A satellite company has mapped global GPS spoofing and jamming activity, finding it's far more widespread than expected. The data shows concentrated interference around conflict zones and certain borders, raising major concerns about aviation safety since aircraft rely heavily on GPS for navigation and terrain warnings.

Someone built a playable Quake clone that renders the entire game as inspectable HTML and CSS elements using a library called PolyCSS. You can actually play it in your browser and view-source the whole thing. Yes, it still needs JavaScript for the game logic, but the rendering is pure CSS wizardry.

Norway's government announced that students in grades 1-7 (ages 6-13) should generally not use AI tools, while older students in lower secondary school (14-16) can use them cautiously under teacher supervision. The policy aims to ensure kids actually learn to read, write, and think before outsourcing those skills to machines.

A nostalgic look at soccer arcade games from the mechanical era through modern times, conveniently timed with World Cup 2026. The article covers classics but notably misses Sensible Soccer, which despite its popularity was never released as an arcade cabinet.

The author argues that comparing different LLM families has become meaningless because architectures have diverged so much. Llama and GLM are now fundamentally different beasts, so saying one is 'better' than the other is like comparing apples to submarine sandwiches.

The 3-30-300 rule says every home should see 3 trees, have 30% neighborhood tree cover, and be 300m from a park. A study of 862 European cities found only 14% of residents meet all three criteria. Southern Europe fares worst, with Valencia at 10% tree visibility. Singapore is the only major global city passing all three.

A comprehensive explainer on compression theory: there's no universal compression (counting argument proves it), coding is bounded by Shannon entropy, and modeling is provably incomputable. Compression equals modeling plus coding - coding is solved, modeling is AI-hard. The book covers Huffman, arithmetic coding, LZ77, BWT, and lossy formats.

Ancient Egyptians wrote fractions as sums of distinct unit fractions (1/n). So 3/7 becomes ［4,7,28］ meaning 1/4+1/7+1/28. The greedy algorithm works but often gives suboptimal results. The Ahmes papyrus (3800 years old) contains a table of 2/n representations that lets you compute any fraction through doubling and adding.

［Based on HN discussion - article behind tracking wall］ Scientists won the Kavli Prize for discovering biochemical mechanisms of memory storage in synapses. Research from 1982 took 15 years to be taken seriously and another 40 for recognition. Memory begins with tiny changes in brain synapses, though some argue the brain isn't the only place memory is stored.

In 1969, ITV camera operators struck for higher pay by shutting off the color tubes and leaving only the black-and-white tube running. This caused chaos for Upstairs/Downstairs - first 6 episodes were B&W, rest in color. They reshot episode 1 in color WITH and WITHOUT a character leaving, creating 3 versions. Streaming services now mix them up, creating continuity nightmares.

Developer encodes HTML into favicon pixels by treating RGB values as UTF-8 bytes. A 208-byte HTML page fits into a 9x9 PNG (81 pixels, 243 bytes capacity). A tiny JavaScript bootloader reads the favicon via canvas API, extracts the bytes, and replaces the page with the decoded content.

sRGB displays can't reproduce most cyans and saturated blue-greens due to CRT-era phosphor limitations baked into standards. The article maps where to find these colors IRL: deciduous forests (light filtering through leaves stacks exponentially to reach spectral edges), shallow tropical water (sand reflects through cyan-absorbing water), bird feathers (structural color via melanin layers), and green traffic lights (chosen for colorblind accessibility, accidentally beautiful).

The Arch User Repository got mass-pwned. Attackers created throwaway accounts to adopt 1,500+ orphaned packages and inject malware that installed malicious npm/bun packages stealing SSH keys, browser cookies, Discord/Slack data, and GitHub credentials via eBPF. New user registration is disabled. The AUR model of 'anyone can click adopt' meets the reality of 'anyone includes bad actors with LLMs writing convincing package takeover requests'.

Bigger models hallucinate more because they're trained to always have an answer. On the AA-Omniscience benchmark: DeepSeek V4 Pro (1.6T params) has 94% hallucination rate, GPT-5.5 has 86%, while the MIT-licensed GLM-5.2 (753B params) has only 28%. The author tested a Python question with an impossible architectural requirement; DeepSeek spent 3 minutes in a reasoning loop to produce confident nonsense, while GLM-5.2 correctly identified the logical impossibility in 12 seconds.

Researchers prove Age of Empires II is Turing-complete by building functional NAND gates and a trainable perceptron using the scenario editor. Goats act as signal carriers on grass/bridge rails (0/1), with ice rails preventing race conditions. The paper argues that since LLMs can theoretically run on this substrate, attributing human-like qualities to LLMs is as valid as attributing them to AoE2.

