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RickJWagner
3 hours ago
The new bibliomaniacs
Rare book collecting is booming. Young people raised in the digital age are seeking tangible connections to the past....
12 HOURS AGO
GOSTSAMO
Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight
A DAY AGO
THEANONYMOUSONE
Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing compression for mobile and laptop efficiency
12 HOURS AGO
PAULMOOREPARKS
The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover
3 DAYS AGO
TOSH
Ten Years of Franz
A DAY AGO
JSVE
Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things
A DAY AGO
LORDGILMAN
The Quiet Numbers Station: Decoding Nineteen Years of GPS Cryptography
3 DAYS AGO
CALYHRE
Cooldown Support for Ruby Bundler
2 DAYS AGO
PERMUTE
Show HN: Formally verified polygon intersection – Opus 4.8 oneshots, prev failed
root-parent
an hour ago
Benchmarks in Leipzig
Between April 1 and May 15, 2026, a group of 49 mathematicians compiled a dataset of research-level mathematics questions with known answers. Most of the work was done during the 3-day workshop *Benchmarks in Leipzig* with 35 participants at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. We present the resulting collection of 100 questions. We evaluated these questions in three stages: a single attempt by five state-of-the-art LLMs, followed by a 20-runs-per-model evaluation with three of these models, and finally a 3-run attempt with two heavy-thinking models. After Stage 1, 41 questions remained completely unsolved; after Stage 2, this count dropped to 16; and we concluded Stage 3 with only 2 unsolved questions. This demonstrates that the mathematical reasoning capabilities of LLMs are becoming impressive.
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speckx
a day ago
New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste
The energy-efficient desalination system produces fresh water without chemical additives and transforms leftover salts into useful materials....
haydenbarnes
8 hours ago
Azure Linux Desktop
A nifty Windows app that boots a full Linux desktop in a window, wiring together the wslc container API, WinUI Reactor, Azure Linux 4.0, .NET 10, with a pinch of nostalgia....
surprisetalk
4 days ago
Social Cache Busting
How do you ask questions that people don’t just hippopotamus?...
transistor-man
15 hours ago
The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024)
I stumbled across a broken Sigma 45mm f/2.8 Art lens for a very cool $58.65 USD that I simply could not resist. I've been eyeing an AF lens in the 50mm range for my recent endeavors with L-m...
vesperance
5 days ago
Show HN: Soft Body Jiggle Physics
An open reference standard for jiggle physics: weight-painted regions + damped spring bones, one rule (vertex += weight * boneJiggle). Portable, dependency-free, WebGL demo included. By the ...
chitianhao
3 hours ago
Mbodi AI (YC P25) Is Hiring Founding Machine Learning Engineer (Robotics)
About Mbodi Mbodi is building embodied AI platform that makes robots learn and operate like humans, with natural language. Our software lets anyone teach robots new skills by talking to the...
maltalex
11 hours ago
S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
SpaceX won’t get easy access to billions of dollars from passive investors....
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/sp-500-blocks-fast-spacex-entry-wont-waive-rule-for-unprofitable-ai-firms/
janpot
a day ago
Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs
Nasa had directed five of the seven astronauts to shelter inside the docked SpaceX Crew Dragon "Freedom" spacecraft while two Russian cosmonauts attempted an urgent repair....
nikcub
6 hours ago
The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy
In this post we look under the hood of BrightData's SDK and how it turns ordinary consumer TVs into exit nodes of an enormous commercial, residential proxy network leveraged by the AI indust...
laxmena
2 days ago
My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development
AI agents tend to be, at least as of this writing (May 2026), lousy at writing tests. The tests they write are often vague, cryptic, overcomplicated, hacky, dis......
toomuchtodo
a day ago
Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen
Means residents can skip the credit card and use 'pay by bank' for local authorities and services...
mimorigasaka
a day ago
Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe
This paper analyzes and identifies a space-based Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) interference source that has caused scores of powerful transient wide-area interference events over...
Cider9986
2 days ago
South Korean forums will need to scan every images with AI censorship tools
Due to recent regulation changes (전기통신사업법), the South Korean government is requiring internet communities and forum owners to scan every user uploaded images and videos on their website, by ...
vquemener
a day ago
I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab
Since the PiKVM came out in 2017, there's been an explosion of IP KVMs. I've tested almost every one. But what are they good for? You can use Remote Desktop, Screen Sharing, or VNC to remote...