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Zero ASIC releases Wildebeest, the highest performance FPGA synthesis tool

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 01:45:40

Zero ASIC releases Wildebeest, the world’s highest performance FPGA synthesis tool. Cambridge, MA – September 17, 2025 – Zero ASIC, a U.S. semiconductor startup on a mission to democratize silicon, today announced the release of WildebeestTM, the world’s highest performance FPGA synthesis tool. Background The software world has largely moved away from proprietary, vendor-locked compilers in favor of open source alternatives such as LLVM1 and GCC. Early on, these open source compilers lagged b

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High-Level Synthesis Synthesis

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-03 07:42:12

High-Level Synthesis Synthesis Early in graduate school, I could never quite figure out how to refer to “synthesis” done as part of the high-level synthesis (HLS) flow. Normally, one could say “synthesis” when the context is clear — for example, “…after C-simulation and synthesis,” meaning the hardware synthesis step inside an HLS tool. But sometimes I need to be more explicit, and I end up writing something like “…after C-simulation and HLS synthesis.” This appears redundant, but removes any

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Show HN: Signage Sync

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 15:44:33

Let’s Build This Together Signage Sync is just getting started—and we’d love your input! Whether you’re exploring how to use it in your business, have a feature idea, or want to collaborate, let’s talk. 👉 When you click WhatsApp Us, you’ll be chatting with Momenial—the team behind Signage Sync.

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Triple Buffering in Rendering APIs

news.ycombinator.com Nikolaos Papadopoulos 2025-10-07 10:26:26

If you’ve ever toggled VSync on and watched your frame rate seesaw between smooth and stuttery, you’ve met the limitations of double buffering. Triple buffering adds a third buffer to the swapchain so that the GPU can keep rendering even when a frame is queued for presentation, delivering smoother animation and higher average FPS with VSync on. Double buffering With double buffering, we use two buffers, one for presenting to the screen and one for rendering off-screen, swapping between them as

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Raspberry Pi Synthesizers – How the Pi is transforming synths

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-25 11:08:57

Raspberry Pi Synthesizers – How the Pi is transforming synths The readymade pocket computer is replacing custom DSP. by Adam Douglas | 4,5 / 5,0 | 4,5 / 5,0 | Approximate reading time: 5 Minutes Raspberry Pi Synthesizers · Source: Korg, Raspberry Pi Previous Next ADVERTISEMENT The Raspberry Pi microcomputer is finding its way into more and more synthesizers. Do your synths have a slice of it inside? Read on to find out. ADVERTISEMENT Raspberry Pi Digital synthesizers are essentially compu

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My new favorite note-taking app for MacOS and Linux checks this crucial box - and it's free

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-29 13:00:21

D3Damon/iStock / Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Trilum is a note-taking app for Linux and MacOS. This note-taking apps has tons of features, including local sync. Trillium is free to install and use. Note-taking apps are a dime a dozen. Go to your device's app store and you'll find myriad apps for this purpose; some of them are good and some of them are not. Many note-taking apps check almost every box, but there's one feature

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Pocket Scion is a synth you play with plants

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-11-06 21:00:00

is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 years of experience, including 10 years as managing editor at Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A few years ago, artist Modern Biology became a viral sensation when he posted videos of himself controlling a modular synth with mushrooms on TikTok. Pocket Scion gives anyone similar capabilities, but without having to spend thousands of dollars on a Eurorack rig – and in a much more porta

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API Blueprint

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 17:43:21

API Blueprint. A powerful high-level API description language for web APIs. API Blueprint is simple and accessible to everybody involved in the API lifecycle. Its syntax is concise yet expressive. With API Blueprint you can quickly design and prototype APIs to be created or document and test already deployed mission-critical APIs. Tutorial Tools section # GET /message + Response 200 (text/plain) Hello World! Focused on Collaboration API Blueprint is built to encourage dialogue and collabora

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Synthesia’s AI clones are more expressive than ever. Soon they’ll be able to talk back.

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-11-12 10:05:33

When Synthesia launched in 2017, its primary purpose was to match AI versions of real human faces—for example, the former footballer David Beckham—with dubbed voices speaking in different languages. A few years later, in 2020, it started giving the companies that signed up for its services the opportunity to make professional-level presentation videos starring either AI versions of staff members or consenting actors. But the technology wasn’t perfect. The avatars’ body movements could be jerky a

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Python has had async for 10 years – why isn't it more popular?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 15:24:57

The Python Documentary dropped this morning. In the middle of the documentary, there’s a dramatic segment about how the transition from Python 2 to 3 divided the community (spoiler alert: it didn’t in the end). The early versions of Python 3 (3.0-3.4) were mostly focused on stability and offering pathways for users moving from 2.7. Along came 3.5 in 2015 with a new feature: async and await keywords for executing coroutines. Ten years and nine releases later, Python 3.14 is weeks away. Whilst