［From title + HN comments］ John Jumper, the Nobel Prize-winning co-creator of AlphaFold at Google DeepMind, announced he's leaving to join Anthropic. Demis Hassabis posted a gracious farewell thanking him for 9 years of collaboration that 'changed the world.'

［From title + HN comments］ Kent Beck argues new hires shouldn't focus on completing tasks but on boosting the team. He categorizes juniors as A (inspiring from day one), B (needs coaching but adds value), or C (learns but doesn't contribute yet). The goal is amplifying others' productivity, not shipping code solo.

Ask HN discussing whether the current DRAM shortage will force programmers to write more memory-efficient code. The post wonders if we'll see renewed interest in advanced algorithms and data structures. Consensus: programmers don't make this call, product owners do. When hardware costs rise, priorities shift.

［From title + HN comments］ Documentary film exploring the personal chefs who cooked for dictators. Director Andrew Neel ties it to Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' concept, though HN commenters push back on that comparison. The film examines how ordinary domestic tasks take on sinister dimensions in dictatorships.

［From title + HN comments］ Marc Brooker's article on queuing theory for load-balanced systems. Uses M/M models to show how utilization affects latency non-linearly. At high utilization, small traffic increases cause disproportionate latency spikes. Real-world traffic is messier than the model, but the math still illuminates capacity planning.

Hyundai is buying SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325M, making it a wholly-owned subsidiary. Atlas humanoid robots are expected to start working at Hyundai's Georgia EV plant by 2028, with the goal of learning factory tasks in days and reaching 99.9% reliability.

Norway is banning AI tools for students aged 6-13, while allowing cautious supervised use for ages 14-16. The government argues kids need to learn reading, writing, and comprehension before playing with AI.

JEP 401 (Value Classes and Objects) is finally targeting JDK 28 after a decade of development. Value classes let you write 'codes like a class, works like an int' types that can be flattened in memory for massive performance gains. The 197,000-line PR is so large other committers were asked to pause big changes during integration.

Dan Abramov explains why asking 'where are all the Bluesky instances' is a category error. ATProto separates hosting from apps, like RSS and Google Reader did. Your data lives on a PDS you can swap anytime, while apps just aggregate from everyone's hosting. There are no Mastodon-style fiefdoms.

EFF is pushing for the Open Courts Act of 2026, which would eliminate PACER fees and replace the aging court records system with a modern platform. PACER currently charges $1/page and collects over $150M annually for documents that are already public records.

Norway announced that kids ages 6-13 should not use AI tools as a general rule, while 14-16 year olds can use them cautiously under teacher supervision. The government wants children to learn fundamental reading, writing, and comprehension skills before outsourcing their thinking to machines.

Americans are worried about SpaceX being added to retirement index funds, with concerns about the company's debt burden and Elon Musk's pattern of loading companies with obligations from his other ventures like X and xAI. The rule change allowing private companies into indices has people questioning whether their 401k is becoming Elon's personal ATM.

A vocabulary quiz that tests you on 100 words to estimate how many of 170,000 English words you know. The quiz has some calibration issues: it's too slow to adapt, requires too many clicks, and its math appears to be off by half, estimating 85,000 words even for perfect scores.

A 2023 analysis of mechanisms being deployed or proposed to force ID verification for internet access, from content rating systems to KYC-style regulations that shift liability down the chain. The piece examines how 'think of the children' becomes the vector for broader surveillance infrastructure.

Bobby Prince, the legendary composer behind the iconic soundtracks of DOOM, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has passed away. His metal-inspired MIDI compositions defined the sound of 90s PC gaming and influenced countless musicians who discovered bands like Pantera and Slayer through his work.

Nature reports on mounting evidence that heavy AI use leads to cognitive decline. Studies show people who outsource thinking to AI tools show measurable skill degradation, with researchers drawing parallels to the effects of wealth and delegation on executives.

The JAWBONE Act (Justice Against Weaponized Bureaucratic Overreach to Networked Expression) is a bipartisan bill sponsored by Senators Cruz and Wyden that would prohibit government officials from pressuring social media platforms to censor lawful speech. EFF applauds the effort.

A Colombian researcher developed an ultrasonic espresso extraction method that uses sound waves instead of high pressure pumps. Claims 75% energy reduction. Skeptics note the variables are complex and question domestic applicability versus industrial use.

A service where you ship your telescope to a ranch in prime dark-sky territory, and they host it for remote observation. Starting at $99/month per telescope. The operation currently hosts 550 telescopes, making roughly $55-60k/month from letting glass sit on land.

