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Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible

Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking

Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics

The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI

Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content

Gforth 1.0

The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]

Show HN: Encarta 95 Web

I will no longer upload to NEW

Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models

Python's experimental JIT to be removed

Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11

I still teach OpenGL ES 3.0

Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear

Writing about pratt parsing so I remember it

Type Server Protocol

CSS-Tricks has a new owner

Cross-request KV cache exposure in the GLM-5.3 Workers AI model (155 responses)

A Printer Printing onto Paper

Half of R/sales cold email posts in 2026 were written by people selling it

16-bit Windows (Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on 64-bit Windows

How to grow a cacao tree at home (2024)

New iPad mini

Websites Should Be Printable

Txoko: Basques' traditional feast a gastronomic peek into a culture (2024)

A Man from the Future: Why Johnny Can't Stop Abstracting

Blaise Pascal invented fixed route public transport (2024)

Anthropic S-1

Nietzschian Debugger

LimonOS Custom x86-64 Kernel

APC says let there be light, with standards to speed up photonics manufacturing

SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller

Pharo 14

Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce

LISPy things you can do in 64K bytes of core (2019)

GPT-6.1 Terra

Virtual and Real World Combine at LAN Party (1998)

Chemists, Chemical Engineers, and Plant Managers

Diamond Transistor

Fixing Tool-Call Accuracy in vLLM

Is PHP Running on Your ColdFusion Server? How to Check, and Remove It

Sigma Says the Compact, Modular FP2 Is the Ultimate Hybrid Camera

New 'Circadian' Subtype of Depression Affecting 1 in 4 Patients

Show HN: Hob - Open-source, on device alternative to Claude Cowork and ChatGPT

Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office

Historical Telecommunications

We should be more ambitious with the software we build

Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline

Native Prometheus Integration with Nginx

In Context [video]

The EPA Is Quietly Killing Its Web Archive

“AI Skills” are worthless in 2026

Colorfigures

Show HN: A Truly Modular Keyboard

US designates helium as a critical material

Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model

PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP

An incremental approach to JIT construction

ChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support Problems

PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory (2025)

iPhone Duo Teardown

World Wars I and II Military Aviation Museum Collection

Iron Age salt-mining complex found beneath Hallstatt in Austria

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

Growing Trees

The Curse of Soldered RAM

Running Qwen3.8-Flash-Next NVFP4 at 184 tok/s on a single RTX 6000 Pro

Reinventing the Pencil Sharpener [video]

Magic state cultivation on a superconducting quantum processor

Neuron Explorer for Qwen3.5-4B: See every neuron at work, make targeted edits

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Partyline: A group voice application for Reticulum, built on LXST

There are now 5 inference providers for abliterated DeepSeek

Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale

Prisoner loses challenge to an Australian state’s ban on inmates eating Vegemite

Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997

The 'Buy, Borrow and Die' Wealth Strategy Has Become a $5T Market

F-Zero X on Nintendo 3DS

Migrate Your 300-Node Redis Cluster to Just 3 Lavik Nodes

Where the Romans Fought (interactive map)

Micron Taiwan increasing salaries for factory workers by 2.7X

Steal My Bitcoin CTF PoC

Tasks as Code: Move Your Tickets into the Repository

Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs

AI didn't cause the tech jobs bust, but it explains why there's no recovery

OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?

Making the Buddha Head from Merv Whole Again

I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27

Skydance offers buyouts, orders return to office

KibernetykMono – A Geometric Monospace Typeface

In Leaked Audio, Flock CEO Tells Cops Backlash to the Company Isn't Real

Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop

What goes into making an animated film?

Proton to 'Re-Interview' Staff About AI to See Who Gets to Keep Their Job

AI is ruining haunted houses

LiberNT - A free NT operating system

Attention Is Not What You Need (2025)

Why is it so expensive to send an email?

