Readsy

Top Stories from Hacker News

Theranos.world

An interactive simulation of Elizabeth Holmes' desk. Open her MacBook, scroll her iPhone, run the Edison machine. Every text and email is real, from the court trial, parsed by Extend.

282 points

115 comments

discussion source

Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?

thoughts, talks, docs and unpopular opinions

426 points

358 comments

discussion source

Scaling and benchmarking a critical message bus using a new indexing strategy

12 points

0 comments

discussion source

Show HN: SVG Spark – 10 client-side SVG design and dev tools

Ten fast, free developer and creator utilities that run 100% in your browser: converters, formatters, PDF tools, regex debugger and more.

27 points

1 comments

discussion source

Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB

An open speech recognition model that runs on the same CPU engine as Needle. It transcribes seven languages, reaches the first token in 11 ms, and loads beside Needle so one binary turns a clip straight into tool calls.

541 points

120 comments

discussion source

A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501)

101 points

33 comments

discussion source

Yes, and

In this essay, Carson Gross discusses his advice to young people interested in computer science worried about the future given the advancements in AI.

179 points

69 comments

discussion source

ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux

90 points

61 comments

discussion source

Beauty in DVD Menus

Understanding of DVD video menus for films and series. The technical details of how menus were implemented and what functions were available for creating menus, a look at the influence of aspect ratios and how menu designs changed and became more ambitious before returning to boring, and specific looks at some of the most memorable DVD menus released.

264 points

147 comments

discussion source

The value of not getting to the point (2015)

119 points

40 comments

discussion source

Show HN: Jevman – AI decision models play Pac-Man

Six AI decision models played Pac-Man in real time against the classic arcade ghosts. See the leaderboard, watch their games, or play against them.

30 points

5 comments

discussion source

AI-ready biological data: $1.8B global commitment

Biohub, DOE, NIH, Google, Isomorphic Labs, and Meta commit $1.8 billion to expand the Virtual Biology Initiative's open, AI-ready biological data.

70 points

7 comments

discussion source

I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard

A flickering fireplace, a softly lit garden, and a smart home the whole family finally enjoys.

396 points

65 comments

discussion source

ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025)

Accumulating evidence indicates that circadian rhythm dysfunction is a clinically significant and highly prevalent phenotype in a substantial subgroup of ind...,Accumulating evidence indicates that circadian rhythm dysfunction is a clinically significant and highly prevalent phenotype in a substantial subgroup of ind...,Accumulating evidence indicates that circadian rhythm dysfunction is a clinically significant and highly prevalent phenotype in a substantial subgroup of ind...

165 points

124 comments

discussion source

DuckDB Ducklake

DuckLake is an integrated data lake and catalog format - duckdb/ducklake

118 points

16 comments

discussion source

Show HN: Edi Life OS – self-hosted life dashboard with an MCP server for AI

Self-hosted life OS: habits, goals, Kanban, finance and focus, with an MCP server for AI. - edrisranjbar/lifeos

16 points

2 comments

discussion source

Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter

Step 5 Preview is StepFun's flagship model for agentic work, built on a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture (27B active / 600B total parameters). $1 per million input tokens, $2.70 per million output tokens. 1,000,000 token context window, maximum output of 64,000 tokens.

97 points

23 comments

discussion source

Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

The man said they discovered that their parents’ coffee maker had generated far more traffic than they expected.

408 points

259 comments

discussion source

A 5.3M-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone

Whale falls are biodiversity oases at seabeds1–6, yet their record from the oceans has remained sparse and fragmentary6,7. Here we report the discovery of a vast whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone (4,616- to 7,001-m depth), extending about 1,200 km along the sea floor of the southeastern Indian Ocean. This area has a deep and extensive accumulation comprising five modern natural whale-fall communities and 476 fossil cetaceans recorded. We show that carcasses host specialized communities dominated by brittle stars, bone-boring worms and chemosynthesis-based bivalves and that the fossil record in this area comprises both extant and extinct deep-diving beaked whales. Isotopic dating shows that whale falls in this region have occurred

86 points

5 comments

discussion source

On this day

Hurricane Milton makes landfall in Siesta Key, Florida, as a Category 3 hurricane, causing US$34.3 billion in damage only two weeks after Hurricane Helene impacted the state.

