CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s

DiffusionGemma Technical Report

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2608.00146: DiffusionGemma Technical Report

An American Mosaic (interactive map of ancestry census data)

Hacking with Claude on a $27 Smart Watch

The Pine Time is a $27 smart watch that runs open source firmware. I’ve had one sitting in the back of a drawer for a...

An elliptic curve of rank ≥ 30

Can we find small elliptic curves of high rank? A leaderboard of certified Mordell–Weil rank lower bounds, ordered by naive height, Faltings height, and conductor.

Nearly 1,400 live streams from Japan

日本各地のYouTubeライブカメラを地図から探して、その場で視聴できるサービス「とまり木」。

HTML Can Do That

HTML has been gobbling up swathes of what used to be JavaScript’s remit. This page lists a bunch of dynamic functionality that we can now achieve with just HTML.

Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device

Can a small transformer autocomplete MIDI performances in real time?

Every Model Cheats

This post presents a controlled prompt-ablation study: 23 tasks, three prompt conditions, 1,518 individually audited traces, and a simple question: can you prompt away cheating?

Xorg-Server 26.0.99.901

Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)

It seems that no matter what you do, somebody will get offended. Every Windows 95 box has an anti-piracy hologram on the side. The photographer chose his

Proof of Human (YC S23) Is Hiring a Member of Technical Staff

Proof of Human provides frictionless, continual human verification. We’re looking for an exceptional engineer to join our team. This engineer will work on full-stack web development and research, with a focus on backend and cloud infrastructure. What you’ll do: - Architect and Develop: Design and build scalable backend infrastructure (AWS, Node, Python) optimized for handling millions of sessions per minute with minimal latency.  - Lead Feature Development: Own end-to-end delivery of key product features, from initial concept through deployment and support.  - Technical Roadmapping: Directly influence engineering strategy and decisions through close collaboration with the technical team. - Partner Cross-functionally: Work closely

Show HN: Open-source Stripe Connect alternative

Global, open-source payouts for marketplaces with no fees. Run Zoneless alongside Stripe Connect or Paypal without changing your existing payments setup.

Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

A compromised release of the popular Rust crate arrayref pulled in a typosquatted proc-macro1 whose build script downloads and runs a remote binary at compile…

Slack Code

AI coding is now a team sport. Introducing Slack Code, where teams and AI agents write, review, and ship code together in the open in a dedicated code channel.

Mojo is now open source

The Apache 2.0 license is the gold standard for programming languages and compilers, because it provides great flexibility to be used in all sorts of applications. The LLVM extensions to the license further expand those freedoms for building and distributing binaries compiled from Mojo. We want you to be able to adopt and use Mojo in as many applications as you can imagine.

AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

Theory of Fluids Enters the 21st Century

From the 1800s to the early 2000s, physicists used the same theory to understand the behavior of fluids. Now, using a modern insight, they have redefined fluids from the bottom up.

Git at any scale

Why the Ocean Cleanup hasn't solved the plastic pollution crisis

Global problems are rarely solved by one person or invention. The Ocean Cleanup didn’t work, for the reasons experts said it wouldn’t. What can we learn from this?