844 points by Tiberium | 499 comments
Arkham Intelligence explorer page for an unverified user-created entity labeled "binance-hacker-1029", showing about $5.7B in crypto holdings across chains.
1246 points by kuberwastaken | 350 comments
Mistral announcement releasing open weights for Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk), a 1-trillion-parameter multimodal model with coding and cybersecurity benchmarks and partner quotes.
45 points by henrid | 15 comments
GitHub discussion announcing that Pico CSS is no longer maintained, with v2.1.1 as the final release and the repository archived.
205 points by sandslash | 68 comments
YC Labs report on experiments running swarms of LLM agents in Minecraft and Mindustry, with an open-sourced harness, replays, and observations of emergent coordination.
12 points by theanonymousone | 0 comments
Homepage of Cuis, a free, simple and portable Smalltalk-80 environment, with screenshots, testimonials, news, and community meetings.
154 points by airinei | 8 comments
GitHub repo for tinyworldformer, an int8 looped transformer world model and RL actor that generate and play small games like Pong and Pac-Man on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W.
107 points by gumby | 36 comments
Gizmodo article on record October high tides flooding the San Francisco Bay Area and warnings of worse El Niño-driven coastal flooding and EV battery fire risks this winter.
49 points by beatstop | 18 comments
A Claremont Review of Books essay marking the 150th anniversary of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its place in American literature.
72 points by ColinWright | 52 comments
A Mastodon post quoting and linking a 404 Media report on Proton CEO Andy Yen pushing employees to adopt AI coding, tracking AI-generated code, and ending engineer hiring.
33 points by giuliomagnifico | 23 comments
JAMA Network Open study finding schoolwide mobile phone bans in Iceland were not associated with significant changes in adolescent mental health.
11 points by nvmdbljstm | 1 comments
GitHub repository for astroterm, an MIT-licensed C program that renders stars, planets, and constellations as a planetarium in the terminal.
66 points by simonebrunozzi | 10 comments
Academic article in Animation Studies Journal (2014) analyzing Miyazaki's Porco Rosso through peace research and international relations themes of man, state, and war.
55 points by falperc | 11 comments
GitHub repository for DOOMFORMER, a compiler that turns an integer neural network into a DOOM map where voodoo dolls perform the arithmetic, verified against NumPy.
352 points by ea016 | 130 comments
A 2016 blog post by Sid Bala explaining how the H.264 video codec achieves compression via quantization, chroma subsampling, entropy coding, and motion compensation.
42 points by cherioo | 33 comments
GitHub repository for Herdr, an Apache-2.0 Rust desktop app for managing terminals and coding agents in spaces, available for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
43 points by cremno | 20 comments
Short blog post by David Priver explaining the correct idiom for iterating backwards over an array in C using an unsigned size_t index with postdecrement.
2521 points by j4mie | 539 comments
A New York Times article reporting the death of actor Patrick Stewart; the captured page rendered blank.
107 points by johncassil | 80 comments
GitHub repo for dontallow, a small Swift agent that automatically clicks Don't Allow on the macOS local network access permission prompt.
9 points by surprisetalk | 0 comments
A 2swap YouTube video exploring billiards and outer billiards on polygonal tables, leading to self-similar structures and the hyperbolic plane.
441 points by WalterSobchak | 612 comments
DoorDash investor relations press release announcing a definitive agreement to acquire Instacart for about $17 billion, or $65 per share, mostly in cash.
369 points by ibobev | 198 comments
Martin Fowler's bliki entry on recognizing 'LLM voice' in prose and urging authors to write their own drafts rather than delegate prose to LLMs.
24 points by maitland | 7 comments
A University of Tennessee Libraries searchable database cataloging the roughly 20,000 books in novelist Cormac McCarthy's personal library, with annotation notes.
46 points by iamnothere | 13 comments
Project page for Sylphide OS, an open-source graphical operating system built on FreeRTOS for 80s-style home computers made from microcontrollers like ESP32-P4 and RP2350.