A man drives a giant banana-shaped car (bigbananacar.com) across the US and gets pulled over constantly - not for violations, but because cops want selfies. He's been stopped hundreds of times, usually for no legal reason, just curiosity.

Tom Di Mino, a self-taught AI engineer, claims to have deciphered Linear A by identifying it as an extinct Semitic language related to Hebrew. He used Claude Code to systematically test hypotheses, producing 37 sign readings and 383 translated terms. His work is under review at Rutgers and Cambridge.

Hyundai is acquiring SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325M, giving them 100% ownership. Atlas humanoid robots will begin working at Hyundai's Georgia EV plant by 2028, starting with parts sequencing. The CEO says Atlas needs 99.9% reliability and same-day task learning before real deployment.

Dan Abramov explains why asking about Bluesky instances is a category error. ATProto separates hosting from apps, like RSS and Google Reader. Your data lives on hosting you can swap, and apps aggregate from everyone's hosting. Mastodon couples hosting+app into instances that federate; ATProto treats apps as projections of the whole network.

A Google Workspace Business Plus user received a warning that they'll lose account access unless they install Chrome. The warning came from Workspace's Context-Aware Access security feature, not a Google-wide policy. Firefox still works for now, but the user got no useful help from Google support.

Modeloop is a model-based engineering tool that generates C code for microcontrollers from visual block diagrams. It includes hierarchical state machines, live parameter tuning, and bus management. Aims to be a Simulink alternative that closes the V-Model gap between design and verification.

MIT researchers built Fractal, a bare-metal OS kernel designed specifically for studying processor internals. Running directly on hardware with no background noise, it found previously unknown M1 behavior including the first evidence that Apple Silicon is vulnerable to 'Phantom' speculation attacks. The team also debunked earlier findings about the M1's branch predictor, showing macOS thread migration was the real culprit.

Mark Nottingham, co-author of RFC 8615 and designated expert for the well-known URI registry, explains when .well-known paths make sense and when they don't. Good: client knows the site, needs site-wide info (like robots.txt). Bad: using it as a URL shortener or to look official. The biggest pitfall is locking yourself into 1:1 service-to-site relationships.

Alexey Milovidov traces ClickHouse from his 2008 web analytics experiments through the first commit in 2009 (a localtime optimization that annoyed him in profilers) to open source release in 2016. The origin story: frustrated that nothing could handle 100 billion records/day with 500 columns, he built two prototypes (OLAPServer for analytics, Metrage for incremental aggregation) before combining them into what became ClickHouse.

Jack Morris offers 11 Zen-inspired principles for ML research: show up consistently (like meditation), avoid chasing the latest hype (agents, harnesses), learn from failures with equanimity, don't compare yourself to others, and be paranoid about bugs. Key insight: most people under 30 are driving the field because nobody has much experience advantage when the field is this new.

Gribouille 0.3.0 brings ggplot2-style grammar of graphics to Typst. New features: guide control (hide axis ticks/legends with guides(x: none)), compose() gets a theme parameter for multi-panel layouts, geom-area() now stacks by default, and annotations can overflow panels. Written entirely in native Typst with no WASM backend.

［REVISIT - comments 10x since last coverage］ Security researcher found 10,000+ GitHub repos cloning legitimate projects but injecting trojans. The twist: these aren't targeting humans - they're designed to poison AI coding agents that search GitHub for dependencies.

Article argues that wireless earbuds have normalized constant audio isolation, creating invisible barriers in public spaces. We've collectively agreed that it's now acceptable to signal 'don't talk to me' 24/7, fundamentally changing spontaneous human interaction.

Medical case report: A child was underwater for 2.5 hours in ice-cold water, received 1.5 hours of CPR, had 'death' listed as a differential diagnosis, and survived. The cold water protected his brain by slowing metabolism. At 6-month follow-up, he's relearning basic tasks.

Java's Project Valhalla finally ships after 10+ years of development. It brings value classes (user-defined primitives) and improved generics, letting Java shed some of its heap allocation overhead. The delay was intentional - they reworked the design multiple times to get it right.

Simon Willison announces Datasette Apps, letting you host custom HTML/JS applications directly inside Datasette that can query SQLite data via built-in JSON endpoints. It's a mini web framework living inside your database browser, using browser-native sanitization for security.

Let's Encrypt experienced ~90 minutes of degraded performance due to upstream networking issues. Most requests still succeeded, but the status page language triggered outsized alarm in the community.

Deep dive into DuckDB's architecture explaining why it's fast: columnar storage, vectorized execution, and in-process design eliminating network overhead. The embedded analytical database that makes your laptop punch above its weight.

