THE HACKER NEWS

rdl
10 hours ago
The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist
A fictitious Sean Byrne ended up on a U.S. government restricted-party list. Sixteen years later, Apple, Nasdaq and others have mistaken me for him....
2 HOURS AGO
GMAYS
Brain turns listening inward during REM sleep, EEG recordings suggest
10 HOURS AGO
CHATCHAN
Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations
20 HOURS AGO
DEMIGURU
Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
A DAY AGO
RUSTDESK
RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland
16 HOURS AGO
BOOKOFJOE
eigendrum
A DAY AGO
SANS_SOUSE
AI by Hand
3 DAYS AGO
BBAYLES
Unearthing a 31 year old Easter egg in Ecco the Dolphin
4 DAYS AGO
JIMMC414
This Hi-Fi Tape Recorder Changed Radio Forever
tosh
4 hours ago
Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel
Table of Contents Intro Contest in short Problem intro Why this problem is auto-research-able Learning Enough to Ask Better Questions (Optional) Math f...
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signa11
41 minutes ago
Writergate: Zig I/O Interface Overhaul
The informal name for Zig's massive I/O interface refactoring that removed GenericWriter/Reader in favor of vtable-based concrete types....
vslira
18 hours ago
Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking
I’m coming down from spending a few days at Usenix Security, right here in my hometown of Baltimore. This means that my days have been taken up with two kinds of conversation: first, explain...
bookofjoe
3 days ago
In 1962, Egypt's Missile Program Lost Its Key Scientist Without a Trace
Some accounts suggest that a brutal assassination is to blame. ...
m-i-l
32 minutes ago
Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?
Booksellers are reporting mysterious bulk orders. It's thought the books are being used to train AI - and ending up pulped....
BaselAshraf81
5 days ago
Show HN: Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum
Draw any shape and hear it as a drum. Every frequency is solved from your outline with finite elements, never sampled. Includes the two drums that sound identical but are not the same shape....
Bluestein
2 hours ago
The Problem
The stated goal of the world’s leading AI companies is to build AI that is general enough to do anything a human can do, from solving hard problems in...
erdaltoprak
a day ago
Qwen 3.8 27B
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science....
https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8
u1hcw9nx
a day ago
Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption
Today we're excited to showcase HEIR, the latest powerful tool added to our Private Computing Toolkit. HEIR is an open source compiler that unlocks cryptographically-sec…...
beardyw
an hour ago
388 years ago, Galileo worked out why human giants can't exist
Giants have featured in stories for millennia, but the reason why they don't exist helps explain the natural world...
doekenorg
3 days ago
Understanding WCAG 2.2 as ePub and PDF
Download Understanding WCAG 2.2 as a free EPUB or PDF. The official W3C documentation converted for e-readers, offline reading, and fixing audit findings....
_tk_
2 days ago
Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737
Security researchers found that in less than 60 seconds, they could open a hatch on a plane’s exterior, plug in a tiny device, and redirect the aircraft’s autopilot or sabotage its flight pl...
twapi
a day ago
Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions
Practical tips for how to run efficient sessions that get the most value from every token....
E-Reverance
14 hours ago
Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus (2018)
First year calculus is often taught in a way that is very burdensome to the student. Students have to memorize a diversity of processes for essentially performing the same task. However, man...
epaga
3 days ago
Show HN: Silent Shark – tactical map-based WWII submarine sim
Plot contacts, solve firing solutions, strike unseen, and withdraw into the deep. The full game is available now on Steam, with a free demo to try....
mplappert
a day ago
Introducing Toast 1
Meet Toast 1, Mixedbread's search agent for knowledge-intensive tasks, matching or outperforming Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol while being up to 10× cheaper and 12× faster....