Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole

746 zaik 2025-06-11 19:44:29 UTC port.ac.uk Llama Share 591

Scientists propose a new model, the black hole universe, where the Big Bang was a gravitational collapse and bounce inside a massive black hole. This model offers a different view of cosmic origins, grounded in known physics and observations, and makes testable predictions about the universe's curvature and expansion rate.

Chatterbox TTS

650 pinter69 2025-06-11 20:23:52 UTC github.com/resemble-ai Llama Share 184

Chatterbox is a production-grade open source TTS model licensed under MIT, offering emotion exaggeration control and ultra-low latency. It can be installed and used with Python 3.11 on Debian 11 OS.

Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub

605 petercooper 2025-06-11 21:37:04 UTC github.com/aasishpokhrel Full Share 136

We wanted to congratulate you on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub! ➜ curl -s https://api.github.com/repositories/1000000000 { "id": 1000000000, "node_id": "R_kgDOO5rKAA", "name": "shit", "full_name": "AasishPokhrel/shit", ...

Brian Wilson has died

390 coloneltcb 2025-06-11 16:52:49 UTC pitchfork.com Llama Share 127

Brian Wilson, Beach Boys co-founder and primary songwriter, has died at 82 due to a neurocognitive disorder. Wilson was a musical pioneer who influenced generations with his studio work and iconic songs like "Surfin'" and "Pet Sounds."

Show HN: Spark, An advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for Three.js

374 dmarcos 2025-06-11 17:02:56 UTC sparkjs.dev Full Share 86

Integrate in your scene with other meshes and splats, fast rendering on all devices, programmable dynamic splat effects, wide format support (ply, spz, splat, ksplat) Get started →

Menstrual tracking app data is gold mine for advertisers that risks women safety

341 Improvement 2025-06-11 12:31:15 UTC cam.ac.uk Llama Share 381

A new report from the University of Cambridge's Minderoo Centre warns that menstrual cycle tracking apps are a "gold mine" for consumer profiling, collecting intimate details and selling user data for profit. The report calls for better governance of the femtech industry to protect users and urges public health bodies to launch alternatives to commercial cycle tracking apps.

V-JEPA 2 world model and new benchmarks for physical reasoning

299 mfiguiere 2025-06-11 14:43:27 UTC ai.meta.com Full Share 91

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Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application

298 kenrick95 2025-06-11 12:44:15 UTC ikuyo.kenrick95.org Full Share 91

Plan your next trip!

It's the end of observability as we know it (and I feel fine)

294 gpi 2025-06-11 00:34:55 UTC honeycomb.io Llama Share 207

The history of observability tools has been about making complex telemetry data comprehensible to humans, but AI is changing this paradigm with universal function approximators like LLMs that can analyze and solve problems on their own. Traditional monitoring and observability tools will need to adapt to compete in a world where AI-assisted development and operations require fast, tight ...

Left-Pad (2024)

289 oeitho 2025-06-11 07:44:01 UTC azerkoculu.com Llama Share 197

The left-pad incident was a notable event where the author felt NPM broke its own rules by removing his packages, prompting him to unpublish all 350+ modules. This experience led to a personal transformation, shifting his passion from open-source to business and marketing, and a new life abroad.

DeskHog, an open-source developer toy

270 constantinum 2025-06-11 13:37:31 UTC posthog.com Llama Share 106

DeskHog is an open-source, hand-made micro games console with a 10-hour battery life and WiFi. It's a DIY device that can be built with AI editors or C++ and comes with a 240x135 color display.

Show HN: S3mini – Tiny and fast S3-compatible client, no-deps, edge-ready

254 neon_me 2025-06-11 08:55:47 UTC github.com/good-lly Llama Share 97

s3mini is a lightweight TypeScript client for S3-compatible object storage, supporting Node, Bun, and Cloudflare Workers. It averages 15% more ops/s and is ideal for edge computing and environments with limited resources.

Bypassing GitHub Actions policies in the dumbest way possible

241 woodruffw 2025-06-11 14:15:54 UTC blog.yossarian.net Llama Share 118

GitHub Actions has a policy mechanism to limit actions and reusable workflows, but it's trivial to bypass. The policy can be circumvented by cloning the action repository and using a local reference.

Show HN: RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player

235 gassi 2025-06-11 14:25:05 UTC github.com/rommapp Llama Share 95

RomM is a game collection manager for emulators with a clean interface and multiple platform support. It offers a Quick Start Guide and troubleshooting steps for users.