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The Tragic End of Natalia Nagovitsyna's Ordeal on Pobeda Peak

news.ycombinator.com Kris Annapurna 2025-11-13 14:52:54

Although the fate of Russian climber Natalia Nagovitsyna, stranded at 7,150m on Kyrgyzstan’s Pobeda Peak since August 12, has been obvious for several days, the last wisps of hope ended today. A few hours ago, a military drone captured thermal imaging footage of Nagovitsyna’s tent on Pobeda Peak. The images, published on the official website of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan (GKNB), revealed no signs of life in her tent. After more than two weeks, Kyrgyz authorities hav

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Isolated(any)

news.ycombinator.com Matt Massicotte 2025-11-19 14:37:10

Ahh, @isolated(any) . It’s an attribute of contradictions. You might see it a lot, but it’s ok to ignore it. You don’t need to use it, but I think it should be used more. It must always take an argument, but that argument cannot vary. Confusing? Definitely. But we’ll get to it all. To understand why @isolated(any) was introduced, we need to take a look at async functions. let respond To Emergency : () async -> Void This is about as simple a function type as we can get. But, things start to g

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Chatbots can be manipulated through flattery and peer pressure

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-11-20 16:06:24

Generally, AI chatbots are not supposed to do things like call you names or tell you how to make controlled substances. But, just like a person, with the right psychological tactics, it seems like at least some LLMs can be convinced to break their own rules. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania deployed tactics described by psychology professor Robert Cialdini in Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion to convince OpenAI’s GPT-4o Mini to complete requests it would normally refuse. Th

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I want to ditch my Kindle, but one feature keeps stopping me

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-20 10:00:22

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority I love my Kindle, but it isn’t always within arm’s reach. Like a lot of readers, I don’t just use one device; I use whichever one fits my context. I often read on an eReader, but via the Kindle app, I’m also highly likely to finish a chapter on my phone in the grocery store or listen to an epilogue in the car. That’s where Whispersync comes in. Whispersync is the secret sauce that makes Amazon’s Kindle ecosystem work so well together. And no matter how badly

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SQLite's documentation about its durability properties is unclear

news.ycombinator.com Andrew Ayer 2025-11-20 08:30:29

One of the most important properties of a database is durability. Durability means that after a transaction commits, you can be confident that, absent catastrophic hardware failure, the changes made by the commit won't be lost. This should remain true even if the operating system crashes or the system loses power soon after the commit. On Linux, and most other Unix operating systems, durability is ensured by calling the fsync system call at the right time. Durability comes at a performance cost

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SQLite's Durability Settings Are a Mess

news.ycombinator.com Andrew Ayer 2025-11-21 14:30:29

One of the most important properties of a database is durability. Durability means that after a transaction commits, you can be confident that, absent catastrophic hardware failure, the changes made by the commit won't be lost. This should remain true even if the operating system crashes or the system loses power soon after the commit. On Linux, and most other Unix operating systems, durability is ensured by calling the fsync system call at the right time. Durability comes at a performance cost

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What Is Synthetic Gasoline?

news.ycombinator.com Iere Team 2025-11-22 15:31:50

What is Synthetic Gasoline? Synthetic gasoline, also known as synthetic fuel or e-fuel, is a liquid fuel produced through chemical processes, rather than extracted from crude oil. It’s essentially a manufactured replica of gasoline, designed to power internal combustion engines while potentially offering a more sustainable alternative to fossil fuels. Understanding the Fundamentals of Synthetic Gasoline Synthetic gasoline represents a fascinating intersection of chemistry, engineering, and en

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Scientist Warns That New Synthetic Lifeform Could Spell Doom for Humankind

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-27 18:01:53

Image by Getty / Futurism Developments It's a technology that doesn't even exist yet, but its effects could be so drastically destructive that scientists in the field are calling for it to be banned now, before it's too late. We're talking, of course, about "mirror life" — synthetic organisms that quite literally turn natural biology on its head. "We should choose not to build mirror life and pass laws to ensure nobody can," John Glass, a synthetic biologist who helped create the first living

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5 more ways to share files on Linux that every pro should know

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-28 00:15:18

Elizabeth Fernandez/Moment via Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways These are some lesser-known ways of sharing files on Linux. The methods here range from the very simple to the very complicated. Each of these tools is free, and some are pre-installed. Back in 2024, I wrote about how to share files between Linux devices. That article focused on the obvious tools (such as Samba and SCP), so I thought I'd revisit the topic, only highlighting the

Topics: file files linux nfs rsync

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SQLite (with WAL) doesn't do `fsync` on each commit under default settings

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 23:40:38

SQLite (with WAL) doesn't do `fsync` on each commit under default settings SQLite has a WAL mode (the default is journal mode), but you’re likely using it if you want higher write throughput. SQLite also has a PRAGMA called synchronous which configures how fsync is called. The default is NORMAL . This is what the docs say: [..] but WAL mode does lose durability. A transaction committed in WAL mode with synchronous=NORMAL might roll back following a power loss or system crash. In WAL mode when

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Scientists Say They've Created a New Form of Life More Perfect Than the One Nature Made