70 points by frizlab | 16 comments
Landing page for ElementaryUI, an open-source SwiftUI-inspired framework for building browser web UIs in Swift compiled to WebAssembly.
5 points by philippemnoel | 0 comments
ParadeDB engineering blog post describing optimizations that sped up COUNT and filtered search queries in Postgres, with benchmarks against TIN.
7 points by lastmjs | 0 comments
GitHub repository for Lasm, a toolchain for compiling Lean 4 programs to JavaScript and WebAssembly runtimes such as Node, browsers, serverless and edge platforms.
298 points by 882542F3884314B | 149 comments
Dream Research report on a suspected Chinese AI-assisted campaign chaining a PHP2Shell RCE with a kernel LPE to root 25 firewalls, including US government-affiliated systems.
56 points by surprisetalk | 39 comments
A Dynomight essay of numbered reflections on how AI tools have changed the experience and productivity of doing mathematical research.
23 points by peteforde | 0 comments
Neal Stephenson's Substack post about visiting Harvard's Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, featuring a Nazi-era uranium cube and a Koenig acoustic analyzer.
241 points by rokostik | 341 comments
An interactive cartogram from IP Trust that redraws world countries so their area matches their share of locatable IPv4 addresses, with tables of biggest gains and losses.
94 points by amcclure | 91 comments
A personal blog post arguing that the community and ethics around a free software project matter more than its license alone.
55 points by shong0504 | 16 comments
Launch HN post for Simantic, a YC startup offering firmware simulation, virtual devboards, and AI code review so engineers and agents can test firmware without hardware.
101 points by nathanfig | 79 comments
A personal blog post reviewing Anthropic's Duet assistant app, praising its speed, channels, per-channel access policies, and short responses while noting beta glitches.
18 points by wyndham | 0 comments
Personal essay by Angela Chen, originally in the Kenyon Review, on her mother's early-onset dementia and whether a diagnosis should reinterpret past behavior.
129 points by wondersky | 21 comments
SkyPilot blog post explaining why NVL72 Grace Blackwell racks need topology-aware scheduling and how SkyPilot keeps multi-node jobs rack-local with recovery and defragmentation.
35 points by mashally | 1 comments
A 2011 blog post by Joanna Rutkowska describing how she splits her digital life into isolated Qubes OS AppVM security domains and handles data flows between them.
166 points by ZeljkoS | 318 comments
BBC News explainer on a high-speed train collision near Urda, south of Madrid, where a Renfe train struck a stationary Iryo train, killing at least 69 people.
55 points by RGS1811 | 9 comments
GitHub repo for us-tax-model, a vibe-coded proof-of-concept encoding US federal income tax forms and instructions as cited, executable, machine-checkable data.
89 points by memalign | 8 comments
Sixteen Colors (16colo.rs) is an online archive of ANSI and ASCII artpacks from the BBS art scene, with releases, comments, forum, and tools.
148 points by mektrik | 64 comments
Trakkr Research study tracing 1,285 statistics cited by five AI assistants back to their sources, finding only 40% reached a matching study.
291 points by mgh2 | 202 comments
New York Post article on a NYT report that an alleged Chinese spy, Megaspeed executive Alice Huang, had a close relationship with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
167 points by luke8086 | 137 comments
Mastodon post from the NetBSD Foundation announcing atto(1), a small modeless text editor added to NetBSD-current's base system, with replies.
5 points by aways | 0 comments
A personal blog post about visiting Scotland's Isle of May on Open Doors day, covering its lighthouses, saints, wartime history, folklore, and releasing a puffling.
35 points by rvanderlinden | 2 comments
GitHub repository for Overtone, an MIT-licensed caption format, video.js plugin, and CLI that combines multiple STT models and an LLM to produce word-timed captions.
5 points by shcallaway | 0 comments
NASA Mars 2020 blog post about Perseverance's record-setting longest drive on another world, with a Navcam image of its wheel tracks.
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