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Astronomers 'image' a mysterious dark object in the distant Universe
Scientists detect the lowest mass dark object currently measured
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,111 posts.
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When if is just a function
what does this mean and does it matter
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NVIDIA DGX Spark In-Depth Review: A New Standard for Local AI Inference
Thanks to NVIDIA’s early access program, we are thrilled to get our hands on the NVIDIA DGX™ Spark. It’s quite an unconventional system, as NVIDIA rarely releases compact, all-in-one machines that bring supercomputing-class performance to a desktop workstation form factor.
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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 was awarded "for having explained innovation-driven economic growth" with one half to Joel Mokyr "for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress" and the other half jointly to Philippe Aghion…
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Fastmail desktop app
Fastmail now has native apps for Mac, Windows & Linux.
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An initial investigation into WDDM on ReactOS
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
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The reason GCC is not a library (2000)
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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The Spilhaus Projection: A world map according to fish
When Mr Lewin began explaining how cartographers addressed the challenge of portraying what is essentially a three dimensional object - the world - on a two dimensional plane - a piece of paper - my eyes lit up!
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AdapTive-LeArning Speculator System (ATLAS): Faster LLM inference
LLM inference that gets faster as you use it. Our runtime-learning accelerator adapts continuously to your workload, delivering 500 TPS on DeepSeek-V3.1, a 4x speedup over baseline performance without manual tuning.
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China's New Rare Earth and Magnet Restrictions Threaten US Defense Supply Chains
China has imposed its most stringent rare earth and magnet export controls yet, restricting products with even trace Chinese content. This bolsters its leverage ahead of the Trump-Xi meeting and heightens risks to U.S. defense and semiconductor supply chains.
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CamoLeak: Critical GitHub Copilot Vulnerability Leaks Private Source Code
Get details on our discovery of a critical vulnerability in GitHub Copilot Chat.
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Datastar response to misunderstandings
A recent blog post titled HTMX, Datastar, greedy developer and several Hacker News threads raised concerns about Datastar Pro, pricing, and whether features were “moved behind a paywall”. Here’s what has changed, who Pro is for, and how to achieve some of the same things with the free version.
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Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
iOS 26’s visual language obscures content instead of letting it take the spotlight. New (but not always better) design patterns replace established conventions.
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Tangled, a Git collaboration platform built on atproto
A Git collaboration platform, built on AT Protocol
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Does our “need for speed” make our wi-fi suck?
It is common knowledge among Wi-Fi professionals that using 20 MHz or 40 MHz channel widths when planning 5 GHz networks offers the best overall ex
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Regarding the Compact
The U.S. Department of Education recently sent MIT and eight other institutions a proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education," along with a letter asking that MIT review the document.
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"Vibe code hell" has replaced "tutorial hell" in coding education
When I started thinking about the problems with coding education in 2019, "tutorial hell" was enemy number one. You'd know you were living in it if you:
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The Molecular Basis of Long Covid Brain Fog
Researchers use a specialized brain imaging technique to identify a potential biomarker and therapeutic target of Long COVID
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Google Safe Browsing incident
For approximately six hours on 25.9.2025, the entire statichost.eu domain was flagged as deceptive by Google Safe Search. This meant that anyone using Google Safe Search was shown a very aggressive warning or outright blocked when trying to access any site on the statichost.eu domain. In some cases even custom domains…
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Igalia, Servo, and the Sovereign Tech Fund
Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit…
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Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado
The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy"
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A built-in 'off switch' to stop persistent pain
J. Nicholas Betley has led collaborative research seeking the neural basis of long-term sustained pain and finds that a critical hub in the brainstem holds a mechanism for stopping pain signals from reaching the rest of the brain. Their findings could help clinicians better understand chronic pain and lead to new…
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Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025
As part of standard incident-response practice, Ruby Central is publishing the following post-incident review to the public. This document summarizes the September 2025 AWS root-access event, what occurred, what we verified, and the actions we’ve taken to strengthen our security processes.
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A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
Anthropic research on data poisoning attacks shows a few hundred malicious documents can "backdoor" large language models of any size.
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Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot
Introducing Figure 03
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Nobel Prize in Literature 2025: László Krasznahorkai
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 was awarded to László Krasznahorkai "for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art"
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N8n raises $180M
We just raised $180 million in Series C funding, bringing our total funding to $240 million and our valuation to $2.5 billion. The round is led by Accel, with support from Meritech, Redpoint, Evantic and Visionaries Club. Corporate investors NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm) and T.Capital also
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The React Foundation
Meta open-sourced React over a decade ago to help developers build better user experiences. Since then, React has grown into one of the world’s most popular open source projects, powering over 50 m…