EchoLeak – 0-Click AI Vulnerability Enabling Data Exfiltration from 365 Copilot

222 pvg 2025-06-11 19:11:00 UTC aim.security Llama Share 80

Aim Labs discovered a zero-click AI vulnerability, "EchoLeak", in Microsoft 365 Copilot, allowing attackers to exfiltrate sensitive data without user interaction. The vulnerability exploits design flaws in RAG-based chatbots, enabling attackers to access privileged resources through an LLM.

Why Koreans ask what year you were born

211 bryanhogan 2025-06-11 06:53:06 UTC bryanhogan.com Llama Share 353

In South Korea, age is very important due to cultural and language reasons, including showing respect to elders and using different speech levels based on age. Koreans often ask for birth year instead of age because they use two different counting systems, international age and Korean age, where you gain a year on January 1st.

Firefox OS's story from a Mozilla insider not working on the project (2024)

195 todsacerdoti 2025-06-11 11:36:47 UTC ludovic.hirlimann.net Llama Share 148

Mozilla's Boot 2 Gecko project, later renamed Firefox OS, aimed to create a mobile browser platform but was ultimately unsuccessful due to prioritizing mobile over desktop and neglecting quality. The project's demise led to Mozilla refocusing on its source of revenue, desktop, and losing engagement with its community, but the idea of owning the complete stack remains a good approach.

Dolly Parton's Dollywood Express

174 FinnKuhn 2025-06-11 16:46:48 UTC thetransitguy.substack.com Llama Share 210

Dolly Parton's Dollywood Express has a higher rail ridership than 27 US states and carries more people than Tennessee's rail transit combined. The heritage steam train features three coal-fired engines and runs frequently, making it the most frequent passenger train in Tennessee.

Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun's poles

165 sohkamyung 2025-06-11 23:00:50 UTC esa.int Llama Share 22

Solar Orbiter spacecraft has imaged the Sun's poles from outside the ecliptic plane, revealing new insights into the Sun's magnetic field and solar cycle. The mission's unique viewing angle will help scientists understand the workings of space weather and predict the Sun's behavior.

Student discovers fungus predicted by Albert Hoffman

159 zafka 2025-06-11 00:36:00 UTC wvutoday.wvu.edu Llama Share 124

A West Virginia University microbiology student discovered a new fungus species, Periglandula clandestina, that produces ergot alkaloids similar to LSD. The fungus was found in morning glory plants and has potential for innovative pharmaceutical applications.

Medical aid in dying, my health, and so on

146 homebrewer 2025-06-11 16:33:35 UTC blog.the-brannons.com Llama Share 184

I'm 46 years old and have severe heart failure due to a heart attack in 2021. I've had multiple surgeries, ICD placements, and cardiac ablations, but my condition worsened, and I'm now terminally ill.

AI at Amazon: A case study of brittleness

136 azhenley 2025-06-11 14:28:53 UTC surfingcomplexity.blog Llama Share 70

Amazon's AI efforts failed due to brittleness, characterized by outdated behaviors, decompensation, and poor decentralization. The company's rigid customer-focused approach and inability to adapt hindered AI development, leading to failure despite having talent and resources.

Show HN: DIY virtual HDMI monitor using "AR" glasses

109 blensor 2025-06-11 09:20:51 UTC github.com/mgschwan Llama Share 77

This program captures video from HDMI-in on an OrangePI 5 Plus and displays it in real-time on a textured quad in an OpenGL window. It supports Viture headset IMU integration and various test patterns.

The first big AI disaster is yet to happen

108 rbanffy 2025-06-11 22:01:57 UTC seangoedecke.com Llama Share 130

The first mass-casualty AI disaster is likely to involve an AI agent, possibly causing harm through debt-recovery, healthcare, or landlord systems. AI agents can go off the rails and cause harm in ways humans can't, making them a more plausible cause of disaster than language models.

Mapbox Geospatial MCP Server

105 tmcw 2025-06-11 12:56:26 UTC github.com/mapbox Llama Share 14

The Mapbox MCP Server enables AI systems to understand and navigate the physical world by providing access to location intelligence. It can be used to build applications like travel assistants and logistics optimizers with features like search and isochrone computation.

OpenPlanetData – Free Daily Planet OSM PBF and GOL Indexed Snapshots

103 lpellegr 2025-06-11 12:55:43 UTC openplanetdata.com Full Share 14

Open Planet Data is an open initiative dedicated to making open data related to our beautiful planet Earth more accessible and efficient to use. Snapshots are proudly hosted on Cloudflare R2, a storage service optimized for fast, global scalable access to large datasets. Files in GOL format are indexed variants of PBF versions using Geodesk to enable lightning-fast spatial queries.

