THE HACKER NEWS

ramanan
5 hours ago
Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute
In a statement, a Google representative described the deal as a result of unexpected demand for its recently launched AI products....
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SPECKX
New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste
4 DAYS AGO
SURPRISETALK
Social Cache Busting
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JANPOT
Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs
A DAY AGO
THEANONYMOUSONE
Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing compression for mobile and laptop efficiency
8 HOURS AGO
NIKCUB
The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy
A DAY AGO
TOOMUCHTODO
Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen
3 DAYS AGO
TOSH
Ten Years of Franz
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TOMTE
Communities of Not
root-parent
3 hours 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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maltalex
13 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....
chitianhao
5 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...
rsn243
4 hours ago
Trees to Flows and Back: Unifying Decision Trees and Diffusion Models
Decision trees and diffusion models are ostensibly disparate model classes, one discrete and hierarchical, the other continuous and dynamic. This work unifies the two by establishing a crisp...
RickJWagner
5 hours ago
The new bibliomaniacs
Rare book collecting is booming. Young people raised in the digital age are seeking tangible connections to the past....
transistor-man
17 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...
bryanrasmussen
an hour ago
You Can Run
When their parents ripped two young sisters from their privileged lives, gave them fake names, and took them on the lam, they thought it was because their father was in trouble with the IRS....
theanonymousone
3 hours ago
Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and WASM
I’ve been experimenting with different approaches to running code in a sandbox for several years now, but my latest attempt feels like it might finally have all of the characteristics …...
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/6/micropython-in-a-sandbox/
kbumsik
2 hours ago
Python JIT project was asked to pause development
We would like to take a moment to talk about the experimental just-in-time compiler in CPython, and the path we think it should take from here. Over the past several years, several core dev...
coffeemug
a day ago
pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution
PostgreSQL in-database durable execution. Contribute to microsoft/pg_durable development by creating an account on GitHub....
gostsamo
13 hours ago
Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight
This week I want to try something a little different. Rather than taking apart a particular fantasy military system, I thought I might try to lay out a more general sense of how military sys...
haydenbarnes
9 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....
paulmooreparks
14 hours ago
The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover
Not doing the reading....
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......
jsve
a day ago
Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things
You’ve almost certainly encountered Conventional Commits before. It may have reared its ugly head in the changelog of an open source project you’ve used. It may have been the enforced commit...
lordgilman
a day ago
The Quiet Numbers Station: Decoding Nineteen Years of GPS Cryptography
The Global Positioning System (GPS) relies on its primary L1 frequency to broadcast precise timing and orbital data, allowing receivers on Earth to calculate their exact location. Because th...