1287 points by amrrs | 200 comments
Vesuvius Challenge announcement of its 2023 Grand Prize winners, who made the first Herculaneum scroll readable; the 2000-year-old text discusses music, food, and pleasure.
26 points by surprisetalk | 1 comments
A Substack post by an amateur physicist describing a new strategy for doing home experiments after reorganizing a messy lab to fit limited free evenings.
329 points by ayhanfuat | 151 comments
A Python discussion forum post from PSF staff announcing Anthropic's $1.5 million, two-year donation to the PSF focused on security work.
46 points by alxgsv | 84 comments
Personal blog essay by Uploadcare CTO Alex Gusev reflecting that AI coding agents have removed the engineering challenge that once motivated him.
361 points by 6bitquant | 380 comments
Scott Aaronson blog post reacting to OpenAI releasing hundreds of AI-generated math results, including a claimed proof of Khot's Unique Games Conjecture.
374 points by kirschner | 73 comments
FSFE news post announcing that VLC lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf received the European SFS Award 2025 at SFSCON.