X's Sales Pitch: Give Us Your Ad Business or We'll Sue

89 boplicity 2025-06-11 13:42:27 UTC wsj.com Full Share 15

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Steve Jobs would have fired everyone

89 e-brake 2025-06-11 09:25:16 UTC twitter.com/greggertruck Full Share 73

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AlphaWrite: AI that improves at writing by evolving its own stories

79 tamassimond 2025-06-11 07:23:45 UTC tobysimonds.com Llama Share 150

Alpha Writing is a framework that uses evolutionary algorithms to improve creative text generation through iterative story generation and Elo-based evaluation. It demonstrates substantial improvements in story quality through increased compute allocation and scalability.

Institutional Books: A 242B token dataset from Harvard Library's collections

77 strangecasts 2025-06-11 21:36:06 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 22

Large language models rely on high-quality training data, but such data is scarce, prompting the need for sustainable practices. Institutional Books 1.0 provides a large public domain dataset of 983,004 volumes in 250 languages for model training.

Whatever Happened to Sandboxfs?

72 zdw 2025-06-11 16:37:09 UTC blogsystem5.substack.com Llama Share 8

The author created sandboxfs, a user-space file system to improve Bazel's sandboxing performance on macOS, but it was abandoned due to kernel bugs and limitations. Despite its failure, the author believes Bazel still needs a solution like sandboxfs for efficient sandboxed builds.

Introducing stronger dependencies on systemd

69 todsacerdoti 2025-06-11 06:08:30 UTC blogs.gnome.org Llama Share 160

GNOME is gaining strong dependencies on systemd, making it harder to run without it. To run GNOME without systemd, you'll need to implement replacements for systemd components and maintain custom codepaths.

S5cmd: Parallel S3 and local filesystem execution tool

61 polyrand 2025-06-11 13:38:00 UTC github.com/peak Llama Share 23

s5cmd is a fast S3 and local filesystem execution tool with wildcard support and parallel operations. It offers faster speeds than s3cmd and aws-cli, with 32x faster uploads and 40Gbps download speeds.

Show HN: The Roman Industrial Revolution that could have been

60 miki_tyler 2025-06-11 23:51:54 UTC thelydianstone.com Llama Share 81

The Lydian Stone comic book series explores an alternate history where an archaeology student helps a Roman slave through modern knowledge and technology. The series follows their friendship and the unintended consequences of their actions as they bring about an industrial revolution in ancient Rome.

Cray versus Raspberry Pi

58 flyingkiwi44 2025-06-11 05:58:29 UTC aardvark.co.nz Llama Share 54

The Cray 1, a 1970s supercomputer, weighed 10 tonnes, consumed 115KW of electricity, and cost $40 million, while the RPi5, a modern single-board computer, weighs 50g, uses 12W, and costs $120. The RPi5 is almost 200 times faster than the Cray.

Darwin Godel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents

54 tzury 2025-06-11 18:07:04 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 16

Researchers introduced the Darwin Gödel Machine (DGM), a self-improving AI that iteratively modifies its code and validates changes using coding benchmarks. The DGM significantly outperforms baselines and improves its coding capabilities, increasing performance on certain tasks by up to 50%.

Social media use increases depression in preteens, not vice versa

52 PaulHoule 2025-06-11 22:29:44 UTC medicalxpress.com Llama Share 5

A new study found that preteens who used more social media experienced increased depressive symptoms, but the reverse was not true. Social media use rose 73 minutes per day over three years, with depressive symptoms increasing 35% among kids.

Ultra Ethernet Specification v1.0 [pdf]

50 mfiguiere 2025-06-11 16:21:49 UTC ultraethernet.org GoogleT5 Share 30

The ultra ethernet consortium is a consensus-based standards organization. the ue architecture comprises the four lower layers of the classic iso/osi networking model, along with software services and the apis that expose these services to the upper layers. storage services alongside the network services are relevant for application and workloads. uec is working to define the interfaces for ...

What MS-DOS Can Do That Linux Can't

50 wizardforhire 2025-06-11 04:59:41 UTC webarchive.me Llama Share 66

Linux and MS-DOS share roots but differ greatly, with Linux being much larger and more complex. MS-DOS is simpler, faster, and more user-friendly, allowing direct access to memory and CPU.

The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers

47 ingve 2025-06-11 23:20:03 UTC ztoz.blog Llama Share 13

The book "The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers" by Boelie Elzen and Donald MacKenzie covers the history of supercomputers from 1964 to the 1990s, focusing on technical developments and market changes. It chronicles the rise and fall of Seymour Cray's companies and the shift to massively parallel processing.

