Hacker News Digest
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A Memdoor workflow rebuilds GVS5H's five-agent harness (planner, two ideators, solver, manager, plus a repair worker) on Qwen3.8-27B, with agents sharing only files on disk and a shell script decidin…
Starting in December, Plus, Pro, and Business plans will share one usage allowance across ChatGPT and Codex, measured in tokens. More advanced models and complex tasks consume more of the allowance,…
A Brazilian labor court fined two law firms 10% of a R$842,000 claim—about $16,000—after lawyers embedded a white-on-white prompt-injection command in a court filing. The hidden text instructed any A…
A National Academies report traces the 2020 collapse of the Arecibo Observatory's 57-year-old telescope to long-term zinc creep in the cable spelter sockets that held its platform. The failure sequen…
A father and his 12-year-old son spent two months building a tiny computer inside an Altoids tin. Starting from a free robot kit scored at MIT Swapfest, they reused its 128x64 display, switched to an…
Electricity accounts for just 20% of global energy use, while the fossil-fueled 80% — transport and heating — wastes two-thirds of every input as heat. In this Everything Electric podcast, host Rober…
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University demonstrate RAMBO, an attack that lets malware on an air-gapped computer encode stolen data — files, keystrokes, biometrics, encryption keys — as radio signals em…
A first-person account from the founders of Zamzar on running a bootstrapped SaaS with a sibling for two decades. The blog post traces the long haul: 766 million files converted, two chameleons in th…
Nolan Lawson built the same Pokémon app five times with twelve different JavaScript frameworks, using Claude Code agents, to measure what each framework actually costs in AI-assisted development. He…
Anthropic and other labs say text watermarking leaves Claude's quality untouched, citing Google's SynthID-Text and human tests. But the paper's own supplement admits a diversity/detectability trade-o…
Nearly 450 years ago, an unnamed Ñudzahui (Mixtec) painter created the Mapa de Teozacoalco for King Philip II of Spain, responding to a royal survey. The map encodes his community’s history and land…
Since 2005, when Yves Couder and Emmanuel Fort found that droplets walking on a vibrating fluid bath mimic quantum phenomena, John W. M. Bush's MIT group has explored these hydrodynamic quantum analo…
Laura Miller reviews Emily Ogden's Darkness Becomes Bright, a slim essay collection arguing that Poe, rarely named among quintessential American writers, may be the most influential of them all. Ogde…
BBRouter brings Ben Eater's iconic SAP-1 8-bit computer to life in your browser with interactive 3D breadboards. Wire up chips, LEDs, and switches just like on a real bench, then run the simulation t…
When Linux panics, it can display a QR code containing the compressed crash log. This Python script uses ZXingReader to scan that QR code from a screenshot or photo, then decodes the decimal-digit pa…
A survey tracing four decades of just-in-time compilation research, from its earliest roots in the 1960s through the turn of the millennium. The paper maps how the idea evolved across languages and s…
oTAPE is an open specification for digital cassettes: a single .otape file (ZIP plus JSON) holds two fixed-length sides, each one continuous take, along with the label, J-card, artwork and record tab…
In 2010, a designer on Google's UX team was asked to build a playable Pac-Man doodle for the homepage's 30th anniversary. The team added autoplay with sound after 10 seconds of inactivity, assuming f…
Kleene's second recursion theorem guarantees that quines exist, but how hard is it to actually build one from the construction? The author walks through a functional-programming presentation of the t…
A software engineer visiting Japan finds the country's train booking systems as baffling as its trains are brilliant. The JR network is split across six regional companies with separate platforms, ov…
Fastmail explains the layered reality of email encryption: TLS protects the connection to your provider, opportunistic TLS covers server-to-server transit, and disk encryption guards stored mail. MTA…
After four hours of public comment and two postponed meetings, the Hermantown City Council unanimously approved agreements for a 1.7 million-square-foot Google data center on over 200 acres near Dulu…
A native desktop IDE built with Rust and Tauri that recreates the IntelliJ IDEA experience: the familiar keymap, tool windows, and search-everywhere, plus an editor, code insight, debugger, Git, term…