90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks

The authors created a Benchmark Map to measure AI capabilities across the US economy, covering 923 occupations and 18,797 tasks. The map shows that only 90% of American working hours are spent on tasks with little or no coverage from existing benchmarks.

Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio

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Researchers can now run the latest frontier-class model, Muse Spark Open, with nearly a trillion parameters on Mac Studio using MLX. The framework leverages Apple silicon's unified memory architecture for efficient inference and fine-tuning methods.

eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear

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Amateur radio operators in Florida played a crucial role in supporting emergency communications during Hurricane Isaias, while eBay has imposed new restrictions on listings of radio transmitting equipment due to FCC rules.

Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD

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Calif Research publishes defensive work, including remediation and patch generation for open-source projects. They recently discovered a 37-year-old vulnerability in OpenBSD that could lead to local root access via a race condition and out-of-bounds write.

What on Earth Is Dekton?

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The author shares his experience with a high-tech porcelain cooktop, highlighting the evolution of porcelain from ancient China to modern-day innovations. He explains how traditional porcelain was made using kaolin and other materials, but modern advancements have led to stronger, more durable products like Dekton.

Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft

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LLMs compete in StarSkirmish, a test of long horizon reasoning and agentic coding, with the top model scoring 37-39 wins against competitive human bots. GPT-6 Astra is the top scorer, followed by Gemini 4 Argon and Claude Opus 5.5.

I Love Software Rendering

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The author prefers software rendering in classic DOS games for its gritty, textured look and nostalgic value. They argue that modern hardware can handle high resolutions with a software renderer, but finding original DOS versions running on real hardware is the ultimate goal.

Stolen Renoir paintings found hidden, and damaged, behind cinder block wall

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Two Renoir paintings stolen from a French museum were recovered hidden behind a wall, sustaining slight damage. A 29-year-old man was charged after DNA evidence linked him to the theft and recovery of the artworks.

Piramidal (YC W24) Is Hiring

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Piramidal is hiring a backend engineer to build and scale the infrastructure behind their real-time neural monitoring platform. The role involves designing, building, and maintaining services that process high-frequency time series data for medical applications.

Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude

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Researchers used AI to design quantum circuits for chemistry, optimization, and number theory problems. The AI system improved upon existing designs by reducing the number of qubits and gates needed, potentially making practical quantum computers sooner than expected.

Tesla Roadster

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RFC8950: Announce IPv4 with an IPv6 next-hop

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The RFC8950 setup allows IPv4 to be routed over an IPv6 network without tunnels, making it possible for a backbone network to run IPv6 only at its core while still supporting IPv4 on edge devices. This feature is widely supported by many routing platforms and can simplify the deployment of dual-stacked networks.

JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases

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AVIF generally produces smaller files than JPEG XL, but the gap narrows at maximum effort settings. AVIF is faster to encode and decode, uses less memory, and has better support for progressive rendering. However, JPEG XL can make existing JPEGs 9-20% smaller without further loss and is faster to decode at very high qualities in some browsers.

Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video]

Is Liquid Metal Killing Our PCs? Scientific Analysis and a 2-Year Test [video]

Yet another way to invoke functions without parentheses

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A malicious payload overwrites the Error object's prepareStackTrace function to generate arbitrary JavaScript functions, then invokes them using the valueOf trick or toString method.

Making 1,750 programmable PCB badges for Canada's biggest hackathon

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The author created a hardware badge for Hack the North, Canada's biggest hackathon, with the goal of bringing badge culture into mainstream hackathons. The project involved multiple iterations and lessons learned about manufacturing, design, and communication with the manufacturer.

How to make System 1 LLMs show System 2 competencies?

Show HN: rStation – A shared research lab for your AI agents

Independent agents discuss research problems and publish reviewed papers. Humans welcome to observe. Math · AI · Computer science · General · Reviewed papers

Postgres 19 delayed after AI reviewers find more bugs than humans can fix

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PostgreSQL 19 release has been delayed to November 19 due to the removal of several features, including SQL Property Graph Queries. The delay is attributed to LLM-assisted code review uncovering significant architectural defects and relatively harmless issues in the original code.

US Rep Announces Congressional Legislation to Protect Video Game Ownership

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Rep. Ritchie Torres introduces the Power To The Players Act to protect consumers' ability to own and play video games they purchase, addressing digital-only game sales with revocable licenses.

How gyroscopes got so small [video]

What was a Token Ring network?

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Token Ring was a networking technology developed by IBM in the 1980s that competed with Ethernet, ultimately losing due to its higher cost and limited scalability. Token Ring's robustness and lack of collisions made it appealing, but its inability to keep up with Ethernet's speed advancements led to its decline.

The Economic Complexity of the Western Roman Empire

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The author and colleagues calculated the Economic Complexity of the Roman Empire using Latin inscriptions, correcting for biases such as status bias and historiography bias. The result showed a significant correlation between ancient and modern economic complexity values across different geographical divisions.

Show HN: Wonderhop – A daily game: guess what most people say, or what none do

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A daily game with 4 questions, each lasting 30 seconds, where answers determine scores and rankings. Correct answers earn points, while incorrect ones sink you in the "abyss" or propel you through time in the "past/future" sections.

Inside Polymarket's paid quote-retweet esports program

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A paid tier of the newsletter ReaderGrev has been launched, with all subscription money going towards reporting and publishing costs. The newsletter will cover prediction markets' growing influence in esports beyond just reporting.

Anthropic assigned highest junk credit rating in June

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AB Fab – On Anthony Burgess

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E​ someone told me they’d seen ‘something online’ about Andy Burnham, back when he was mayor of Greater Manchester, appearing on Celebrity Mastermind and taking the life and works of Anthony Burgess as his specialist subject. It didn’t end well: Burnham came to grief on the sharp rocks at the foot of the sheer cliff-face of the gargantuan, labyrinthine, impossibly variegated Burgess canon. ...

AI-assisted PCB design for KiCad 10

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Konnect is a native KiCAD plugin that uses the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to enable AI-assisted PCB design. It offers 228 tools across 21 on-demand toolsets for schematic capture, PCB layout and routing, and more.

A story of WiFi secrets, UART lockdowns and a damaged flash memory chip

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The author successfully bypassed the UART lockdown on an Eufy HomeBase 2 device, allowing them to debug key services and search for vulnerabilities. They achieved this by modifying a recovery image that was loaded into the device's flash chip, which contained a backdoored shell with root privileges.