580 points by jonluca | 250 comments
OpenAI post announcing AI-produced results in harmonic analysis, complexity theory (refuting ETH), and quantum field theory, and describing academic collaborations to verify them.
383 points by vok | 145 comments
A PDF preprint in OpenAI's math GitHub repository claiming a deterministic algorithm for counting k-CNF satisfying assignments that refutes the Exponential Time Hypothesis.
598 points by sgiannopoulos | 85 comments
Sebastian Raschka's Ahead of AI post presenting an eight-video, 11-hour course on coding LLM reasoning models from scratch in Python and PyTorch, accompanying his book.
179 points by ravenical | 54 comments
Product page for CorridorKey 2.0, Corridor Digital's AI-powered green/blue screen keying plugin for Resolve, Nuke, After Effects, Premiere and Blender, sold as a one-time purchase.
92 points by wondersky | 28 comments
Cloudflare incident report on a cross-tenant KV cache data exposure in the GLM-5.3 Workers AI model caused by a misconfiguration and an SGLang bug, and its remediation.
45 points by prmph | 21 comments
A 2016 Nautilus article by Jim Davies on research showing that motor imagery and mental practice can improve motor skills and even muscle strength.
332 points by enlyth | 199 comments
Blog post investigating the oldest GUI application that runs unmodified on Windows 11, from a 1993 FreeCell to a 1992 NT pre-release CD Player.
206 points by adamnemecek | 144 comments
GitHub-hosted specification document for Microsoft's Type Server Protocol, a JSON-RPC protocol built on LSP conventions for querying Python type analysis data.
34 points by doener | 2 comments
GitHub repository for winevdm, a Wine-based compatibility layer that runs 16-bit Windows 1.x–3.1 applications on 64-bit Windows.
79 points by MrBuddyCasino | 21 comments
An X thread by macro photographer @macrofying showing extreme close-up photos and videos of inkjet printer droplets landing on paper and the printhead.
399 points by edent | 92 comments
Geoff Graham announces he has taken independent ownership of CSS-Tricks from DigitalOcean and outlines plans for ads, memberships, courses, and the newsletter.
39 points by andsoitis | 7 comments
Intro page of an essay exploring what LISP programs can run in 64K bytes, using Kilo LISP and comparing to historical LISP on the IBM 704 and PDP-1.
176 points by geox | 288 comments
BBC Future article explaining how global solar electricity generation has overtaken nuclear, with seven reasons for solar's growth including falling costs and batteries.
139 points by dilawargopang | 46 comments
GitHub repository for Nietzschian Debugger, a Python CLI that uses an LLM to ask developers confrontational Socratic questions instead of giving debugging answers.
11 points by rbanffy | 0 comments
The Next Platform article on the Advanced Photonics Coalition releasing standards for co-packaged optics and silicon photonics manufacturing amid optical component shortages.
534 points by meetpateltech | 336 comments
OpenAI announcement of GPT-6.1 Terra, a fast, lower-cost model focused on computer use, visual reasoning, and coding, with benchmarks, safety notes, and API pricing.
125 points by pancomplex | 30 comments
GitHub repository for Hob, an MIT-licensed desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux that runs open-weight LLMs locally as an offline alternative to Claude and ChatGPT.
130 points by aray07 | 66 comments
Blog post by Murat Demirbas reflecting on Ananyo Bhattacharya's biography of John von Neumann, focusing on his talent for abstraction across math, physics, economics, and computing.
14 points by npunt | 0 comments
A 1998 Los Angeles Times feature on LAN parties like Costa Mesa's BeatDown, where gamers bring PCs to play networked games such as Quake and Unreal in person.
1508 points by SiNTEx | 1477 comments
Anthropic, PBC's Form S-1 registration statement filed with the SEC for an initial public offering of Class A common stock on Nasdaq under the symbol ANT.
508 points by cisc | 199 comments
BBC Future article on research showing birdwatching reshapes the brain, may slow cognitive ageing, and is used as therapy for dementia patients.
182 points by zdw | 56 comments
A blog post describing a SIMD-accelerated FAST corner detector written in assembly for the ESP32-S3, roughly doubling the reference implementation's performance.
150 points by soheilpro | 422 comments
Apple press release announcing a redesigned iPad mini with an 8.5-inch OLED display, A20 Pro chip, IP67 rating, N1 and C2 chips, and iPadOS 27.
41 points by foxhill | 9 comments
Categorica blog post announcing an open-source MIT-licensed NGINX module that exports Prometheus metrics natively, with build, configuration, and metric details.
805 points by doctorzook | 722 comments
Seattle Times article reporting Microsoft is offering buyouts to about 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its workforce, to cut head count without layoffs.
270 points by skadamat | 142 comments
Human Transit blog post by Jarrett Walker on Blaise Pascal's 1662 Paris carriage network, the first fixed-route public transport, and its network design principles.
131 points by Gravityloss | 70 comments
Diamond Foundry product page describing all-diamond MOSFETs developed with Stanford using hydrogen-terminated surface transfer doping, claiming 50x faster switching.
289 points by bagatelle | 181 comments
A personal blog post arguing websites should be printable, sharing the author's @media print CSS snippet for hiding headers, adjusting font sizes, and styling links.
244 points by xkriva11 | 65 comments
Official announcement of the Pharo 14 release, detailing new development tools, refactoring infrastructure, and virtual machine improvements such as RISC-V JIT support.
276 points by Frieren | 160 comments
404 Media report on leaked audio in which Flock CEO Garrett Langley told police chiefs that anti-Flock backlash is driven by bots and not real.
47 points by thm | 63 comments
PetaPixel news article announcing the Sigma FP2, a compact modular full-frame mirrorless hybrid camera with 6K open gate video, priced at $2,199.
255 points by robtherobber | 45 comments
Mother Jones article reporting that the EPA plans to decommission its online web archive on December 31, 2026, removing tens of thousands of public environmental documents.
15 points by adityaathalye | 0 comments
YouTube video of Rich Hickey's Clojure/Conj 2026 talk "In Context" on documenting and enforcing data expectations and new Clojure features like enhanced destructuring.
179 points by rbanffy | 106 comments
AP News article reporting that the US government has designated helium as a critical material, citing its importance for semiconductor manufacturing.
157 points by etothet | 234 comments
Apple Store pre-order page for the new iPad mini with A20 Pro chip, starting at $699, with storage, glass, connectivity and accessory options.
12 points by kheal | 1 comments
arXiv paper from Google Quantum AI reporting an experimental demonstration of magic state cultivation on a superconducting quantum processor, reducing error by a factor of 40.
152 points by coffeemug | 65 comments
Ubicloud blog post explaining tool-call schema accuracy problems when serving open-weight models like Kimi K2.6 in vLLM and how constrained decoding fixes them.
37 points by networked | 6 comments
A browser-playable unofficial web port of Glider 4.0, John Calhoun's 1991 classic Macintosh paper airplane game.
460 points by theanonymousone | 214 comments
Product page for a 1:1 scale Minecraft Java map of Switzerland built from swisstopo open geodata, with a free Jungfrau-Aletsch area and paid full-country download.
23 points by roddylindsay | 34 comments
Blog post from QWAC.com recounting how browsers demoted Extended Validation certificates and arguing EU QWACs and AI agents may revive website identity.
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