Debunking HDR [video]

44 plastic3169 2025-06-11 15:56:00 UTC yedlin.net Full Share 27

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The Canadian C++ Conference

41 BiraIgnacio 2025-06-11 23:41:00 UTC cppnorth.ca Llama Share 19

The CppNorth 2025 schedule is live, featuring insightful talks and discussions, with keynote speakers Sheena Yap Chan and Kate Gregory. Volunteers and attendees can book the King Edward Hotel and register for the conference with exclusive discounts.

Markdown Ninja: markdown-first CMS for bloggers, minimalists and startups.

41 unsolved73 2025-06-11 16:46:52 UTC github.com/bloom42 Llama Share 9

Markdown Ninja is a tool for publishing Markdown-based websites and newsletters. It prioritizes security and uses open-source licenses for its code and documentation.

US ambassador to Israel:US no longer pursuing goal independent Palestinian state

41 vinnyglennon 2025-06-11 09:43:00 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 59

US Ambassador Mike Huckabee said the US no longer pursues an independent Palestinian state, instead suggesting a Palestinian entity could be carved out of a Muslim country. This marks a shift in US Middle East policy, which analysts describe as abandoning a cornerstone of US diplomacy.

EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR (2021)

39 fanf2 2025-06-11 08:42:05 UTC shkspr.mobi Llama Share 32

A Brussels court ruled in favor of a customer who complained about their bank spelling their name incorrectly due to lack of diacritical mark support. The bank's outdated EBCDIC system was cited as the reason for the issue.

Unveiling the EndBOX – A microcomputer prototype for EndBASIC

37 jmmv 2025-06-11 23:49:42 UTC endbasic.dev Llama Share 24

The EndBOX is a small, all-screen computer that boots directly into the EndBASIC environment, aiming to bring back the simplicity of old computers for hackers and educators. It offers a standalone device with various input options and a cloud file sharing service, with the goal of making programming fun and transparent.

Writing a Truth Oracle in Lisp

35 io12 2025-06-11 20:50:53 UTC lambda-cove.net Llama Share 4

We attempted to write a truth oracle in Lisp that can determine whether arbitrary mathematical statements are true or false, but it turned out to be a computational manifestation of the devil's bargain, where it always returns a value that corresponds to a proof that the statement is false, but can be rolled back to return a value that corresponds to a proof that the statement is true. This ...

How I uncovered a potential ancient Rome wine scam

35 samizdis 2025-06-11 18:33:36 UTC phys.org Llama Share 29

Archaeologists discovered that ancient Cretan wine producers may have used honey instead of traditional drying techniques to make raisin wine. This method would have been quicker and cheaper, but it's unclear if Roman consumers were aware of the substitution.

AI Isn't Magic, It's Maths

31 squircle 2025-06-11 22:14:18 UTC zerofluff.substack.com GoogleT5 Share 54

Ai advancements show ai is heading toward greater capability and utility. but they do not mean that ai has become magically self-aware or infallible. embracing the “it’s math, not magic” mindset means we stay realistic about what ai can and cannot do. here are some of the main reasons why we expect ai to improve in the near future. the biggest change will be in machine learning, which is a ...

Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists and Risk of Macular Degeneration

30 baby-yoda 2025-06-11 14:04:50 UTC jamanetwork.com Llama Share 10

GLP-1 RAs use in diabetes patients may increase nAMD risk by 2 times. This study found a higher nAMD incidence in patients exposed to GLP-1 RAs compared to unexposed patients.

Macron says France will ban social media access for under-15s

30 01-_- 2025-06-11 11:19:22 UTC euronews.com Llama Share 15

French President Emmanuel Macron plans to ban social media for children under 15 if not implemented at a European level. This decision comes after a 14-year-old student stabbed a school staff member in eastern France.

Using `make` to compile C programs

30 mfrw 2025-06-11 03:24:48 UTC jvns.ca Llama Share 16

To compile a C program, you need to install a C compiler and find the dependencies listed in the README. You can use environment variables like CPPFLAGS and LDLIBS to pass flags to the compiler and linker.

“Language and Image Minus Cognition”: An Interview with Leif Weatherby

28 Traces 2025-06-11 14:03:46 UTC jhiblog.org GoogleT5 Share 13

Leif weatherby: large language models have effected a separation of cognition, computation. he says remainder humanists are trying to figure out how to survive the emergence of superintelligence - but it's not happening yet, but they're trying! weatherby says we have no tools to consistently identify which is which in language outputs, and we can't do that with machines unless we learn to, if ...

