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shahidhussain
3 days ago
The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished
15 years ago, a band called Salvage dropped an epic song, and then vanished without a trace. Until now....
2 DAYS AGO
THEVET
Bloody Cavemen
19 HOURS AGO
KARAKORAM
Why were Victorian elites so effective?
21 HOURS AGO
LIBRASTEVE
House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k
21 HOURS AGO
ILREB
Anti-patterns in software blogging
A DAY AGO
ACOSSTA
Google Playground: Create and play custom games
A DAY AGO
SN001
God of War on PSP, recompiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser
A DAY AGO
SANDEBERT
The art of defusing a second world war bomb
3 HOURS AGO
SASHANK_1509
OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results
15 HOURS AGO
SPECKX
Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI
36 MINUTES AGO
SP8
Mumsnet denies using AI for content after prompt appears on message board
20 HOURS AGO
BLUEPETER
AI-assisted proof of optimal packing for 11 squares
36 MINUTES AGO
SP8
Mumsnet denies using AI for content after prompt appears on message board
sfkgtbor
16 hours ago
Claude Haiku 5.5
Claude Haiku 5.5 is our fastest, most capable small model. Built for high-volume work like summarization, subagents, and browser use.
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AshleysBrain
a day ago
Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome
JPEG XL offre una compressione migliore rispetto a JPEG, supporto HDR integrato, transcodifica JPEG lossless e altro ancora....
SpeakingOfBrad
18 hours ago
Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app
Turn a phone, tablet or TV into a sign. Type a message and it fills the screen: welcome signs, timers, Wi-Fi passwords and more. No app, no account, free....
Bluestein
2 days ago
New repository settings for configuring pull request access
Maintainers now have more control over how repositories accept contributions. Two new settings let you manage pull requests to better match your project’s needs. Disable pull requests entire...
gumby
14 hours ago
'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth
Jonathan, a 194-year-old Aldabra giant tortoise, was born before the Civil War. Scientists have now sequenced his genome to reveal what’s behind his extreme longevity, so we can live longer ...
6bitquant
14 hours ago
The Mathocalypse
… then they came for Navier–Stokes and I said nothing because I never worked on Navier–Stokes. But when they came for RL vs. L I realized that things are serious –friend-of-the-blog Omer Rei...
janandonly
3 hours ago
Dat-ecosystem: high level applications built on top of P2P protocols
dat-ecosystem is a post-web p2p community of projects - Most projects are self funded. Some of the projects contribute maintainance and development to core pieces of the Dat ecosystem while ...
muglug
13 hours ago
Margaret Hamilton has died
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age ...
https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007
turrini
19 hours ago
Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages
196 animated ascii pieces for web pages, in TypeScript with no dependencies: for React, Next.js, Astro, or one HTML tag. MIT licensed....
glinscott
2 days ago
How machines learned precision
How do you make an accurate machine without one to copy? Explore flat surfaces, screw-cutting lathes, and millionth-of-an-inch measurements through interactive 3D figures....
nill0
19 hours ago
Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation
Autoformalisation is increasingly used to verify mathematical texts, including those generated by AI, as in OpenAI's announced proof of blow-up of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations. I...
jcbhmr
9 hours ago
Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM
An experimental Rust port of the TypeScript 7 compiler (tsc) - pingdotgg/ts-rust...
ibobev
2 days ago
If somebody tries to hot-patch an already-hot-patched function
Hot-patching is for Windows, not for you....
alexpadula
3 days ago
A new write and space optimized storage engine for MySQL is here
TidesDB becomes available under project TideSQL for MySQL....
cachebag
7 hours ago
A 100x faster* alternative to homebrew
An up to 100x* faster Homebrew alternative. Contribute to zerobrewhq/zerobrew development by creating an account on GitHub....
DeepLogin
19 hours ago
Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees
A class action lawsuit alleges Visa, Mastercard and some of America's largest banks have conspired to artificially inflate merchants' credit card transaction fees....