far, the 80/20 rule applies. Embeddings appear to be nice and magic but when you really get into them yo...
Sources: Lobsters
Sources: Slashdot