Compiler Explorer Cost Transparency

27 hasheddan 2025-06-11 14:43:38 UTC xania.org Llama Share 6

Compiler Explorer spends around $3,100 monthly on AWS and operational costs to serve 8 million backend compilations. This works out to $0.00039 per compilation, with 80% going to AWS costs and 20% to operational expenses.

Chicken Eyeglasses

27 thomassmith65 2025-06-11 06:13:49 UTC en.wikipedia.org Llama Share 8

Chicken eyeglasses were made to prevent feather pecking and cannibalism in chickens by limiting their vision. They were mass-produced in the US from the early 20th century and came in various designs, including rose-colored lenses.

Python argparse has a limitation on argument groups that makes me sad

26 zdw 2025-06-11 16:38:05 UTC utcc.utoronto.ca Llama Share 12

The user is blocked due to using an old browser version or being identified as a suspicious crawler. They can contact the author to resolve the issue or use archive.org for a better behaved archival crawler.

Texting myself the weather every day

26 benslv 2025-06-11 16:33:38 UTC bensilverman.co.uk Llama Share 45

The user created a system to send daily weather forecasts via SMS by querying the Open-Meteo API and using Twilio for SMS delivery. They built the system using GitHub Actions, a cron job, and a GitHub Workflow script, allowing them to customize the time and content of the forecasts.

Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue's Peruvian Art in the School

26 prismatic 2025-06-11 15:25:25 UTC publicdomainreview.org Llama Share 2

Elena Izcue's drawing workbooks El arte peruano en la escuela featured motifs from Indigenous ceramics and textiles to promote Peruvian national identity. The workbooks aimed to inspire a strong nationalism and civic education in children, while also revitalizing domestic craft production with a non-European influence.

Ask HN: What is the latest on treatment of Metastatic Breast Cancer?

26 hazrmard 2025-06-11 05:23:26 UTC news.ycombinator.com Full Share 10

I was reading this recently shared post on the promise of CAR-T therapy for cancer[1]. However, it seems that it may not be universally applicable to all cancers[2], including breast cancer.

Fervo Energy Drills 15,000', 520 F Geothermal Well in 16 Drilling Days

23 pfdietz 2025-06-11 17:39:06 UTC businesswire.com Full Share 18

You don't have permission to access "http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250610223846/en/Fervo-Energy-Drills-15000-FT-500F-Geothermal-Well-Pushing-the-Envelope-for-EGS-Deployment" on this server.

Rewriting Unix Philosophy for the Post-AI Era

19 ricecat 2025-06-11 13:16:36 UTC gizvault.com Llama Share 23

Unix philosophy was about simplicity and clarity, but the Post-AI era requires complex, adaptive systems that learn and evolve. The new Unix is about user-centric, explainable tools that teach and adapt to user needs.

SmartAttack: Air-Gap Attack via Smartwatches

16 dangle1 2025-06-11 23:43:00 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 6

Researchers propose SmartAttack, a method using smartwatches to receive ultrasonic covert signals in air-gapped environments. This approach highlights security risks and provides mitigation strategies for high-security environments.

No Travelling Out of Kuwait Without an Exit Permit: New Rule for Expats

16 belter 2025-06-11 14:44:02 UTC arabtimesonline.com Llama Share 5

Kuwait's Interior Minister requires expatriate workers to obtain an exit permit from employers before leaving the country. The permit must include personal details and be submitted electronically through a designated platform by July 1.

God is hungry for Context: First thoughts on o3 pro

15 aberoham 2025-06-11 07:52:37 UTC latent.space Llama Share 1

OpenAI cut o3 pricing by 80% to $2/$8 per mtok, matching GPT 4.1 pricing. o3-pro reports a 64% win rate vs o3, excelling at task-specific models and integration with humans and tools.

Mollusk shell assemblages as a tool for identifying unaltered seagrass beds

14 PaulHoule 2025-06-11 23:40:10 UTC int-res.com Llama Share 0

Researchers studied seagrass ecosystems and found that climate change and human activities threaten their persistence. They analyzed fossil records and living communities to understand the impact of environmental changes on seagrass ecosystems.

Why common climate messaging backfires

11 gsf_emergency 2025-06-11 12:37:18 UTC phys.org Llama Share 8

Researchers found that many Americans overestimate the climate benefits of individual actions like recycling and underestimate the impact of actions like avoiding long flights. Effective climate communication must balance individual actions with collective solutions to avoid undermining public support.