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Fabrice Bellard - creator of QEMU, FFmpeg, and QuickJS - has released MicroQuickJS, a new JavaScript engine project. What’s notable here is the source: Bellard previously shipped QuickJS, a compact ES2020-compliant engine used in tools and embedded scenarios; any new runtime from him sets expectations around small binaries and

If you’re measuring toys like a system, the key metric is simple: engagement minutes per cleanup minute. What’s notable here is how certain designs naturally push that ratio up. Magnetic tiles, large-format blocks, and single-piece vehicles tend to deliver long sessions with fast resets because parts are uniform,

Fabrice Bellard’s 2009 biography reads less like a résumé and more like a map of modern systems engineering. Before “infrastructure” was a buzzword, Bellard shipped the building blocks many of us still rely on: FFmpeg (the Swiss Army knife of media pipelines), QEMU (the workhorse of virtualization and cross-arch

A new Show HN entry takes minimalism seriously: a text editor that persists everything in the address bar. What’s notable here is the complete absence of storage backends or accounts-the URL itself is the document. Share a note by sharing a link; open a link and you’ve reconstructed

A 2009 snapshot of Fabrice Bellard’s work reads like a map of modern infrastructure drawn by one person. Before “cloud-native” was a buzzword, Bellard shipped FFmpeg (the media toolkit under nearly every streaming stack), QEMU (the emulator/virtualizer that made cross-arch development routine), and TinyCC (a shockingly fast, tiny

What’s notable here is not the form factor so much as the software. UniFi’s travel-friendly router brings UniFi OS and the familiar Network app to your carry-on, letting you carry consistent SSIDs, VLANs, and access policies from home to hotel without babysitting captive portals. Under the hood, you’

Fabrice Bellard has released MicroQuickJS, a new entry in his long-running streak of compact, high-quality tooling (QEMU, FFmpeg, TCC, QuickJS). What’s notable here isn’t just the name-it’s the continuity of design goals: minimalism, embeddability, and standards-minded engineering. QuickJS already proved you can have a tiny, correct JavaScript

Local AI isn’t just a software trend-it’s rearranging laptop architecture. Under the hood, vendors are baking neural processing units alongside CPUs and GPUs to run speech, vision, and small LLMs at single‑digit watts. That constraint changes everything: sustained performance matters more than turbo peaks, memory bandwidth and

What’s notable here isn’t splashy features so much as steady, deliberate evolution. Lua 5.5 continues the project’s pattern of small, surgical changes that keep the VM lean and predictable while tightening up the runtime and standard library. For teams embedding Lua in game engines, Neovim plugins,