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Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/20/americas/brazil-hackers-unauthorized-alert-latam
63•zdw•2h ago•32 comments

SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible

https://www.smpte.org/blog/smpte-makes-its-standards-freely-accessible-openingstandards-library-t...
197•zdw•5h ago•57 comments

A Love Story

https://pudding.cool/2026/06/love-story/
22•simonebrunozzi•2h ago•3 comments

Alice is impatient

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/06/19/waiting.html
24•birdculture•2h ago•5 comments

UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro

https://www.lispm.net/apps/uhf-x11/
136•zdw•5h ago•18 comments

Pre-2022 Books

https://notes.lorenzogravina.com/musings/pre-2022-books
7•trms•17m ago•1 comments

DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots

https://neuviemeporte.github.io/f15-se2/2026/06/20/needyou.html
177•LowLevelMahn•7h ago•50 comments

PostgresBench: A Reproducible Benchmark for Postgres Services

https://clickhouse.com/blog/postgresbench
57•saisrirampur•3h ago•10 comments

Inference cost at scale with napkin math

https://injuly.in/blog/napkin-inference-cost/index.html
34•gmays•4d ago•4 comments

CSSQuake

https://cssquake.com/
431•msalsas•12h ago•89 comments

The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows

https://waxy.org/2026/06/the-wholesale-plagiarism-of-obscure-sorrows/
288•ridesisapis•4h ago•124 comments

Stop calling the Super Productionizer a 'baby blender' – Frank Elavsky

https://www.frank.computer/blog/2025/06/baby-blender.html
4•cratermoon•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase

https://startupwiki.tech/
130•shpran•6h ago•36 comments

Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM)

https://github.com/overflowy/make-look-scanned
65•overflowy•4h ago•31 comments

Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore

https://github.com/oven-sh/WebKit/pull/249
98•gr4vityWall•5h ago•157 comments

The rise of South Korea’s weapons business

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/06/20/south-korea-weapons-dealer-trump-00959559
88•JumpCrisscross•11h ago•30 comments

Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents

https://blog.cloudflare.com/temporary-accounts/
141•farhadhf•11h ago•87 comments

Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract

https://www.theregister.com/software/2025/09/03/supermarket-giant-tesco-sues-vmware-for-breach-of...
41•wglb•1h ago•6 comments

Tesla allegedly in autopilot mode crashes into Texas house, woman killed

https://abcnews.com/US/tesla-allegedly-autopilot-mode-crashes-texas-house-woman/story?id=134062374
23•malshe•39m ago•6 comments

Semiconductor Lifeline Keeps Fighter Jets in the Air

https://spectrum.ieee.org/phoenix-semiconductors-legacychips-oems
7•rbanffy•4d ago•0 comments

Why has the pointe shoe been so resistant to change?

https://dancemagazine.com/pointe-shoe-innovation/
42•onemind•21h ago•41 comments

Show HN: Tiny – An interpeted dynamic langauge with inline Go native functions

https://github.com/confh/Tiny
21•confis•3h ago•5 comments

Show HN: We post-trained a model that pen tests instead of refusing

https://www.argusred.com/cli
59•dk189•9h ago•27 comments

Linux Eliminates the Strncpy API After Six Years of Work, 360 Patches

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Drops-strncpy
52•simonpure•1h ago•18 comments

Coding a Brick Tower [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAMiS2PGTEE
9•tobr•1d ago•2 comments

Show HN: My Windows XP portfolio with working Game Boy and iPod

https://mitchivin.com/
39•mitchivin•3h ago•18 comments

Systemd 261 released with systemd-sysinstall, IMDSD, and storagectl

https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-261
16•logickkk1•1h ago•3 comments

Show HN: Microcrad – Micrograd Reimplemented in C

https://github.com/oraziorillo/microcrad
60•oraziorillo•3d ago•20 comments

AMD will reinstate memory encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs via BIOS update in July

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-will-reinstate-memory-encryption-on-ryzen-900...
101•roboror•3h ago•28 comments

Now You Don't: When Espionage Meets Magic

https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/now-dont-espionage-meets-magic
23•thinkingemote•3d ago•3 comments
Open in hackernews

Zenzizenzizenzic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenzizenzizenzic
116•gyosifov•1d ago

Comments

not_a_bot_4sho•1d ago
Waiting for an AI startup to create a phononym of this, in the same vein as Google did...
dkarl•22h ago
I assume it's already trademarked as a pharmaceutical name.
Waterluvian•17h ago
Kind of! It’s the official patented name for the formulation of the original Powerade. Back then it was known as PowerEight. The recipe hasn’t changed.

