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On CPU Physics and CPU Cycles

signa11·7h ago48pts

6IT

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Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg

redbell·14h ago232pts

depthfirst

CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers

gmays·21h ago854pts

Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency

nekofneko·1d ago383pts

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter

DASD·16h ago209pts

TrueType is a widely used vector font standard for rendering text in web pages, PDFs, operating systems, and applications. Familiar fonts like Helvetica, Garamond, and Monaco are all built on TrueType outlines. The format specifies a hinting interpreter intended to help outlines rasterize faithfully on low-resolution displays. Modern high-resolution displays enable beautiful typography from outlines alone, but TrueType fonts that need hinting to render legibly remain in use and we continue to su

AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit

keyle·1d ago237pts

Last Updated: 2026-06-12T18:14:29Z (UTC) What’s Happening It appears a new AUR package maintainer impersonating a trusted maintainer adopted and infected 408+ packages. The compromise was reported and other AUR maintai…

WASI 0.3

mavdol04·22h ago229pts

https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/releases/tag/v0.3.0

Adaptive PDFs

SarthakGaud·19h ago140pts

An idea for PDFs that render normally for humans while exposing clean markdown structure to extractors and LLMs in the same file.

Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself

ibobev·20h ago117pts

At first, scientists thought Earth’s water came from comets. Then, asteroids. Now, they wonder if Earth’s water is homegrown.

Tesla Full Self Driving uses bicycle lane in official Denmark approval video

Veserv·18h ago43pts

Teslas PR-video for selvkørende biler i Danmark viser flere fejl i den københavnske trafik. Cyklistforbundet og FDM er bekymrede.

Looking Forward to Postgres 19: It's About Time

xngbuilds·19h ago128pts

Postgres 19 brings native temporal table support. Shaun Thomas covers WITHOUT OVERLAPS, FOR PORTION OF, and temporal foreign keys - and what's still missing.

Introduction to UEFI HTTP(s) Boot with QEMU/OVMF

jtlebigot·21h ago92pts

Yet another enthusiast blog!There is no great achievement without great challenges.About meGitHubIntroduction to UEFI HTTP(S) boot with Qemu/OVMFJun 12, 2026 #qemu #ovmf #boot The historic go-to solution for network booting is PXE. PXE is based on DHCP and TFTP. It is tricky to correctly configure, even trickier to make it highly available and good luck with the security with this clear-text unsigned protocol.The modern web has long standardized on HTTPS with TLS certific

AMD Stiffs Researcher $10k Bug Bounty

worik·13h ago89pts

AMD's auto-updater downloaded software over insecure HTTP, letting attackers inject malware during updates before a 124-day delayed fix.

This Week

Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0

mikemcquaid·1d ago1368pts

Today, I’m proud to announce Homebrew 6.0.0. The most significant changes since 5.1.0 are a new tap trust security mechanism, the new faster, smaller, default internal Homebrew JSON API, sandboxing on Linux, better defaults informed by our user survey, many brew bundle improvements, improved performance and initial support for macOS 27 (Golden Gate).Happy to discuss any questions here!

Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware

marc__1·1d ago407pts

https://socket.dev/blog/mini-shai-hulud-miasma-and-hades-wor...

Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones

vrganj·2d ago669pts

Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks

bugvader·1d ago373pts

We benchmarked Claude Fable 5 on 200 real-world coding tasks for the Agent Security League.

Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time

neilfrndes·1d ago404pts

Solar supplied 12.8% of US electricity in May even as Trump boosts coal over clean energy

macOS Container Machines

timsneath·3d ago1175pts

A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It is written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon. - container/docs/container-machine.md at main · apple/container

AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere

tanelpoder·2d ago527pts

Agentic AI systems can be used to do a variety of things autonomously on behalf of a human user [...]

The RCE that AMD wouldn't fix

MrBruh·1d ago291pts

See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HjWHNLRMB0Related: The RCE that AMD won't fix - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46906947 - Feb 2026 (173 comments)

FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs

berlianta·3d ago512pts

https://archive.is/ZobUQ

MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second

gainsurier·4d ago603pts

MiMo, in collaboration with TileRT, releases the UltraSpeed mode of Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5-Pro — breaking 1000 tokens/s generation speed on a 1T-parameter model for the first time on commodity GPUs through extreme model-system codesign.

AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models

TomAnthony·3d ago354pts

> For Fable 5, Mythos 5, and future models on Bedrock with similar or higher capability levels, Anthropic will require 30-day retention for all traffic on Mythos-class models. Retaining data for a limited period allows Anthropic to detect patterns of misuse that are not visible from a single exchange. Once you opt into data retention, your data will leave AWS’s data and security boundary.From the announcement here: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/anthropic-claude-fable-5-on...> After 30 days, the data is deleted automatically, except in the rare cases where it's part of a safety investigation or we're legally required to keep it.From: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15425996-data-retenti...

Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]

piskov·4d ago401pts

Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time

deadgopher·2d ago170pts

A senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry told New Scientist that a test took place two years ago involving fully autonomous drones set to destroy anything in a given area, with confirmed casualties

Global population movements from 1990 to 2023

tzury·2d ago83pts

https://www.socsc.hku.hk/rhps/global-migration/

BYD is bringing its 5-min 'Flash' electric car charging to Canada

breve·2d ago80pts

BYD is hiring to build its 1,500 kW Flash Charging network in Canada - 5-minute EV charging that works at -20C, a North American first.

Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles

robin_reala·2d ago139pts

A comprehensive history of web browsers on video game consoles. From the CD-i to modern systems, exploring the evolution of the web on consoles in detail. Covering bespoke iterations, releases by PlanetWeb and NetFront, contemporary engines across Sega, PlayStation, Nintendo, and Xbox platforms, and other details.

Notes on DeepSeek

vinhnx·2d ago165pts

Older

OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors

donsupreme·1mo ago470pts

Researchers say results mark a really ‘profound change in technology that will reshape medicine’

Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters

amrrs·1mo ago640pts

An overview of how Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) drafters are making Gemma 4 models up to 3x faster at inference.

A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury

unignorant·1mo ago399pts

What it takes to run 2 million lines of Haskell in production at a fintech company serving 300,000 businesses.

Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers

samcollins·1mo ago359pts

A technique for accurate text and numbers in AI-generated images: generate the layout deterministically, then ask the image model to paint on top.

ProgramBench: Can language models rebuild programs from scratch?

jonbaer·1mo ago129pts

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.03546: ProgramBench: Can Language Models Rebuild Programs From Scratch?

Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026?

pmig·1mo ago395pts

Yes, plain Docker Compose can still run production workloads in 2026—if you close the operational gaps it leaves: cleanup, healing, image pinning, socket security, and updates.

Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs

palashawas·1mo ago458pts

We benchmarked computer use against auto-generated API endpoints on the same admin panel. 53 steps and 551k tokens vs 8 calls and 12k tokens.

Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust

SergeAx·1mo ago391pts

Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one - docs: add Phase-A porting guide · oven-sh/bun@46d3bc2

Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks

littlexsparkee·1mo ago264pts

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

john-doe·1mo ago1591pts

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users

ZAYA1-8B matches DeepSeek-R1 on math with less than 1B active parameters

steveharing1·1mo ago87pts

Who should care If you work with math, science problems, or complex coding tasks and you're looking for something small enough to run locally or cheaply via API, this is worth serious evaluation. The benchmark numbers at 760M active parameters are not normal and the Markovian RSA boost means performance scales with compute budget rather than hitting a fixed ceiling. If you're building agent workflows that need reliable tool calling or multi-step instruction following, look elsewhere fo

Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web

bring-shrubbery·1mo ago170pts

Hi HN, author here. SHARP is Apple's recent single-image 3D Gaussian splatting model (https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10685). Their reference code is PyTorch + a pretty heavy pipeline; I wanted to see if it could run in a browser with no server hop, so I exported the predictor to ONNX and ran it via onnxruntime-web with the WebGPU EP.What works: drop in an image, get a .ply you can download or preview live, all on your machine — your image never leaves the tab. The model is large (~2.4 GB sidecar) so first load is slow on a cold cache, but inference itself is a few seconds on a recent Mac.Caveats: SHARP's released weights are research-use only (Apple's model license, not the code's). I host the exported ONNX on R2 so thedemo "just works", but you can also export your own from the upstream Apple repo and upload locally.Happy to talk about it in the comments :)

Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

haunter·1mo ago1663pts

Modders, start your engines.

Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem

ozkatz·1mo ago181pts

Tilde turns running AI agents and pipelines on real data into a transactional, auditable operation. Compose GitHub, S3, and Drive as one versioned filesystem. Roll back any run with one command. Every network call audited.

Text-to-CAD

softservo·1mo ago146pts

An open source harness for generating CAD models. Contribute to earthtojake/text-to-cad development by creating an account on GitHub.

Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027

rdeboo·1mo ago520pts

Starting in 2027, smartphone batteries will once again be replaceable in the EU. Learn all about the new regulation and what this means for users.

GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents

gmays·1mo ago149pts

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2604.26752: GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents

DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved

warpspin·1mo ago724pts

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RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust

atilimcetin·1mo ago164pts

Rust TeX-style math layout with KaTeX-aligned golden tests. Ready-to-use packages for Web (WASM), iOS, Android, Flutter, and React Native—same display list everywhere.

Changing how we develop Ladybird

EdwinHoksberg·8d ago812pts

Ladybird is changing how code enters the project as we prepare to ship a browser to real users.