Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo

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Adolfo Cambiaso, a renowned polo player, pioneered horse cloning in 2006 to preserve his exceptional horses' genetics. He successfully cloned his flagship mare Cuartetera, leading to La Dolfina's unprecedented dominance in polo.

Valve P2P networking broken for more than 2 months

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Steam Networking has a major issue affecting Israeli players in P2P games since 13/03, causing high ping rates around 120ms. The issue is specific to Steam Networking and doesn't occur in non-Steam games or cross-play with non-PC platforms.

Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering

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Researchers analyzed token consumption in LLM-MA systems across software development stages. They found Code Review accounts for 59.4% of token consumption, with input tokens making up 53.9% of total consumption.

Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world

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We used Codex to generate a million lines of code for a software product in 5 months with a team of 7 engineers, achieving an average throughput of 3.5 PRs per engineer per day. To maintain the codebase, we focused on designing environments, scaffolding, and feedback loops that enable agents to do reliable work, enforcing invariants and mechanical rules to keep the codebase legible and consistent.

Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts

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ntsc-rs is a free, open-source Rust effect that accurately emulates analog TV and VHS artifacts. It's multithreaded, SIMD-accelerated and available as a standalone, web app, and plugin for various video editing software.

Public Domain Image Archive

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Explore our hand-picked collection of 11,082 out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse. This is a living database with new images added every week.

An Ohio Valley 100k-Watt FM Signal Is Severed in Broad Daylight – Radio World

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Mike Kirtner, president of Kindred Communications, reported an FM transmission line was cut in broad daylight at 93.7 WDGG(FM) in Ashland, Ky. The station is operating at reduced power and estimates total repair costs between $70,000 and $100,000.

Introducing Boron Buckyballs: Theory that B80 cages can’t be made is disproved

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Chemists have observed a boron buckminsterfullerene for the first time, providing evidence for an 80-atom cage structure. This discovery challenges density functional theory and may lead to new materials such as semiconductors or superconductors.

Show HN: Oproxy – inspect and modify network traffic from the browser

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oproxy is a local proxy for inspecting and modifying traffic, allowing developers to test and debug applications. It supports various features like rule sets, mock responses, and upstream proxy chaining.

Show HN: TakoVM – Isolated model and tool execution used by enterprises

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Run AI-generated code in isolated Docker containers with optional gVisor sandboxing. Job queues, retries, and execution history included. # Install (requires Docker + Python 3.9+) pip install "tako-vm[server]" tako-vm setup # pull the executor Docker image tako-vm server # start server (auto-starts PostgreSQL via Docker) # Execute code curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/execute \ -H ...

Moving beyond fork() + exec()

A recent Linux kernel proposal to add "spawn templates" to optimize the fork() and exec() pattern has been rejected, but it may point to a new process-creation primitive in the future. The discussion highlights the need for a better process-creation mechanism, with some suggesting a native implementation of posix_spawn() and others proposing alternative approaches using existing system calls.

Biohub releases a world model of protein biology

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Biohub released a world model of protein biology, a scientific engine for prediction, design, and discovery that can map proteins and design new binders. The engine, ESMFold2, can predict protein structures and design binders in days, accelerating early therapeutic discovery.

Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot

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Meta notified 20,225 people whose Instagram accounts were hijacked through a flaw in its AI chatbot, allowing hackers to access account information and posts. The breach occurred from April 17 to this week, with Meta disabling the chatbot and instructing users to reset their passwords.

Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF

zeroserve is a fast, zero-config HTTPS server that serves websites from a single tarball and supports eBPF scripting for middleware and proxying. It beats nginx in serving small files and has a faster proxying path.

Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs

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Sem: New primitive for code understanding – not LSPs, but entities on top of Git

Rohan made changes to the code, adding and modifying functions, and deleting another. The changes affect 42 entities, including the loginRoute and authMiddleware, due to dependencies on db.findUser and rateLimiter.

Show HN: DomainTasker – avoid losing domains and surprise renewals

GoDaddy, Spaceship, Namecheap, Namebright, Porkbun, Unstoppable Domains

Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers

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SpaceX has signed a deal with Google to provide AI compute capacity for $920 million a month until June 2029. The agreement allows Google to end the deal if SpaceX fails to deliver the committed amount of GPUs by September 30, 2026.

Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS)

Keyboard: arrows, Z=A, X=B, Enter=Start, Shift=Select.

Unicode Fonts and Tools for X11

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X11 fonts have been extended to include ISO 10646-1 Unicode characters, with new fonts and revised versions of existing fonts available. However, X11 was not designed to handle complex scripts like Arabic, Syriac, and Indic, requiring special libraries like Pango to support these scripts.

Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

The user initially dismissed AI models like DALL-E and ChatGPT as parlor tricks but had a series of "Oh shit" moments as they realized the potential of these models to solve real problems and change their approach to development. These moments included using Claude code to generate a Zillow description, building a web tool to sort media files, and using AI to translate code and track down ...

Show HN: Infinite canvas notes in the non-Euclidean Poincaré disk

The demo allows users to view multiple notes at once with tools and mode switching available. It was created using LLM tools due to the author's lack of mathematical background.

Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation

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Motorola's MotoSync+ app has been down for nearly a month, preventing users from setting up and using their WiFi routers. The issue has left many customers without access to their routers, with some unable to even factory reset their devices.

You Can Run

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Erin McCann, a lawyer, discovers two boxes of government documents connected to her family's past crimes. Her mother, Leah, had hidden the documents, revealing a life of deceit and crime by Erin's father, John.

The Russian who invented semiconductors 25 years before the USA

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Oleg Losev discovered the LED in 1922 and built a solid-state radio, Crystodyne, but his work was largely ignored and he died in 1942 due to starvation. His discoveries were later independently rediscovered and credited to others, highlighting the challenges faced by pioneers without access to resources and recognition.

Computex 2026: Are We Heading for the Agentic PC Era Yet?

The new bibliomaniacs

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Young people raised in the digital age are seeking tangible connections to the past through rare book collecting, which has seen a 62 per cent growth in visitors from 2022 to 2026. The global rare book market is valued at over $7 billion with an expected growth rate above 6 per cent per year.

Benchmarks in Leipzig

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49 mathematicians compiled 100 research-level math questions with known answers between April 1 and May 15, 2026. LLMs solved 98 questions in three stages, demonstrating their impressive mathematical reasoning capabilities.

Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say

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The US Pentagon has raised its counterintelligence threat level for Israel to the highest level due to concerns about Israel's increased spying on the US. The US is taking extra precautions when interacting with Israeli officials, but the two countries' intelligence-sharing remains intact.

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