Anthropic Is the Most Ridiculous IPO of 2026 [pdf]

The Fall of Scientific American

Why I Am a Programmer

The US AI Labs, Mapped: Founders, Revenue and the Money Behind Them

Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lighthouse Category

Two Million Hornets

Show HN: Hurston-1 open source TTS that speak Southern American and Afro-English

Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem

A mathematician reads the AI future

Recreate the Apollo Guidance Computer

VCF Southwest 2026, but Edited on Silicon Graphics for '90s TV [video]

The State of Context Engineering

What Happened to the Neanderthals?

Unveiling The Grid: PCBs made in America, twice as fast as Shenzhen

Eunice is almost here

Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone

Show HN: Freehire, open-source search 3M+ tech jobs from company career boards

Microsoft offers 60k employees a voluntary exit

Show HN: Glider 4.0 Unofficial Web Edition (Mac game port)

Somebody please stop the spam texts

Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models

Initial Support for the Apple M4 and Apple A18 Pro Make It into Linux 7.4

The Goose Programming Language

CorridorKey 2.0

1984: The Canadian Edition

DOJ says presidents should be able to sell secrets on eBay

JetBrains Thinkrail

UTS #39: Unicode Security Mechanisms

A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis

Active incident at Dreamhost forcing password reset

Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to a quarter of its workforce

Show HN: Proc-CLI – An agent-friendly CLI tool for process and port management

Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab

Partial Operator Precedence (Zig Devlog)

AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework

Apple Music 404 Not Found

Nvidia discusses $2k-per-GPU annual fee for software

LearnHarness – An Agent Harness for Learning

Reverse engineering a Beyblade launch tracker

Third Risk

Fishing website for Susaki, Japan, hit by data leak, all 3 users affected

Broccoli2Shell: Brotli decoder RCE in Node.js, Python and more

The St. Helena 5 pence coin shows Jonathan, a roughly 190 year old tortoise

fheroes2: A recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine

Iterating Backwards in C

warp.dev Breached

ICE wants robot dogs. Boston Dynamics' workers urge company to 'cancel the sale'

UK to charge universities $1,200 per international student

Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS

'modern-day slavery' in the Congo powers the rechargeable battery economy (2023)

Bring Back the Cool Save File Screens

Writing Is Closer to Thought Than Code

Is this the new cyber normal?

Programming Is Not a Skill

SpeedCrunch 1.1

I don't understand quantum physics (2018)

Lula wins election after final votes tallied

Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22

How is music possible

UUIDv7: Timestamps aren’t time-ordered and other oddities

Docker is weird

GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000's cards

OpenAI's agents talked to each other through the CPU Cache

How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made

Generates polished SVGs with optional WebGL shaders and 3D effects

The real-life Scottish surgeon who inspired Sherlock Holmes

Microsoft is offering buyouts to 60k workers

TornadoVM 7 Enables GPU-Native Workloads from Java Applications

Tesla cancels Cybertruck in Australia and NZ after 7 years of deposits

Bbtree: Fastest Ordered Map

Why is AI generated language so hard to understand?

OBS Studio 33

Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech

Twelve years of distributed SQLite

Root shell on Samsung TV

Small Programs and Languages

Recycling ANSI art: Tracing the origins of Fire Escape's BBS logon screens

Why I'm growing my Vancouver AI company in Taiwan and Europe instead of the U.S.

Show HN: Corgi, a helpful {agent, terminal} multiplexer

How to run a city builder on 16 MHz

AmiJa, a cycle-exact Amiga emulator written in Java

Nikon photography contest winner loses title after scientists spot signs of AI

Jank – The native Clojure dialect with seamless C++ interop

Every AI model has the same \"controversial\" take on humans

The U.S. Power Grid

Commodore 1600 VICmodem

Proton Flock Camera Map

How does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images?

Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?

Meaning After an AI Eucatastrophe

Tesla's $10B solar factory could get 35 years of tax breaks in Texas

FreeDNS

Just imagining a workout can make you stronger (2016)

Retired decorator's Pokémon cards sell for £1.5M

Show HN: RainbowSay – Learn, teach, research languages live with shows you love

In Rainbows

Init – a Rust agent harness that recompiles and hot-swaps its own core mid-task

Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles

This I Believe (1952)

The Quake Fan who built the map editor everybody uses

Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions

Wages Fall to 43% of U.S. Gross Domestic Income, Lowest Since 1929

Show HN: AgentTrust – Zero-trust security and human approvals for AI agents

How close can pure functional programming get to C?

