THE HACKER NEWS

MacAnorak
5 hours ago
The MacBook Pro's OLED PWM Problem: When a 'Better' Display Becomes Worse to Use
Apple has made a spectacular display. But spectacular isn’t the same as comfortable, and the people discovering that distinction deserve to be heard....
3 DAYS AGO
NEPHIHAHA
Handwritten 200-year-old dismissal notice found on roof tile
2 DAYS AGO
R0R0
Show HN: Carton Clock – A working pendulum clock made from empty drink cartons
2 DAYS AGO
PSEUDOLUS
The Evolving Story of How Chemistry Became Biology
3 HOURS AGO
MIKESTEW
'Duffy Lied': Controllers Refute Transportation Secretary's Ground Stop Story
28 MINUTES AGO
TOSH
Witches, vampires, ancient aliens–you'll find them all in Malta
16 HOURS AGO
NOBODY9999
We're Asking an Appeals Court to Require a Warrant for ALPR Searches
5 DAYS AGO
WMCHEN
The Sicilian Citrus Family Tree
AN HOUR AGO
GIULIOMAGNIFICO
Dutch websites warn of malicious ad code that tried to hack old iPhones
3 DAYS AGO
TORUTOFU
Testing a trash can Faraday cage
3 DAYS AGO
CHARLESW
Astro Spiral: Greatest Car Stunt Was Also First Computer-Modeled Stunt
jcubic
4 hours ago
All AI-generated code should be Open Source
All code generated with help from AI should be Open Source or on Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license.
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vismit2000
6 hours ago
Understanding Positional Embeddings in Modern LLMs
The Methods Behind How LLMs Represent Token Positions...
ybathaee
17 hours ago
Court denies motion to dismiss DRAM price fixing case
Judge Noël Wise found buyers plausibly alleged the chipmakers conspired to cut conventional DRAM supply and shift capacity to HBM, distinguishing the Ninth Circuit's DRAM II....
JumpCrisscross
7 hours ago
Lutnick Pushed to Weaken Chip Rules That Overlap with His Family Business
The commerce secretary has been writing new rules that would affect Southeast Asian data centers, some of which are clients of his former firm....
ls612
21 hours ago
SpaceX catches the Starship to end Flight 15
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft....
gumby
37 minutes ago
'Birdbrain' Is a Misnomer. Crows Make Decisions Faster Than We Can
In a recent experiment, crows could process and respond to visual cues at twice the speed as humans and monkeys....
josip208
2 days ago
What thousands of conversations look like inside a language model
I mapped thousands of conversations inside Qwen to see how language takes shape....
nyc111
3 hours ago
Emacs Is My Browser
A blog, notes, gallery, lifestyle and fully conglomerated posts from Joshua....
https://joshblais.com/blog/emacs-as-my-browser/
nu_nu11
5 hours ago
Show HN: db-branch – database branches in seconds for AI agents and CI, via ZFS
Instant MySQL database branches on ZFS clones, clustered across VMs with ProxySQL routing - db-branch/db-branch...
armcat
a day ago
Lovable apps expose passport details and more than 200K private messages
Our analysis of 159,041 Lovable projects reveals many cases where sensitive data was accessible without logging in....
rbanffy
a day ago
PyPI's redesigned project pages with clearer security signals are now live
PyPI now makes it simple to check where release files come from, with a dedicated security tab, a rebuilt release files tab, and refreshed documentation....
znano
2 days ago
Strictly monotonic timestamps and gapless sequences in Rust
tsoracle is a distributed oracle for Rust — strictly monotonic timestamps and gapless, dense ID sequences. Raft-replicated, crash-safe, embeddable. Drop-in for MVCC, snapshot isolation, cros...
VaibhaavTiwari
a day ago
Show HN: DeepSeek V3 in ~200 lines of pure Jax
DeepSeek V3 (MLA, DeepSeekMoE, aux-loss-free balancing, MTP) in 190 lines of pure JAX, trained on a MacBook Air. Write-up: vaibhaav.in/writing/deepseek-v3-jax - Vaibhaav-Tiwari/deepseek-v3-j...
soheilpro
5 hours ago
Abyssal Garden: A dreamy underwater world you can swim through (96 KB HTML)
A dreamy underwater world you can swim through in your browser: swaying kelp forests, sunbeams, a sunken ship and manta rays. Everything is generated by code with WebGPU (no images, models o...
firloop
3 days ago
Chinese frontier AI models carry the fingerprint of export-controlled GPUs
Our forensic analysis of publicly released AI models finds evidence that DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax and Ant Group have gained access to NVIDIA’s Blackwell GPUs, despite restrictions on e...
NaOH
3 days ago
'Grey Rocking': The Life-Improving Power of Being Really, Really Boring (2021)
Coined in 2012 by an American mental-health blogger, the technique has both serious and quotidian applications...