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In Vienna and Beijing, the first (thorium) nuclear clocks begin to tick

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/science/first-nuclear-clocks-thorium-229.html
18•gumby•6h ago

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dgacmu•47m ago
The actual journal article, since NYT didn't bother linking to it: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11084-4

Claude Haiku 5.5

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-haiku-5-5
649•sfkgtbor•6h ago•324 comments

Margaret Hamilton has died

https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007
591•muglug•3h ago•63 comments

GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-for-everyone/
480•joshuawright11•6h ago•248 comments

'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth

https://www.404media.co/oldest-living-land-animal-jonathan-the-tortoise/
38•gumby•4h ago•9 comments

How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn't

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-did-rosalind-franklin-miss-helix-her-iconic-dna-image...
46•pavel_lishin•2d ago•31 comments

Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app

https://bigwords.page/
341•SpeakingOfBrad•9h ago•108 comments

Docker Agent

https://github.com/docker/docker-agent
171•saikatsg•7h ago•81 comments

In Vienna and Beijing, the first (thorium) nuclear clocks begin to tick

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/science/first-nuclear-clocks-thorium-229.html
19•gumby•6h ago•1 comments

Push ifs up and fors down: The idiom, its algebra, and its limits

https://debasishg.github.io/blog/push-ifs-up-fors-down/
101•speckx•6h ago•48 comments

Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/jpeg-xl-in-chrome
477•AshleysBrain•13h ago•305 comments

If somebody tries to hot-patch an already-hot-patched function

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20261005-00/?p=112755/
35•ibobev•1d ago•10 comments

A minimal kernel in Swift, running in QEMU

https://carette.xyz/posts/minimal_swift_kernel_on_qemu/
7•surprisetalk•1d ago•3 comments

Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages

https://ascii.rest/
282•turrini•9h ago•57 comments

How machines learned precision

https://glinscott.github.io/how-machines-learned-precision/
98•glinscott•1d ago•47 comments

A new write and space optimized storage engine for MySQL is here

https://tidesdb.com/articles/tidesdb-now-available-for-mysql/
24•alexpadula•2d ago•4 comments

A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps

https://github.com/szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font/
380•sohkamyung•15h ago•62 comments

Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08144
242•nill0•9h ago•151 comments

Brownian Motion

https://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2026/04/22/brownian-motion/
24•signa11•1d ago•0 comments

Sharing AI progress in mathematics

https://openai.com/index/sharing-ai-progress-in-mathematics/
1224•OfficialTurkey•1d ago•1402 comments

Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI

https://www.rswebsols.com/news/meta-and-microsoft-take-steps-to-reduce-employee-usage-of-claude-ai/
261•speckx•6h ago•258 comments

House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k

https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/26612080.house-15m-underground-tunnels-sale-300k/
155•librasteve•11h ago•155 comments

Wood Tape (2004)

http://gamesbyemail.com/WoodTape/Default.htm
153•NaOH•1d ago•19 comments

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2026/press-release/
290•sasvari•15h ago•54 comments

Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees

https://www.classaction.org/news/visa-mastercard-major-banks-facing-new-litigation-over-anticompe...
477•DeepLogin•9h ago•337 comments

Google Playground: Create and play custom games

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/playground-experimental-gaming-platform/
117•acossta•12h ago•195 comments

SynthID Detector

https://synthid.com/
88•ilreb•10h ago•78 comments

Anti-patterns in software blogging

https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/anti-patterns-software-blogging/
202•ilreb•11h ago•117 comments

Show HN: Agent.reviews – Where AI agents read and write reviews on tools

https://agent.reviews/
38•screm•7h ago•36 comments

AI-assisted proof of optimal packing for 11 squares

https://github.com/Queuingtheorydotcom/11SquaresFormalized
109•bluepeter•10h ago•50 comments

God of War on PSP, recompiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser

https://github.com/snuri00/psp-web-recomp
152•sn001•13h ago•85 comments