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Tension wood: A 'muscle' that can both bend and straighten plants

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A mathematician collaborated with a Large Language Model (LLM) to solve the Navier-Stokes problem, but OpenAI claims to have solved it first. The LLM was used to push the collaboration's work from rough forcing to smooth forcing and incompressible Euler equations.

Researchers Spot Fake Ancient Pottery Using the Earth's Magnetic Field

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Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography have developed a method to determine if pottery is ancient or not by analyzing its magnetic signatures, which can help weed out forged artifacts. The technique involves heating samples and measuring when their weak signals disappear, leaving only the stronger thermal remanent magnetization signal.

How to build a printer

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The author built a custom firmware for the Xteink e-ink display to enable wireless printing from their MacBook using the Internet Printing Protocol. They successfully implemented this feature, allowing them to print documents directly onto the device's screen.

AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA

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Scientists have developed the AlphaGenome Atlas, a database predicting effects of single nucleotide variants in the human genome. The Atlas helps researchers quickly prioritize promising research areas by providing an easy-to-use score for coding and non-coding regions.

Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration

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Mercury 2.5

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Mercury 2.5 is the latest production model from Inception, offering a 40% increase in intelligence and comparable cost to GPT-5.6 Luna, with prices starting at $0.04 per million input and output requests.

The origins of Partner’s computer case

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The Partner microcomputer was a Slovenian-made computer developed in the 1980s, combining international components and designs. It was designed by Satherley Design Associates and manufactured by Peerless Foam Moulding, with its distinctive case also used for other computers like the Logitech LG-10.

A Biography of Lee Holloway, the Architect of Cloudflare's Technology (Part 1)

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Lee Holloway, a co-founder of Cloudflare, was a brilliant engineer who created several key technologies before being diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) at age 36. He left the company in 2016 due to his illness and has since become an advocate for FTD research and awareness.

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Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI

Mathematicians are collecting open problems in a non-renewable way, potentially leading to scarcity. Most generated problems are trivial or unproductive, while few hold the potential for breakthroughs and connections.

An Accidental Blackboard

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Thoughtworks engineers explored using gen AI for software development by building an airline IROps system in 4 days, discovering a "blackboard" pattern where agents coordinated through shared plans and progress updates. This accidental discovery led to the creation of Talwrn, a tool aiming to provide a simple communication channel for agentic engineering projects.

I resigned from Anthropic today

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I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

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Researchers at OpenAI have developed a proof that the Navier-Stokes equations for fluid motion can develop a singularity in finite time, resolving one of the Millennium Prize Problems. The solution involves an internal model significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra and demonstrates the potential for AI to advance research and technology benefiting humanity.

27.5KB language-agnostic WebGPU syntax highlighter

gpu-lexer is a language-agnostic code highlighting tool that uses a tiny WebGPU model to label parts of source code, combining local and whole-file context. It achieves 87.43% agreement with Shiki on held-out token labels across various languages and file types.

I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer

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User wants to update jsonwebtoken API in auth.ts and run tests, also reviews claude plugin versions.

Into the depths of C: Elaborating the de facto standards (2016)

Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses

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The author tested various GPU RAM requirements for running Qwen3.8 27B without sacrificing quality, finding that a 24 GB card like RTX 4090 can handle the full BF16 model with some context reduction.

A Topological Picture Book, Rendered

This text discusses various techniques for creating non-photorealistic renderings of 3D models, including contour drawing, hatching, and line rendering. Researchers have developed methods to stylize silhouettes and outlines using algorithms such as chaining, visibility, and principal curvature directions.

The Microeconomics of Artificial Intelligence (2025)

Getting phpBB 1.4.4 working in Docker

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The PHPBB 1.4.4 script can be run on modern systems with patches, including changes to MySQL and PHP settings. The installation requires config.php to be writable during setup, which is set by the Dockerfile for compatibility reasons.

ChatGPT Images 2.5

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ChatGPT Images 2.5 is a new state-of-the-art image model that offers sharper details, more precise editing, and faster generation for creative workflows. The updated model provides more control over the creative process with features like Sketch, templates, and improved editing capabilities.

We built our house for LAN parties (2024)

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Kenton Varda and Jade Wang, a married couple with two kids, designed and built their house from scratch in Austin, Texas. The house features custom-built gaming stations with 22 game machines that cost around $75,000.

Replacing a Rust Enum with a 64-Bit Word Made My Interpreter 17% Faster

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The author refactored the Plush language interpreter's Value type to use a low-bit tagging scheme, reducing memory usage by up to 37% in some benchmarks. The new representation is faster than the old one, with every single benchmark ending up faster.

Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs

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Deltafin is a fork of gavamedia/deltafin, running Kimi K3 from SSDs on Apple Silicon with the ARGODRIVE storage work. It aims to squeeze out efficiency from large models like K3 without reducing quality.

The Helicopter with Radioactive Blades

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The CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter uses a simple mechanical system to detect rotor blade cracks, involving ionizing radiation from Strontium-90. This method has been effective for decades and is still used today in newer models with fiber optic sensors.

Animation in Bevy: The Big Picture

The author is explaining how to play an animated 3D model in a Bevy application, starting with loading the animation data from a .glb file and setting up the necessary components. They break down the process into steps, including extracting animation data, adding it to an entity's AnimationToPlay component and then finding the entity with that component.

Ask HN: 3.5 inch diskette read errors, would a period correct drive do better?

You're trying to restore a 1991 Learning Company Spellbound for DOS game on an old system, but your current setup is causing read errors. Using a period-correct IDE floppy drive with the Leading Edge WinPro 486 might improve data accuracy.

Implementation of GCC's Nested Functions (vs. C++ Lambdas)

GCC's nested functions are implemented by collecting parent function variables accessed by the nested function into a synthetic structure and passing its pointer to the nested function. This approach decouples implementation from rest of compiler, allowing for optimization without affecting other variables or frame structure.