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A woman who rescued an injured crow has been receiving 'thank-you gifts' from the birds, according to a video shared on Hacker News. The story highlights the remarkable behavior of crows, known for t…
Tesla's Roadster page reveals a three-tier lineup: a base model, a Thrust trim with cold-gas thrusters for sub-1-second 0-60 mph, and a Rocket trim that can fly. The car features a multi-mode suction…
Starting October 30, Meta's updated commercial terms authorize web scrapers to crawl any website associated with a business account—including virtually every news publisher. Legal experts say the lan…
Sill is a free, open-source tool that shows any Mac window or the entire desktop on an iPhone or iPad. It captures the window with ScreenCaptureKit, encodes it as HEVC, and sends it over an encrypted…
RPKI now validates 70.3% of Internet routes, up from 54% a year ago. China drove nearly 60% of the gain, jumping from 3.7% to 83% valid IPv4 addresses. Invalid routes barely propagate—seen by just tw…
Polygon's Giovanni Colantonio spent over 20 hours with Thekla's follow-up to The Witness, a game the studio bills as 500 hours long. It remakes several indie Sokoban puzzlers, then fuses their mechan…
Apple's A20 Pro chip brings laptop-class power to the iPhone 18 Pro and the foldable iPhone Duo, but that performance generates serious heat. Dan Murray and Banafsheh Barabadi explain how Apple unsta…
A new technique exploits Error.prepareStackTrace and prototype pollution to call functions without parentheses. By overwriting prepareStackTrace, the stack trace becomes a function generated by the F…
Daniel Temkin's Folders is an esoteric language where code lives in the containment and order of directories, with folder names ignored except for alphabetical sorting. Inspired by Whitespace, it tur…
Deno is joining Cloudflare and winding down its runtime, but the alternative-runtime experiment wasn't a failure. Deno's push for permissions, TypeScript, and web standards forced Node to ship fetch,…
A Haiku-native emulator recreates Be Inc.'s BeBox, the dual-processor computer that birthed BeOS. It runs both PowerPC models from original boot ROMs, supporting BeOS for PowerPC from Developer Relea…
Using the LIST database of Latin inscriptions, researchers estimated economic complexity for Roman provinces and modern countries. They found a significant correlation between Roman-era and modern EC…
Sliding-window aggregation is easy when your operation has an inverse, like integer sums. But for min, max, quantiles, or even floating-point sums, the naive approach fails—a single NaN can poison yo…
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Sharon Yang, a Chromium developer, worked on Chrome at Google for six years and now does the same work at Igalia, an employee-owned cooperative. She contrasts the two: Google has 180,000 employees an…
Software rendering, where the CPU draws every pixel, gives classic DOS games a sharp, gritty look that early 3D cards blurred away. On a Dell OptiPlex 380, Quake at 800×600 holds a locked 60fps—somet…
Insider trading is illegal because it works too well. But employees hold a legal version: early knowledge about their company's decline or growth. The essay uses Nokia's engineers—who saw the iPhone…
Gentoo has declared "last rites" for its Chromium package, effectively abandoning it after years of struggling to keep up with upstream churn, bundled dependencies, and hundreds of weekly CVEs. Maint…
I used to see non-deterministic LLM output as a fatal flaw for software development. Then I realized: the result must be exact, but the path to it doesn't have to be. LLMs are actors in a system, not…
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have created BioPykrete, a composite of ice, cellulose nanocrystals, and a custom protein that is 10 times stronger than regular ice and absorbs 70 t…
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin have reached a deal to phase out Central Park's horse-drawn carriages by June 1, 2028. The ban, spurred by the death of tourist Romanch Mahaj…
Tesla unveiled its next-generation Roadster at a SpaceX test site in McGregor, Texas, demonstrating a flying car that uses cold-gas thrusters to perform midair flips and accelerate from 0 to 60 mph i…
Konnect is a beta KiCad 10 plugin that exposes 228 schematic, layout, routing, and manufacturing tools to Claude and other LLMs via MCP. The Rust binary replaces the original Python/TypeScript stack,…
A Hacker News discussion around a video titled "Tesla makes cars that fly?" questions whether the feature is a practical innovation or just a marketing gimmick. Commenters compare the suction effect…
This project builds an interactive model of the iconic Casio F-91W watch using statecharts, the visual formalism introduced by David Harel in 1987. Harel's original paper used a digital wristwatch as…
A review of 43 surveys from 1974 to 2024 in The Journal of Sex Research finds that around half of Japanese people reach their mid-20s without sexual experience, and roughly 10 percent reach their 30s…
In this personal reflection, the founder of Ludicon marks four years of independent game middleware work. Starting in 2022 amid industry layoffs and engine consolidation, the company bet on real-time…
Paleontologist Matt Wedel surveys speculative sauropods, from Memo Kösemen's Brontosapiens to Dougal Dixon's Turtosaur, then singles out Diablosaurus from The World of Kong as a failure: a dinosaur s…
Porsche's Mission S concept strips away distractions to focus on the driver. A mid-engine layout, wraparound main line, and torpedo-style fenders reinterpret classic Porsche design. Inside, a red but…
The UK has sanctioned Cryptomus — formerly Certa Payments and Xeltox Enterprises, now also operating as Heleket — for processing payments that benefit the Russian government and its financial institu…
Windows 11 Canary Build 28020.1619 brings freeform rotate to the Paint app, letting users rotate shapes, text, and selections to any angle. The build also expands Cross-Device Resume to more Android…
Handwired transforms ordinary JavaScript into a fully differentiable neural network without any training. It runs in the browser on WebGPU, requiring no GPU, and achieves exact, deterministic behavio…
The energy transition will need roughly 6.5 billion tonnes of materials, and mining alone cannot close the gap. Metals-as-a-Service (MaaS) treats the metal already in buildings, vehicles, and infrast…