23 stories tagged mit, newest first.
260 points by zdw | 53 comments
MIT News article on Encora Therapeutics, whose FDA-cleared wristband for treating tremors began as a project in MIT's 2.009 product-design class.
10 points by mikhael | 0 comments
New York Times article about MIT paying professor Michel DeGraff not to teach a controversial course related to Palestine.
22 points by bookofjoe | 0 comments
MIT News article about a flexible shape-sensing sheet that digitally tracks its own deformation as it bends and twists.
2038 points by muglug | 236 comments
MIT News obituary reporting the death at 90 of Margaret Hamilton, the computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program.
59 points by rbanffy | 28 comments
MIT News article on a 3D-printing platform that uses multiple functional materials to fabricate an electric linear motor in hours.
204 points by cdrnsf | 116 comments
MIT Faculty Newsletter article by several MIT faculty about the installation of surveillance cameras on campus over the summer.
463 points by cainxinth | 105 comments
A Substack essay from Taxa about a notorious MIT milk carton and how certain bacteria can survive boiling water, framed as a probiotic paradox.
418 points by dagenix | 115 comments
Project page for GenCAD, an MIT research model that generates CAD designs from images using transformer-based contrastive representations and diffusion priors.
597 points by dmayo | 662 comments
Transcript of a video message from MIT President Sally Kornbluth about research funding and the talent pipeline, published by MIT's Office of the President.
409 points by anishathalye | 118 comments
Homepage of MIT's Missing Semester course (IAP 2026), teaching CS students practical tools like the shell, editors, version control, and agentic coding.
![Screenshot of courses.csail.mit.edu: Mathematics for Computer Science (2018) [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/1/9/ae2aa14e-4a6c-4954-86ba-c8b6fc82ba70.jpg)
366 points by vismit2000 | 62 comments
PDF of the 2018 revision of the MIT textbook Mathematics for Computer Science by Eric Lehman, F. Thomson Leighton, and Albert R. Meyer.
525 points by gmays | 254 comments
MIT News article on research showing attention lapses during sleep deprivation coincide with fluid flushing from the brain, a process normally occurring during sleep.
438 points by cainxinth | 432 comments
Article reporting on an MIT study claiming that using AI tools like ChatGPT alters brain activity and leads to cognitive decline.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Patrick Winston: How to Speak (2018) [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/9/1/7a1f28b0-80d7-4112-b7e9-5d322158a2c2.jpg)
397 points by tosh | 72 comments
YouTube video of MIT professor Patrick Winston's 2018 lecture on how to speak and present effectively; the capture shows a reCAPTCHA page instead.
325 points by speckx | 311 comments
News article reporting an MIT study finding that 95% of companies get zero return from $30 billion in generative AI spending, with only 5% of projects delivering value.
351 points by carabiner | 176 comments
MIT Economics statement announcing it asked arXiv and the QJE to withdraw a preprint on AI, scientific discovery, and product innovation after an internal integrity review.
362 points by __rito__ | 21 comments
Course page for MIT 6.S184, an introduction to flow matching and diffusion models built from stochastic differential equations, with notes, lectures, and labs.
371 points by smusamashah | 87 comments
MIT interactive project page presenting a virtual petri dish where digital creatures evolve eyes from scratch to replay the evolution of vision.
637 points by gnabgib | 393 comments
MIT News article announcing that starting in 2025, MIT undergraduates with family income below $200,000 will attend tuition-free under expanded financial aid.
334 points by AlexeyBrin | 251 comments
Brian Harvey's essay, written for the Boston Globe in 2011, explaining why the MIT textbook SICP and its use of Scheme revolutionized introductory computer science.
336 points by CharlesW | 121 comments
MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.
409 points by Tomte | 171 comments
MIT News article reporting a finding that light can cause water to evaporate without heat, with implications for natural phenomena and desalination.
853 points by khochesh_kushat | 312 comments
The About page for Scratch, MIT's block-based coding platform and community for children; it returned a 429 Too Many Requests error when captured.