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I Found Ultra-Pure Quantum Crystals in an Abandoned Mine in the Atacama Desert

https://medium.com/@breid.at/ultra-pure-quantum-crystals-from-an-abandoned-mine-in-a-mysterious-d...

40•vi_sextus_vi•2d ago•3 comments

The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/19/5-minute-llms/

457•yakkomajuri•8h ago•319 comments

Peter Neumann has died

https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2026-May/033748.html

117•pabs3•7h ago•8 comments

Polypad

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64•ivank•2d ago•6 comments

Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone

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94•krupan•2d ago•31 comments

Click (2016)

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306•andrewzeno•11h ago•73 comments

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29•zdw•2d ago•7 comments

PyTorch Landscape

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Anthropic acquires Stainless

https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-acquires-stainless

455•tomeraberbach•17h ago•312 comments

Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5

https://cursor.com/blog/composer-2-5

147•asar•16h ago•107 comments

Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25

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229•cucho•10h ago•137 comments

1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries

https://github.com/2b2tplace/1m_release

143•exploraz•20h ago•88 comments

Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions

https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025/regex-chess.html

121•surprisetalk•4d ago•25 comments

We let AIs run radio stations

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266•lukaspetersson•16h ago•211 comments

Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp

https://hyperpolyglot.org/lisp

159•veqq•14h ago•37 comments

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153•babel16•5d ago•61 comments

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31•suis_siva•6h ago•2 comments

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https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2021/02/15/devirtualization/

63•lionkor•2d ago•40 comments

Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised

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98•theanonymousone•5h ago•50 comments

Make ZIP files smaller with ZIP Shrinker

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25•zdw•2d ago•11 comments

Peter Salus has died

https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2026-May/033750.html

138•speckx•7h ago•12 comments

AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf]

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234•topherjaynes•21h ago•131 comments

LLMCap – A proxy that hard-stops LLM API calls when you hit a dollar cap

https://www.llmcap.io/

19•cfaruk•6h ago•16 comments

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/18/elon-musk-has-lost-his-lawsuit-against-sam-altman-and-openai/

958•nycdatasci•16h ago•481 comments

Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)

https://alexplescan.com/posts/2025/08/16/kvm/

221•ankitg12•3d ago•129 comments

Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell

https://www.abgeo.dev/blog/anyone-can-ring-your-doorbell

104•jrdres•2d ago•70 comments

Consider the Sister

https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/consider-the-sister-2b94

8•NaOH•1d ago•3 comments

Why is it called Kent House?

https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/05/kent-house.html

34•susam•2d ago•7 comments

Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)alignment

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10160

58•anigbrowl•12h ago•24 comments

Agora-1: The Multi-Agent World Model

https://odyssey.ml/introducing-agora-1

110•olivercameron•15h ago•22 comments

Open in hackernews

I Found Ultra-Pure Quantum Crystals in an Abandoned Mine in the Atacama Desert

https://medium.com/@breid.at/ultra-pure-quantum-crystals-from-an-abandoned-mine-in-a-mysterious-desert-93cc87d12314

40•vi_sextus_vi•2d ago

Comments

rbanffy•30m ago

One interesting techno-signature a civilization that happened hundreds of millions of years ago would be odd mineral deposits.

It's never the Silurians, but it's fun to pretend we found something interesting.

koolala•10m ago

"In theory, samples with no-interlayer impurities should look something like this in direct measurements"

Can we tell their purity from looking at the photos?

zeusdclxvi•5m ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_spin_liquid

Neat