How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money

Rubber Duck I've Ever Had

Walter Koenig, Chekov from 'Star Trek,' Has Died

The Onion Voting Simulator 3D on Steam

Show HN: ADRs for AI – Deliberation records for human–AI work, versioned in Git

Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry

OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents

The Importance of Limitations for Creativity and Learning (2023)

Moderna and Merck say their mRNA cancer vaccine cut death, recurrence by 42%

Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices

America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?

Show HN: Ultimidi – piano learning web game

Animations for System Builders

Meta Employees Denounce Interference in Brazilian Elections

A few thoughts on intensity (2024)

Making My Blog Readable by AI Agents

All you need is Wide Events, not \"Metrics, Logs and Traces\"

Apple Security Research Device

Early NASA diapers forced astronauts to disclose the size of their manhood

NBA announces partnership with prediction markets Kalshi, Polymarket

Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought

The Git Forge for Agent-Human Collaboration

Should Police Wipe a Criminal's Cellphone Before Returning It?–U.S. vs. Stathas

The foolishness of \"natural language programming\" (1978)

Apollo says AI has delivered 'zero financial payoff' outside the tech industry

Z2ram from Former Intel CEO

Microsoft Decision-1: 9B Qwen Model Launch Explained

Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany

Listen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz

One Man's Pan Am 747 Replica [video]

Show HN: Impossible Machines: declaratively program the physical world

Scientists rediscover how to make ancient Roman colour-changing glass

Show HN: Making a smart TV dumb and then smart

Railpass

Quad9 to exit France

You can hack your TVs and gadgets with AI for free now – but should you?

CVE Tracker

I Hate Cookie Consent

DNS: A Replacement for Finger

Oai-math-revised: a community hub for revising OpenAI's math write-ups

Cve.now: A free feed of security vulnerabilities for agents

Show HN: Autonomous root for Tcl Android TV via CVE-2022-22706

I Do Understand Relativity

Pentagon orders bases to plan for 90 days without the grid

JPEG XL with WebGPU makes smaller files than libjxl in 150 KB JavaScript

R/opensource bans AI-made and AI-focused projects and non-English speakers

Europe's summer heat wave killed more han 50k people in urban areas

US Wages Share of GDI at 75 Year Low

Firecrawl's Government Index

Zuckerberg can control Meta after death. He refused to give up that power

Rewriting a Commercial Engine in Jai

Gheist campaign plants secret-dumping workflows using stolen GitHub tokens

Human body model: 206 joints and 700 muscles for MuJoCo (MS-Human-700)

Reforming English Spelling

Rune 1.3: adds TypeScript, a Helix editor, Kitty graphics and OSC-7501

LISP Comes of Age (1980)

Sabre Wulf Remastered

Semantic search across major museums

I will no longer be uploading to the Debian NEW queue

ICE plan to buy robot dogs spurs protest from Boston Dynamics employees

Moreutils: The utilities package every Unix/Linux/Mac OS developer should know

Microsoft offers buyouts to around 60k employees to contain costs

Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines

Show HN: OnKey – I'm a bad singer, so I built an app to show where I'm off-key

A whirlwind tour of systemd-nspawn containers (2025)

Show HN: Swurf – Swipe through the real web

Anthropic files S-1 with the SEC for proposed initial public offering

LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale

Woman charged with computer fraud due to scam CashApp account being in her name

Ask HN: Do you still read clean code and software architecture books?