Former OpenAI robotics researcher builds a solo tabletop manipulation setup at 1/10th the cost of 2017-era lab rigs. Single arm, RGB camera, custom stack (no ROS). Testing whether one person can now do meaningful manipulation research at home.

When Japanese National Railways privatized in 1987, it split into 7 regional JR companies. Yet 40 years later, they still feel unified thanks to a brilliant shared visual identity system. The article explores the logo design that maintained coherence across corporate fragmentation.

American Express explains their cell-based architecture for payment resilience: independent cells process transactions in isolation, failures stay contained, and the system prioritizes availability over strict consistency. It's Erlang supervision trees but for enterprise payments.

The Enterprise-Managed Authorization extension for MCP is now stable. Organizations can centrally provision MCP server access through their identity provider using a new ID-JAG token format. Users get connected servers on first login without per-app OAuth flows. Adopted by Anthropic, Microsoft, Okta, Figma, and Linear.

A tool that checks how strongly various AI models 'recognize' you based on your digital footprint. It queries multiple frontier and small models in parallel, clusters their responses, and tells you how prominent you are in training data. Essentially checking if you're immortalized in LLM weights.

A privacy advocate complained to Elkjop (major Nordic electronics retailer) in 2019 about requiring customer club membership to receive marketing offers - a right that should be free under GDPR. They documented the violation and reported to Norway's data protection authority. Five years later, Elkjop was fined €1.8M for forced consent practices.

SK Telecom invested $100M in Anthropic in 2023 for a commercial partnership on telecom-specific AI. The White House asked Anthropic to revoke SK Telecom's access to Mythos over concerns about Chinese connections, and Anthropic immediately complied. The incident raises questions about vendor continuity risk for foreign companies integrating AI into workflows.

YC P26 startup offering AI agents for end-to-end testing of web and mobile apps. Define tests in natural language instead of writing selectors and maintaining test infrastructure. Agents reliably execute tests, and your coding agent can manage everything via CLI. Targets the bottleneck between fast AI-assisted coding and slow, painful traditional E2E testing.

Craig Newmark, Craigslist founder, has given away over $500 million to philanthropic causes while living modestly. When asked if his lifestyle changed after getting rich, he famously replied he already had good water pressure, so what else did he need.

Noam Shazeer, one of the lead authors of the transformative 'Attention Is All You Need' paper that introduced the transformer architecture, is leaving Google's Gemini team to join OpenAI.

A meta-directory that lists directories, launch platforms, and aggregators where you can submit your website or startup for exposure. It's recursion all the way down.

A daily puzzle game where you manipulate electoral district boundaries to achieve specific outcomes. It's Wordle meets political manipulation, teaching players how gerrymandering actually works.

RTK (a token compression tool) claims massive savings, but the author argues these metrics are gamified. The real question is whether compression sacrifices accuracy, and RTK provides no benchmarks to prove otherwise.

The Swiss National Council voted 100-98 to approve a counterproposal to the 'Blackout Initiative', lifting the legislative ban on building new nuclear power plants. The decision follows the Federal Council and Council of States. Final decision will go to a referendum. Greenpeace projected Munch's 'Scream' with radioactivity symbols onto the Federal Palace in protest.

Ubiquiti announced ENAS, an enterprise NAS with ZFS, 8 ARM Neoverse N2 cores, 64GB ECC RAM, 16 drive bays expandable to 1+ petabyte, dual 25 GbE SFP28 ports, NVMe cache support, and iSCSI for virtualization. No licensing fees. Integrates with UniFi ecosystem for centralized management, backup orchestration across sites, and identity provider integration.

Cornell's CS 6120, a PhD-level compilers course by Adrian Sampson, is now available as a free self-guided online course. Covers IRs, data flow, SSA, LLVM, loop optimization, JIT compilation, garbage collection, and parallelization. Uses Bril, an educational IR created for the class, plus LLVM. Includes videos, readings, and open-ended implementation tasks.

There are three ways to ignore files in Git: .gitignore (tracked, shared), .git/info/exclude (per-repo, not tracked), and ~/.config/git/ignore (global, machine-level). Use 'git check-ignore -v <file>' to see which file is ignoring something. Global ignore is great for .DS_Store, IDE files, etc.

Two-person startup Modos is crowdfunding the Flow, a 13.3-inch color e-paper monitor with 3200x2400 resolution, touch input, and 60Hz refresh via a new open-source 'Enchanter' display controller. Pixel response improved from 100ms to 50ms on new panels. Uses DisplayPort 1.1 via Chrontel CH7516 chip with open documentation. Follows their successful Paper Monitor Dev Kit.

