THE HACKER NEWS

anonymousiam
13 hours ago
Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
The company that decides whether you're a bot now also requires you run its software to prove otherwise....
3 DAYS AGO
RAWGABBIT
America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy
16 HOURS AGO
MAD
Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+?
3 DAYS AGO
GEOX
Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible
A DAY AGO
SBT567
Mojo 1.0 Beta
10 HOURS AGO
TCP_HANDSHAKER
Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging
19 HOURS AGO
SURPRISETALK
Poland is now among the 20 largest economies
11 HOURS AGO
MATHEWPREGASEN
Non-determinism is an issue with patching CVEs
13 HOURS AGO
IBOBEV
Apple Is Holding My Pictures Hostage Until I Accept Their New Terms of Service
_alternator_
5 hours ago
A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
We are all having to keep revising upwards our assessments of the mathematical capabilities of large language models. I have just made a fairly large revision as a result of ChatGPT 5.5 Pro, to whi…
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Tomte
3 days ago
What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting
Armed with a slew of new instruments, physicists are closing in on one of nature’s oldest mysteries — and finding that storm clouds are seething with violent and unexpected phenomena....
edent
35 minutes ago
All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot
Posts about SmolWeb, Gemini protocol and LowTech...
defrost
20 hours ago
David Attenborough's 100th Birthday
The royal couple shared photographs of Sir David and wished him a very happy birthday. ...
ingve
2 days ago
Mythical Man Month
a bliki entry for Mythical Man Month...
muse900
2 hours ago
EU calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" in age verification push
The European Parliamentary Research Service has warned that VPNs are increasingly being used to bypass online age-verification systems....
speckx
14 hours ago
AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures
A week ago the Copy Fail vulnerability came out, and Hyunwoo Kim immediately realized that the fixes were insufficient, sharing a patch the same day. In doing this he followed standard proc...
atgctg
2 days ago
OpenAI’s WebRTC problem
Media over QUIC: There are ways to do voice AI without being traumatized by WebRTC....
https://moq.dev/blog/webrtc-is-the-problem/
zdw
3 days ago
Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso
Why launch costs aren't the reason it costs a fortune to do things in space...
pretext
14 hours ago
Teaching Claude Why
New research on how we've reduced agentic misalignment...
gfodor
3 days ago
PortalVR Motion – use any VR content in 2D with 3D tracked Joy-Cons
PortalVR Motion turns VR into Wii-style gaming — natural motion controls for thousands of SteamVR titles, using your Joy-Cons and an iPhone....
mmcclure
11 hours ago
Mux (YC W16) Is Hiring
Mux is video for developers. Our mission is to democratize video by solving the hard problems developers face when building video. Video is a huge part of people’s lives, and we want to help...
kqr
2 days ago
Looking at the data behind prediction markets
We all know they’re casinos. It’s time to look at the data behind the froth....
jxmorris12
3 days ago
Boosting multimodal inference performance by >10% with a single Python dict
If we've said it once, we've said it once per millisecond: never block the GPU....
rustoo
3 days ago
Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school
Under new guidelines caning will only be used as a punishment for male students aged nine and above as a ‘last resort’...