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Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats 117 by raahelb | 84 comments on Hacker News.

Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy 106 by geox | 24 comments on Hacker News.

George Lucas Returns to Earth, Bearing Gifts 7 by surprisetalk | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Grok 4.7 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis 9 by theanonymousone | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence 7 by js73js8 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

I Am Often Wrong 19 by bcherny | 4 comments on Hacker News.

More Than a Gigabuck: Estimating GNU/Linux's Size (2001) 6 by bilegeek | 2 comments on Hacker News.

UFO Series Home Page: "UFO" TV Series from 1970 3 by DropDead | 1 comments on Hacker News.

People who know the most often sound the least certain 21 by virde | 5 comments on Hacker News.

Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 4 by vertigoruntime | 1 comments on Hacker News.

US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report 62 by realsarm | 22 comments on Hacker News.

Systemd is a suite of basic building blocks 10 by Bluestein | 6 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Ax-check.com – Can agents use your product? 4 by 0x63_Problems | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm the co-founder of Gauge, and I built ax-check.com to quickly test how well coding agents can onboard to your product. You'll get a scorecard, specific suggested fixes, and three full coding sessions that show how agents read your site and use your product. I built this because similar checks were too noisy. Most suggested obscure technical changes that don't actually make a difference in agent experience (or AX, hence ax-check.com). This check starts by using DeepSeek 4.1 Flash to try to find key information about your product, starting from the homepage. In actual agent traffic data, we've seen that the key pages are the homepage, llms.txt, pricing, and the docs site (by traffic volume, and by influence), so we focus on those and ignore the rest. We also find that content negotiation for Markdown is legitimately helpful for agents to complete tasks faster and fin...

Infinite-Parameter LLMs: Generating and Adapting Weights from Live Data 17 by Betelbuddy | 4 comments on Hacker News.

GitHub is having trouble counting things 23 by chuckgreenman | 17 comments on Hacker News.

ER visits for gambling disorders doubled after expanded online gambling market 29 by geox | 22 comments on Hacker News.

The Siberian Ice Maiden and the Scythian World 10 by NaOH | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Dystopian Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality 128 by speckx | 61 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Nari Qwen3-TTS and Qwen3-ASR – High accuracy, low latency and cost 11 by toebee | 3 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, Toby from Nari Labs here. We've been working on making OSS speech models super-fast. Last year, we built Dia, the first OSS text-to-speech model capable of doing natural dialogue. Since then, so many more great speech models have been released to the public. But the market is still dominated by closed source models. We think that's an inference problem. Existing systems such as vLLM / SGLang are not well suited for multimodal inference. To prove this, we built an inference engine specialized for Qwen3-TTS and open-sourced it ( https://ift.tt/Hm9kFQJ ). Running at sub-50 ms latency at 10 RPS, this showed open models can be run much faster and cheaper. Since then, we've been working hard to bring cheap, fast, and high quality serving to all. And we've even beat closed models at their game! Measured on the highly cited Coval (YC S24) voice AI ben...

Things That Annoy Me About Cars 22 by eustoria | 16 comments on Hacker News.

Making Startups Powerful 6 by aaraujo002 | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Benchmark: CadQuery vs. OpenSCAD for agentic CAD work 3 by jetter | 0 comments on Hacker News.

An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights 11 by routelastresort | 0 comments on Hacker News.

How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of Signal chats 8 by dgroshev | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Rune is now open source 31 by ernestrc | 5 comments on Hacker News.

Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom 14 by aanet | 3 comments on Hacker News.

The Four-Color Theorem Gets a Rare New Proof 15 by pavel_lishin | 4 comments on Hacker News.

What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks 56 by evakhoury | 10 comments on Hacker News.

Function Arguments Are Not Function Colors 13 by ingve | 2 comments on Hacker News.

100s of flights cancelled at UK airports due to ATC issue 22 by contingencies | 7 comments on Hacker News.

