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Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28

https://www.jvm-weekly.com/p/project-valhalla-explained-how-a
43•philonoist•1h ago•14 comments

DuckDB Internals: Why Is DuckDB Fast? (Part 1)

https://www.greybeam.ai/blog/duckdb-internals-part-1
137•marklit•2d ago•48 comments

So You Want to Define a Well-Known URI

https://mnot.net/blog/2026/well_known_uris
38•ingve•2h ago•16 comments

To study how chips work, MIT researchers built their own operating system

https://news.mit.edu/2026/to-study-how-chips-really-work-mit-researchers-built-their-own-operatin...
163•speckx•3d ago•21 comments

Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research

https://blog.jxmo.io/p/zen-and-the-art-of-machine-learning
37•jxmorris12•3d ago•11 comments

Gribouille 0.3.0: A Grammar of Graphics for Typst

https://mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2026-06-15-gribouille-0-3/
64•mcanouil•3d ago•17 comments

I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware

https://orchidfiles.com/github-repositories-distributing-malware/
777•theorchid•20h ago•200 comments

Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP

https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/enterprise-managed-auth/
187•niyikiza•10h ago•65 comments

DARPA Heavy Life Challenge

https://www.darpa.mil/research/challenges/lift
18•mhb•3h ago•17 comments

Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/18/datasette-apps/
71•lumpa•7h ago•24 comments

How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart

https://arun.is/blog/jr-logo/
85•ddrmaxgt37•1d ago•69 comments

Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk

https://dfdxlabs.com/research/2026/robotics-setup/
70•mplappert•17h ago•24 comments

Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

https://blog.ui.com/article/introducing-enterprise-nas
327•ksec•17h ago•280 comments

The AirPods Effect

https://www.theescapenewsletter.com/p/the-airpods-effect
74•herbertl•9h ago•122 comments

Ice water drowning survival of young patient (2025)

https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jaccas.2025.104885
128•js2•4h ago•83 comments

Show HN: Talos – Open-source WASM interpreter for Lean

https://github.com/cajal-technologies/talos
51•mfornet•19h ago•5 comments

CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course (2020)

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs6120/2025fa/self-guided/
361•ibobev•21h ago•51 comments

Fable Converted Pylint to Rust

https://pypi.org/project/prylint/
10•adamraudonis•4h ago•2 comments

Generative AI Is Having Its Herbalife Moment

https://www.whatwelo.st/p/generative-ai-is-having-its-herbalife
32•watermelon0•2h ago•30 comments

.gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git

https://nelson.cloud/.gitignore-isnt-the-only-way-to-ignore-files-in-git/
403•FergusArgyll•21h ago•127 comments

Flexport (YC W14) Is Hiring in Indonesia, India, and Thailand

https://www.flexport.com/company/careers/
1•thedogeye•7h ago

Cell-based architecture for resilient payment systems

https://americanexpress.io/cell-based-architecture-for-resilient-payment-systems/
118•birdculture•3d ago•47 comments

Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/hospitals-and-universities-repurposing-drugs-at-90-lower-cost
304•giuliomagnifico•21h ago•134 comments

Many Let's Encrypt renewals had errors today

https://letsencrypt.status.io/#2026
136•widdakay•4h ago•82 comments

I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/elkjop-forced-consent-fine/
364•speckx•13h ago•199 comments

The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy

https://www.wired.com/story/sk-telecom-anthropic-mythos-export-controls/
110•dstala•19h ago•89 comments

Show HN: Are You in the Weights?

https://www.intheweights.com/
332•turtlesoup•11h ago•183 comments

If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2010/02/if-your-product-is-great-it-doesnt-need.html
71•skogstokig•3d ago•45 comments

W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty

https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-public-institutions-and-the-theater-of-european-digital-so...
206•nemoniac•19h ago•137 comments

Launch HN: TesterArmy (YC P26) – Agents that test web and mobile apps

https://tester.army
116•okwasniewski•17h ago•55 comments
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DARPA Heavy Life Challenge

https://www.darpa.mil/research/challenges/lift
18•mhb•3h ago

Comments

konchunas•1h ago
It's Heavy Lift, not life
kreelman•1h ago
When life gets tough...

Contact DARPA for a lift !

jauntywundrkind•1h ago
This is being announced to us or everyone right now? It's only around 10 weeks away: that seems surprisingly close. Have some folk already been made aware & have they had time to build for this DARPA Challenges? Generally I think of them as longer running challenges.
ThunderBee•1h ago
this competition was announced October last year. IIRC registration ended sometime Q1 this year.
fc417fc802•49m ago
> Generally I think of them as longer running challenges.

Given how outlandish the ratio requirement is compared to currently available products I expect this one will be recurring for at least a few years similar to what happened with the self driving challenge 20ish years ago.

Schlagbohrer•1h ago
Darpa.mil got slashdotted? Wow. The folks who invented the internet...
emsign•1h ago
The military is waking up to the need to adapt frontline logistics. With killrates of 90% for traditional trucks in the Ukraine war, without resupply missions by UAVs/UGVs holding positions is impossible now.
fc417fc802•51m ago
If the truck killrate is 90% what is it for troop transports? How do infantry get in and out of position?
sneezychl•47m ago
> How do infantry get in and out of position?

They don't. Life expectancy of a Russian on the front line is hours. You just send in another wave.

fc417fc802•34m ago
If that were the case then there wouldn't be anyone there to receive the resupply to begin with.
lukan•20m ago
Also .. if that were the case russia would not find volunteers anymore, as the large majority of russian soldiers in Ukraine are there by free will, not because they were force drafted.
lukan•17m ago
Armored carriers if avaiable.
torginus
neonstatic•52m ago
You think your life is heavy, huh? You might want to check out this challenge...
brador•31m ago
Really just a battery challenge.

Possibly against laws of physics at energy density of 4x?

eichin•20m ago
I saw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tohImHa4f5U (Hoarder Sam, "I'm building a drone for the DARPA lift challenge") the other day and it was a pretty good discussion of the "shape of the envelope" of the problem (and what kind of lift ratios actually exist in modern air vehicles), and particularly how they've set up the constraints to eliminate a bunch of "easy" approaches.

It also reminded me that for the first round of the self-driving grand challenge, none of the vehicles even completed the course :-) They really are trying to encourage "out of the box", or at least "not in the obvious box", designs...

bob1029•17m ago
> Competitors must create an aircraft that is both lightweight and powerful – lifting at least 4x its weight while flying a 5-nautical-mile circuit course.

I'd make it 50NM. 5 is way too easy to bullshit with edge case engineering. Alternatively, set a minimum payload capacity of something like 100kg.

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14m ago
Quads and dirt bikes afaik.