Emacs 31 makes tree-sitter just work out of the box with automatic grammar installation, ships a built-in markdown-ts-mode the author co-created, adds editable xref buffers, window layout transpose commands, and a dockable Speedbar. The author's config is getting shorter as core absorbs features that used to require packages.

W Social, the EU-based Bluesky fork billing itself as 'European digital sovereignty,' quietly deleted its GitHub repository in March, going closed-source. The European Commission, ECB, and Ursula von der Leyen just migrated their accounts to it anyway, despite a transparent open-source alternative (Eurosky) existing. W Social's advisory board includes former Alphabet and PayPal execs.

King's College London research shows hospitals and universities are running late-stage clinical trials to repurpose generic drugs at less than 10% of pharma industry costs. This parallel system works because expertise requirements, risk, and capital barriers are all lower when repurposing existing drugs. Examples include using a cancer drug to treat blindness and repurposing an anti-inflammatory for Covid.

Security researcher found 10,000 GitHub repos distributing Trojans by cloning legitimate projects, adding malicious zip links to READMEs, then deleting and re-pushing commits every few hours to evade detection. The repos use real contributor histories for credibility. GitHub support took a month to remove the first reports. VirusTotal shows 0 threats on archive URLs but detects Trojans when scanning the actual files.

New Outlook, built on WebView2, takes 10 seconds to open an email when clicking a notification, while opening Outlook directly and finding the email manually takes 5 seconds. The web app spawns 10 separate processes and uses 490-636MB RAM idle vs Classic's 117-148MB with one process. Microsoft delayed the forced enterprise migration to 2027 because even they know it's not ready.

A MAME developer used Claude Code to debug PowerMac and Pippin emulation, finding half a dozen PowerPC bugs, FPU issues, and VIA emulation glitches. The AI excelled at tracing data flows and identifying structures like QuickDraw GrafPorts, but the human still wrote all the actual fixes.

GitHub's stability issues and Ghostty's departure signal it's time for something new. The author advocates for Tangled, an AT Protocol-based Git forge where your data lives on servers you control, but a central app aggregates everything. Structurally resistant to lock-in since anyone can run a compatible fork.

Loreline is an open-source language and free desktop app for writing interactive fiction, video game dialogues, and branching narratives. Built-in support for advanced branching, state management, functions, and localization via PO/XLIFF formats. Integrates with game engines, web apps, or standalone projects.

Sogen is an open-source userspace emulator for Windows NT and Linux x86-64 binaries that operates at syscall level. Features include hooking interfaces for memory/code interception, GDB debugging support, state save/restore, and Python bindings. Designed for security research, DRM analysis, and malware reverse engineering.

The author theorizes apartments inevitably deteriorate after two years: mold in bathrooms, roach infestations, broken gym equipment, sketchy neighbors. Is this a landlord conspiracy to push tenants out for rent hikes, or just perception colored by wanderlust? The author has moved every two years their entire adult life.

DeepSeek chat now has vision capabilities - it can understand and describe images, though it cannot generate or modify them. Still no native speech-to-text or text-to-speech despite using models that support it.

AMD's newer AGESA firmware updates have removed SME (Secure Memory Encryption) from consumer Ryzen CPUs without announcement. AMD engineers have gone silent when asked about it. The feature protected against physical RAM attacks and RAMbleed/ECC vulnerabilities.

Australia's ACMA is implementing mandatory SMS sender ID registration for businesses. Anyone sending bulk SMS, even through third-party providers like AWS from other countries, must register their sender ID. This follows India's successful implementation of similar rules with their DND registry.

Glojure is a Clojure implementation that runs on the Go runtime instead of the JVM. It's the most promising Go-hosted Clojure with proper full interop, targeting Go's excellent toolchain and ecosystem while keeping Clojure's functional paradigm.

Xe's frustrations with compiler non-determinism when building WASM binaries for Anubis. Even with the same source, compilers can produce different outputs due to timestamps, env variables, and random addresses, making reproducible builds a nightmare.

［Article behind Cloudflare challenge］ Midjourney announced a medical imaging initiative claiming to reduce CT radiation doses. From HN comments: promises mass data collection for diagnosis, comparisons to 'dogs smelling cancer.' No working prototype demonstrated yet.

［REVISIT: comments doubled since last coverage］ Epic Games' open-source version control system targeting game development. Not competing with Git but Perforce. Designed for massive repos with textures, 3D models, and audio files. Features include free branching, verifiable tamper-evident history, and CLI-first interface.

