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.

Vivaldi 8.0

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Vivaldi 8.0 offers a unified design with more control, capability, and choice, featuring a new look and improved interface. The browser includes six preset layouts and a wide range of customizable settings to adapt to individual preferences.

Haskell Foundation 2026 Update

José, the longest-serving executive director, is stepping down in June 2026, and the Board is restructuring the Haskell Foundation to focus on technical work and member engagement. The Foundation will have a new committee and a part-time role for financial sustainability, with a reduced Board composition.

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.

New features in GCC 16: Improved error messages and SARIF output

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Typewise (YC S22) Is Hiring an AI Growth Engineer (Zurich or Remote)

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Typewise, a Swiss-American deep tech company, is rebuilding its customer service platform and needs an AI Growth Engineer to make it discoverable through creative, non-paid, AI-powered means. The ideal candidate will own the outcome, build AI-powered systems, and iterate ruthlessly to prove what works.

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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.

Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200

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Simulating Infinity in Conway's Game of Life with Modern C++

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The author of GOLDE, a cellular automata editor and simulator, implemented the HashLife algorithm to simulate trillions of generations instantly using modern C++23 features. The author overcame technical challenges such as implementing a quadtree data structure, memoizing node lookups, and supporting arbitrary step sizes in the simulation loop.

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.

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.

All the bugs they found

The user wrote a small WASM runtime in Go called Epsilon, which was extensively tested but found to have several security vulnerabilities, including sandbox escapes and type-related issues. The user used a combination of scripts and AI models, including Gemini 3.1 Pro, to discover the bugs, which included a stack height misalignment bug and a host function signature mismatch bug.

Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)

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OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon

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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.

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.

Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water

Simple mixing recipes for brewing, coffee, baking, and aquariums using waters from your local supermarket. 1 Pick the water you want — Pilsen for pilsner, Melbourne for flat whites, San Francisco for sourdough. 3 Combine in the ratio we give you. That’s it. No chemistry degree required.

OpenAI to confidentially file for IPO as soon as Friday

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OpenAI is preparing to file a draft of its IPO prospectus, valued at over $850 billion, with banks including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. This move comes as rival SpaceX, also backed by Elon Musk, is set to publicly disclose its IPO prospectus.

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.

A Markdown-based test suite

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The author of a newsletter on operating systems and software engineering discusses their use of Markdown-based tests for the EndBASIC project, which improved test maintenance and LLM understanding. They also describe their new approach to testing the compiler and VM.

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.

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.

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 ...

Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)

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The user built a Rust-based multi-Paxos consensus engine that modernizes Azure's Replicated State Library (RSL) for today's hardware, achieving unprecedented productivity and performance optimization with AI-assisted coding. The user utilized various AI coding agents and developed techniques such as code contracts, lightweight spec-driven development, and aggressive performance optimization ...

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 ...

SpaceX S-1

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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.