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The Epochalypse: It's Y2K, but 38 Years Later

https://hackaday.com/2025/07/22/the-epochalypse-y2k-but-38-years-later/
7•austinallegro•2h ago

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alex-moon•1h ago
One pedantic nitpick: the heat death of the universe is at least 10^100 years away, many many orders of magnitude longer than 200 billion (or 2x10^11) years. Overall though lovely stuff - I was already largely aware of all of this but it's nice to have a concise but detailed summary that's largely accurate (as far as I know).

Emerging evidence of abrupt changes in the Antarctic environment

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09349-5
1•layer8•3m ago•0 comments

macOS/iOS security update – may have been exploited in targeted attack

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/124927
1•mhandley•4m ago•0 comments

Invisible Hands on the Scale

https://culturalcourage.substack.com/p/invisible-hands-on-the-scale
1•13years•4m ago•0 comments

AI-Companionship Leaderboard

https://huggingface.co/spaces/frimelle/companionship-leaderboard
1•Anonboxis•5m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: If technology is so good for the world, why are we becoming less happy?

2•cmcy•8m ago•1 comments

AI system that automatically generates exploits for published CVEs in 15 minutes

https://valmarelox.substack.com/p/09ef71db-33c2-45ef-bb19-6ac61a605cfa
1•rocoy•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SIMD-Optimized Bloom Filters in Mojo for Large-Scale Systems

https://github.com/axiomhq/mojo-bloomfilter
1•seiflotfy•10m ago•0 comments

mRNA vaccines hold promise for many diseases. Now the tech is under fire

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mrna-vaccines-diseases-tech
2•zzzeek•11m ago•0 comments

Halfbakery – a collection of half baked ideas

https://www.halfbakery.com/index-recent-by-date.html
1•xk3•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Was There, an iOS app for tracking your attended MLB games

https://snailcar.dev/iwasthere/
1•rylie•12m ago•0 comments

A Clash Course in Solving Sudoku (Functional Pearl) [pdf]

https://unsafeperform.io/papers/2025-hs-clash-sudoku/2025-hs-clash-sudoku.pdf
1•matt_d•12m ago•0 comments

The Cold Swarm: Why Your AI-Personalized Pitch Is Dead on Arrival

https://zakelfassi.com/blog/2025/2025-08-20-the-cold-swarm-ai-personalized-pitch-dead-on-arrival
1•zakelfassi•14m ago•0 comments

GPT-5 underperforms in medical language understanding [pdf]

https://www.fertrevino.com/docs/gpt5_medhelm.pdf
2•fertrevino•15m ago•1 comments

Wired Got Rolled by an AI Freelancer

https://www.wired.com/story/how-wired-got-rolled-by-an-ai-freelancer/
2•healsdata•18m ago•0 comments

Monsoon Rains Bring Mumbai to a Standstill

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/world/asia/india-monsoon-mumbai.html
2•bookofjoe•19m ago•1 comments

Orange Belgium Data Breach Impacts 850k Customers

https://www.securityweek.com/orange-belgium-data-breach-impacts-850000-customers/
1•Bender•21m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: AI Code Smells

1•dhr•21m ago•0 comments

Russia exploited a 7-year old Cisco flaw to target critical infrastructure

https://www.scworld.com/news/fbi-russias-fsb-actively-exploited-a-seven-year-old-cisco-flaw-to-target-critical-infrastructure
4•Bender•22m ago•0 comments

The Dangerous Legal Strategy Coming for Our Books

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/book-bans-public-schools/683921/
2•JumpCrisscross•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Precisionconvert.io – Professional unit converter for engineers

https://precisionconvert.io/
1•TaxFix•23m ago•0 comments

Inter-APU Communication on AMD MI300A Systems via Infinity Fabric: A Deep Dive

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11298
2•matt_d•23m ago•0 comments

Asyncio-thread-runner: you can have a little async (as a treat)

https://death.andgravity.com/asyncio-thread-runner
2•nomdep•26m ago•0 comments

A Marvelous Footnote in Tech History: The Mindset Computer and the Vyper Game

https://blisscast.wordpress.com/2023/10/17/mindset-computer-vyper-game/
1•doener•31m ago•0 comments

Ask an LLM "What is the time?"

https://bsky.app/profile/paulbjensen.bsky.social/post/3lwwyngwmhc2u
1•paulbjensen•33m ago•1 comments

The Onion Brought Back Its Print Edition. The Gamble Is Paying Off

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/the-onion-print-subscribers-6c24649c
6•andsoitis•38m ago•1 comments

Scattered Spider hacker gets sentenced to 10 years in prison

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/scattered-spider-hacker-gets-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison/
1•kPwn•39m ago•0 comments

Pill That Slows Aging? Meds May Boost Health Span

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/pill-slows-aging-meds-may-boost-health-span-2025a1000lub
4•wjb3•41m ago•0 comments

Password Managers Vulnerable to Data Theft via Clickjacking

https://www.securityweek.com/password-managers-vulnerable-to-data-theft-via-clickjacking/
3•Bender•42m ago•0 comments

The Thiele Machine: A Formal Proof of a New Computational Model

https://github.com/sethirus/The-Thiele-Machine
1•ThieleMachine•44m ago•2 comments

Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky

https://academic.oup.com/icb/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/icb/icaf127/8196180?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false
2•sebg•44m ago•1 comments