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-03 23:00:15

We've heard of GMOs, but this is ridiculous. Scientists at the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology say they've engineered a bacteria whose genetic code is more efficient than any other lifeform on Earth. They call their creation "Syn57," a bioengineered strain of E. coli — yes, the same bad boy that can make you extremely sick if you eat an undercooked hot dog — which uses seven less codons than all life on earth. A codon, put simply, is a three-letter sequence found in

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You can't grow cool-climate plants in hot climates

news.ycombinator.com Joey Santore 2025-11-30 02:38:00

Since moving to Deep South Texas 4 years ago I've come to realize that many plants I used to love growing in the cool mild maritime climate of the SF bay area are impossible to grow where I live. This is not just because of the high daytime heat. It's not as simple as that. Specifically, it is the high heat during the night (and those warm nights are a direct result of the humidity) that causes cool-climate and cool-season plants to eventually die here. That's a bummer for somebody who loves pla

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Writing Micro Compiler in OCaml (2014)

news.ycombinator.com Dmitry Geurkov 2025-11-29 14:00:32

TL;DR Writing micro compiler in OCaml At one point or another every single software developer in the world comes to a realization in his career when the time is ripe and it’s time to write your own super cool programming language. However the subject of creating your own programming language with an compiler is quite a complex one and can’t be tackled without some pre-research. That’s how I’ve started reading Crafting Compiler in C, an aged but really comprehensive book about developing your o

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TikTok parent company ByteDance releases new open source Seed-OSS-36B model with 512K token context

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-12-09 18:04:24

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now TikTok is making headlines again today after the White House joined the popular social media application — but its parent company ByteDance, a Chinese web giant, also had a surprise announcement up its sleeve. The company’s Seed Team of AI researchers today released Seed-OSS-36B on AI code sharing website Hugging Face. Seed-OSS-36B is new

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Structured (Synchronous) Concurrency

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 09:02:15

Structured (Synchronous) Concurrency @_fsantanna I have recently learned about Structured Concurrency (SC), which supports nested coroutines with tied lifetimes. There are a number of libraries (Dill, Trio, Effection), and even language mechanisms in Swift and Kotlin. The similarities with Esterel and derived imperative synchronous languages (ISLs) is noteworthy. However, it seems that no bridges between these worlds (ISLs & SC) have been built. Research in ISLs dates back to the early 80s, a

Topics: concurrency preemption sc synchronous time

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Show HN: Rust macro utility for batching expensive async operations

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 04:43:01

batched Rust macro utility for batching expensive async operations. Installation cargo add batched Or add this to your Cargo.toml : [ dependencies ] batched = " 0.2.7 " limit : Maximum amount of items that can be grouped and processed in a single batch. : Maximum amount of items that can be grouped and processed in a single batch. concurrent : Maximum amount of concurrent batched tasks running (default: Infinity ) : Maximum amount of concurrent batched tasks running (default: ) window :

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Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole

news.ycombinator.com Jye Cusch 2026-01-02 12:45:42

I started using Linear a couple of months ago and using it made me go down a technical rabbit hole that changed how I think about web applications. For the uninitiated, Linear is a project management tool that feels impossibly fast. Click an issue, it opens instantly. Update a status and watch in a second browser, it updates almost as fast as the source. No loading states, no page refreshes - just instant, interactions. After building traditional web apps for years, this felt wrong. Where’s th

Topics: data electric jazz local sync

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OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-03 05:59:46

OpenAI just released its first ever open-source large language models, called gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b. You can talk to them here. Are they good models? Well, that depends on what you’re looking for. They’re great at some benchmarks, of course (OpenAI would never have released them otherwise) but weirdly bad at others, like SimpleQA. Some people really like them. Others on Twitter really don’t. From what I can tell, they’re technically competent but lack a lot of out-of-domain knowledge: fo

Topics: data model models source synthetic

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The Sunlight Budget of Earth

news.ycombinator.com Asimov Press 2026-01-04 03:15:41

By Sam Clamons Editor’s Note: This article contains numerical estimates compiled from various research articles. It was reviewed by three climate experts: Casey Handmer, Paul Reginato, and Jonathan Burbaum. Their notes are recorded in the footnotes. Our full dataset and calculations are available for download. We hope this will be a useful starting point for much deeper discussions. Modern biotechnology is powered by sunlight. Light-gobbling algae, both natural and engineered, are harvested an

Topics: absorbed energy photosynthesis solar sunlight

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Synthetic Biology for Space Exploration

news.ycombinator.com Onofri 2026-01-01 06:30:48

The Apollo 11 Moon landing encouraged humankind to consider and investigate life beyond Earth more than 50 years ago1. However, in contrast to its lightning-fast success in terms of the remarkable technology development of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, human space exploration has been confined in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for the past 50 years. Nevertheless, other space agencies, such as the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), have joined the two

Topics: biology human radiation space synthetic

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Zero ASIC releases Wildebeest, the highest performance FPGA synthesis tool

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