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The technical actions needed to ensure the continuity of UTC

https://www.bipm.org/en/cgpm-2026/resolution-5
21•gliffie•54m ago

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smartmic•34m ago
Short: no more leap seconds
jcranmer•21m ago
TL;DR: No more leap seconds. The replacement will not be leap minutes but leap hours.
frangonf•12m ago
Goodbye sundial welcome cesium clock. Astrology app devs: remember to carry the drift in Temporal for the Ascendant, specially around 2267 you might get your love and money life predictions messed up.

Simons Foundation launches $15M effort to help mathematicians navigate AI era

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/news/simons-foundation-launches-15m-effort-to-help-mathematician...
125•aaraujo002•2h ago•79 comments

Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design

https://github.com/fyzugx/DEsk
240•FinalDestiny•3h ago•101 comments

I Know Why the Mathematicians Weep

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/i-know-why-the-mathematicians-weep
188•RickJWagner•3h ago•262 comments

Neural Networks Are Already Clean

https://already-clean.goodfire.com/
45•themgt•1h ago•7 comments

Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support

https://libreboot.org/news/libreboot2610.html
167•iamnothere•4h ago•88 comments

Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran

https://fortran-lang.org/news/2026/09-15-Fortran-birthday/
76•rbanffy•2h ago•40 comments

Steam Client Is Now Faster Than Epic's New Vibe Coded Launcher

https://respawnfirst.com/steam-client-is-now-faster-than-epics-new-vibe-coded-launcher/
99•starkparker•1h ago•108 comments

Krea 3 – Frontier Image Model 4× faster than Nano Banana Pro

https://www.krea.ai/krea-3
34•dvrp•1h ago•20 comments

Zero-Click Spyware Delivered via Targeted Ads: AdFection

https://citizenlab.ca/research/how-discover-tech-turned-targeted-ads-into-a-pipeline-for-spyware/
166•jcomp•6h ago•26 comments

Show HN: Unfenced – Land for sale that borders public land

https://unfenced.land/
169•otherwatersflow•5h ago•121 comments

Biscoff Cookies Were Supposed to Be Temporary. Then Passengers Fell in Love

https://www.seriouseats.com/biscoff-history-12168161
25•mhb•1d ago•18 comments

Things to know when you get cancer

https://jjmaxwell4.com/writing/things-to-know-when-you-get-cancer/
1784•jjmaxwell4•21h ago•424 comments

The technical actions needed to ensure the continuity of UTC

https://www.bipm.org/en/cgpm-2026/resolution-5
21•gliffie•54m ago•3 comments

C++26 Contracts: Introduction to Preconditions and Postconditions

https://www.cppstories.com/2026/cpp26_contracts/
76•ibobev•3h ago•66 comments

Prompt injection in HTTP headers: what 217M web responses show

https://www.signalscorps.com/blog/prompt-injection-in-http-headers/
45•panoramas4good•2h ago•9 comments

Show HN: Proa – a Rust web framework with fast SSR and multi-target rendering

https://proa.so/
15•burnrate•1h ago•0 comments

Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit

https://blog.dfb.sh/blog/eap770-root-for-two-zeros/
275•0xdeafbeef•2d ago•139 comments

OpenCode 2.0

https://anoma.ly/notes/opencode-2-0/
798•gmays•20h ago•343 comments

The Haunted Toys R Us

https://www.retroist.com/p/the-haunted-toys-r-us
48•speckx•3d ago•22 comments

Show HN: Sygal – Convert PDFs, scans and web pages to Markdown, locally

https://sygal.app
8•cyrillsemah•39m ago•0 comments

The largest eagle hunted unlike any other bird of prey (2021)

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2021/december/worlds-largest-eagle-hunted-unlike-any-other-bi...
21•EndXA•1d ago•0 comments

GridSnap – an open-source Divvy-style window snapper for macOS

https://github.com/konieczkow/gridsnap
33•zderror•3h ago•17 comments

Tiny Little Office

https://tinylittleoffice.com/
607•donohoe•18h ago•158 comments

I designed a nose guard for my dog and gave it away. Now 500 dogs wear one

https://snoutcover.com/one-year
171•ragswag•1h ago•93 comments

The First Social Network: In rural Argentina residents send messages w AM radio

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/10/19/the-first-social-network
117•bookofjoe•1d ago•45 comments

Market selloff, rising rates test AI data centre deal boom

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/market-selloff-rising-rates-test-ai-data-centre-deal-boo...
20•tartoran•47m ago•8 comments

Do dentists know what they're doing?

https://mapwriting.substack.com/p/dentists
913•doitLP•3d ago•646 comments

Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years

https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/9/29/americans-social-activity-has-steeply-declined-in-...
543•hubraumhugo•1d ago•519 comments

Catch a Bird – I made it for my own sanity

https://catchabird.com
355•eduardsik•3d ago•103 comments

Show HN: Indigene – Native plants for where you stand

https://indigene.app/
97•olivierlacan•2d ago•17 comments