Hacker News Digest
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At New York Comic Con, Nicolas Cage said he declined to sign an AI waiver for the Amazon series "Spider-Noir" and won't work with the studio again. He pointed to Amazon's $50 billion investment in Op…
Once a symbol of futuristic progress, holography faded from public view as digital displays advanced. Yet the field, born from three independent threads—Dennis Gabor's wavefront reconstruction, Yuri…
An Economist piece argues that governments are failing to address the affordability crisis, drawing sharp reaction on Hacker News. Commenters question whose interests policymakers actually serve, wit…
HashiCorp has archived the Boundary Community Edition repository, making it read-only as of October 9, 2026. The README now directs users to HCP Boundary and Boundary Enterprise, and no further updat…
At a January workshop at Institut Henri Poincaré, mathematicians, historians, artists, and educators explored whether mathematical illustration can be rigorous. The discussions, later published in th…
Pensieve is a free, open-source Mac app that indexes your files, repos, and agent sessions locally. Connected via MCP, it gives coding agents one search that returns the few passages that matter, ins…
I sometimes run across comments where someone says they want an open-source router, and I wonder if this is a viable idea for a small company. I've been flashing DD-WRT to my routers for years, but I…
Researchers propose photochromic nanoparticle inks that let tattoos be rewritten on demand, according to a Hacker News discussion of a Cell paper. The concept points to programmable pigments whose ap…
Plimsoll runs untrusted, agent-authored code in a sandbox and reports the isolation tier behind every run—process, container, kernel, or vm. Requests can set a minimum tier; if the sandbox is weaker,…
BraiNOTES is an open-source app that brings handwritten note-taking and whiteboarding directly into your browser tab, no account or server required. Designed for lectures, it lets you write on or alo…
QT is a technical prototype of an end-to-end encrypted messenger core, implementing X3DH, PQXDH (post-quantum), Double Ratchet, Sealed Sender, and Noise Protocol in Rust. It includes a server that re…
A clever floating-point hack computes clz and ctz without dedicated instructions. By embedding an integer into the mantissa of a double and subtracting, you can extract the leading-zero count from th…