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Monsanto's Cruel, and Dangerous, Monopolization on American Farming (2008)

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/05/monsanto200805
16•kamaraju•1h ago

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SlightlyLeftPad•56m ago
Where does Monsanto stand now? It’s been many years since HackerNews was AstroTurfed by them.
theChaparral•4m ago
Monsanto was bought by Bayer who kept the products and killed off the name.

Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/introducing-cuda-rust-two-tracks-for-writing-gpu-kernels/
412•nonmaskable•16h ago•153 comments

Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes

https://ryan.science/blog/keys-not-included
25•Ryan5453•55m ago•4 comments

Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres

https://rohanbansal.com/qorl
443•polyphilz•9h ago•91 comments

Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard

https://mimo.xiaomi.com/rl/
313•krackers•7h ago•83 comments

DeepSeek-v4.1 Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression

https://zartbot.github.io/blog/model_arch/dsv41flash_arch/en.html
46•mfiguiere•2h ago•5 comments

Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16338
156•matt_d•6h ago•21 comments

Backups Aren't Simple

https://filipovski.net/2026/09/16/backups-arent-simple.html
122•afilipovski•7h ago•57 comments

Small programming tricks

https://will-keleher.com/posts/small-programming-tricks-matter/
429•signa11•12h ago•196 comments

Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus

https://www.amazon.science/blog/developing-provably-correct-rust-code-with-verus
49•Betelbuddy•2d ago•4 comments

The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve

https://johnjwang.com/post/2026/09/15/engineering-behind-us-strategic-petroleum-reserve
141•johnjwang•1d ago•53 comments

OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework

https://openspec.dev/
93•etoxin•4h ago•37 comments

The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind

https://gcaptain.com/the-return-of-sail-power-cargo-ships-are-turning-back-to-the-wind/
34•gumby•3h ago•14 comments

Performance Improvements in .NET 11

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvements-in-net-11/
211•soheilpro•1d ago•38 comments

Reversing Factorio's RNG

https://gegell.github.io/posts/factorio-rng/
161•jheitmann•4d ago•20 comments

A 32-Year-Old Bug Walks into a Telnet Server

https://labs.watchtowr.com/a-32-year-old-bug-walks-into-a-telnet-server-gnu-inetutils-telnetd-cve...
6•paimapi•1d ago•0 comments

Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c60m3k28j81mo
9•marc__1•2h ago•6 comments

HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?

https://harnesstax.github.io/
63•matt_d•5h ago•18 comments

Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries

https://untranslatedjp.substack.com/p/japans-book-scene-is-quietly-moving
138•herbertl•4d ago•53 comments

Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

https://github.com/arnegiacomo/fugleramme
2110•arnemunthekaas•1d ago•240 comments

Pangram – AI detector for text and images

https://www.pangram.com
16•doodlesdev•2h ago•9 comments

AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/aws-says-it-cant-restore-some-data-from-mideast-facilities-...
270•berkeleyjunk•1d ago•234 comments

Mapsnap: Automated Georeferencing for Historic Sanborn Insurance Maps

https://www.danvk.org/2026/09/10/mapsnap.html
8•evakhoury•1d ago•1 comments

Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"

https://evanhahn.com/posts/2026-09-13-programmers-dislike-reduce/
111•vinhnx•2d ago•174 comments

Reverse-engineered Jev-like model

https://github.com/vinnylarouge/jevlike
93•rochansinha•9h ago•14 comments

Why Does the Universe Expand?

https://cosmicave.org/2026/09/15/why-does-the-universe-expand/
45•the__alchemist•8h ago•28 comments

Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14858
187•bananaflag•14h ago•49 comments

Anatomy of a Texture

https://agentlien.github.io/texture/
80•Agentlien•13h ago•14 comments

Monsanto's Cruel, and Dangerous, Monopolization on American Farming (2008)

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/05/monsanto200805
16•kamaraju•1h ago•2 comments

The DeepMind Institute

https://institute.deepmind.com/
156•vertigoruntime•13h ago•52 comments

Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera

https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-flock-camera-data-shows-how-system-works/
492•driverdan•14h ago•229 comments