The Small Web is Huge [video]

SS United States to be sunk as largest artificial reef

eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business

Progressive disclosure in agents to make them 2.3x faster

Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin

Gemma-4-26B-A4B with 39-69% less thinking at same accuracy

Upwelling – Combining real-time collaboration with version control for writers

Dream-1

Chinese research vessels loiter near undersea cables more than any other nation

A farewell to Arc browser

Monoidal computer I: Basic computability by string diagrams (2012)

The HTML-in-Canvas API origin trial

Who killed the EV cert? A browser whodunit for Halloween

Japanese companies compensate users as cyberattacks buffet economy

Securing our frontier model training environment

Remove pgrust: the entry is cheating (per-query kernels and result caching)

How we made our MMDB files a 33% smaller

No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector

We have traits at home

Ask HN: Is it not possible to enroll for Apple Developer anymore?

Evolving Threat: http2shell is an RCE in Node, Python, and more

What to do if you discover AI models trained using your copywrighted book?

Cheap code, precious trust: Code modernization at scale

Flock [YC S17] Fever: A Review of Government Surveillance by Benn Jordan [video]

Parsing EDIFACT in Python with syntax trees

MPs moving to restrict gambling ads in Canada

Drone warfare is evolving faster than armies can adapt

AI-Assisted Paper on Z-Library Cites a TorrentFreak Article That Doesn't Exist

Everybody panic: A Valve developer said \"HLX\" in public

Binance gave Russia data on IT worker jailed 13 years for $700 Ukraine donation

Internet Security: We're Doomed

The Missed Opportunities of Sonic 06 (2025)

U.S. birth rate drops to record low, but older women are having more babies

Anemoia: Nostalgia for a time one did not personally experience

Faster than earcut: triangulating 3.7M map polygons in 489 ms

Show HN: Visualization of Top News Stories

Tool book of a Nuremberg knight from 1505

The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitively unavailable directions

Reverse engineer of PC-98 Touhou games retires

F45 (Fedora 45) Final Is No-Go

Viktor Orbán, U.N. Secretary-General?

US startup's demonstration of lighting Earth from space draws critcism

macOS Extensions Pack for the Apple Network Server v1.0

Password, Please: Border Searches of Laptops, Phones Up 32% This Year

Serbia's Vucic concedes election defeat in historic win for student movement

Alzheimer's breakthrough: 2 hrs of sleep restored without clearing brain plaques

Noyb win: German DPA finds microtargeting by major political parties illegal

How I made it possible to pretrain a 1B LLM on 6GB VRAM

Hedra is a 3D open world game I wrote from scratch while in highschool

Psilocybin Replaces Lost Synapses in Depressed Brains

Anthropic's Claude AI model accessed Georgia voter data in US

Brotli vulnerability affects curl and Git

A Stackless Floodfill Automaton

Focused Company Operating Principles

Star Trek actor Walter Koenig, who played Pavel Chekov, dies aged 90

Crosscut – Drawing Dynamic Models

Michigan prof creates Python-like Jac language for AI agents

Walter Koenig, Ensign Chekov on original 'Star Trek' series, dies at 90

What’s getting pwned right now

Radio Days

Ink droplets in motion snag top prize in Nikon Small World contest

Five Qwen3.8-27B models match Fable 5 Using GVS5H Harness

Mapping the Northern Sky

Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing

Show HN: Agentsh – A Decentralized, Scalable Multiagent Harness

Job loss and cortisone mania

Amazon identifies Oct 17 PHP2Shell exploitation prior to public disclosure

Several Linux kernel vulnerabilities accidentally posted to public mailing list

Total Historian

Scientists rediscover how to make ancient Roman colour-changing glass

The 'else' keyword is probably a literal translation from German (2020)

Microsoft and Others Tell Crypto Platform Not to Tokenize Their Stocks

PHP Foundation 'under-funded' with one full-time staff member, director says

In Nigeria, Solar Panels Are the New Wedding Gift

OpenLDK: Bringing the Java World into Common Lisp

A hidden bias in human language challenges 70 years of science

Why Gopher in 2026?

