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A 55-Year-Old Math Problem Was Solved–This Time by Humans

https://www.wired.com/story/a-55-year-old-math-problem-was-solved-this-time-by-humans/
1•Brajeshwar•2m ago•0 comments

Photo of the ISS Next to Jupiter Was Two Years in the Making

https://nautil.us/this-photo-of-the-iss-next-to-jupiter-was-two-years-in-the-making-1286407
1•Brajeshwar•2m ago•0 comments

Earth's Rocks Have a Missing Layer Spanning Up to a Billion Years

https://nautil.us/earths-rocks-have-a-missing-layer-spanning-up-to-a-billion-years-1286417
1•Brajeshwar•2m ago•0 comments

The Stone Age of Local Coding Agents

https://deadneurons.substack.com/p/the-stone-age-of-local-coding-agents
2•nr378•5m ago•0 comments

I Resist Generative "AI"

https://estherweidauer.com/articles/why-resist-generative-ai.html
1•lobo_tuerto•6m ago•0 comments

Google energy head: space data centers would cost up to 100x more than on Earth

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/general/google-energy-head-claims-data-centers-in-space-would-cos...
1•Zigurd•6m ago•0 comments

'Free grand piano': the scam playing on music lovers' heartstrings

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/nov/08/free-grand-piano-scam-emails
1•prmph•10m ago•0 comments

Tailscale Native Git Forge

https://github.com/kevindurb/tsgit
1•kevindurb•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: OfflineVault – An offline library for when the internet is down

https://offlinevault.dev
1•nc•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Micron – The Oberon with the Power of C

https://github.com/rochus-keller/Micron
3•Rochus•14m ago•0 comments

Cyber at the Frontier

https://openai.com/cyber-at-the-frontier/
1•talboren•18m ago•0 comments

Old, Polluting Jet Engines Are Being Scavenged to Power Data Centers

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/03/climate/jet-engines-ai-data-center-generators-boneyard.html
1•leonidasrup•19m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is it possible to backtest math/scinse breakthroughs with AI models?

1•ran_cohen•26m ago•2 comments

Who first said, 'The best government is that which governs least'?

https://reason.com/volokh/2017/09/06/who-first-said-the-best-govern/
2•ArizonaGal•27m ago•1 comments

This implant burns up excess blood sugar with electricity

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/this-implant-burns-up-excess-blood-sugar-with-electric...
1•thunderbong•31m ago•0 comments

Why forcing Ukraine into a peace deal won't work [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bVaT1GohMU
1•yakshaving_jgt•32m ago•0 comments

Chapter 04: Implementing Sails-style Routing

https://chauhankiran.blogspot.com/2026/11/chapter-04-implementing-sails-style.html
1•chauhankiran•32m ago•0 comments

BerryBox – GitHub Actions runners at $0.002/min, billed per second

https://berrybox.io/
1•chiragasarpota•32m ago•0 comments

Pinot Noir: inside the criminal gangs making fake wine

https://www.economist.com/interactive/2026/11/06/pinot-noir-inside-the-criminal-gangs-making-fake...
2•Anon84•38m ago•0 comments

$6M/Year Cosmetics Empire Crumbles After Adobe Website Disaster [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnicUxFL64E
2•nomilk•40m ago•0 comments

Roku Retires Fish Tank Screensaver to Reel Viewers into Roku City

https://www.cnet.com/tech/home-entertainment/roku-retires-aquatic-life-screensaver-2/
3•slowin•40m ago•4 comments

Asserts You Can Read at a Glance

https://blog.hackflow.ru/blog/2026/11/08/asserts-at-a-glance/
1•Suor•41m ago•1 comments

Want to fly to the moon? NASA is looking for new astronauts to help grow its Art

https://phys.org/news/2026-11-fly-moon-nasa-astronauts-artemis.html
1•bookmtn•42m ago•2 comments

A 3-Line Torus Geometry Proof Wrecked OpenAI's $100B Biotech Venture

https://github.com/Dr-Logvinovich/codon-torus-syntax/blob/main/README.md
4•DRLogvinovich•42m ago•0 comments

KapX is a groundbreaking mobility and orientation aid

https://www.kapsys.com/en/produit/kapx-2/
1•Bluestein•43m ago•0 comments

A lack of male protagonists is making it harder to get young boys into books

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/11/middle-grade-reading-male-protagonists/689285/
21•ryzvonusef•47m ago•32 comments

Download Netscape Communicator or Navigator Software

https://web.archive.org/web/19970613204222/http://home.netscape.com/comprod/mirror/client_downloa...
3•Bluestein•48m ago•1 comments

Storehouse – storing your creative work shouldn't be a ball ache

https://niva.design/storehouse
1•stuart-semple•49m ago•1 comments

Show HN: AIDA – agentic generated user guides

https://github.com/tryaida/aida
2•elijahglass•51m ago•1 comments

The Modern World

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/06/the-modern-world/
1•ColinWright•52m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: What are you currently trying to figure out?

3•gooob•1y ago
i'm trying to figure out why elden ring started stuttering and freezing during gameplay recently, and why the windows operating system has so many little dumb things wrong with it.

Comments

sherdil2022•1y ago
Trying to figure out what to do next and what to do with my life.
gooob•1y ago
how's that going? what are your current options?
sherdil2022•1y ago
Not going good.
scottmcdot•1y ago
How to build a segmentation model based on a sample of data that needs to be representative of the population.
turtleyacht•1y ago
Trying to figure a workaround in ksh for space-delimited filenames:

  for f in $(ls "/mnt/dir"); do
    cp -v "$f" /elsewhere
  done
Because -R doesn't handle retries when cp(1) errors out intermittently (USB MTP to phone). I don't remember it being this hard in bash, or Android just is like this. Hopefully can figure it out without going to perl or C. Maybe dump(8).

Even though 54 GB partition created, it only takes up 22 GB or so. Either missing a lot of files or FFS compacts it well.

turtleyacht•1y ago
Pipe and read per line:

  ls /mnt/dir | while read line; do
    cp -v "$line" /elsewhere
    # substitute with something fancy
    # [ $? -eq 0 ] || cp -v "$line" /elsewhere
  done
nailer•1y ago
If there’s transmission errors, I would recommend using rsync rather than cp. that will keep transferring and running checksums until everything matches.
turtleyacht•1y ago
Thank-you. After installing openrsync(1) (and rsync), files transferred for a bit but failed and dumped core with error 138 (bus error). Maybe a quirk with OpenBSD 7.6, or interaction between simple-mtpfs and the fusefs mount.

In the meantime, after a few retries, the failures are written to a log for a second sweep.

MD5 check helps skip extra copying, but it's overall much slower. It seems okay for a long-running batch job; maybe something we can return to after getting the pictures to display.

The pattern is like

  cp ... || \
    { sleep 2; cp ... ; } || \
    ... || \
    ... || echo "$file" >> retry.log
Not the best way. It has failed before all four times. Going to let it run overnight to see if it completes.
arthurcolle•1y ago
navigating personal 'unemployment' while obsessively hoarding whatever money I can to run experiments / train, finetune models to leverage RL and environment-building in order to use computers, learn tasks, learn from each other, and scale to managing companies (simple, SaaS at first, and eventually, potentially to real-world operations downstream task sets)
nailer•1y ago
I arrived tired to a pre wedding photo shoot this morning, my prospective wife yelled at me, and cancelled the shoot. I walked out because I don’t like people yelling at me. So I am trying to figure out whether I still want to marry her.