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digital55
3 hours ago
A new bridge links the math of infinity to computer science
Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms....
16 HOURS AGO
XZETAU8
Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world
2 HOURS AGO
SIGNALDR
ZoomInfo CEO Blocks Researcher After Documenting Pre-Consent Biometric Tracking
11 HOURS AGO
DAVIKR
Making Crash Bandicoot (2011)
A DAY AGO
AMICHAIL
Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data
6 DAYS AGO
SIMONPURE
LPLB: An early research stage MoE load balancer based on linear programming
5 HOURS AGO
INDIGODADDY
US banks scramble to assess data theft after hackers breach financial tech firm
A DAY AGO
LEBOVIC
Claude Advanced Tool Use
9 HOURS AGO
HACKERNJ
Brain has five 'eras' with adult mode not starting until early 30s
3 DAYS AGO
JUMPCRISSCROSS
Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3
A DAY AGO
MICHALPLEBAN
Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of CRTs
4 DAYS AGO
MOHANSRK
Auditing JDBC Drivers at Scale with AI led to 85000 bounty
A DAY AGO
LARRIKIN
Pebble Watch software is now open source
A DAY AGO
MICHALPLEBAN
Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of CRTs
29 MINUTES AGO
PAULPAUPER
Meet Your Heroes
4 DAYS AGO
MOHANSRK
Auditing JDBC Drivers at Scale with AI led to 85000 bounty
piotrgrabowski
5 hours ago
Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
“These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”
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meetpateltech
7 hours ago
FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence
Today, we release FLUX.2, our most capable model to date....
ahlCVA
10 hours ago
Constant-time support coming to LLVM: Protecting cryptographic code
Trail of Bits developed constant-time coding support for LLVM 21 that prevents compilers from breaking cryptographic implementations vulnerable to timing attacks, introducing the __builtin_c...
harperlee
4 days ago
The 101 of analog signal filtering (2024)
Some intuition about this topic can be developed without summoning the ghost of Pierre-Simon Laplace....
agreeahmed
5 hours ago
Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor
Open source payments + billing infrastructure. Contribute to flowglad/flowglad development by creating an account on GitHub....
pseudolus
10 hours ago
Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing
Why do software failures persist despite soaring IT budgets? Dive into the complexities that keep success elusive....
speckx
6 hours ago
Python is not a great language for data science
It may be a good language for data science, but it’s not a great one....
jjmaxwell4
4 hours ago
Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack
An indirect prompt injection in an implementation blog can manipulate Antigravity to invoke a malicious browser subagent in order to steal credentials and sensitive code from a user’s IDE....
https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/google-antigravity-exfiltrates-data
pchiusano
3 hours ago
Unison 1.0
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we're excited to release Unison 1.0. This version delivers a refined programming workflow and a mature toolchain. Join us as ...
bensouthwood
4 days ago
Inflatable Space Stations
If we ever want to live in space, we need to work out a way of creating artificial gravity....
todsacerdoti
16 hours ago
Most Stable Raspberry Pi? Better NTP with Thermal Management
I’ve written before about building microsecond-accurate NTP servers with Raspberry Pi and GPS PPS, and more recently about revisiting the setup in 2025. Both posts focused on the hardware se...
danso
6 hours ago
Ozempic does not slow Alzheimer's, study finds
Novo Nordisk’s shares fell 6% on the news....
FiddlerClamp
6 hours ago
Roblox is a problem but it's a symptom of something worse
What is the role of tech journalism in a world where CEOs no longer feel shame?...
mbleigh
6 days ago
Broccoli Man, Remastered
A breakdown of how I used modern AI tools (Veo 3.1 and Nano Banana) to create a new version of a Google cultural classic....
waerhert
4 days ago
Nearby peer discovery without GPS using environmental fingerprints
I propose a peer discovery technique to detect nearby devices by comparing similarity in their observed environments, such as WiFi or Bluetooth networks. Using locality-sensitive hashing and...
bookofjoe
6 days ago
Hollywood's vision of ancient Rome is all wrong, according to Mary Beard
Rome wore togas, surrounded themselves with pure-white marble statues, bayed for blood as gladiators fought to the death in the Colosseum, programmatically imitated the Greeks, and, after ea...