THE HACKER NEWS

raphlinus
3 days ago
Nibnib: Image compression with extreme decompression speed
Image compression at 4bpp with extreme decompression speed - raphlinus/nibnib...
2 DAYS AGO
CROES
One-minute frequency disturbances from synchronization in power systems
4 DAYS AGO
SLATER
Radiation Map of the World
3 DAYS AGO
HEADSUPERNOVA
Show HN: Point your camera at a landscape to learn about its geology
7 HOURS AGO
RHAYNES
Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power
2 HOURS AGO
QLTE
U.S. workers took home their smallest share of capital since at least 1947
2 DAYS AGO
WHYLEYC
Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother
2 DAYS AGO
OHJEEZ
Zinc creep in cable spelter sockets brought down the Arecibo telescope in 2020
A DAY AGO
OGER
TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8
11 HOURS AGO
ENTRYLEVELJOBSC
AI agent swarms in Minecraft fail to build civilization, drown in bureaucracy
10 HOURS AGO
ENTRYLEVELJOBSC
Police chief unplugs cameras after Flock ignores contract cancellation
A DAY AGO
SAMIZDIS
Surviving "The Graduate"
10 HOURS AGO
ENTRYLEVELJOBSC
Police chief unplugs cameras after Flock ignores contract cancellation
karpathy
a day ago
HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN
Instead of YouTube, watch HackerTube!
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smilelamp
6 hours ago
Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it
[This is a guest post by Frank Calegari. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Why we should not be sad The release by OpenAI on Octob...
Thevet
a day ago
The She-Wolves of Jülich
Man-eating and menacing: stories about werewolves in the 16th-century press expose a centuries-old fear of women....
Anon84
11 hours ago
Proving and improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs
Whether models trained on different modalities converge to the same representation of the world is central to AI. The Platonic Representation Hypothesis (PRH) conjectures that they do as the...
stevenalowe
3 days ago
New 3D thermal invisibility cloak makes objects disappear from infrared cameras
Researchers have developed a groundbreaking 3D invisibility cloak that can hide complex objects from infrared cameras while protecting them from extreme heat and cold. Instead of blocking he...
FabCH
12 hours ago
Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust
Fast, robust, accurate diffing . Contribute to ivankovic/omnidiff development by creating an account on GitHub....
throwoutway
3 hours ago
AI delivers 'zero financial payoff' to most companies, Apollo economist says
"Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech."...
TMWNN
3 days ago
Keeping Up Appearances – The women taking over the funeral industry
The women taking over the funeral industry....
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/death-industry-mortuary-programs-women-andie-eisen-quarterly/
luu
19 hours ago
The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks
One of my pet peeves with the web development community is that so many of the decisions we make are vibes-based. Frameworks are “blazing fast,” tools will…...
colinprince
2 days ago
Parchment Paper History: How We Got Paper Perfect for Baking (2019)
What the heck is parchment paper, where did it come from, and why is it such a prominent baking aid these days? So many questions—here’s my attempt to answer. ...
n_plus_1_acc
14 hours ago
Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018)
Unicode contains a range of symbols which don't get much use. For example, there are separate symbols for TradeMark - ™, Service Mark - ℠, and Prescriptions - ℞. Nestling among the "Letterl...
edward
9 hours ago
Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no extensions
Legacy public switched telephone network service is to be retired on January 31, 2027...
nmjenkins
2 days ago
Understanding Email Encryption (2025)
A comprehensive overview of how email is encrypted, the benefits, and the trade-offs....
hapax_legomena
a day ago
Leaking Secrets from Air-Gap Computers by Spelling Radio Signals from RAM (2024)
Air-gapped systems are physically separated from external networks, including the Internet. This isolation is achieved by keeping the air-gap computers disconnected from wired or wireless ne...
doodlesdev
a day ago
Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing
Two lawyers hid a white-on-white instruction inside a court filing telling the AI to go easy on their case. The court's AI caught it. The fine was $16,000....
guregodevo
a day ago
Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard
A lightweight coding and automation agent in one CLI binary. A multi-agent harness. Run locally or over SSH. - guregodevo/memdoor...