216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video] 174 by treve | 551 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/AV3fFiK...

PostgreSQL 19 Interactive Tour 24 by valyala | 1 comments on Hacker News.

C Is Not a Low-Level Language (2018) 30 by tosh | 16 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: UK Rescue Rocket Sheds/Houses Information 12 by burnt-resistor | 6 comments on Hacker News. I can't seem to find pictures or significant details (nothing on Wikipedia) about the coastal buildings purportedly used to contain shipwreck rescue rocket apparatus. Many of the buildings still exist and are Grade II listed. Anyone have any additional anecdotal/local/oral tradition information that isn't found in the little blurbs online on the few websites mentioning them?

Nitter is unarchived and will continue 97 by zImPatrick | 12 comments on Hacker News.

Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue 68 by Cider9986 | 9 comments on Hacker News.

The Luxuries in Life 96 by tosh | 33 comments on Hacker News.

Learn Programming with OCaml 42 by elvis70 | 8 comments on Hacker News.

Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory 11 by torutofu | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive 84 by speckx | 34 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: TERMy – A fast terminal assistant that does not use LLMs 14 by gioscarab | 5 comments on Hacker News. I love research and development, you may have heard of me because of PJON (Padded Jittering Operative Network). It is a network protocol I started developing in 2010, which was recently implemented in silicon by the ETH Zurich university thanks to the research of Pius Sieber. I am excited to share with you TERMy, a terminal assistant built on top of the NPC-Forge framework. Unlike everything else being built today, TERMy does not use embeddings, machine-learning or LLMs. It runs on the CPU (even on a Raspberry Pi Zero) both in the terminal or client-side in a browser tab and responds in milliseconds. It is a cynical but very knowledgeable Linux terminal assistant that translates your natural language into shell commands without relying on a single artificial neuron. I had a chance to focus for 2 months on my personal projects since early July, during the strange times of AI...

People that worked on the same idea for decades 5 by sebg | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly 36 by rabahs | 6 comments on Hacker News. These are my notes from porting my Amiga game, which I originally built in Baghdad in 1993 in MC68000 assembly, to Godot, using Claude Fable 5 during last July holiday. It took an evening! Getting the feel right and shipping it took a few more weekends and evenings. I spent the last few weeks analyzing what Claude did, feeding it my 33 years of memory of how I built the game, my notes and the git repos. It wrote the first draft of the article, and I edited line by line over a week. The screenshots of my 1993 map editor is the first I have run it since then. The one thing I never checked myself is the 108-byte explanation. Please post any questions. I am also releasing the original game for free.

We could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora 17 by torutofu | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Why do so many tools have JSON config files? 3 by stagas | 0 comments on Hacker News.

I Don't Have a Smartphone 44 by speckx | 30 comments on Hacker News.

The race to engineer new knobs for the human brain 13 by pminimax | 0 comments on Hacker News.

UEFA's Champions League draw creates unfair clusters; a Cayley graph fixes it 12 by erdems | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Launch HN: Nori Robotics (YC S26) – A low-cost humanoid robot for development 35 by AntonioLi | 5 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, I’m Antonio from Nori Robotics ( https://ift.tt/3johDuN ). We build a $1,688 bimanual mobile robot in San Francisco for robotics developers and researchers. I started working on Nori while doing robotics research at Columbia. I was teaching robots through human demonstrations, but getting my hands on affordable hardware was difficult. Most labs have one or two expensive robots, which makes it hard to collect large datasets, run long experiments, or test across several robots. So I built my own. After seven iterations the latest Nori has: * 19 degrees of freedom * Two 7+1 DOF arms with a 1.5 kg payload per arm * A 55 kg telescoping lift * A differential wheeled base * Four 720p, 30 fps RGB cameras * 2D lidar * A dual microphone array with full-duplex voice communication * A 432 Wh battery * A Raspberry Pi 5 with 4 GB RAM (SLAM and safeties are run on boar...