Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

Private, domain-specific benchmarks in legal, tax, and finance.

Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)

Inverted Asteroids: you are not the ship. Place gravity wells and sling the rocks.

'Coltrane' Review: Sound and Spirit

Show HN: EterDB, a Postgres fork that makes it easy to recover from incidents

PostgreSQL 18 with transaction-level undo. Reverse a bad UPDATE, a greedy DELETE, a dropped column or a whole incident, down to the rows it touched, while the database stays live.

Apple's Dimensional Drawings

Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs

I’m quite sure that there are issues similar to this one. I would like to have the possibility to register to Signal without a phone number but maybe with an email or just an user name . I have got really young cousins …

The case against JPEG XL

Investigating JPEG XL's place as a Web image codec.

Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003)

Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

I accidentally clicked a shady YouTube ad that mimics an iOS “Storage Full” alert, reported it (twice), and Google still said it was fine. Meanwhile, Gemini flags it in seconds for deceptive design...

Five Words from Vanishing Fleece

OEMpocalypse: Unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, others

Part 1 of a series that takes an unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, and Oppo/OnePlus/Realme devices, with a single strategy.

Julia 1.13 highlights

The official website for the Julia Language. Julia is a language that is fast, dynamic, easy to use, and open source. Click here to learn more.

Show HN: 1080p is 920px tall – 1k real browser viewports

Anonymous aggregate viewport statistics from ScreenSize.net browser sessions, with recent viewport, device pixel ratio and browser distributions.

Of Gods and Languages: On "When God Spoke Greek" (2013)

Kevin Hart reviews Timothy Michael Law’s book about the Septuagint, When God Spoke Greek.

Rope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone Age

Missing from the archaeological record, fiber innovations like string played a huge role in the daily lives of our ancestors. Researchers are working to weave together new insights from the traces they left behind.

Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster

Automattic says Mullenweg is back as "chairman and CEO of Automattic, with full support of the board."

Open-source AI and open models reading list

How to get up to speed on open models and their implications.

Who gets to define the rules for AI?

Explore why AI regulation should rely on evidence-based standards, independent testing, and diverse voices rather than rules set by a few dominant AI labs.

The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire

New stories from the East German specialists behind this Cold War project