Magnifica Humanitas (Encyclical Letter)

171 theletterf 2026-05-25 10:18:38 UTC vatican.va Llama Share 43

The Church calls for a shared discernment process to navigate the challenges of emerging technologies and build a more just world. Christians must choose between constructing a Tower of Babel or rebuilding Jerusalem, prioritizing human dignity and communion over profit and self-sufficiency.

IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry

24 rbanffy 2026-05-25 10:18:38 UTC futurumgroup.com Llama Share 2

IBM's Anderon foundry receives $1 billion in CHIPS incentives to establish a 300mm quantum wafer fabrication facility. The funding structure creates a two-tier quantum ecosystem, favoring superconducting silicon architectures over competing modalities.

Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006)

168 kelseyfrog 2026-05-25 03:18:38 UTC pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Llama Share 68

Didgeridoo playing reduced daytime sleepiness and apnoea-hypopnoea index in patients with moderate obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome. It also improved sleep quality for partners.

GPT Guesses Between 1 and 100

10 adunk 2026-05-25 11:47:38 UTC github.com/exmergo Llama Share 2

An experiment was conducted to test whether a large language model (LLM) behaves like a fair random number generator by asking it to pick a random number between 1 and 100 10,000 times. The results showed that the LLM, gpt-4.1, produced a lumpy distribution that inherited human-like biases, such as avoiding round numbers and favoring certain "messy" numbers.

Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web

398 pantelisk 2026-05-24 21:18:38 UTC audiomass.co Llama Share 87

AudioMass is a free, open source web-based audio editor running in the browser with no plugins required. It supports various audio operations and effects, with key shortcuts using Shift + key combos.

Show HN: Geomatic – a command-driven geometry studio enabled with autodiff

29 nivter 2026-05-25 09:18:38 UTC tinyvolt.com Full Share 6

Geometric editor with slash command autocomplete

DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost

595 Alifatisk 2026-05-24 13:18:38 UTC esengine.github.io Llama Share 247

Reasonix is a terminal-based AI coding agent for DeepSeek, engineered for prefix-cache stability. It's a free, MIT-licensed project with a paid DeepSeek API key.

Migrating from Go to Rust

319 jabits 2026-05-24 19:18:38 UTC corrode.dev Llama Share 314

Go developers considering Rust are often motivated by correctness guarantees, runtime tradeoffs, and developer ergonomics, rather than performance. Rust's type system and borrow checker provide stronger guarantees and more explicit control over runtime behavior, but can be more verbose and require a different mindset.

White Rabbit – sub-nanosecond synchronization for large distributed systems

123 michaelsbradley 2026-05-25 00:18:38 UTC ohwr.org Llama Share 28

White Rabbit provides sub-nanosecond accuracy and picoseconds precision for large distributed systems with deterministic data delivery. CERN is recruiting FPGA and hardware designers to work on White Rabbit switch v4 and other projects.

Jira Is Turing-Complete

202 vinhnx 2026-05-25 04:18:38 UTC seriot.ch Llama Share 86

Jira's automation language is Turing-complete due to a Minsky register machine reduction. It uses two counters and finite instructions to simulate any computation.

AI errno(2) values

15 zdw 2026-05-25 09:18:38 UTC netmeister.org Llama Share 2

This C header file defines custom error codes for AI-related issues. The codes cover various problems such as hallucination, system compromise, and excessive marketing.

Notes about reading messages with the Python email packages

24 ankitg12 2026-05-25 07:18:38 UTC utcc.utoronto.ca Llama Share 1

The user is blocked due to an old browser version or suspicious user agent. They can contact the author to resolve the issue or use a different browser like archive.org.

Bug 1950764: Work Around Crash on Intel Raptor Lake CPU

115 luu 2026-05-25 00:18:38 UTC phabricator.services.mozilla.com Full Share 37

I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph

569 dougdude3339 2026-05-24 12:18:38 UTC dougmacdowell.com Llama Share 95

I used to live on a quiet hill with a great view of the city, but now I live downtown and work with databases. I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph by hand, learning to control line weight and style, and now I appreciate the process and art of hand-drawn data visualization.

A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned

180 littlexsparkee 2026-05-24 21:18:38 UTC wired.com Llama Share 88

Researchers at Tohoku University discovered a new method to reduce aerodynamic drag by up to 43.6 percent using distributed micro-roughness. This technology, called DMR, delays the transition from laminar to turbulent flow, reducing frictional drag.

