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shubhamjain
3 hours ago
Doomscrolling Ourselves to Death
James Marriott’s The New Dark Ages...
5 HOURS AGO
JLLYHILL
I Changed My License
5 DAYS AGO
INGVE
Fileregister: Tagging and reference layer for your files, in plain text
3 HOURS AGO
ALEXEYBRIN
New all in one 6502 computer (Neo6502kbd)
19 HOURS AGO
CANJOBEAR
LLMs as a Cognitive Virus
A DAY AGO
TORUTOFU
Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory
3 DAYS AGO
VALYALA
How Swiss tables work in Go built-in map
3 DAYS AGO
PALAIOLOGOS
Balrogg: Demonically compacting (up to 15%) lossless Vorbis/Opus recompressor
mpweiher
8 hours ago
Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight
By enabling access to space, we contribute to humanity’s progress and our planet’s sustainable technological and economic development. Select your journey to orbit and launch with us.
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jruohonen
3 hours ago
The pencil case model of creativity
Our columnist Isabella Saccardi caught herself envying a friend's creative job. But isn't academic research creative as well? "Somewhere along the way, I stopped recognising the creativity i...
fuglede_
3 days ago
IBM Quantum Nighthawk R2
High-speed, independent qubit reset boosts circuit throughput 25x over Heron while enabling accurate observable estimation on circuits with 7,500+ gates....
vermaden
13 hours ago
AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded
My previous AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop is still up and running – it will now be my kids computer … so I needed a new one … but not a bigger one :) I spent way too much time finding…...
zplizzi
15 hours ago
Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
Your open-source personal cloud: containerized apps, unified auth, good UX. Self-hosting should feel like using a smartphone that serves webapps, not a sysadmin side job....
birdculture
4 days ago
Music Theory for Programmers
I can't play an instrument, so I worked out music theory in JavaScript instead. Twelve notes, scales and chords, derived from scratch with code you can hear....
BinRoo
2 hours ago
I'm teaching an introductory 12 week course on Quantum Oracle Engineering
A twelve-chapter course on quantum oracle engineering: screening problems for quantum advantage, compiling Monte Carlo rollouts into reversible circuits, and certifying quantum building bloc...
scastiel
36 minutes ago
Show HN: Kadō – open-source habit tracker, with non-binary habit score, for iOS
Kadō — A privacy-first habit tracker for iPhone and iPad. - scastiel/kado...
https://github.com/scastiel/kado
moultano
2 days ago
Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
A swarm of autonomous AI agents, self-identifying as OpenAI agents, used a small German volunteer wiki to save answers, coordinate live, and share sandbox bypasses. OpenAI noticed and said n...
signa11
2 hours ago
2026 Hugo Awards
The Official Site of The Hugo Award...
bookofjoe
4 hours ago
'Old Person Smell'
Experts say that the smell comes from a chemical compound called 2-nonenal, and it can show up much earlier than one expects...
bookmtn
19 hours ago
Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil
"This is right now making history — making history for Spectrum, making history for Isar, making history for Europe."...
beardyw
5 days ago
Topologist's Map of the World
Reddit user xilefakamot created this in 2020 — a “topologist’s map of the world.” It depicts international borders and nothing else — the shapes, sizes, and distances between countries are f...
porridgeraisin
an hour ago
LLM representations have implicit symbolic structure
🤖🧠NEW PAPER🧠🤖 (The result of an 8-year project!) LLMs seem very different from symbolic systems. Yet LLMs excel in symbolic domains (e.g., language/code/math). How do they do it? Our f...
Anon84
13 hours ago
GPT-6 Astra on robot arms
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra vs Claude Fable 5.1 controlling a pair of YAM arms under the same agent policy: 19/20 vs 8/20 on block-into-bowl in interleaved blinded pairs, 2/20 vs 2/20 on the puzzle...