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joonehur
7 hours ago
F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix
From Pascal and ex tapes to a VAX system: Bill Joy handles BSD distribution and debugging, then joins Ozalp Babaoglu to bring virtual memory to Unix....
2 DAYS AGO
CROES
One-minute frequency disturbances from synchronization in power systems
4 DAYS AGO
HEADSUPERNOVA
Show HN: Point your camera at a landscape to learn about its geology
2 DAYS AGO
LUU
Bidirectional charging during grid outages
A DAY AGO
N_PLUS_1_ACC
Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018)
2 DAYS AGO
THEVET
The She-Wolves of Jülich
3 DAYS AGO
WHYLEYC
Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother
2 DAYS AGO
OHJEEZ
Zinc creep in cable spelter sockets brought down the Arecibo telescope in 2020
2 DAYS AGO
OGER
TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8
A DAY AGO
GUREGODEVO
Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard
karpathy
2 days ago
HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN
Instead of YouTube, watch HackerTube!
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jonnybgood
2 hours ago
China's First Frontier AI Export Controls: Mofcom Announcement No. 48
China’s First Frontier AI Export Controls: MOFCOM Announcement No. 48 Key Takeaways On October 16, 2026, China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and Ministry of Science and Technology (MO…...
stevenalowe
3 days ago
New 3D thermal invisibility cloak makes objects disappear from infrared cameras
Researchers have developed a groundbreaking 3D invisibility cloak that can hide complex objects from infrared cameras while protecting them from extreme heat and cold. Instead of blocking he...
Anon84
20 hours ago
Proving and improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs
Whether models trained on different modalities converge to the same representation of the world is central to AI. The Platonic Representation Hypothesis (PRH) conjectures that they do as the...
raphlinus
3 days ago
Nibnib: Image compression with extreme decompression speed
Image compression at 4bpp with extreme decompression speed - raphlinus/nibnib...
FabCH
20 hours ago
Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust
Fast, robust, accurate diffing . Contribute to ivankovic/omnidiff development by creating an account on GitHub....
luu
a day ago
The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks
One of my pet peeves with the web development community is that so many of the decisions we make are vibes-based. Frameworks are “blazing fast,” tools will…...
mertbio
2 hours ago
From Charlemagne to the Kitchen Boy: Reading the Hamburg Rathaus
The Hamburg Rathaus tells the story of its city in more than a hundred small details, and this is my walk through them....
https://alsterrunde.com/from-charlemagne-to-the-kitchen-boy-reading-the-hamburg-rathaus/
misswaterfairy
9 hours ago
OccupySaaS
Clean-room, AI-assisted, open-source, drop-in replacements for the SaaS giants. Apache-2.0. Self-hosted. No per-seat tax....
slater
5 days ago
Radiation Map of the World
A global radiation map measured by its community: tracks, areas, and live statistics from RadiaCode detectors around the world....
TMWNN
3 days ago
Keeping Up Appearances – The women taking over the funeral industry
The women taking over the funeral industry....
hapax_legomena
a day ago
Leaking Secrets from Air-Gap Computers by Spelling Radio Signals from RAM (2024)
Air-gapped systems are physically separated from external networks, including the Internet. This isolation is achieved by keeping the air-gap computers disconnected from wired or wireless ne...
colinprince
2 days ago
Parchment Paper History: How We Got Paper Perfect for Baking (2019)
What the heck is parchment paper, where did it come from, and why is it such a prominent baking aid these days? So many questions—here’s my attempt to answer. ...
nmjenkins
3 days ago
Understanding Email Encryption (2025)
A comprehensive overview of how email is encrypted, the benefits, and the trade-offs....
edward
17 hours ago
Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no extensions
Legacy public switched telephone network service is to be retired on January 31, 2027...
doodlesdev
a day ago
Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing
Two lawyers hid a white-on-white instruction inside a court filing telling the AI to go easy on their case. The court's AI caught it. The fine was $16,000....