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Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117282080803799576
614•theanonymousone•8h ago•292 comments

Science Is Open Software

https://jepedersen.dk/blog/202505_research/
21•jegp•1h ago•9 comments

SDCC – Small Device C Compiler

https://sdcc.sourceforge.net/
14•lioeters•1h ago•2 comments

Cloudflare Quick Tunnels

https://try.cloudflare.com/
619•jcbhmr•13h ago•259 comments

Saving another 100TB of RAM

https://blog.cloudflare.com/saving-100-tb-of-ram-with-math/
257•f311a•8h ago•55 comments

How to Write with an LLM

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/17/how-to-write-with-an-llm/
416•joeriddles•1d ago•287 comments

Xcode 27.1 Beta Release Notes

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode-release-notes/xcode-27_1-release-notes
120•CameronBanga•8h ago•73 comments

Why building a Rust LSP is hard

https://rust-glancer.github.io/blog/why-lsp-is-hard/
13•agluszak•2d ago•6 comments

The Farnese letter

https://simonklee.dk/farnese-letter
31•grigolin•1d ago•5 comments

Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug

https://donjon.ledger.com/blog/rp2350-secure-debug-laser-fault-injection/
164•synack•10h ago•59 comments

Show HN: Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash

https://cactuscompute.com/needle
171•HenryNdubuaku•1d ago•78 comments

How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip

https://spectrum.ieee.org/llms-for-chip-design
68•maxall4•4h ago•62 comments

The first new cat species discovered in 100 years

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/meet-the-first-new-cat-species-discovered-in-1...
193•ohjeez•1d ago•72 comments

Goroutine Leak Profiles

https://go.dev/blog/goroutine-leak-profiles
5•torutofu•2d ago•0 comments

OpenJev

https://openjev.com/
569•ilreb•17h ago•248 comments

Show HN: LiveWorld – Every 24/7 YouTube live camera on one globe

https://liveworld.info/
19•harisingh1612•3h ago•21 comments

Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between LLMs (2025)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03215
69•rochansinha•8h ago•12 comments

Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/changelog
551•datadrivenangel•6h ago•198 comments

Cyclomatic Complexity in C#

https://blog.ndepend.com/understanding-cyclomatic-complexity/
39•gone35•2d ago•15 comments

LispBM is a concurrent Lisp for microcontrollers with message passing

https://www.lispbm.com/
15•so-cal-schemer•2d ago•1 comments

Minimal Phone 2

https://minimalcompany.com/
204•nashashmi•1d ago•194 comments

Gemini hacked three companies in first known breakout by Google's AI

https://www.reuters.com/business/gemini-hacked-three-companies-first-known-breakout-by-google-ai-...
26•usernomdeguerre•1h ago•18 comments

Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (2021)

https://archive.org/details/b904a8eb-9c98-4bb1-bf25-3cb9d075b157
118•succinct_ideas•1d ago•34 comments

Alibaba open-sources AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions

https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3368055/alibaba-open-sources-medical-ai-model-can-dete...
51•yogthos•3h ago•7 comments

Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2589739-our-brain-evolved-from-two-primitive-nervous-systems...
107•Jimmc414•12h ago•60 comments

How SpaceX streamlined the Raptor engine

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-spacex-streamlined-the-raptor
175•JumpCrisscross•1d ago•49 comments

The Implications of Linguistic Illegibility for LLM Security

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.02852
56•tomjakubowski•8h ago•20 comments

Inside ZCode: Silently uploading your Git history to the cloud

https://blog.ferstar.org/en/posts/zcode-silent-workspace-snapshot-upload/
265•csmantle•21h ago•94 comments

C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour

https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/09/16/cpp26-trivial-infinite-loops
152•ibobev•1d ago•210 comments

Size-Specialized Memory Allocation

https://go.dev/blog/size-specialized-allocations
24•spacey•2d ago•3 comments
Open in hackernews

Science Is Open Software

https://jepedersen.dk/blog/202505_research/
21•jegp•1h ago

Comments

jegp•1h ago
TL;DR I claim that modern science is synonymous with open source software. This post explains why, why it matters, and what you can (and should) do next.
gradus_ad•1h ago
What's the equivalent of closed source?
jegp•52m ago
Equivalent? In the analogy of the math or physics results it would be a mental model in someone's brain that you can't access or verify. You just hope it's true
random3•50m ago
It’s research happening privately without publishing, usually going into products
jibal•2m ago
You argue that open software is science, which is not at all the same as claiming that science is software. ("is" in this context is not equivalence -- "a poodle is a dog" != "a dog is a poodle".)
random3•47m ago
Science is open, but science is not software and software definitely not science.
jegp•45m ago
Did you read the post...?
jibal•57s ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".

willtemperley•3m ago
> modern science is synonymous with open source software.

Another problem with reproducibility is the openness of the underlying data. Many academics are terrified of giving away the golden goose and the software is often useless without the data.

However many scientists do work openly, e.g. The Journal of Open Source Software:

https://joss.theoj.org/