No Man's Sky Cosmos

Become director of a space station, join a galactic alliance, construct a space base and discover deep-space marvels in No Man's Sky Cosmos. Navigate space with a new star system map, strip colossal hulks for parts before hull integrity fails, recover and haul physical salvage to remote space outposts, celebrate 10 years of No Man’s Sky in the Our Journey Continues expedition, and much, much more

Stockfish 19

Stronger, smaller, and easier to run, thanks to an upgraded network architecture, universal binaries, and more!

Show HN: Compute polynomials twice as fast

Evaluate a degree-n polynomial with about n/2 multiplications. Type a polynomial, pick ℚ, ℝ, ℂ, a Mersenne prime or a binary field, and get the preprocessed evaluation chain as math, C code or a circuit — everything runs in your browser.

Larger Pacific Striped Octopus

What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks

tautology.town is a blog that contains tautologies.

I think I hate the internet

I’ve just finished reading Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams and was equally parts shocked and unsurprised by the events she witnessed at Facebook / Met...

Open Source Durable Objects for Postgres

An open-source library that runs the Durable Objects programming model inside your Rails or Node app, on SQLite, PostgreSQL, or MySQL. No daemon, no broker, no vendor account.

Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?

Special relativity simulator in which light crawls along at a human speed, so Lorentz contraction, aberration and Doppler shift happen at walking pace.

AirPods 5

What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?

It's random, really.

Shopify acquires Tailwind

We're joining Shopify to give Tailwind a stable long-term home where it will be actively maintained for the millions of people who depend on it.

Training a 3.8B LLM to 0.384 CORE for $998

A 3.8B model pretrained from scratch to 0.384 CORE on 65B tokens in 43 hours, for $998.

iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it

"Toutes les grandes personnes ont d'abord été des enfants. (Mais peu d'entre elles s'en souviennent.)" [All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.] Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Le Petit Prince." An impromptu game of "who can name the largest number?" is an example I often point to as a way in which young children teach each other about non-trivial mathematical ideas and facts, such as infinity and the concept of proof by contradiction (embodied in this case by one child eventually realizing that they can defeat any other child's guess by adding "plus one" to that guess, thus demonstrating by contradiction* that there is no largest natural number). Prematurely putting such games to an end by immediately providing

Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives

Mounting crash data and bold safety standards reshape the debate: are self driving cars safe as a life‑saving public health intervention?

Samsung Debuts zHBM Prototype, Stacking Memory Directly on AI Accelerators

Samsung Electronics unveiled next-generation 3D memory technologies, including z-axis High

Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence

Mullenweg said in a company Slack message that it was against his will.

iPhone Duo

iPhone Duo. The largest iPhone display ever. In a thin, foldable design. 48MP Dual Fusion camera system. A20 Pro chip. All-day battery life.

GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning

A Look at Recurrent Depth, Hidden Chains of Thought, and Recent Research on Looping Transformer Blocks

DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

🚀 Introducing DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: smarter, faster, more efficient. 🔹 Introducing the smallest model in our new architecture family, with native visual understanding. 🔹 Designed for greater capability, faster inference, higher throughput, and scaling to larger models. 1/6