Bytecode VMs in surprising places (2024)

45 azhenley 2026-05-25 07:18:38 UTC dubroy.com Llama Share 18

Bytecode VMs are used in various places including SQLite, Linux kernel's eBPF, DWARF debug information, WinRAR file format, and TrueType font specification. These VMs are used for executing SQL statements, network packet filtering, debugging, data transformation, and rendering, among other tasks, often providing a flexible and efficient way to execute complex operations.

you_can::turn_off_the_borrow_checker

6 striking 2026-05-25 09:18:38 UTC docs.rs Prefix Share 0

You can’t “turn off the borrow checker” in Rust, and you shouldn’t want to. Rust’s references aren’t pointers, and the compiler is free to decimate code that tries to use references as though they are. If you need raw pointer behaviour in Rust, don’t use this, use Rust’s actual raw pointers, which don’t make the same aliasing guarantees to the compiler. However, if you would like to pretend ...

I love my Bluetooth keyboard

99 evakhoury 2026-05-25 04:18:38 UTC liquidbrain.net Llama Share 100

I used a Bluetooth keyboard with my phone on a 10-day trip to China, allowing me to type quickly and avoid lugging a computer. It's convenient but sometimes makes me verbose in text chains, and I miss the ability to easily switch between apps.

Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”

484 DamnInteresting 2026-05-24 12:18:38 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 171

Microsoft released source code for the 86-DOS 1.00 kernel and PC-DOS 1.00 kernel, along with utilities like CHKDSK. The code was transcribed from paper printouts by the DOS Disassembly Group, a team of historians and preservationists.

Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu

136 ikesau 2026-05-24 19:18:38 UTC ikesau.co Llama Share 142

The user describes a jujutsu version control system workflow to simplify feature development by compartmentalizing changes and reorganizing them at the end. This technique allows for easier iteration and debugging, but may have downsides like potential compilation issues.

Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation

251 wek 2026-05-24 13:18:38 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 144

Large Language Model agents struggle with structural constraints in code generation, exhibiting a decline in performance as requirements accumulate. Agents perform better in minimal frameworks but poorly in convention-heavy environments, with data-layer defects being the leading root cause of errors.

C constructs that still don't work in C++

89 jalospinoso 2026-05-25 02:18:38 UTC lospino.so Llama Share 84

C++ is not a superset of C, with differences in object model, initialization model, and invariants, requiring explicit language mode labeling. C++20 and C23 changes, such as designated initializers and function declarator rules, affect compatibility and require careful consideration of language mode.

Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine

97 sohkamyung 2026-05-24 19:18:38 UTC york.ac.uk Llama Share 37

Scientists have solved a 200-year mystery of how tobacco plants make nicotine, a discovery that could lead to safer production of medicines and vaccines. The breakthrough reveals the missing genes and enzymes needed to create nicotine, paving the way for better biotechnology tools.

Building Pi with Pi

118 mplanchard 2026-05-24 18:18:38 UTC lucumr.pocoo.org Llama Share 95

The author is frustrated with the quality of issues and code generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) in Open Source projects. They want humans to own their issue reports and not rely on LLMs to create slop.

Gorilla: A fast, scalable, in-memory time series database (2016)

20 xnorswap 2026-05-25 05:18:38 UTC blog.acolyer.org Llama Share 3

Facebook's Gorilla in-memory time-series database was designed to handle 700 million data points per minute, compressing data to fit 26 hours of data into memory. It uses a new time series compression algorithm to achieve an average 12x reduction in size, allowing for fast and efficient scans of all data.

Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs

401 intelkishan 2026-05-24 17:18:38 UTC epoch.ai Llama Share 426

Memory's share of AI chip component spending rose from 52% to 63% from Q1 2024 to Q4 2025. Total AI chip component spending increased from $22 billion in 2024 to $52 billion in 2025.

Using HTTP/2 Cleartext for a server in Go 1.24

94 dan_sbl 2026-05-24 19:18:38 UTC clarityboss.com Llama Share 10

Google Cloud Run has a known issue with client disconnects using HTTP/1.1, so we're switching to HTTP/2 cleartext (h2c) for better support. With Go 1.24, setting up h2c is simpler and can be configured directly on the http.Server.

Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links

291 spike021 2026-05-24 12:18:38 UTC techcrunch.com Llama Share 169

Scammers are abusing Microsoft's system to send fake emails from [email protected], potentially tricking people into thinking they're genuine. Microsoft is investigating and taking action to strengthen its detection and blocking mechanisms.

Childhood Computing

219 blenderob 2026-05-24 12:18:38 UTC susam.net Llama Share 103

The author's childhood computing experience began in the early 1990s at a school with a computer lab, where they learned to program in LOGO and played classic games like Moon Bugs and Space Invaders. The limited access to computers sparked creativity, leading to writing their own game, Andromeda Invaders, and a lifelong passion for computing.

Build Adafruit projects right from Firefox

173 mch82 2026-05-24 14:18:38 UTC firefox.com Full Share 63

Firefox gives Adafruit users a direct path from idea to connected hardware project — no extra tools or complex setup required. Use Web Serial to communicate with compatible devices from Firefox, right from supported web tools. Firefox is open source and made by Mozilla, the people-first organization behind an independent web.