I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s

… from the 90s.

AlphaGenome Atlas predictive map of every DNA letter change in the human genome

Explore AlphaGenome Atlas, a catalogue predicting the molecular effects and AVI scores for 9 billion single-nucleotide variants across the human genome.

Extracting Steering Vectors from J space

I was reading about the jacobian space and how it can be used to verbalize the intermediate activations of an LLM to decode what it is most likely going to say or is thinking about. I wanted to test if we can use the j lens to arrive at a general activation steering vector from a couple of tokens related to the concept towards which we wanted to steer the model i.e inverting the j lens to have a general method of finding steering vectors from the concept tokens

There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis

Big week! We just finished moving the Overwatch and Fortnite wikis off of Fandom. It’s still my favorite thing in the world to help wiki editors grab control of their projects and make them awesome (and not covered with a dozen auto-playing video ads!)

DaVinci Resolve 21.1

LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

LibreOffice 26.8 became the app’s most popular update, with over 1 million downloads, after the foundation behind it declared that LibreOffice doesn’t come with…

DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits

404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.

Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare

Across 44,143 European companies with a detected CDN, 89.6% use Cloudflare. We publish the per-country counts and what the 2025-26 outages showed.

Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts

Overviews of the very many snippets of HTML that were once commonly included on websites to address specific cases with certain technologies, browsers, operating systems, or extensions. Fragments dating back to the days of Internet Explorer and Netscape, to more modern bits that are nonetheless obsolete.

Disappointed Optimists

Every time I give a talk on design, someone finds me afterward. They wait out the handshakes and the business

Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support for Merger

We've well established how the $111 billion Paramount and Warner Brothers merger is terrible for labor, creatives, consumers, and markets. But the kind of behaviors Paramount leadership have been engaged in to sell the deal also give a pretty clear indication what kind of company we're dealing with, and why they shouldn't be allowed to…

ZX Spectrum: Experimenting with 1-Bit Sound

As part of the ZX Spectrum tour, I implemented some routines that would let you play simple tones out of the 1-bit beeper. These were in large part inspired by earlier work I did on the Apple II. We know that's not the limit, though, because we got some improbably good results out of the…

How Climate Resilient Are the Largest Cities?

AlphaGeo analyzes 72 major cities to show how adaptation shapes climate resilience, residual risk, and long-term investment exposure.,AlphaGeo’s analysis of 72 major cities shows that climate resilience depends not only on exposure, but on the strength of adaptation in place. Using CRRI, the report identifies where policy, infrastructure, and investment are reducing residual risk — and where dangerous adaptation gaps still threaten long-term asset value and stability…

Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses

I test Unsloth GGUFs of Qwen3.8 27B (Q4_K_M, UD-Q2_K_XL, UD-IQ1_S) with llama.cpp on GPQA Diamond, IFBench, Terminal-Bench 2.1. Q4_K_M matches BF16 abd fits an RTX 4090.

The Helicopter with Radioactive Blades

Sometimes you find gold in unexpected places. In this case, it's from a video about the CH-53 helicopter. The CH-53 Sea Stallion first entered service in 1966. It's a huge helicopter, capable of lifti...

The two Christian saints who are the Buddha

Let me tell you the story of saints Barlaam and Josaphat of India. A king named Abenner, who persecutes Christians, hears from his court astrologers that his son will attain great power and rule over India. But one astrologer predicts that the prince will instead become a great holy man – a Christian. Alarmed, Abenner…

Show HN: Copperhead – Hardware as Fast as Software

An open-source AI agent that designs, documents and validates real PCBs from a prompt.

US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them

Exclusive: Documents show officers from Maine to California worry Meta’s camera-equipped glasses will be used either to secretly record them or aid acts of terrorism

Reverse engineering the 2008 LogiCola, a logic drill program

Building LogiCola's new design language from what I found reverse-engineering the 2008 original.

Google DeepMind Releases AlphaGenome Atlas

We’re introducing AlphaGenome Atlas, a database predicting the effects of every possible single nucleotide variant in the human genome.