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Some plants use carbon from fungi in addition to photosynthesis

https://scienceandfiction.net/stories/46_well-connected/
3•hhartmann•1h ago

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hhartmann•1h ago
A short story about plants in the forest, photosynthesis, and a secret connection to fungi.

Accessible scientific results and exciting fictional stories in one. Science & Fiction is a space for people who like to a) learn about science and b) read science fiction at the same time.

Created by Dr. Helena Hartmann (www.helenahartmann.com)

Hannah Fry: How OpenAI has caused an existential crisis in mathematics

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2593249-hannah-fry-how-openai-has-caused-an-existential-cris...
1•mhw•58s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Scalable source control in Rust, inspired by Anthropic's Scion

https://github.com/adrianchifor/scn
1•adrianchifor•1m ago•0 comments

Ad-tech company was a delivery system for "mercenary spyware"

https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/17/mercenary-spyware/#discover-tech
10•samizdis•6m ago•1 comments

He Wants AI Benchmarking to Be a Science, Not a Dark Art

https://www.quantamagazine.org/he-wants-ai-benchmarking-to-be-a-science-not-a-dark-art-20261016/
1•sonabinu•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Plinth – free open-source desktop video downloader

https://plinth.fabwaseem.com
1•fabwaseem•11m ago•0 comments

Priestly coders are more annoying than vibe coders [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDNuf4Zhk5I
1•yogthos•12m ago•0 comments

Periodic Weak Spots: Phase Sensitivity from Chunked KV-Cache Compression

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.36322
1•wondersky•12m ago•0 comments

Pressy is back from the dead (on the Mac, at least)

https://github.com/gufertum/pressy-resurrected
1•gufertum•13m ago•0 comments

Perceptors AI – turning clinical expertise into reviewed courses

https://www.perceptors.ai/
1•fadyhs•15m ago•0 comments

Don't be one of them (Use your release notes)

https://sjg.io/writing/dont-be-one-of-them/
1•simonjgreen•15m ago•0 comments

Apps, Agents, and Aggregation

https://stratechery.com/2026/apps-agents-and-aggregation/
1•gumby•16m ago•0 comments

Tagging and Parsing English Sentences

https://stochastic.blog/tagging-and-parsing-english-sentences/
1•Anon84•18m ago•0 comments

The Spy Inside the Box: How Tampered Ledger Wallets Leaked Seed Phrases over LTE

https://security.lankinen.xyz/posts/the-spy-inside-the-box-how-tampered-ledger-wallets-leaked-see...
1•lankinen•20m ago•0 comments

A death, a plagiarism scandal and a quest for revenge: the tale of Otto Z

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/08/a-death-a-plagiarism-scandal-and-a-qu...
2•Hooke•21m ago•0 comments

fishdraw

https://github.com/LingDong-/fishdraw
1•bookofjoe•22m ago•0 comments

Lexica Ultralegible is a new font for low-vision readers

https://coywolf.com/news/web-development/lexica-ultralegible-is-a-new-font-for-low-vision-readers...
2•twapi•24m ago•0 comments

MonkShift – reduces visual distractions, one application can take the foreground

https://github.com/gslava/MonkShift
2•itic1gm•25m ago•0 comments

Copy-Paste Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.19247
1•azhenley•26m ago•0 comments

Automattic Also Wants .php

https://kgolubic.com/posts/automattic-also-wants-php/
1•taubek•27m ago•0 comments

Google Wave

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Wave
2•tosh•27m ago•0 comments

Apple's HomeView is just the latest threat to online recipe writers

https://www.theverge.com/tech/1012820/apple-homeview-recipe-formatting
1•desolate_muffin•28m ago•0 comments

Decompilations, AI, and the Chase for Clout

https://jpeisach.github.io/blog/ai/legoisland/decompilation/porting/reverse-engineering/2026/10/1...
2•aizk•30m ago•0 comments

Proactive AI for Superintelligent Agents

https://research.google/pubs/proactive-ai-for-superintelligent-agents/
2•theanonymousone•39m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: What happened to Anti-Virus suites?

1•scanny•39m ago•1 comments

The McGurk effect: what you see changes what you hear

https://www.transitivebullsh.it/projects/the-mcgurk-effect
1•transitivebs•39m ago•1 comments

Meta Opens Muse Spark's Weights with Strings Attached

https://ailately.com/articles/meta-muse-spark-open-weights
1•ryanedennis•41m ago•0 comments

Comparison of Browser Engines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_browser_engines
1•andsoitis•41m ago•0 comments

Open Source Without the Open Door

https://abbykearns.substack.com/p/open-source-without-the-open-door
1•gpi•44m ago•0 comments

We found a Tencent agent fleet

https://swarmcha.se/posts/chinese-agent-fleet-full-report
2•rurban•45m ago•1 comments

Show HN: SpeakoFlow – Free, open-source voice typing for Windows, Mac and Linux

https://www.speakoflow.com/
1•AbhishekBarali•45m ago•0 comments