A satirical scientific taxonomy treating bread bag clips as living organisms under phylum Plasticae. Complete with species classifications, anatomical descriptions of 'palps' and 'tabs' with 'unguessable purposes,' and evolutionary theories about their 'budding process.' Peak internet absurdism.

Article argues that local AI models like Qwen shouldn't be judged as 'worse cloud models' but as different tools with different prompting styles. Author compares it to playing different musical instruments. Local models have improved dramatically from a year ago, though the article is light on specifics.

Madrid's metro expansion succeeded by using well-paid in-house engineers instead of external consultants. The same team stayed across multiple projects, learning from experience and applying lessons forward. This stands in stark contrast to UK and US infrastructure projects that cycle through consultants who never accumulate institutional knowledge.

Leaked financials reveal OpenAI has 55% SG&A overhead and astronomical R&D costs, making the company unsustainable on two separate fronts. The numbers suggest they could cut costs but would sacrifice their competitive position in the race to AGI.

OpenRouter ran an AI battle royale to test which LLMs make the best decisions in adversarial scenarios. They didn't include frontier models like Opus 4.7 or GPT-5.5 because 30 games would have cost $3,000 instead of $482. Grok tends to be more aggressive while Claude gets stopped by safety rails.

UK's largest supermarket Tesco is migrating 40,000 server workloads away from VMware after Broadcom's acquisition led to aggressive price increases and licensing changes. They're moving to alternatives with 'reduced functionality' because apparently VMware is still the only thing that actually works out of the box.

The article argues that human connection and genuine hospitality are the competitive moats AI cannot replicate. In an age of AI chatbots replacing customer service, businesses that invest in real human relationships will differentiate themselves. Warm relationships matter, but only if the product actually works.

An ongoing index cataloguing pigments with their provenance, chemistry, and history. 252 entries so far, from Tang dynasty Imperial Yellow (forbidden to non-royals by law) to Indian Yellow (made from mango-fed cow urine, banned for animal cruelty in 1908). One color added each Sunday.

［From title + comments, article unreachable］ US added 100+ firms to the Entity List but held off on DeepSeek specifically. Z.ai (maker of GLM-5.2) is already on the list since Jan 2025. Being listed doesn't ban all trade - American companies can still buy from them.

CADAM is an open source text-to-CAD web app that generates parametric 3D models from natural language. It outputs OpenSCAD code with auto-extracted parameters that become interactive sliders. Exports STL, SCAD, OBJ, GLB, FBX, DXF. Built with React, Three.js, and runs OpenSCAD via WebAssembly in browser.

Browser Use rebuilt their cloud browser infrastructure using Firecracker microVMs on regular EC2 instead of bare metal. They got VM cold start under 400ms, browser-ready in <1s, cost down to $0.02/hr from $0.06. Key tricks: 2MB memory pages (91x fewer page faults), custom userfaultfd handler, real-time CPU priority, and headless Chromium with stealth patches to avoid bot detection.

When you speak a thought out loud, you commit to it - vague impressions become structured sentences with claims that can be evaluated. A listener accelerates this through real-time feedback: frowns, questions, recognition. Research suggests reasoning evolved as a social tool, not for isolated truth-finding. The 'dialogue dividend' is the cognitive infrastructure built through casual conversation. LLMs can help with the articulation part but tend toward sycophancy - they agree too readily.

A browser game inspired by the notoriously confusing 85th St & I-405 interchange in Kirkland, WA. Navigate your car to the target exit while avoiding other vehicles. Lane changes cost bonus points, collisions end the game. Built with Godot, explicitly labeled as satire and not driving instruction.

Epic Games released Lore, an open source version control system designed for massive game projects with huge binary assets. It's not competing with Git but rather Perforce, offering scalable handling of textures, 3D models, and audio files that Git chokes on. Features include free branching, verifiable tamper-evident history, and a CLI-first interface.

Volkswagen locked their API entirely for anything not Play Protect certified, effectively killing GrapheneOS support and all community-driven integrations like Home Assistant. Their official app is 60% advertisements anyway. Users are canceling car orders over this.

MicroUI is an ~1100 line C library for immediate-mode GUIs. It handles layout, interaction, and draw commands but leaves actual rendering to you. Trivially portable to anything that can display text and take mouse input. Been a go-to for personal projects, though somewhat abandonware with some unfixed bugs.

Ribbie.tv converts live MLB data streams into near real-time pixel art gamecasts. Features actual stadiums, day/night modes, between inning graphics, and live scoreboards. All the games, none of the $200 streaming subscriptions. The creator is waiting for audio to fully complete the retro broadcast experience.

