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outlier99
11 minutes ago
Opus 5.5 agents discover 2 room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates
We are sharing two candidate magnets for next-generation computer memory, found by a team of Claude Opus 5.5 agents. Both are predicted to have zero net magnetism yet still sort electrons by...
3 DAYS AGO
BOOKOFJOE
How to save a life without knowing CPR
A DAY AGO
BENBREEN
The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists
3 HOURS AGO
MSALSAS
Greenvolt begins building 600 MW/2.4 GWh BESS in Poland
AN HOUR AGO
RDMUSER
The mental health of young men is declining. Experts warn it could get worse
A DAY AGO
RDMUSER
In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online
4 HOURS AGO
TOSH
US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia
21 MINUTES AGO
ABDELHOUSNI
WSL containers is now generally available – Windows Developer Blog
2 HOURS AGO
GARO-PRO
A Series of Unfortunate Events for OpenAI Users
6 HOURS AGO
ABE94
Mosquitoes Are a Choice
2 DAYS AGO
ALEXEYBRIN
Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C
4 DAYS AGO
GIULIOMAGNIFICO
The Philadelphia Inquirer built Scrape, an AI tool to surface hyperlocal news
2 DAYS AGO
ALEXEYBRIN
Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C
Philpax
2 hours ago
Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model
Make intelligence open and accessible to all
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eustoria
6 hours ago
The future of independence is interdependence
Every one of us depends on others; the only difference is how visible that dependence is....
delphidolphin
a day ago
Show HN: Nightwatch – a Mac menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear
Silent macOS menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear enough for telescope imaging and what to point at. Any telescope. MIT. - rsutcliffe/nightwatch...
brokensegue
3 hours ago
OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
Recently, multiple organisations have disclosed how clusters of so-called “rogue” AI agents attempted to break into websites and online services, sometimes successfully. Agents from OpenAI’s...
tosh
10 hours ago
Web Search API
Search the web from your AI agents and applications through AI Gateway with Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup....
Vosporos
7 hours ago
Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1
Floréal Technologies: Open software, French touch, International reach....
emptybits
16 hours ago
Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
According to the arrest report, Carli Michelle Heller, of Bonita Springs, Florida, wrote on September 26 that she would attack the Sheriff's office. She later said that......
smilelamp
2 hours ago
The Future of Mathematics
[This is a guest post by Jeremy Avigad. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] “Mathematics underwent, in the nineteenth century, …...
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/05/the-future-of-mathematics/
signa11
5 days ago
Differences Between `Foldl` and `Foldr`
`foldl` and `foldr` can be confusing, so let's work out what's up...
momentmaker
2 hours ago
After bankruptcy, he was banned from sports betting sites. Then he found Kalshi
The dark side of the prediction market boom is becoming more clear: Experts say the sites have become go-to outlets for gambling addicts to relapse as the companies avoid state consumer prot...
lode
12 hours ago
2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Deisseroth, Hegemann, Nagel
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 was awarded jointly to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenet...
roflcopter69
10 hours ago
Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust
mold 3.0.0 is a new major release of the high-speed linker. As we announced in the 2.42.1 release notes, we have rewritten mold from C++ to Rust, and this is the first release of the Rust ve...
speckx
2 hours ago
Plain text is still one of the best technologies we have
Plain text is portable, inspectable, searchable, easy to back up, and remarkably resistant to obsolescence. Its simplicity has helped it survive decades of......
andre15silva
3 days ago
Mystery Function
A daily puzzle. Figure out the hidden function in seven rows....
pykello
4 days ago
ExplainDB: A Database System Built for Understandability
A Database System built for Understandability. Contribute to explaindb/explaindb development by creating an account on GitHub....
farslan
7 hours ago
The designer lamps in my house
I have a thing for lamps. Especially designer lamps from the past. I occasionally share them on X and Instagram, and people always ask me about the brands and models. I love lamps so much th...