An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

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An AI system has autonomously resolved the planar unit distance problem, a longstanding open problem in combinatorial geometry. The proof uses algebraic number theory to create unit-length differences among points in the plane.

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension

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GitHub was breached after an employee installed a malicious VS Code extension, exposing 3,800 internal repositories. The company removed the extension and secured the device, with no evidence of customer data being affected.

Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers

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Phosphene is a macOS app that plays video files as desktop and lock-screen wallpaper. It uses Apple's private WallpaperExtensionKit framework for gapless looping and power-aware playback.

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What is Demand Coop and why tech workers should join one

Cahootz is a network of co-ops that pools and directs spending power to build communal businesses and assets. It aims to reduce economic leakage by coordinating demand and creating long-term ownership within communities.

Colorado Amended SB051 (Age Verification Bill) to Exclude Open Source Projects

To resolve the security verification issue on legiscan.com, check your internet and firewall settings to ensure they're not blocking access to challenges.cloudflare.com. If issues persist, refer to Cloudflare's troubleshooting documentation or your browser/device's documentation for further assistance.

The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf]

A l t h e ruler-and-compass program can be used to draw arcs from points i and j. m c s y r o n d g p u k w f x v - q, 5, z / b'0 ; th ere is no need for

Flipper One Tech Specs

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The Flipper One has 8 cores, 4 high-performance and 4 efficiency, up to 2.2 GHz. It has various interfaces including PCIe, USB, SATA, and more.

Your Most Improbable Life

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To become the most improbable person you can be, align yourself with the universe's grand arc of increasing unlikeliness. By embracing your unique talents and traits, you'll occupy your own niche, reduce competition, and make yourself less replaceable by AIs.

How fast is N tokens per second really?

The tool simulates LLM throughput by rendering code and reasoning sentences at varying token rates. It approximates BPE-style tokenization, showing how different content types affect perceived performance.

Haskell Foundation 2026 Update

The Haskell Foundation has been at the center of a flurry of changes, all of which I’d like to share with the community today. First, José, our executive director for the past few years, has decided to step away from his role in June 2026. José has been the longest-serving executive director at the Haskell Foundation, spending his time interacting with and supporting the community in many ...

Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier

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Qwen3.7-Max is a versatile agent foundation model designed for the agent era, capable of writing and debugging code, automating office workflows, and sustaining autonomous execution. It excels in coding, office automation, and long-horizon tasks, demonstrating strong performance across various benchmarks.

Archaeologists find Egyptian mummy buried with the 'Iliad'

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A 1,600-year-old Roman-era tomb in Egypt contained pages from Homer's Iliad. The ancient Egyptians valued Greek literature, using it as a cultural passport and even crediting it with curative properties.

Saying goodbye to asm.js

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Mozilla is disabling asm.js by default in Firefox 148 and plans to remove it due to WebAssembly's success and maintenance costs. Users are encouraged to recompile asm.js content to WebAssembly for faster execution and smaller binaries.

Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI

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Intuit is laying off 18,200 employees to simplify its corporate structure and focus on AI efforts. The move comes as the tech industry cuts over 100,000 jobs this year, citing AI project refocusing.

Why is Inkwell stuck in review

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The user's iOS app, Inkwell, has been repeatedly rejected by Apple due to various issues including design problems, lack of reporting and blocking features, and trademark concerns. The user has made numerous changes and appeals, but is still waiting to hear back from Apple, citing concerns about the company's use of its control over iOS app distribution to enforce a trademark that has been ...

Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025)

Qian Xuesen, a Chinese scientist, was deported to China in 1955 after being accused of Communist ties in the US. He went on to develop China's space and nuclear programs, creating technologies that now threaten US naval dominance.

Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back

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Google and other AI companies have been updating their policies to address the issue of AI manipulation, but experts say it's still a serious problem and people are finding new ways to fool the system. The best defence against AI manipulation is to be cautious and remember that AI tools can give biased or inaccurate information, so it's essential to verify the information through multiple sources.

SpaceX S-1

SEC limits automated tool requests to prevent network overload and ensure equitable access. Excessive requests may be blocked for 10 minutes before access is resumed.

Show HN: CPU-only transcription for YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram videos

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yapsnap is a Python tool that transcribes audio and video files into plaintext on a CPU, without GPU or cloud usage. It uses ffmpeg for decoding and a streaming Zipformer2 transducer for recognition, with optional sentence-level timestamps and speed control.

Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet

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Sharla Boehm, a math teacher turned computer programmer, created a groundbreaking simulation in the 1960s that laid the foundation for the modern internet. Her work, known as "hot potato routing," allowed messages to be sent through computers without relying on central nodes, making it a crucial technology for the development of the internet.

Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension

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Google Cloud suspended Railway's production account, causing an 8-hour platform-wide outage. Railway is making changes to prevent similar incidents, including removing Google Cloud dependencies and extending high availability database shards.

SBCL: the ultimate assembly code breadboard (2014)

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The user is designing a virtual machine with a small stack and exploring techniques to optimize its performance, including specialising primitives for a restricted stack size and using indirect jumps to reduce data shuffling. They are using SBCL to generate domain-specific machine code and experimenting with different control flow primitives, including unconditional jumps, calls, and ...

Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP

A web app called yes-we-scan.app allows users to access old USB scanners via their browser. It uses v86 to emulate an x86 CPU and SANE to connect to scanners over USB/IP.

Google Declaring War on the Web

The working class must break the capitalist system's hold through self-reliance and resistance. This is a fundamental fact for social reconstruction and the use-value of the kingdom to the working class.

A Markdown-based test suite

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A newsletter on operating systems, build systems, programming languages, software engineering, and my own software projects. Specifics include FreeBSD, Linux, Rust, Bazel and EndBASIC. By subscribing, you agree Substack's Terms of Use, and acknowledge its Information Collection Notice and Privacy Policy. This article is not about AI and it is not written with AI, but the work that I’m ...

I'm Filing for Justice Samuel Alito's Disbarment

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A complaint has been filed against Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for violating New Jersey's bar rule and potentially a state bribery statute due to his failure to recuse himself from cases involving a billionaire donor who gave him a private jet trip in 2008. The complaint alleges that Alito's actions create an appearance of impropriety and potentially a quid pro quo arrangement, and ...

Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE

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Meta restricted Facebook and Instagram accounts of NGOs and activists in Saudi Arabia and UAE at the request of the governments, violating freedom of expression and access to information. The undersigned organisations call on Meta to be transparent about its human rights assessments and notify affected users with specific details about the restricted content.

PopuLoRA: Co-Evolving LLM Populations for Reasoning Self- Play

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PopuLoRA is a system that trains co-evolving populations of teacher and student large language models to generate and solve verifiable tasks, resulting in a self-adaptive curriculum that keeps expanding throughout training. This approach outperforms single-agent self-play on code and math benchmarks, suggesting a practical path for self-play and self-improving systems that can generate part ...

Formal Verification Gates for AI Coding Loops

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Shen-Backpressure is a tool that uses a small, statically-typed Lisp to enforce invariants in production software by lowering them into guard types in the target language. This approach provides deterministic signals that tell you whether the artifact has the shape you intend, making it a high-leverage tool for production AI coding loops.