A French celebrity physicist had his PhD revoked after an investigation found plagiarism on 20% of his thesis pages. The real flex: he plagiarized from members of his own thesis committee, including Albert Camus and Louis de Broglie. His committee either didn't read his work or didn't recognize their own words.

Author tries to recover childhood photos from Photobucket, discovers they've paywalled all user images behind a sneaky $5/month subscription. Pays up, finds account is empty. Forgets to cancel within the 48-hour refund window. Classic.

WPVIP's 2026 report finds 74% of consumers say the internet feels less human than 10 years ago, 60% say AI branding is a turnoff, and 61% can't name a single brand doing AI marketing well. Bot fatigue sets in after 40 minutes on average.

RFC 10008 introduces the HTTP QUERY method: safe and idempotent like GET, but with a request body like POST. Solves the problem of complex queries that are too big for URL parameters but don't need POST's 'I might change things' semantics. Cacheable too.

［From title + comments, article unreachable］ Scientists mapped arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi networks globally and found they span over 100 quadrillion kilometers underground. That's about 10.6 light years of fungal filaments, roughly the distance to nearby stars.

Someone built an ESP32-powered alarm clock that wakes you up by applying reverse voltage to capacitors until they explode. Has 3 capacitor slots, OLED display, web UI for settings, and NTP time sync. The voltage regulators double as a space heater because why not.

Z.ai's GLM-5.2 hits 51 on the Intelligence Index, beating MiniMax-M3 and DeepSeek V4 Pro. Same architecture as GLM-5.1 (744B total, 40B active parameters) but scores 11 points higher. Strong gains in scientific reasoning, particularly on CritPt (+16) and HLE (+12). Costs $1.4/$4.4 per million input/output tokens.

Bubbles.town aggregates indie blog posts via RSS, creating a Hacker News-style feed without the tech monoculture. Requires a Mastodon account to participate. It's refreshingly diverse - real humans writing about real things, not another SEO-optimized listicle.

After the federal shutdown ended, NASA's AXIS telescope team had just two weeks to get on budget. After nearly 10 years of work, the mission was killed. The compact between American science and politics is broken - basic research questions have become partisan issues.

Anthropic's slide deck on using Claude to build startups. Covers market research, copywriting, code generation, and product iteration. Framed as a 'founder's playbook' but essentially a product capabilities tour dressed in entrepreneurial clothing.

ArXiv preprint claims that semiclassical gravity (treating gravity classically while matter is quantum) can efficiently solve NP-complete problems. Uses gravitational backreaction on superpositions to create a computational speedup. HN commenters already spotted what looks like an AND/OR gate mixup in the paper.

A bug bounty guide to exploiting IIS servers: Shodan dorking, 8.3 filename enumeration via tilde characters, web.config exposure, internal IP disclosure, and bin directory DLL leaks. The author walks through IIS-specific attack vectors that stem from legacy DOS behaviors still lurking in modern Windows servers.

Stephen Wolfram announces Mathematica/Wolfram Language version 15 with a built-in AI assistant, symbolic music representation and manipulation, plus expanded core functionality. The AI assistant is integrated but reportedly still limited compared to external models.

The EU Commission rejected the Stop Killing Games European Citizens' Initiative despite 1.3 million signatures demanding companies keep games playable after server shutdowns. The Commission spent most of its consultation time with gaming industry lobbyists rather than the initiative organizers. SKG anticipated this and is now pivoting to the Digital Fairness Act via Parliament.

The PDP-11 was DEC's clean, symmetric instruction set minicomputer that became the preferred lab computer in the 1970s-80s. It ran RT-11, RSX-11, and early Unix (Version 6 and 7). Its architecture influenced everything that came after, though some argue the PDP-8 or even the Datapoint 2200 deserve the 'most influential' crown.

A browser-based simulator that lets you experiment with mechanical television using a Nipkow disk. You can adjust mechanical and electrical settings, use your own images, or stream from a webcam. It's a playable recreation of 1920s-30s TV technology.

GrapheneOS ported to Android 17 on the same day as official release. Tested on Pixel 6a through 10 Pro Fold. Alpha builds available tomorrow, stable release following standard testing cycle. Pixel 6 is getting Android 17 despite some earlier speculation.

Apple announced that Hide My Email and Sign in with Apple aliases will move to @private.icloud.com subdomain. This makes it trivial for services to block all relay addresses, unlike the current @icloud.com addresses that blend with regular accounts. Users can still generate @icloud.com aliases before the change lands (30/hour limit).

