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JumpCrisscross
3 hours ago
A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't
A city-building game about trying to get housing built in San Francisco. By Oliver Sin....
A DAY AGO
NATEB2022
Rampart: Browser native on-device PII radaction
2 DAYS AGO
XYPROTO
C for Rust programmers
2 DAYS AGO
KGOLUBIC
Whooping Cranes Learned to Migrate by Following Costumed Pilots
3 DAYS AGO
SBULAEV
A nuclear clock synchronized to 229Th
A DAY AGO
RAFISS
Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team
2 HOURS AGO
PICARDMANEUVER
Hackers abuse Google Ads, Bing redirects to push Claude ClickFix attacks
8 HOURS AGO
JAJOOSAM
PVX-001: open-source Covid-19 vaccine starts Phase 1 trial
4 DAYS AGO
STEFFOZ
Noto means "no tofu": fixing dotted circles in Myanmar text
A DAY AGO
ROBIN_REALA
Triple-A Minesweeper
A DAY AGO
SIMPLYALEC
Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded
8 HOURS AGO
NEWJAZZ
FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review
7 HOURS AGO
PWG
A 1980s filter chip that uses switched capacitors
A DAY AGO
SIMPLYALEC
Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded
A DAY AGO
MATT_D
What mathematicians should know about the Lean Theorem Prover: reliability & AI
8 HOURS AGO
NEWJAZZ
FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review
Michelangelo11
3 days ago
2D Vehicles
Explore my 1996 vehicle physics prototype, recreated for the web as Motion Lab.
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Curiositry
8 hours ago
Knuth reward check
Twenty years ago I got a reward check from Donald Knuth....
smokel
2 days ago
Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0
Agents are unlocking enormous productivity gains for customers, but their ability to work across files, networks, and applications can introduce new security risks. This can leave customers ...
ghuntley
9 hours ago
Unikernels were hard. key word: were
Justin Cormack, who worked on MirageOS back in the day, called me at the pub to talk about why unikernels are coming back. The friction that made them hard is gone, the operating system is d...
oskarth
19 hours ago
The Lightbulb Computer
A new direction for computing: projecting information into the real world to augment it, with a device that combines a projector and computer vision in the shape of a large lightbulb....
merksittich
a day ago
Recent AI models struggled to match a human algorithmic innovation
Early evidence from InnovationEval: No...
modinfo
a day ago
REA Reverse – Engineer Anything
Reverse engineer apps, binaries and browser behavior with your coding agent. Follow clear guides and try interactive examples with REA....
tosh
5 hours ago
Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster
DuckDB 2.0 alpha vs 1.5.5 on one laptop: recursive CTEs up to 90x, VARIANT 6x faster than JSON text, async I/O 2.4x on S3. What changes, and how to model data to get the speedup. | Reading t...
https://motherduck.com/blog/why-duckdb-20-is-faster/
EA-3167
a day ago
How strong is the strong interaction?
A lattice calculation has narrowed the uncertainty on the strong coupling to five parts per mille....
g-b-r
20 hours ago
Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen
An unescaped separator in Telegram Desktop’s single-instance IPC lets one clicked link read arbitrary files off the disk and send them to the attacker, session files included....
gmays
18 hours ago
Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity
In healthy adults, meals matched for calories and nutrients, but otherwise prepared differently, led to unexpectedly different metabolic responses and activity in the brain’s reward system....
colinprince
10 hours ago
I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall
Many of us are inconsistent in our economic desires. I would like the price of my home to rise, because it increases my wealth, but I would also like the prices of all other homes to fall, s...
geox
4 days ago
Chernobyl particles reveal unexpectedly stable nuclear fuel after 40 years
Four decades after the 1986 nuclear disaster, researchers at Leibniz University Hannover and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) examined six tiny, highly radioactive fragments t...
makerdiety
3 hours ago
50MB operating system can resurrect your old PC
My dying Dell Inspiron runs like new with this forgotten Linux distro....
jsomers
a day ago
Can you use autoregressive diffusion to generate market data?
The following is part of a series of posts about 2026 summer intern projects – for more, see “What the interns have wrought, special jumbo 2026 edition”...
ilreb
a day ago
Cloudflare acquires Deno
Putting ourselves in the best place to build the future of the web...