Rhode Island sues Meta over alleged profits from scam ads

Crystal 1.22

Proton hosts Flock map revealing over 300k cameras, defying cease-and-desist

German court calls Google aerial imagery 'spying'

Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity (2024)

OpenSSL 4.1.0

AI and the Enclosure of the Scientific Commons

Time Nuts (2005)

Why My Dad Didn't Have a Cell Phone

HumanLayer is now Open Source

CowAgent – Open-Source Super AI Assistant

AI analysis of CT scans finds 42.9% of patients have coronary inflammation

Cognitive Mercantilism: AI panic resembles fears of early capitalism

An alignment assessment of the UK AISI cybertesting incident

Bye Bye Brotli? Google's Compression Library Is a Security Mess

In China, the AI bubble has already burst

Lego collaboration with Daft Punk

Vibe coding is turning the music gear world upside down

Data centre debate heats up ahead of US midterms

Show HN: agent-usage-guard – a Claude Code mod to protect your usage window

How to install an app on your Commodore 64

Proton hosts map of 300k Flock devices amid legal threats

Anthropic rushing IPO before AI bubble bursts

Offline FairPlay DRM Decryption

Anthropic files for listing on US stock market: valuation of more than $1.5T

Ubiquiti's $99 Vape [Air Quality] Detector is pretty good

Objects, attributes, maps, oh my

Show HN: UI micro interactions prompts for AI

Superhuman Hardware Design Is the Easy Part

Built a site that teaches investing using the live market as the examples

Tablesample Picks Rows

Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier

Grok releases the first seven minutes of its AI-generated 'Odyssey'

Torvalds: AI is fine for competent devs, but spare us the 'drive-by' patches

Walter Koenig, the Russian Crewman Chekov on 'Star Trek,' Dies at 90

We are all living inside of an obscure sci-fi film from 1970

Analysis – In China, the AI bubble has burst

Stop-motion movie Wildwood is a staggering masterpiece

That AI Temptation

Show HN: We had AI write a wiki from 45k Enron emails, every fact cited

Fuck Nuance (2015)

Zen Browser is the Arc replacement I was looking for

Glymphatic clearance to alleviate brain edema and Alzheimer's pathology in mice

Show HN: Farol – A risk map of a pull request for the person who approves it

The future might just be software freedom (and less e-waste)

Dua Lipa's Manifesto Library

Indian government sites are serving revoked eMudhra certificates

188-Year-Old Mystery of Photography's First Human Subjects Solved

The State of Context Engineering

I turned my TV into a Game Boy Color with a Pokemon town as my home screen

Ask HN: What are your career plans in the age of AI?

Researchers Pinpoint the Exact Location of First Ever Photo of a Human

Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism

Don't anthropomorphize big tech companies

Award-winning AI literature

WikiCity – Explore 100k Wikipedia Articles as a 3D City

Work on the CPython JIT will stop as PEP is withdrawn

The result of the C++26 DIS ballot

Can we replace a $150k Looker with a bucket of HTML files?