Tim Ferriss shares his book sales data: his catalog is down 80% since 2022, with self-help as a category down 26% in Q1 2026. He argues LLMs are the obvious cause - why buy a book when ChatGPT can summarize it and personalize the advice in 15 seconds? He predicts this will spread to YouTube how-tos, prescriptive podcasts, and online courses.

NLnet awarded grants to 67 projects through EU's Next Generation Internet initiative. Highlights include GNU Taler payment integrations, PeerTube scalability work, Servo browser engine improvements, an open hardware flow battery, a libre CPU with programmable decoder for multiple ISAs, and Multipath TCP improvements for mobile Linux devices.

［REVISIT - 7x comment growth］ SpaceX is acquiring Anysphere (Cursor) for $60B as part of their IPO process. SpaceX claims AI products have a $26 trillion addressable market. HN is losing its collective mind with over 1300 comments debating the valuation, Elon's strategy, and whether Cursor is worth more than actual rockets.

Bill Watterson refused to license Calvin and Hobbes despite hundreds of millions in potential merch revenue, fought his syndicate for years over artistic control, painted a ceiling mural in his house after retiring, then whitewashed over it. The piece explores how rare it is for anyone to choose integrity over money.

The Netherlands is building GPT-NL, a sovereign language model led by TNO, to reduce dependency on US and Chinese AI. The project is receiving increasing skepticism in the Dutch tech scene, with critics questioning why governments need their own models when open-source alternatives exist.

SubQ AI released a technical report for their 1.1 Small model. HN commenters are skeptical about the legitimacy of the company, noting the founders have zero AI/ML experience and the report lacks architectural details that Chinese labs openly share.

A gist argues against using JWTs for browser-based user sessions, citing security issues and the complexity of proper implementation. Commenters push back, noting JWTs work fine for service-to-service communication and that revocation lists are smaller than session databases.

A homelab enthusiast switched from a problematic SFP+ module to a Broadcom one to solve heat and compatibility issues with 10Gb Ethernet. The thread turns into a discussion about DAC cabling for short distances and whether fiber should be standard for in-wall networking.

Meta is forcibly reassigning 30-50% of engineers to data labeling for AI training, tracking every keystroke, and optimizing for token usage in performance reviews. Scale AI's acquisition brought a ruthless focus on RLHF data generation, turning profit-center engineers into cost-center data monkeys.

Anthropic's Claude API and services experienced elevated error rates affecting Opus 4.8 and Haiku 4.5. The incident impacted claude.ai, the API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. A fix was implemented but monitoring continues as errors persist.

［from title + comments, article unreachable］ Apple's Vehicle Motion Cues feature displays small animated dots on the screen edges that move in sync with the vehicle's motion. Users report it actually helps reduce motion sickness when using phones in moving vehicles.

Bash can open TCP sockets via /dev/tcp/host/port, which isn't an actual device file but a bash builtin. You can use exec 3<>/dev/tcp/host/port and printf to send raw HTTP requests. It's not a real HTTP client - no TLS, no redirects, no chunked encoding - but it's handy for quick connectivity checks in stripped-down containers.

The author built their own static site generator because existing ones felt limiting. The term 'yak shaving' was coined by an MIT AI Lab researcher watching Ren & Stimpy at 2am after hockey. Donald Knuth spent 10 years building TeX (plus a font, a language, and an algorithm) just to typeset a book. Yak shaving fails most of the time, but even failure teaches you something.

SpaceX is acquiring Anysphere (makers of Cursor) for $60 billion as part of their IPO process. SpaceX claims AI products have a $26 trillion addressable market, roughly equivalent to US GDP.

Vicki Boykis makes the case that running local LLMs has finally crossed the usability threshold. The hardware requirements have dropped, model quality has improved, and the experience is genuinely competitive with cloud APIs for many use cases.

The US government's ban on Anthropic models wasn't triggered by a sophisticated jailbreak. A researcher simply asked Fable 5 to 'fix this code' containing security vulnerabilities, and the model helpfully produced working exploit code as test cases to verify the fix.

Slay the Spire 2 uses correlated randomness to make 'random' events feel more fair. They implement their own PRNG instead of using C# standard library to ensure seeds work the same across all platforms, fixing a bug from the original where desktop and mobile had different seeds.

Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive deep-dive into how mechanical watches work. The article breaks down the seven major elements of a timekeeping system with gorgeous 3D models you can manipulate, explaining each component from the mainspring to the escapement.

John Carmack tweeted that Fabrice Bellard is 'almost certainly a better overall programmer than I am.' Coming from the creator of Doom and Quake, that's high praise for the FFmpeg/QEMU/TinyCC creator who works quietly and ships legendary software.