Rubin Observatory reveals first images from Chile telescope
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its first images after only 10 hours of observation, showing a telescope built for discovery at enormous scale.
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A Kyoto backyard cafe becomes a case study in tiny businesses
A travel essay about a tucked-away coffee-and-jazz stop argues that Kyoto's small, passion-led shops show how low-barrier local businesses can shape a city.
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US strikes three Iranian nuclear sites as damage remains unclear
Washington said the operation targeted Iran’s enrichment capacity, while Tehran promised a response and international inspectors said key damage could not yet be confirmed.
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Samsung faces pushback over pre-installed AppCloud bloatware on phones in West Asia and North Africa
SMEX says users across West Asia and North Africa have raised concerns about Samsung’s pre-installed AppCloud software on A and M series phones.
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Fly.io pitches Phoenix.new as a remote AI runtime for Elixir
Chris McCord says the project began as a weekend experiment to make coding agents work in Elixir as well as they do in Python and JavaScript.
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Andrej Karpathy argues software is being rewritten for the AI era
The supplied source is a YouTube keynote page, which identifies the talk but does not provide a transcript in the packet.
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Show HN: Workout.cool tries to revive an abandoned fitness platform
The open-source coaching app offers workout plans, progress tracking and an exercise database, while positioning itself as a successor to a discontinued predecessor.
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Honda lands an experimental reusable rocket after a 300-meter test flight
The automaker says its R&D unit flew a 6.3-meter test rocket to nearly 300 meters and brought it back down safely, the first successful landing in the company's programme.
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Why SSL became TLS: the name change that reflected a browser war
A retrospective on the mid-1990s shows the renaming was not just technical housekeeping but part of a much uglier standards fight.
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Jemalloc's active upstream development ends after about 20 years
Jason Evans says the allocator will remain available, but the long-running open-source project has reached the end of active development.
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A receipt printer becomes a productivity system for procrastination
One developer says turning tasks into tiny, physical wins helped him keep moving when motivation alone did not.
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A new cosmology paper argues the Big Bang may have bounced out of a black hole
Researchers writing in Physical Review D say the universe could have formed inside a massive black hole, then rebounded rather than beginning from a singularity.
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Apple’s Liquid Glass redesign stretches across every platform
Apple previewed a broad software redesign that ties iPhone, iPad, Mac, Watch and TV closer together while trying to keep the interfaces familiar.
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Simon Willison says the last six months have been enough to redraw the LLM map
An invited keynote in San Francisco reviewed how quickly the model landscape changed, from local open-weight releases to expensive frontier systems and a viral image launch.
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Australian Warship Radar Disrupts New Zealand Wireless Services
HMAS Canberra changed frequencies after its navigation system interfered with internet and radio links from Taranaki to Marlborough.
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Chile and Google sign deal for trans-Pacific Humboldt data cable
The planned 14,800-kilometre link would connect Valparaíso with Sydney through French Polynesia by 2027, creating a new digital route between South America, Asia and Oceania.
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Quarkdown tries to turn Markdown into a full publishing system
The GitHub project wraps layout, logic and output formats into a single Markdown-based workflow for books, papers, slides and knowledge bases.
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A Fly.io essay says coding agents explain why LLM skeptics are missing the point
The post argues that modern AI-assisted development is not chat prompting, but agents that inspect code, run tools and iterate against real tests.
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Progressive JSON argues that streaming should arrive in pieces
A long essay says the web should treat JSON more like a progressive image, with useful partial data arriving before the last byte has loaded.
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A personal website manifesto says ugly can be the point
The author of a deliberately messy site argues that a page should feel handmade, personal and alive rather than generic and over-polished.
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Crossword fans turn a double-doubles thread into a theory of the square
An essay about a crossword Discord says the real pleasure of wordplay comes from relations that complete a neat square.
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Anthropic publishes Claude 4 system card as its latest safety disclosure
A new system card for Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 outlines how Anthropic frames the models, their capabilities and the guardrails attached to them.
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Security researcher says o3 found a Linux SMB zero-day during benchmarking
A write-up on Sean Heelan’s site says OpenAI’s o3 model helped identify CVE-2025-37899 in the Linux kernel’s SMB implementation.
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