frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

Open in hackernews

A Study of the Winston Red: The Smithsonian's New Fancy Red Diamond

https://www.gia.edu/gems-gemology/spring-2025-winston-red-diamond
25•bookofjoe•18h ago

Comments

gsf_emergency•15h ago
TL;S it for you

>careful balance of ... plastic deformation*... [and a low concentration of] nitrogen defects

*exact mechanism of absorbance/luminescence unknown (see comment for the 550nm line in Table 3 p29)

I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch

https://github.com/yousef-rafat/miniDiffusion
127•yousef_g•2h ago•15 comments

Inside the Apollo "8-Ball" FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator)

https://www.righto.com/2025/06/inside-apollo-fdai.html
30•zdw•1h ago•8 comments

Unsupervised Elicitation of Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10139
79•kordlessagain•4h ago•5 comments

Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun's poles

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Solar_Orbiter/Solar_Orbiter_gets_world-first_views_of_the_Sun_s_poles
54•sohkamyung•2d ago•4 comments

Peano arithmetic is enough, because Peano arithmetic encodes computation

https://math.stackexchange.com/a/5075056/6708
163•btilly•1d ago•57 comments

Last fifty years of integer linear programming: Recent practical advances

https://inria.hal.science/hal-04776866v1
114•teleforce•10h ago•13 comments

How to Build Conscious Machines

https://osf.io/preprints/thesiscommons/wehmg_v1
41•hardmaru•5h ago•38 comments

The Many Sides of Erik Satie

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-many-sides-of-erik-satie/
84•anarbadalov•6d ago•16 comments

SIMD-friendly algorithms for substring searching (2018)

http://0x80.pl/notesen/2016-11-28-simd-strfind.html
151•Rendello•13h ago•27 comments

Slowing the flow of core-dump-related CVEs

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1024160/f18b880c8cd1eef1/
56•jwilk•3d ago•9 comments

Endometriosis is an interesting disease

https://www.owlposting.com/p/endometriosis-is-an-incredibly-interesting
251•crescit_eundo•18h ago•138 comments

Writing a Truth Oracle in Lisp

https://lambda-cove.net/posts/truth-oracle-lisp/
16•io12•2d ago•1 comments

Texting myself the weather every day

https://bensilverman.co.uk/posts/daily-weather-sms/
17•benslv•3d ago•22 comments

SSHTron: A multiplayer lightcycle game that runs through SSH

https://github.com/zachlatta/sshtron
5•thunderbong•24m ago•0 comments

Solidroad (YC W25) Is Hiring

https://solidroad.com/careers
1•pjfin•4h ago

Me an' Algernon – grappling with (temporary) cognitive decline

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/me-an-algernon
65•KentBeck•4d ago•35 comments

TimeGuessr

https://timeguessr.com/
172•stefanpie•4d ago•34 comments

Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix

https://netflixtechblog.com/uda-unified-data-architecture-6a6aee261d8d
102•Bogdanp•5h ago•67 comments

Filedb: Disk-based key-value store inspired by Bitcask

https://github.com/rajivharlalka/filedb
93•todsacerdoti•14h ago•9 comments

Liquid Glass – WWDC25 [video]

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/219
123•lnrd•4d ago•214 comments

Implementing Logic Programming

https://btmc.substack.com/p/implementing-logic-programming
162•sirwhinesalot•19h ago•51 comments

"Language and Image Minus Cognition." Leif Weatherby on LLMs

https://www.jhiblog.org/2025/06/11/language-and-image-minus-cognition-an-interview-with-leif-weatherby/
5•Traces•3d ago•0 comments

Self-Adapting Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10943
183•archon1410•21h ago•49 comments

Mollusk shell assemblages as a tool for identifying unaltered seagrass beds

https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v760/meps14839
11•PaulHoule•2d ago•0 comments

Student discovers fungus predicted by Albert Hoffman

https://wvutoday.wvu.edu/stories/2025/06/02/wvu-student-makes-long-awaited-discovery-of-mystery-fungus-sought-by-lsd-s-inventor
129•zafka•3d ago•97 comments

The Army’s Newest Recruits: Tech Execs From Meta, OpenAI and More

https://www.wsj.com/tech/army-reserve-tech-executives-meta-palantir-796f5360
151•aspenmayer•1d ago•152 comments

The international standard for identifying postal items

https://www.akpain.net/blog/s10-upu/
83•surprisetalk•2d ago•17 comments

What Is Open Source?

https://werd.io/what-is-open-source/
6•benwerd•58m ago•1 comments

If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014)

https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html
812•sdoering•1d ago•244 comments

Whatever Happened to Sandboxfs?

https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/whatever-happened-to-sandboxfs
62•zdw•3d ago•8 comments