2024

Top Stories from Hacker News

Theranos.world

Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?

Scaling and benchmarking a critical message bus using a new indexing strategy

Show HN: SVG Spark – 10 client-side SVG design and dev tools

Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB

A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501)

Yes, and

ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux

Beauty in DVD Menus

The value of not getting to the point (2015)

Show HN: Jevman – AI decision models play Pac-Man

AI-ready biological data: $1.8B global commitment

I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard

ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025)

DuckDB Ducklake

Show HN: Edi Life OS – self-hosted life dashboard with an MCP server for AI

Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter

Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

A 5.3M-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone

On this day

Hurricane Milton makes landfall in Siesta Key, Florida, as a Category 3 hurricane, causing US$34.3 billion in damage only two weeks after Hurricane Helene impacted the state.

Turkey begins its military offensive in north-eastern Syria.

The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army launches its first attack on Myanmar security forces along the Bangladesh–Myanmar border.

Pakistani Taliban attempt to assassinate outspoken schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai.

First lunar impact of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its all-time high of 14,164 points before rapidly declining due to the 2008 financial crisis.

North Korea conducts its first nuclear test.

An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.

The Peekskill meteorite, a 27.7 pounds (12.6 kg) meteorite crashed into a parked car in Peekskill, New York.

The Phantom of the Opera, eventually the second longest running musical in London, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre.

Fox Broadcasting Company (FBC) launches as the fourth US television network.

The popular children's television show Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends, based on The Railway Series by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry, premieres on ITV.

South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma, but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others.

President François Mitterrand abolishes capital punishment in France.

Pope John Paul II greets the Dalai Lama during a private audience in Vatican City.

The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.

In Chicago, the National Guard is called in as demonstrations continue over the trial of the "Chicago Eight".

A day after his capture, Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.

Vietnam War: the Republic of Korea Army commits the Binh Tai Massacre.

In Italy, a large landslide causes a giant wave to overtop the Vajont Dam, killing over 2,000.

Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.

The Goyang Geumjeong Cave massacre in Korea begins.

Australia's Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 receives royal assent.

A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.

Murder of 9 Catholic priests in Zhengding, China, who protected the local population from the advancing Japanese army.

Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.

An Ustashe assassin kills King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France, in Marseille.

The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, resulting in the Black Sox Scandal.

The Finnish Parliament elects Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse as King of Finland, but he never accedes to the throne due to Germany's defeat in World War I.

World War I: The Siege of Antwerp comes to an end.

The steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.

An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Qing dynasty, beginning the Xinhai Revolution.

The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.

The Universal Postal Union is created by the Treaty of Bern.

A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.

American Civil War: Union cavalrymen defeat Confederate forces at Toms Brook, Virginia during Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley campaign.

American Civil War: Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens in the Battle of Santa Rosa Island.

Slavery is abolished in the Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy.

Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.

Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first head of state of independent Greece, is assassinated.

Restauration arrives in New York Harbor from Norway, the first organized immigration from Norway to the United States.

Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.

War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.

Prussia begins the War of the Fourth Coalition against France.

Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.

HMS Lutine sinks with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.

A severe earthquake in northern Algeria causes severe damage and a tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea and kills three thousand.

American Revolutionary War: A combined Franco-American assault on British defenses during the Siege of Savannah is repulsed with heavy casualties.

Seven Years' War: Russian and Austrian troops briefly occupy Berlin.

Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin a massacre of the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing at least 10,000.

Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.

The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.

Allied Imperial and Polish-Lithuanian forces defeat the retreating Ottoman forces in the battle of Parkany.

Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony after religious and policy disagreements.

Kepler's Supernova is the most recent supernova to be observed within the Milky Way.

Pressed by a food embargo, the five Catholic cantons of Central Switzerland declare war on the Protestant canton of Zurich, starting the Second War of Kappel.

Troops of the Portuguese Empire are defeated on Sri Lanka, bringing an end to the Campaign of Danture.

The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock.

James I of Aragon founds the Kingdom of Valencia.