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bartdegoede
an hour ago
Semantic/Hybrid Search in the Browser
This blog now has semantic search that runs entirely in your browser. No server, no API keys, no 23 MB transformer. The whole model is a 4 MB lookup table, and extends the existing keyword s...
2 DAYS AGO
KSCHAUL
AI 2040: Plan A
21 HOURS AGO
MARKUS_ZHANG
The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017)
21 HOURS AGO
SIMONEBRUNOZZI
Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
20 HOURS AGO
RANDYCUPERTINO
New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices
20 HOURS AGO
NAOH
War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history
A DAY AGO
SPECKX
Successful companies go blind
2 DAYS AGO
POMPOMSHEEP
Show HN: 18 Words
2 DAYS AGO
DICROCE
Show HN: Wyrm – Solve algebra by touch, built on an open-source soundness engine
5 HOURS AGO
PJMLP
Microsoft latest report shows 25% emissions raised due to AI data centers
8 DAYS AGO
GEDXX
The mathematical secrets of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia
faza
2 hours ago
Networking and the Internet, from First Principles
How controlled disturbances of electricity, light, and radio, cooperatively routed across a web of independent networks, deliver data across the world in milliseconds.
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herbertl
4 days ago
Google Search lets creators know more about their reach
Google is trying to make Search more of a hub for everything creators do online....
surprisetalk
4 days ago
An iroh powered smart fan
Putting iroh on a bare ESP32 to build a temperature-driven smart fan you can check on from anywhere....
CrankyBear
20 hours ago
SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
It could mean faster internet for rural customers, but not everyone is happy....
speckx
a day ago
QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall
The QuadRF (pictured above) a phased-array radio built around a Raspberry Pi 5 and an FPGA board with picosecond-level timing. It does advanced signal processing and beamforming. It can see ...
stock_toaster
17 hours ago
Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI today, accusing the company of trade secret theft. Specifically, Apple alleges that its......
rowbin
6 days ago
The mask that compiles to nothing: how HotSpots JIT learned to reason about bits
A deep dive into the known-bits abstraction that recently landed in HotSpot's C2 JIT compiler: the same tristate-bit abstraction LLVM and GCC use, and why it lets the JVM delete redundant ma...
hhs
16 hours ago
Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows
Researchers have shown the first direct experimental evidence that the textbook triple bond structure breaks down in heavy elements, where relativity makes the rules....
https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-07-09/chemical-bonds-relativity
dmonay
a day ago
Late Bronze Age Collapse
This week, by order of the ACOUP Senate, we’re talking about the Late Bronze Age Collapse (commonly abbreviated ‘LBAC’), the shocking collapse of the Late Bronze Age state system …...
aviaviavi
a day ago
After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell
After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell — Avi Press...
vforno
2 days ago
Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer
Run GLM-5.2 (744B MoE) on a 25GB-RAM consumer machine — pure C, zero deps, experts streamed from disk. Tiny engine, immense model. 🐦 - JustVugg/colibri...
simonpure
a day ago
Computation as a universal and fundamental concept
TIM ROUGHGARDEN treats computation as a law of nature, tracing its arc from Turing's proof that some problems are unsolvable to the P versus NP question at the heart of modern computer scien...
srimalireddi
17 hours ago
Moss (YC F25) Is Hiring
We built Moss because Voice AI breaks when retrieval is slow. Most retrieval infrastructure was not built for real-time reasoning. It adds latency, breaks context mid-conversation, and becom...
djfergus
17 hours ago
GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in ALL Linux distributions for 15 years
GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499) is a Linux kernel vulnerability found by VEGA that exists in every major distribution since 2011. Triggering the bug does not require any special kernel config or ...
mooreds
4 days ago
Documentation is still in your Mum's filing cabinet
It's kind of wild that we're still organising knowledge like it's sitting in a 1970s filing cabinet. People and AI don't think in folders. They find information through search, context and c...
Bender
5 days ago
Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church
A remarkably well preserved 1,600-year-old city complete with a church, watchtowers and bustling streets has been unearthed beneath Egypt's Western Desert....