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Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen

451 solarist 2026-10-06 10:22:16 UTC nobelprize.org Llama Share 150

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 was awarded to Francis Halzen for his contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The award is announced live on nobelprize.org from October 5-12.

Berthd

20 handfuloflight 2026-10-06 19:22:16 UTC berthd.app Llama Share 15

Berth is a tool that runs coding agents on local dev boxes, allowing work from anywhere. It creates a worktree and manages multiple agents with their own tabs and features.

Tapo (Rust/Python library) now speaks TP-Link's TPAP protocol

111 faithraven 2026-10-06 14:22:16 UTC mihai.dinculescu.dev Llama Share 50

The Tapo library has been updated to v0.11.1, adding support for TPAP protocol and allowing devices to communicate without the Third-Party Compatibility switch enabled. This change improves security by reducing the risk of password exposure during login attempts.

Lawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb Flock After 404 Media Coverage

26 awoodbeck 2026-10-06 19:55:16 UTC 404media.co Llama Share 6

Lawmakers from various parties have introduced legislation to curb federal agencies' access to Flock cameras, citing concerns over privacy and surveillance. The proposed Ban Flock Act would prohibit the use of automatic license plate readers and allow Americans to sue the federal government for violating their rights through these cameras.

Benchmark in Milliseconds

101 surprisetalk 2026-10-06 13:22:16 UTC matklad.github.io Llama Share 24

A micro benchmark should run for about 300ms to provide a human-perceptible range, allowing for easy comparison and iteration. This duration strikes a balance between precision and speed, making it suitable for intuition-based decision-making rather than precise measurement.

The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)

81 _reza 2026-10-06 15:22:16 UTC worrydream.com Llama Share 36

The author recounts the development of Smalltalk, a programming language that combined object-oriented design with interactive computing. The language was influenced by various ideas from the 1960s, including Sketchpad, Simula, and LISP.

Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore

255 ingve 2026-10-06 08:22:16 UTC gleam.run Llama Share 103

Gleam v1.19.0 has been released with significant improvements, including a rewritten Erlang code generator that outputs Erlang abstract forms, resulting in faster compilation times and improved accuracy of line numbers in BEAM crash reports. The new compiler also includes various bug fixes and enhancements for JavaScript support, type checking, and language server functionality.

Mathematics of Geothermal Energy

56 srameshc 2026-10-06 13:22:16 UTC ebsco.com Llama Share 25

Geothermal energy harnesses heat from the Earth's interior to produce electricity or provide domestic heating. The temperature increases with depth, making high-gradient areas prime locations for geothermal projects.

Show HN: I turned my iPhone and a $20 smart plug into an f-stop timer

44 pentakkusu 2026-10-06 14:22:16 UTC peterszentkiralyi.eu Llama Share 4

Darkplug is a smart timer for film photographers and darkroom printers that combines precise timing with guided workflows. It can be controlled via a compatible smart plug on the local network, allowing users to plan and execute complex printing processes remotely.

Subquadratic 3SUM and Subcubic APSP

67 mauriziocalo 2026-10-06 13:22:16 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 23

Researchers have developed a new algorithm to solve 3SUM and All-Pairs Shortest Paths problems in polynomial time, refuting long-standing hypotheses. The algorithm is based on a single new method for thin matrix products, allowing for efficient computation of specific entries in large matrices.

Polars 2.0

362 simicd 2026-10-06 12:22:16 UTC pola.rs Llama Share 84

Polars 2.0 introduces significant features, including first-class SQL support and performance improvements that surpass DataFusion and DuckDB in TPC-H and TPC-DS1 benchmarks. The new version also includes out-of-core capabilities, improved scaling with more cores, and enhanced strictness for error handling.

Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is overestimated: study

269 pseudolus 2026-10-06 11:22:16 UTC phys.org Full Share 133

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Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model

527 Philpax 2026-10-05 20:22:16 UTC reflection.ai Llama Share 164

Beam is a large language model that combines pretraining and reinforcement learning to achieve strong performance in coding, agentic, and reasoning tasks. It was trained on 23.8 trillion high-quality tokens from the web and proprietary licensed datasets using a novel scaling recipe for reinforcement learning.

Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades

318 jgx0 2026-10-05 23:22:16 UTC debugbear.com Llama Share 219

The example.com domain has undergone several changes over the years, with updates aimed at reducing bandwidth demands and improving its utility. The latest redesign introduces multi-language support using JavaScript, showing content in a new language every 5 seconds.

