Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report

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Asahi Linux has fixed issues with macOS 27 boot picker compatibility and added support for M3 machines with high-quality audio output, CPU frequency switching, and big.LITTLE task scheduling. The team is also working on AVD video decoder support and has released m1n1 version 1.6.0 with Rust requirements for stage 2 builds and improvements for M3 series support.

Single Dose of Frog-Derived Gut Bacterium Eradicates 100% of Tumors in Mice

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A newly discovered bacterium, Ewingella americana, has shown to completely eliminate colorectal cancer in mice with no recurrence. It outperforms chemotherapy and immune checkpoint blockade with a dual-action approach of direct tumor destruction and immune activation.

The Internet I Grew Up with Doesn't Exist Anymore

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The author reflects on the evolution of the internet from a place you visited to a woven part of daily life, with a focus on the mid-2000s as a transformative time. The author laments the loss of the old web, where websites were authored by humans and discovery was a manual process, replaced by a modern web with layers of intermediaries and commercial value extraction.

Claude Code is steganographically marking requests

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Developers give coding agents excessive access for productivity, but this also raises security concerns. A tool like Claude Code hides classification signals in system prompts, making it harder to trust its claims of transparency.

Newly discovered spider builds spring loaded snare to catch ants

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Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Nintendo raised employee base salaries by 10% to retain talent and maintain an appropriate compensation standard. The company also invested 121 billion yen in R&D and has been cautious with price increases.

Claude Sonnet 5

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Claude Sonnet 5 is a more agentic AI model that can make plans, use tools, and run autonomously at a lower price than its predecessor. It's available across all plans and offers a safer and more efficient option for developers, with a lower rate of undesirable behaviors and improved performance on tasks like coding and knowledge work.

Obfuscation: Building the final boss of cryptography (Part I)

Obfuscation is a powerful cryptographic primitive that hides the internal workings of a program while preserving its functionality, and it has been used to create secure and private systems such as voting systems and cryptocurrencies. However, making a secure form of obfuscation is extremely hard, and the current state-of-the-art obfuscation protocols have galactic runtimes, but researchers ...

Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions

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Godot Foundation is updating its contribution policies to ban AI-authored code and AI-generated text in human communication. The goal is to reduce the burden on maintainers and ensure new contributors become future maintainers.

ArXiv's Next Chapter

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arXiv will spin out from Cornell University to become an independent nonprofit organization on July 1, 2026. This change will bring new flexibility and opportunities while maintaining arXiv's mission and values of free access to scientific ideas and discoveries.

Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

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Sony Interactive Entertainment will discontinue physical game disc production for new PlayStation games in January 2028. New games will be available digitally on PlayStation Store and at retailers starting January 2028.

Google copybara: moving code between repositories

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Copybara is a tool used internally at Google to transform and move code between repositories, allowing for syncing of confidential and public repositories. It is stateless and supports Git repositories, with experimental support for Mercurial.

A deep dive into SmallVector:push_back

tl;dr This blog post describes a recent SmallVector::push_back optimization for approximately trivially copyable element types. SmallVector is LLVM's most-used container, and push_back its hot operation. For the trivially-copyable specialization the fast path should be fast. push rbp # callee-saved spills + a stack realignment,push rbx # all on the fast pathpush raxmov eax, [rdi + 8] # ...

Dexter (YC F24) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer in Berlin

Dexter is an AI-native spend intelligence platform for complex enterprises, using AI to read invoices and contracts for clear insights and savings. They're hiring a Founding Engineer to scale their engineering team, focusing on AI and automation, with a competitive compensation package.

Swedish court says Google is to pay $1.5B to Klarna in antitrust damages

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Show HN: HackerNows – Native iOS HN Client

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A mobile app for Hacker News offers a refined experience with filtering, voting, and organizing features. It syncs across devices and allows users to report issues or provide feedback on the GitHub repository.

Claude Science

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Claude Science is a public beta app that integrates AI with scientific computing, allowing users to run full analyses on their own infrastructure. It connects to 60+ scientific databases and domain-specific open models, and produces reproducible results with full provenance.

Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Nano Banana 2 Lite generates and edits images faster and more efficiently, ideal for designers and creators. It provides high-quality images quickly, reducing waiting time and increasing creative flow.

Leanstral 1.5

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An updated Lean 4 formal proof engineering model optimised for automated theorem proving and autoformalization. 119B total parameters, 6.5B active.

Matrix Orthogonalization Improves Memory in Recurrent Models

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Researchers improved recurrent neural networks (RNNs) for noisy associative recall (NAR) by orthogonalizing their memory matrix during reads. This technique, inspired by Muon optimizer, significantly improved NAR performance in various tasks and vocab sizes.

Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5

We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon. We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.

Pine64 launch $50 smart speaker for Home Assistant tinkerers

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Pine64 launched PineVoice, a $50 smart speaker with open-source software on a RISC-V chip, featuring Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Zigbee interfaces. It runs on Alibaba's YoC platform and supports local wake word detection, with a recommended firmware update to Linux Voice Assistant.

How does a pull-back car work? Illustrated teardown

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A toy car's wind-up mechanism uses a Spiral Spring and gears to store and release energy, allowing it to shoot forward at high speeds. The gear system provides a mechanical advantage, making it easier for kids to wind up the spring with modest force.

CERN bids farewell to the LHC and enters Long Shutdown 3

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The Large Hadron Collider has completed its final physics run and is undergoing a major maintenance and upgrade program, Long Shutdown 3, to prepare for the High-Luminosity LHC. The upgrade will increase the collider's luminosity by a factor of up to ten, enabling precision studies and potentially uncovering new phenomena.

Register Korea's First PC 'SE-8001' as a National Important Material

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The Korean government is launching a National Registration System to preserve and manage important scientific and technological materials. The system will register materials that have contributed to Korea's scientific and technological development and provide support for their preservation.

Sony will no longer produce discs for PlayStation games starting in January 2028

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Sony has announced today it's ceasing production of discs for PlayStation games, effective January 2028. Beyond that point, PlayStation games will be available digitally only. Notably, PlayStation games will continue to be sold at retail, just without a physical disc. This applies to all games releasing on PlayStation, including third-party titles, not just those produced by Sony ...

I ported Kubernetes to the browser

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Sam Rose created Webernetes, a browser-based Kubernetes cluster, using LLMs to port 100,000 lines of code from Kubernetes. He reviewed and tested the code to ensure its correctness, and now invites others to use and contribute to the project.

Forestiere Underground Gardens

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Baldassare Forestiere built the Forestiere Underground Gardens in Fresno, California over 40 years using hand tools and mules. The gardens feature 65 rooms, skylights, and a variety of plants and trees protected from frost.

Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience

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Chris von Csefalvay plans to train a drone to fly with reinforcement learning, focusing on 6 failure classes and simulating motor lag and loop latency. He's using PPO with parallel environments and an asymmetric actor-critic approach to prepare the drone for real-world crashes.

Pystd, similar-ish functionality with a fraction of the compile time

The author of Pystd, a custom C++ standard library, is frustrated with the slow compilation times of C++ due to the large size of standard library headers. Pystd aims to minimize build times with a design priority of speed, achieving a build time of 1.9 seconds on a 16-core processor.