frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

Open in hackernews

How sea turtles learn locations using Earth’s magnetic field: research

https://uncnews.unc.edu/2025/02/13/sea-turtles-secret-gps-researchers-uncover-how-sea-turtles-learn-locations-using-earths-magnetic-field/
14•hhs•3d ago

Comments

FridayoLeary•1h ago
I'm wondering what happens when the earths magnetic field flips. A mass die off?

>“It is amazing that sea turtles have access to a wealth of invisible information that they use to navigate in ways that are hard for us to even imagine.”

we can never hope to compete with nature, but i do find that statement funny. They literally built a device to help emulate turtle navigation. GPS is a part of life. Humans can detect and have found uses for almost every part of the spectrum. Compasses have existed for centuries. I'm not being dismissive of this discovery at all. I just find it remarkable how much we have managed to achieve.

Pebble Watch software is now 100% open source

https://ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-watch-software-is-now-100percent-open-source
694•Larrikin•7h ago•113 comments

Claude Advanced Tool Use

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use
347•lebovic•6h ago•136 comments

Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data

https://www.xda-developers.com/your-unpowered-ssd-is-slowly-losing-your-data/
195•amichail•6h ago•86 comments

Build a Compiler in Five Projects

https://kmicinski.com/functional-programming/2025/11/23/build-a-language/
22•azhenley•19h ago•0 comments

Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3

https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/three-years-from-gpt-3-to-gemini
195•JumpCrisscross•2d ago•120 comments

Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of the old CRTs

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
166•michalpleban•8h ago•69 comments

Claude Opus 4.5

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-5
764•adocomplete•7h ago•348 comments

Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator

https://news.ysimulator.run/news
167•johnsillings•8h ago•90 comments

Moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for firewalls

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/OpenBSDToFreeBSDMove
147•zdw•5d ago•75 comments

Random lasers from peanut kernel doped with birch leaf–derived carbon dots

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/nanoph-2025-0312/html
19•PaulHoule•5d ago•3 comments

The Bitter Lesson of LLM Extensions

https://www.sawyerhood.com/blog/llm-extension
85•sawyerjhood•7h ago•46 comments

Show HN: OCR Arena – A playground for OCR models

https://www.ocrarena.ai/battle
66•kbyatnal•3d ago•22 comments

How sea turtles learn locations using Earth’s magnetic field: research

https://uncnews.unc.edu/2025/02/13/sea-turtles-secret-gps-researchers-uncover-how-sea-turtles-lea...
14•hhs•3d ago•1 comments

What OpenAI did when ChatGPT users lost touch with reality

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/technology/openai-chatgpt-users-risks.html
111•nonprofiteer•20h ago•121 comments

PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ddr5/64gb-of-ddr5-memory-now-costs-more-than-an-entire...
279•speckx•6h ago•169 comments

Chrome Jpegxl Issue Reopened

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40168998
215•markdog12•13h ago•80 comments

Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC

https://www.androidauthority.com/aluminium-os-android-for-pcs-3619092/
60•jmsflknr•7h ago•55 comments

Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03714-0
126•srameshc•7h ago•81 comments

Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected

https://helixguard.ai/blog/malicious-sha1hulud-2025-11-24
872•mrdosija•15h ago•696 comments

A fast EDN (Extensible Data Notation) reader written in C11 with SIMD boost

https://github.com/DotFox/edn.c
35•delaguardo•16h ago•1 comments

Neopets.com changed my life (2019)

https://annastreetman.com/2019/05/19/how-neopets-com-changed-my-life/
59•bariumbitmap•6d ago•44 comments

Bytes before FLOPS: your algorithm is (mostly) fine, your data isn't

https://www.bitsdraumar.is/bytes-before-flops/
41•bofersen•1d ago•8 comments

Corvus Robotics (YC S18): Hiring Head of Mfg/Ops, Next Door to YC Mountain View

1•robot_jackie•9h ago

Fifty Shades of OOP

https://lesleylai.info/en/fifty_shades_of_oop/
51•todsacerdoti•16h ago•9 comments

You can see a working Quantum Computer in IBM's London office

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/you-can-see-a-working-quantum-computer-in-ibms-london-office...
42•thinkingemote•2d ago•9 comments

A Major City of the Kazakh Steppe? Investigating Semiyarka's Bronze Age Legacy

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/major-city-of-the-kazakh-steppe-investi...
5•1659447091•5d ago•0 comments

TSMC Arizona outage saw fab halt, Apple wafers scrapped

https://www.culpium.com/p/tsmc-arizona-outage-saw-fab-halt
176•speckx•7h ago•67 comments

Everything you need to know about hard drive vibration (2016)

https://www.ept.ca/features/everything-need-know-hard-drive-vibration/
24•asdefghyk•4d ago•6 comments

Building the largest known Kubernetes cluster

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/how-we-built-a-130000-node-gke-cluster/
105•TangerineDream•3d ago•65 comments

Inside Rust's std and parking_lot mutexes – who wins?

https://blog.cuongle.dev/p/inside-rusts-std-and-parking-lot-mutexes-who-win
131•signa11•4d ago•56 comments