They take the finest electrolytes from whatever side of the salt flats we’re on, distil them twice, then thrice, then once again thrice more. They then rehydrate it, thus infusing it with the pure essence of hydration. They add red dye (for the flavour) and memories of cherry (for the colour) and bottle it. The bottles are then dozenized and loaded onto trucks to be immediately re-homed.

Learned about all this on late night deep delve Discovery Channel soirée… or maybe it was a fever dream (which has a fascinating origin story as well, but that’s for another time.)

graypegg•1d ago
> …it survives as a linguistic oddity: zenzizenzizenzic has more Zs than any other word in the OED.

I am an absolutely garbage scrabble player, but I will be keeping this gem in my back pocket… probably a rare case to play it though haha

Sparkle-san•1d ago
Scrabble only comes with one Z, so some of those are gonna have be sideways N's.
gjm11•1d ago
Also, a Scrabble board is 15 squares across and ZENZIZENZIZENZIC is 16 letters, so even with a Scrabble set with extra Zs or blanks you couldn't ever play it.
dylan604•23h ago
even if you just played the root zenzic would be great score, but again, the solitary z would make a wee bit difficult
conradludgate•1d ago
With one Z tile and 2 blanks...
darth_aardvark•1d ago
In addition to the Z's everyone else pointed out, Scrabble boards are 15 tiles across. This is 16 letters. You fool. You utter gumdrop.
graypegg•21h ago
Ah! Wrong on the internet! Oh no!
binary132•8h ago
This is exactly what first came to my mind as well. Pretty funny scenario to imagine
lbo462•1d ago
That is actually pretty cool
AStrangeMorrow•1d ago
Someone watched “The rest is Science” I imagine!
marcusb•23h ago
Or tried that vocabulary estimator that is currently on the front page (it gave me zenzizenizenic in the last section.)
AStrangeMorrow•20h ago
Yes possible. But really that video of them features the word prominently (even on the thumbnail) AND that vocabulary estimation website. The video/podcast is just slightly over a week old.

Anyway doesn’t really matter, it was more to see if anyone else was a listener of that podcast.

epihelix•17h ago
Listened to, I assume you mean?

(Also, is it just me, or is anyone else mildly annoyed that the cleverly-titled "The rest is history" spawned a heap of meaningless "The rest is ..." siblings. Talk about letting the side down. I'm just waiting for Goal Hanger to recruit a pair of meditation gurus into their podcast stable, to make the "The rest is resting" ...)

marceldegraaf•1d ago
Ah, I see someone has listened to "The Rest is Science" recently. Great podcast with Michael Stevens (VSauce) and Hannah Fry (the mathematician)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t-5lQ2mzuw

flyingcircus3•1d ago
Actually, its just one of the 170k English words we all totally already knew this morning.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48598586

nkrisc•22h ago
Which was also heavily featured on the podcast mentioned.
sublinear•1d ago
> dating from a time when powers were written out in words rather than as superscript numbers ... he wrote that it "doeth represent the square of squares squaredly".

This is a great example of why bad naming conventions are a "smell". It strongly implies that the solution does not yet fully understand the problem it's trying to solve.

momoraul•1d ago
Just "zenzi" stacked three times. They really committed to the bit.
hun3•17h ago
(zenzi)³

I mean zenzi-cubic

aldanor•8h ago
Or cubizenzic?
culi•23h ago
Funny that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenzizenzic

redirects to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power

I supposed the 16th power would then be Zenzizenzizenzizenzic and so forth.

Jblx2•23h ago
I always wondered what the Spice Girls were singing about in that song.
gre•21h ago
hemidemisemiquaver vibes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixty-fourth_note

epihelix•17h ago
Well no, by the same logic it would be quaverquaverquaverquavic.

A hemidemisemiquaver, while a little scary for the performer, at least makes immediate perfect sense. Unlike that stupid "sixty-fourth note" rubbish. Music is art, not fractions!

dhosek•16h ago
Fractions are art and man, music relies so much on fractions.
jzer0cool•20h ago
Unbelievable. Are you actually Stephen Fry is disguise?
farmerbb•18h ago
I understood that reference.
piekvorst•12h ago
Not just a Futurama reference
tosh•16h ago
nb: Robert Recorde also came up with the equals sign as two horizontal parallel lines "=". Yes, that one.

"bicause noe 2, thynges, can be moare equalle"

(and helped make + and - signs more popular)

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

see page 5:

https://sigapl.org/Articles/Language%20as%20an%20intellectua...

obligatory mention of Notation as a Tool of Thought

1979 Turing Award lecture by Ken Iverson

https://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.p...

gste•16h ago
Someone should make a language where every math formula is a word.

Then give it to an LLM and let it go nuts

JumpCrisscross•11h ago
This isn’t far off from Gödel’s work.