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Single-shot spatiotemporal vector field measurements of petawatt laser pulses

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-025-01698-x
1•PaulHoule•43s ago•0 comments

How Compilers Break and Fix Constant-Time Code

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06112
2•belter•3m ago•0 comments

My smartphone died and I'm not replacing it

https://sym.bearblog.dev/smartphone-died/
1•speckx•5m ago•0 comments

Why Science Hasn't Solved Consciousness (Yet)

https://www.noemamag.com/why-science-hasnt-solved-consciousness-yet/
1•benbreen•5m ago•0 comments

Musk's chatbot repeatedly praises Hitler

https://www.muskwatch.com/p/musks-chatbot-repeatedly-praises
4•chmaynard•6m ago•0 comments

One Whittie's Mission to Empower Walla Walla Women and Children

https://www.whitman.edu//whitman-stories/one-whitties-mission-to-empower-walla-walla-women-and-children
1•mooreds•9m ago•0 comments

BAML

https://github.com/BoundaryML/baml
1•handfuloflight•9m ago•0 comments

(Attempting to) Engineer the chaos out of AI agents

https://trunk.io/blog/attempting-to-engineer-the-chaos-out-of-ai-agents
2•draward•10m ago•0 comments

Four Types of Autism

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02224-z
1•Balgair•11m ago•0 comments

Why Your Team Still Needs Go Training in the Age of AI

https://www.gopherguides.com/articles/why-your-team-still-needs-go-training-in-the-age-of-ai
1•gopherguides•12m ago•0 comments

Hook, Line, and Term Sheet: Fishing for Capital and Reeling in Investors

https://www.whitenoise.email/p/hook-line-and-term-sheet-fishing
1•twhite214•12m ago•0 comments

Amber Smalltalk

https://amber-lang.net/
1•droideqa•12m ago•0 comments

Over 2000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/09/nasa-staff-departures-00444674
3•anigbrowl•12m ago•0 comments

The odd distribution of high rise construction

https://www.themoneyillusion.com/the-odd-distribution-of-high-rise-construction/
1•speckx•14m ago•0 comments

We're Leaving Delaware, and We Think You Should Consider Leaving Too

https://a16z.com/were-leaving-delaware-and-we-think-you-should-consider-leaving-too/
1•mfiguiere•15m ago•0 comments

The People of Netua

https://blog.quineglobal.com/post/netua
1•ironmagma•15m ago•0 comments

A data analysis of animal gender in children's books

https://pudding.cool/2025/07/kids-books/
1•dskhatri•20m ago•0 comments

Why Elixir? A Rebuttal to Common Misconceptions

https://matthewsinclair.com/blog/0181-why-elixir
2•mooreds•22m ago•0 comments

Hedge funds to blame for coffee price surge, says Lavazza boss

https://www.ft.com/content/b5d7caa9-7ae1-4de7-bc3c-8ad68d1ed556
1•mgl•22m ago•1 comments

NoSurf – Stop wasting life on the net

https://nosurf.net/
1•FigurativeVoid•22m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Does prompt tuning even matter?

1•jonjohh•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Neudesk – Marketplace for Finding Business Services

https://neudesk.com
2•konrad-g•24m ago•0 comments

Google's Cloud IDP Could Replace Platform Engineering

https://thenewstack.io/googles-cloud-idp-could-replace-platform-engineering/
2•rbanffy•25m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Once AI replaces us, can we do Vibe Plumbing?

1•ciwolex•26m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Any tools to automatically diagram cloud infra?

1•telecomsteve•27m ago•1 comments

Express-Voice: instant and accented identity voice cloning model

https://synthesiaresearch.github.io/express-voice/
1•alexvoica•27m ago•0 comments

McDonald's AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants' Data to Hackers

https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-ai-hiring-chat-bot-paradoxai/
3•impish9208•27m ago•0 comments

YouTube Can't Put Pandora's AI Slop Back in the Box

https://gizmodo.com/youtube-cant-put-pandoras-ai-slop-back-in-the-box-2000626819
3•rntn•29m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: HN is becoming too political

6•redm•31m ago•11 comments

Are LLMs starting to become sentient?

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/are-llms-starting-to-become-a-sentient
2•almost-exactly•33m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Physics needs research software engineers

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-025-00852-2
3•bookofjoe•5h ago

Comments

sinenomine•5h ago
Will they be cited tho…
PaulHoule•5h ago
The toxic culture can't absorb them. PhDs are massively overproduced and jobs are so much more precious than people to do those jobs that it breaks... everything. [1]

I remember a physics prof who bitched me out for structuring UI code for teaching apps with OO-oriented ideas, seems that I was the stupid one because I knew something other than FORTRAN. To be fair though, I wrote a lot of Java that looked like FORTRAN then because that prof and other profs did teach me ideas about how to get your code to run fast like "don't just use doubles because you can", "allocate a big array up front and don't allocate any more", etc.

At the very least I'd imagine grad students are using git over there in 2025.

[1] If it wasn't so bad you might get a little "meritocracy" but when jobs are that precious nepotism eats them all up. Not like there is any way you can tell "merit" in hep-th when we'll probably have to wait another 75 years to get a conclusive result on proton decay, observe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphaleron (prediction of the standard model just like the Higgs), get an almost precise determination of the neutrino mass (we know the exponent, KATRIN probably puts on the first digit) and maybe have a direct observation of the darkon.

Maybe someday people will quit getting excited about a complicated experiment being a few std dev off from a complicated perturbation theory calculation because... those perturbation theories don't really converge the way you wish they did never mind that if you add up thousands and thousands of Feynman diagrams you'll drop one on the floor.