Why I'm Short the AI Buildout Even Though I'm Long Computers

AROS.games - Retro OS for Gamers

The first broken iPhone Duos are here

Linux's Early Boot-Time Physical Memory Allocator Big Speed-Up: ~268s to ~50ms

Never-Before-Seen Images Reveal Damage at U.S. Bases in Middle East

Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads

Group in San Francisco graftng fruit-bearing branches onto street trees

Xbox Turns Down Netflix $500M Offer

Decompiling Fast Food Tycoon 2: Drawing the World

Walter Koenig, star of Star Trek, dies aged 90

Google will pay people to use less electricity so its data centers can use more

Unit Tests are not the enemy

From confession to conspiracy: How the Wedgewood fake polls story spread

Agents fail like engineers, so I review them like engineers

Talking with strangers is surprisingly informative

A visual introduction to information theory

DetectorScope: AI text detectors that show their work

Forget the plague, this is the disease that will kill us all

Imagine an AI future where being banned means you are now economically useless

Introducing Amutable Foundations

Google has officially turned these Nest thermostats back into dumb thermostats

Online censorship is crushing indie webcomics

Well-paid tech workers pay tax on unrealized gains. Billionaires can too

Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology

An Invisible Spirit

A complete bypass of eMudhra’s 1FA OTP login system

US Households Pay 62% More for Water Than They Did a Decade Ago, Study Finds

2k Boeing 737s Must Get Tail Inspections After Jets Pitched Up&Down Mid-Flight

The attack chain behind the v1.107.0 LiteLLM release

The Experiment review – easily the most disturbing thing on British TV

Show HN: Replacing CAPTCHAs with adaptive proof-of-work in WordPress

NvALT Back from the Dead

Doctors' offices are charging patients 10 times more by claiming to be hospitals

Pentagon grants DHS permission to test heat ray weapon for use at border

The Power Grab of the AI Doomers

Brotli on Nginx thread pools: ngx_mbrotli vs. ngx_brotli

In China, the AI bubble has burst

The Great Vowel Shift

Show HN: Build a world on your phone, explore it in XR on Vision Pro and Quest

Trying Pele as My Hugo Blog Mermaid Renderer

AI compute is the new oil–and needs a new market

Show HN: Searching for optimal strategies in a puzzle game with chance (Drop7)

A Love Letter to the Super Dimension Fortress

UN says breaching 1.5C warming limit is 'imminent and unavoidable'

ReactOS reaches major milestone with NTFS install support

New AI Is More Than Twice as Good at Diagnosing Diseases as Doctors

Palmer Luckey Is Launching a Genetically Engineered War Dog Startup

Offline FairPlay App Store IPA decryption with independent key derivation

Everything

The complete history of the PC game Civilization, as told by Sid Meier [video]

Zelda on a Conference Badge

Nvidia and Micron Make Up 34% of America's Earnings Boom

Gaussian Splats part 3: There's always a bigger scene

I'm Not Doing 996

Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office

Median product \"lifespan\" has fallen from ~4y down to ~1.5y

Show HN: CATT 0.2.1: Test agents/services against a Muse/Instinct-alike, in CI

Rule 30: one black cell

The Colors of a Soap Film

Weight-loss drug reduces sleep apnea in two late-stage trials

Iceye and Nokia partner with Ukraine to develop satcom capability

Tabletop Whale is an original science illustration blog

When the Term \"Heatwave\" Is No Longer Enough

The rise and fall of Jev hype

Investor-owned utilities charge 23% more for electricity than public providers

Brokerage Firms Want to Yank Away Your Investor Protections

Ask HN: Are tab completion models dead?

Last known sword maker hopes to pass craft on

Florida officer found dead man, impersonated him for years, renovated his home

Two States Can Now Restrict Social Media Access–Here's What to Do Next

Sony Exits UHD Blu-ray Player Market as Pull Back from Physical Media Continues

Is AI just another get rich quick scheme?

The lifelong orgasm gap: exploring age's impact on orgasm rates

.NET October 2026 Out-of-Band Security Updates

Neocloud stocks fall as Elon Musk says 200 companies in the sector may collapse

Caffeine-like utility to keep you MacBook awake with its lid closed

Retro Sites Let You Relive the Glory Days of 2000s Flash Games

WolfSentry: WolfSSL's Embedded Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (IDPS)

Forecasting Financial Markets with Timestral

Noise: Speedrun for Pretraining Without Backpropagation

AI devours a fifth of companies' IT budgets

Debunking \"Faster Than Rust\": Malicious Benchmarks in Tov

AI Safety Is Mostly a Sex Cult in Berkeley, California

Claude Code slyly adding users' emails to outbound HTTP

Mitmproxy 12.3: eMudhra Edition

PC Prices Got Stupid, So I Tried Gaming Like It Was 1996 [video]

Crows can evaluate visual info twice as fast as mammals

I let Claude review the C code I wrote as a math intern in 2013

AI in UX: Work Is Faster, but Practitioners Have Mixed Feelings

ElectIt: U.S. Elections Forecast

Forced to pick, Grok's AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI's picks Democrats

A simple liquid can stop cavities without drilling | Scientists have confirmed that silver diamine fluoride, an inexpensive liquid can stop tooth decay in seconds without drilling or anesthesia, potentially transforming cavity treatment for millions.

