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speckx
9 hours ago
QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall
The QuadRF (pictured above) a phased-array radio built around a Raspberry Pi 5 and an FPGA board with picosecond-level timing. It does advanced signal processing and beamforming. It can see ...
7 HOURS AGO
NAOH
War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history
5 DAYS AGO
BENDER
Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church
2 DAYS AGO
DICROCE
Show HN: Wyrm – Solve algebra by touch, built on an open-source soundness engine
11 HOURS AGO
SPECKX
Successful Companies Go Blind
A DAY AGO
JACOBGRAF
Show HN: Reviving my 2001 college band with AI
4 DAYS AGO
HANDFULOFLIGHT
The Clouds of Hiroshima
2 DAYS AGO
VFORNO
Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer
4 HOURS AGO
ZHINIT
Prismata: Confining cross-site prompt injection in web agents
19 MINUTES AGO
DCYFR
Frog bacterium wiped out cancer tumors in mice with a single dose
2 DAYS AGO
POMPOMSHEEP
Show HN: 18 Words
29 MINUTES AGO
TOOMANYRICHIES
Atlassian ordered to reinstate engineer sacked over Slack clash with leadership
11 HOURS AGO
SURPRISETALK
The Annotated JEPA
9 HOURS AGO
TASOEUR
Show HN: SubjectiveZero, an open-source agentic node editor for creative coding
2 DAYS AGO
POMPOMSHEEP
Show HN: 18 Words
6 HOURS AGO
GROZNYJ
Materials innovation has a scale-up problem, not discovery
29 MINUTES AGO
TOOMANYRICHIES
Atlassian ordered to reinstate engineer sacked over Slack clash with leadership
5 HOURS AGO
NICKDOB
Please don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash
11 HOURS AGO
SURPRISETALK
The Annotated JEPA
stock_toaster
4 hours ago
Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI today, accusing the company of trade secret theft. Specifically, Apple alleges that its...
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randycupertino
6 hours ago
New York City to to ban deceptive subscription practices
Rule from Mamdani administration bans companies from trapping customers into paying recurring charges and ‘junk fees’...
dmonay
13 hours ago
Late Bronze Age Collapse
This week, by order of the ACOUP Senate, we’re talking about the Late Bronze Age Collapse (commonly abbreviated ‘LBAC’), the shocking collapse of the Late Bronze Age state system …...
simonpure
9 hours ago
Computation as a universal and fundamental concept
TIM ROUGHGARDEN treats computation as a law of nature, tracing its arc from Turing's proof that some problems are unsolvable to the P versus NP question at the heart of modern computer scien...
markus_zhang
8 hours ago
The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017)
Ever since James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day was released in 1991, I’ve been reading about the many ways ILM, led by visual effects supervisor Dennis Muren, had to basically invent ...
CrankyBear
7 hours ago
SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
It could mean faster internet for rural customers, but not everyone is happy....
srimalireddi
4 hours ago
Moss (YC F25) Is Hiring
We built Moss because Voice AI breaks when retrieval is slow. Most retrieval infrastructure was not built for real-time reasoning. It adds latency, breaks context mid-conversation, and becom...
hhs
2 hours ago
Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows
Researchers have shown the first direct experimental evidence that the textbook triple bond structure breaks down in heavy elements, where relativity makes the rules....
https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-07-09/chemical-bonds-relativity
aviaviavi
11 hours ago
After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell
After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell — Avi Press...
simonebrunozzi
8 hours ago
Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
The discovery makes sense: Mollusks use these teeth to excavate rocks while they feed...
kickingvegas
16 hours ago
In Emacs, everything looks like a service
A common refrain is that Emacs is an operating system (OS). This isn’t true, but what invites comparison to an OS is its ability to orchestrate applications and utilities above the OS kernel...
imustachyou
6 hours ago
How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI
The Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy (CASP) is an interdisciplinary research programme on frontier AI at the University of Cambridge....
djfergus
4 hours ago
GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in ALL Linux distributions for 15 years
GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499) is a Linux kernel vulnerability found by VEGA that exists in every major distribution since 2011. Triggering the bug does not require any special kernel config or ...
jarodrh
4 days ago
Show HN: Frugon – Find which LLM calls a cheaper model could handle (local, MIT)
Free, local, open-source LLM cost analyzer - see where your LLM bill leaks, on your machine. - Rodiun/frugon...
Gedxx
8 days ago
The mathematical secrets of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia
The beauty of Sagrada Familia becomes even more profound when we explore the numerical patterns that lie behind its striking forms....
signa11
8 hours ago
Cpp2Rust: Translates C++ to safe Rust automatically
Cpp2Rust: Automatic Translation of C++ to Safe Rust - Cpp2Rust/cpp2rust...