THE HACKER NEWS

sohkamyung
2 days ago
The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme
The bird retina is one of the most energetically expensive tissues in the animal kingdom, yet it doesn’t use the energy advantage of oxygen. New research finally explains how this is possibl...
13 HOURS AGO
GDEVIC
I designed a nibble-oriented CPU in Verilog to build a scientific calculator
14 HOURS AGO
MATTROGISH
Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image
12 HOURS AGO
TENCENTSHILL
U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app
18 HOURS AGO
KOLMOGOROVCOMP
Radicle: Sovereign {code forge} built on Git
12 HOURS AGO
DROB518
Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water'
12 HOURS AGO
BAHDOTSHXX
Feedr v0.8.0 – a TUI RSS reader, now read the full article from your terminal
9 HOURS AGO
CIDER9986
London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time
12 HOURS AGO
DTNEWMAN
Show HN: Burn, baby, burn (those tokens)
JSeiko
14 hours ago
Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
Project Gutenberg is a library of free eBooks.
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happyhardcore
16 hours ago
A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10
We recently published an exploit chain for the Google Pixel 9 that demonstrated it was possible t......
Tomte
19 hours ago
The sigmoids won't save you
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jolaflow
5 hours ago
Show HN: Epiq – Distributed Git based issue tracker TUI
Distributed, repo-native, local-first, keyboard-driven, event-sourced issue tracking backed by Git....
lukeplato
2 days ago
Naturally Occurring Quasicrystals
I love quasicrystals—like crystals, but with patterns that never repeat, like Penrose tiles. But they’ve very rare in nature. They’re created only by the most exotic and violent e…...
Lihh27
10 hours ago
California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down
Publishers would have to offer "independent" play patch or refunds after server shutdowns....
surprisetalk
3 days ago
ESP-EEG is an affordable 8-channel biosensing board
The same number of channels of EEG/EMG/ECG for half the price...
tomjakubowski
6 hours ago
The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)
Since around 2009, methamphetamines have been made with phenylacetone (P2P). Is there a chemical different causing schizophrenia?...
https://dynomight.net/p2p-meth/
FranckDernoncou
7 hours ago
Orthrus-Qwen3: up to 7.8×tokens/forward on Qwen3, identical output distribution
Fast, lossless LLM inference via dual-view diffusion decoding. - chiennv2000/orthrus...
boramalper
11 hours ago
The Zulip Foundation
Today marks a major transition for the Zulip open-source project and for Kandra Labs, the company behind it: I’m stepping back from full-time Zulip leadership to join Anthropic, alongside th...
bookofjoe
16 hours ago
ASCII by Jason Scott
Jason Scott's Weblog...
joshwget
13 hours ago
Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring
Join the team behind the leading agentic marketing platform and composable CDP. Explore open roles at Hightouch....
LAsteNERD
3 days ago
The nuclear-physics infrastructure behind PET scans
Explore how Los Alamos National Laboratory leads U.S. innovation in medical isotope production for imaging, therapy, and nuclear medicine research....
salsakran
18 hours ago
Welcome to the Strip Mining Era of OSS Security
In 2026, LLM-powered code scanners are uncovering security vulnerabilities in open source projects at 10x the historical rate. Here's what OSS maintainers and users need to do about it....
ilamont
2 days ago
The day the Pintupi Nine entered the modern world (2014)
In 1984 a group of Australian Aboriginal people living a traditional nomadic life were found deep in the heart of the Gibson desert....
arkadiyt
2 days ago
Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid
Modern cars are computers on wheels that send home nonstop telemetry about you. In this post I remove my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid's modem and GPS to prevent that :)...