Show HN: Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min

61 yashdotrv 2026-10-06 14:22:16 UTC parseable.com Llama Share 13

Deploy Parseable on a cloud for unified telemetry data, with features like SQL querying, dashboards, alerts and object storage-native data management. It offers full control and ownership of the data in open formats.

What's Earth's dominant species by mass?

44 surprisetalk 2026-10-06 13:22:16 UTC signoregalilei.com Llama Share 11

Humans and Antarctic krill have the highest biomass among animals, but cattle surpass them. Humans weigh around 350 million metric tons, while krill weigh about 379 million metric tons.

Find the flattest route between any two points in SF

288 ishan0102 2026-10-05 22:22:16 UTC flattensf.com Llama Share 101

The route is computed using 1m lidar elevation and street graph data, balancing distance and climbing. The slider offers various options, excluding stairways on bikes while allowing them on foot.

Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation

260 E-Reverance 2026-10-05 21:22:16 UTC qlabs.sh Llama Share 73

Researchers have developed a zeroth-order optimization algorithm called Dust that is competitive with backpropagation at pretraining transformer language models. The algorithm perturbs activations independently at every token, allowing for parallel evaluation and efficient computation.

Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason

98 semiquaver 2026-10-06 17:22:16 UTC reuters.com Full Share 85

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Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend

295 ibobev 2026-10-05 23:22:16 UTC dbushell.com Llama Share 219

The author has returned to using Node.js after a long period of using Deno, finding it more modern and stable. They've switched to PNPM for package management and are exploring other built-in Node APIs to improve performance.

Direct retinal projection display for smart glasses using a meta-optic mirror

110 bookofjoe 2026-10-06 04:22:16 UTC tdk.com Full Share 51

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Best-selling Zigbee temperature sensors tested and compared

212 walrus01 2026-10-05 21:22:16 UTC smarthomescene.com Llama Share 113

The article compares 12 Zigbee temperature and humidity sensors from various brands, including Aqara, Sonoff, Tuya, Thirdreality, Zemismart, and Moes. The sensors were tested for accuracy and reporting interval using a calibrated reference sensor in a controlled environment.

World's First enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months

134 hochmartinez 2026-10-06 12:22:16 UTC techcrunch.com Llama Share 54

Fervo has reached a key commercial milestone by synchronizing its 100-megawatt power plant with the grid, ahead of schedule. The company aims to complete future blocks in as little as 18 months, appealing to data center operators seeking generating capacity.

AI is now capable of developing its own inference hardware

165 fsbonetto 2026-10-06 17:22:16 UTC github.com/fesens Llama Share 196

openTPU is a learning project that brings auto-arch-tournament lessons to AI accelerators, testing how far agents can design hardware and build chips. It measures performance on various models with real weights on an Inspur YPCB-00338 card.

Erdosproblems.com Succumbs to the AI Onslaught

32 pfdietz 2026-10-06 13:22:16 UTC erdosproblems.com Full Share 3

Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf]

295 vinhnx 2026-10-05 20:22:16 UTC cses.fi Llama Share 72

This book provides a thorough introduction to competitive programming, focusing on algorithms and mathematical thinking. It is suitable for students interested in IOI or ICPC, as well as anyone looking to learn about competitive programming.

EmbeddingGemma 2

13 ilreb 2026-10-06 16:22:16 UTC blog.google Llama Share 1

EmbeddingGemma 2 is a multimodal model that unifies code, images, video, and audio in a shared embedding space. It achieves leading scores among sub-1B multimodal embedders for its size across benchmarks like MTEB and MAEB while matching or outperforming larger models.

The complement of true is true, except when it's false

65 aw1621107 2026-10-06 06:22:16 UTC dryperspective.github.io Llama Share 25

The C++ standard proposal P4313R1 aims to add bitmask operations for enums using a C++26 annotation, but it has uncovered issues with integral promotion and boolean conversion. The code can produce unexpected results due to the language's behavior when performing bitwise operations on smaller-than-int types, which are promoted up to int before being combined.

The lamps in my house

314 farslan 2026-10-05 20:22:16 UTC arslan.io Llama Share 117

The author shares their passion for designer lamps, showcasing 15 unique pieces from various designers and eras. They discuss the value of these lamps, which can be expensive but hold sentimental worth for them.