Autistic brains react less to being told \"you're wrong,\" new study finds. People with autism showed weaker brain responses to negative feedback, and unlike others, their reactions didn't change with task difficulty, which may help explain why adapting to change feels harder.

Adventurous play linked to better physical and mental health in children

People With Psychopathic Traits May Enjoy Fear Because They Experience Thrill and Excitement Rather Than Distress When Facing Frightening Situations, Offering Insights Into How Personality Traits Shape Emotional Responses to Fear

After one night without sleep, people made more mistakes and were less likely to notice them. In a study of 30 adults, both effects became stronger the longer participants continued the task.

A clinical trial found that a nasal spray made from a toad venom chemical can quickly ease severe depression for weeks, though some experts argue it isn't as fully effective as other treatments like ketamine.

A monkey infected with an HIV-like virus has stayed virus-free for four years after a single shot of a new antibody that helps the immune system destroy the cells where the virus hides. Several other baby monkeys also stayed clear for months after their HIV drugs were stopped, in a small, new study.

Some people who can't picture things while awake still report seeing images in their dreams. A study of 205 adults found wide differences in how waking imagination and dream sensations lined up in people with aphantasia.

The Symbolic Politics of Housing – People oppose new housing if they believe it benefits groups they dislike (such as developers, investors, certain politicians, the wealthy). People do not have principled thinking on housing policy or follow their own material interests.

A study using genetic, health and Fitbit data found that higher physical activity was associated with weaker links between genetic risk for depression and symptom severity. Both daily steps and moderate-to-vigorous exercise showed this pattern, suggesting activity may help buffer inherited risk.

New tests using blurry pictures and hidden numbers have revealed visual processing difficulties in some people with Parkinson’s disease before they report wider problems with thinking, University of Queensland research has found.

New study in Cancer Discovery provides evidence that breast cancer metastases acquire new mutations during clinical latency that contribute to metastatic outgrowth, challenging the view that metastatic potential is fully established in the primary tumor.

Global happiness researchers reveal keys to a good life. Research found as much as 40 per cent of one’s happiness is related to “volitional activities” or how you choose to spend your time.

Most pregnancies after living kidney donation are uncomplicated, according to a new Canadian study that provides a clearer picture of pregnancy outcomes among kidney donors. The study, published in JAMA, provides clearer evidence to inform donation decisions.

Researchers unearth fossil evidence of first fully marine amphibian

Researchers from UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute and the Australian National University have identified a brain circuit linked to the flexible formation of memories that may help explain some of the differences in learning associated with autism spectrum disorder.

I'm Philipp Strasberg, a theoretical physicist, and I'm here with Scientific American to answer your questions about the possibility of a multiverse. Ask Me Anything on 10/27.

Behavioral evidence for two-stage sleep in spiders

A new model suggests Mars may host ice-forming physics never directly observed before | Homogeneous ice nucleation from water vapour suggested by elongated clouds on Mars

Estrogen receptor modulation by a newly-identified cannabinoid in a preclinical model of breast cancer

A large study found that emergency department visits and hospitalizations for substance use among young mothers increased by 5% per year, similar to rates among childless women. Young mothers under 25 drove these increases, with rates growing four times faster than among other females.

Clouds on a lava planet challenge what astronomers expected | New analysis of James Webb Space Telescope observations points to a reflective cloudy sky on TOI-561 b

This week in PNAS Journal Club: Three fossils of Ice Age American “cheetahs” found in the Yukon Territory offer the first full genome for the species. These extinct big cats were closely related to pumas, and ate a diet high in nitrogen, suggesting their main prey was fish, probably salmon.

Study identifies brain pathways linked to sustained improvement in those receiving deep brain stimulation (DBS) for treatment-resistant depression: the cingulum bundle, forceps minor, and medial uncinate fasciculus/ventral amygdalofugal pathways

A University of Queensland research team is challenging how we think about the brain’s bioenergetics, overturning the field to show that saturated free fatty acids contribute to both energy and signalling that powers synaptic plasticity.

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