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A giant star may have destroyed itself in one of the rarest explosions

https://phys.org/news/2026-05-giant-star-destroyed-universe-rarest.html
58•wglb•21h ago

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wglb•21h ago
Arxiv reprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16487
chasil•1h ago
There is a wiki on pair-instability supernovas. Antimatter (in the form of positrons) is a key factor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair-instability_supernova

ck2•1h ago
I just want to live long enough for space telescopes to evolve exponentially to observe kilonovas in the visual spectrum

I mean laser interferometers are an amazing advancement but just imagine seeing an earth-sized chunk of gold pop out of a kilonova (probably not my lifetime but eventually a human will see it happen)

Thank goodness this administration did not frack with Nancy Grace Roman Telescope, I thought the name alone would make them cancel it or rename it after him, wait maybe I shouldn't even mention that idea...

* https://science.nasa.gov/mission/roman-space-telescope/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Grace_Roman_Space_Telesc...

timwis•16m ago
Dark Forest theory, anyone?
groos•9m ago
It was a supergiant, hence died at a young age, and unlikely to have evolved life of any kind in its system.

Claude Fable 5

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5
639•Philpax•1h ago•396 comments

Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption

https://www.reuters.com/business/apple-failed-make-its-ai-tool-comply-eu-regulations-eu-commissio...
156•flanged•1h ago•278 comments

System Card: Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 [pdf]

https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/d00db56fa754a1b115b6dd7cb2e3c342ee809620.pdf
156•scrlk•1h ago•37 comments

Making Graphics Like it's 1993

https://staniks.github.io/articles/catlantean-3d-blog-1/
545•sklopec•7h ago•85 comments

Where is the AI jobs crisis?

https://www.apollo.com/wealth/the-daily-spark/where-is-the-ai-jobs-crisis
31•bwestergard•43m ago•21 comments

A giant star may have destroyed itself in one of the rarest explosions

https://phys.org/news/2026-05-giant-star-destroyed-universe-rarest.html
58•wglb•21h ago•11 comments

Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/08/microsofts-open-source-tools-were-hacked-to-steal-passwords-of-...
453•raffael_de•10h ago•161 comments

Launch HN: Transload (YC P26) – Measuring freight items with CCTV

18•nils_spatial•1h ago•5 comments

The LD_DEBUG environment variable (2012)

https://bnikolic.co.uk/blog/linux-ld-debug.html
6•tanelpoder•43m ago•0 comments

Biff.core: system composition for Clojure web apps

https://biffweb.com/p/core/
32•jacobobryant•1h ago•9 comments

Is Grep All You Need? How Agent Harnesses Reshape Agentic Search

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15184
68•Anon84•4h ago•32 comments

Can LLMs Beat Classical Hyperparameter Optimization Algorithms?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24647
62•galsapir•3h ago•8 comments

OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision

https://opencv.org/opencv-5/
558•ternaus•3d ago•101 comments

Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs

https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos32
51•luke8086•2d ago•75 comments

Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]

https://letsencrypt.org/documents/LE-SA-v1.7-June-04-2026-diff.pdf
134•piskov•19h ago•92 comments

FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs

https://www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to-kill-burner-phones-by-forcing-telecoms-to-get-all-customers-...
177•berlianta•2h ago•116 comments

The iPhone's Last Stand?

https://stratechery.com/2026/the-iphones-last-stand/
121•swolpers•8h ago•161 comments

Emerge Career (YC S22) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Marketer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/emerge-career/jobs/v0S1AEG-founding-growth-marketer
1•gabesaruhashi•6h ago

Show HN: Gravity – interactive solar-system simulator, from Newton to Einstein

https://qunabu.github.io/Gravity/
92•qunabu•6h ago•23 comments

Unified Controllable and Faithful Text-to-CAD Generation with LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19773
39•PaulHoule•4h ago•9 comments

Forever Young: how one molecule can lock plants in a youthful state (2025)

https://omnia.sas.upenn.edu/story/biologist-scott-poethig-plants-never-age
107•bryanrasmussen•9h ago•62 comments

Show HN: Learn from 30 historical figures, open source, nonprofit, self-hosted

https://github.com/chipmates/agoracosmica
12•micstradev•6h ago•5 comments

'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon Employees Mock the Company's AI on Slack

https://www.404media.co/sloppenheimer-amazon-employees-mock-the-companys-ai-on-slack/
136•doener•2h ago•65 comments

Using Optical Aberrations to Distinguish Real Astronomical Transients

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.08319
18•solarist•3h ago•2 comments

Painting the Internet: A Different Kind of Warhol Worm [pdf]

https://cspages.ucalgary.ca/~aycock/papers/artworm.pdf
6•jruohonen•1d ago•0 comments

The Effective Sample Size

https://alex.smola.org/posts/40-effective-sample-size/
13•jxmorris12•4d ago•1 comments

Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers

https://www.codingwithjesse.com/blog/rockstar-developers/
369•BrunoBernardino•9h ago•267 comments

Thi.ng – open-source building blocks for computational design and art

https://thi.ng
159•nmstoker•1d ago•21 comments

An introduction to functional analysis for science and engineering

https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02539
96•Anon84•2d ago•13 comments

Corrupting a ZFS File on Purpose

https://oshogbo.com/blog/90/
69•zdw•2d ago•13 comments