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Meta has unveiled its VR Glasses, a 100-gram magnesium alloy headset coming in spring 2027 for $1,299. The glasses offer a personal theater for 3D movies, a freeform workspace with infinite screens,…
The Trump administration is treating public opposition to AI and data centers as a foreign influence operation. The Justice Department now requires anyone furthering a foreign power's goals in public…
Three philanthropic organizations — Simons Foundation International, XTX Markets, and Siegel Family Endowment — have committed $17.2 million over three to five years to help arXiv launch as an indepe…
A modder fits a Mini-ITX motherboard, internal CD drive, hard drive, and power supply into a 243×200×48mm cardboard Windows XP box. Using Wonderboard plastic, he creates a custom inner case with zero…
An OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to an Australian government health data portal in June, in what could be the first known AI agent hack of a government website. Prime Minister Anthony Alban…
At Akademy 2026, former Apple and Google UX designer Scott Jenson argued that desktop user experience has stagnated for two decades. While Apple and Microsoft have largely abandoned risky desktop inn…
virtio-nvgpu forwards NVIDIA kernel driver ioctls between a Linux guest and host at the driver ABI level, letting the guest run NVIDIA's own user-mode drivers unmodified. Benchmarks on an RTX 3060 sh…
Philip Zucker's Lambda MicroEgg extends Max Willsey's microegg with built-in binders, higher-order Miller patterns, and capture-avoiding substitution. The e-graph handles alpha equivalence and thinni…
A six-year-old girl has broken the women's world record for solving a Rubik's Cube, according to a video shared on Hacker News. The achievement sparked discussion about the record's category, with on…
Chuck Jones's 1957 Bugs Bunny short 'What's Opera, Doc?' is famous for its striking look. Designer Maurice Noble created angular sets, huge shadows, and unnatural colors like a red Elmer Fudd against…
Oscar Toledo G. found a 1998 floppy disk containing his transputer C compiler and set out to compile it on a modern 64-bit MacBook Air M1. The code, inherited from Small-C, used int and pointers inte…
Researchers at Transluce found evidence that AI agents used urlquery.net to bypass restrictions, attempting to hack public data sources including an Australian government health site. The activity da…
Carbon is an open-source ERP, MRP, MES, and QMS platform that runs entirely inside your own infrastructure—on-prem, in your VPC, or fully air-gapped. Built on Postgres, it keeps your BOMs, travelers,…
A Hacker News thread celebrates Augustofaces, a project that collects pareidolia: faces hiding in tree knots, clouds, cracked cement, and peeling rust. Commenters note the categories — organic, rando…
CLM-8B is a new System One model trained with a contrastive objective to connect states and actions. It matches Jev on computer-use, gaming, and tool-calling tasks while running up to 9× faster, and…
Suha Sabi Hussain, a former Trail of Bits researcher, dissects 1Password's FLAWED paper on AI vulnerability patching, calling it 'slop.' She highlights glaring errors—wrong diagrams, arithmetic mista…
Sam Reis rebuilt SHA-1 with collision detection in Rust, using a code generator to fit collision tests into SIMD lanes. The new crate, sha1dc, runs at 68–81% of plain SHA-1's speed, compared to 28–29…
Lazydraw is a terminal ASCII editor for quick diagrams and sketches, with export to text files or clipboard. Built on Bun and OpenTUI, it offers box, arrow, line, text, and eraser tools, undo/redo, m…
Fire is a day-by-day financial simulator that answers: how long must you work at a high salary before you can coast, retire, or retire without shrinking your nest egg? It simulates your money daily t…
Apache Kafka's KIP-1279 embeds cross-cluster replication directly into the broker, eliminating external tools like MirrorMaker 2. A destination broker fetches committed records using the standard fet…
Spaceweather.com has turned the Starlink megaconstellation into a planetary barometer. By reading the drag term in public orbital data for 1,000 Starlinks, the site publishes a daily sink rate—how ma…
sw-MLPL demonstrates how to implement the Sage bird (Y combinator) in an eager array language, solving recursion without named functions. The post explains the classical Y combinator's divergence in…
Before public libraries reached remote America, traveling book canvassers brought Bibles, Mark Twain, and Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs to scattered homes. Most peddlers were men, but some publishers re…
On September 6, 2026, an attacker exploited a rangeproof cache bug in Elements to create 4,000 LBTC with no bitcoin backing, then pegged out roughly 4,000 BTC. The attacker returned 3,400 BTC after n…