Willow, Our Quantum Chip(blog.google)
1302 points by robflaherty | 494 comments
Google blog post announcing Willow, a quantum chip demonstrating error correction and performance toward large-scale quantum computing.
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Sora is here(openai.com)
1107 points by toomuchtodo | 942 comments
OpenAI announcement of the public launch of Sora, its text-to-video generation model; the capture shows a Cloudflare human-verification challenge.
Itch.io Taken Down by Funko(bsky.app)
1080 points by spiralganglion | 437 comments
Bluesky post from itch.io saying its domain was disabled by registrar iwantmyname after a bogus AI-generated phishing report from Funko's brand protection vendor BrandShield.
What we know about CEO shooting suspect(bbc.com)
584 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 1454 comments
BBC News article profiling Luigi Mangione, the person of interest in the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and what is known about him.
Compromising OpenWrt Supply Chain(flatt.tech)
546 points by udev4096 | 91 comments
Flatt Security research post by RyotaK describing a supply chain attack against OpenWrt's firmware build service involving a SHA256 hash collision.
"This is not a joke, Funko just called my mom"(twitter.com)
514 points by haunter | 124 comments
A post by itch.io on X saying Funko called the founder's mom, with a screenshot of a text message about a strange call from a company.
Trellis – 3D mesh generative model(trellis3d.github.io)
400 points by tarr11 | 75 comments
Project page for TRELLIS, a Microsoft Research, Tsinghua, and USTC method using structured 3D latents for scalable, versatile 3D asset generation.
Pat Gelsinger was wrong for Intel(bcantrill.dtrace.org)
371 points by hasheddan | 237 comments
Bryan Cantrill's blog post arguing that Pat Gelsinger was the wrong CEO for Intel, drawing on Oxide's experience choosing a host CPU.
Himalaya: CLI to Manage Emails(github.com)
338 points by xparadigm | 93 comments
GitHub repository for Himalaya, an MIT-licensed Rust command-line tool for managing email via IMAP, SMTP, notmuch and sendmail, here at its v1.0.0 release.
Debanking (and Debunking?)(bitsaboutmoney.com)
229 points by wmf | 260 comments
A letter to open-source maintainers(xuanwo.io)
150 points by xuanwo | 63 comments
How God Plays Chess (2018)(en.chessbase.com)
149 points by akkartik | 34 comments
Bazel 8.0(github.com)
118 points by oftenwrong | 34 comments
The Age of Chiplets Is Upon Us(eetimes.com)
66 points by jnord | 14 comments
Pictures of Pensions(calcwithdec.dev)
28 points by thunderbong | 29 comments
Knight TV Resurrection (2018)(pdp-6.net)
22 points by rbanffy | 4 comments
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Blizzard Changed Their Mind, Then GOG Humiliated Them [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2024/12/9/f94eff32-cc55-49d2-a187-ea2682c8b8dc.jpg)
Inkscape 1.4 – LWN(lwn.net)
13 points by rolandixor | 1 comments
