Making a Pole Balance Itself With Propellers
A fun trick with a pole is to try to balance it so that it can stand on one end. This can be done in a few ways, such as by exerting a force on either end to counterbalance any force that threatens to make it fall over. The approach that [Peter Ryseck] chose was to...
Can AI design circuit boards yet?
Article URL: https://eebench.org/blog/can-ai-design-circuit-boards-yet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569366 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Government Rails Site Hit Hours After CVE Patch
Article URL: https://rietta.com/blog/ruby-on-rails-cve-exploited-hours-after-patch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568828 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Forget granite countertops. Homebuyers now say this is their No. 1 priority
Some Americans are giving new meaning to the proverb that your home is your sanctuary. The at-home wellness trend continues to evolve and grow, with the global market for wellness real estate projected to reach $1.8 trillion by 2030, according to the latest figures...
Formalizing Fermat’s Last Theorem
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/formalizing-fermats-last-theorem Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568506 Points: 20 # Comments: 1
‘Sam Almond’ becomes a meme after the OpenAI CEO’s comments on ChatGPT’s water usage
Thirty-eight thousand ChatGPT queries versus a single almond may sound like a strange sequel to the “100 men versus a gorilla” viral debate meme. Instead, it’s just Sam Altman’s response to public concerns over AI’s water usage. In a recent podcast, the OpenAI CEO sat...
What’s the beef? Rising meat prices at Walmart, Costco, Aldi, Publix, and more prompt Department of Justice probe
The U.S. government is expanding its investigation into the rising price of beef to eight major grocery chains and big box retailers. The current average price for ground beef was $6.88 per pound, as of July, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED)....
Shutting down our public encrypted DNS
Article URL: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/shutting-down-our-public-encrypted-dns-servers-and-sponsoring-quad9-instead Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568579 Points: 28 # Comments: 3
Hayes AT command set
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_AT_command_set Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567961 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
Repairing Traces on a Delidded Pentium III CPU Gone Wrong
Delidding a CPU involves removing the integrated heat spreader (IHS) that’s put over the bare die and the substrate that it is mounted on. The reason for this is usually to improve cooling performance, as the IHS is effectively a small heatsink between the die and the...
Workers are already nostalgic for the pre-AI era
We are just a few years removed from a time when AI was not yet ingrained in our office lives, but many workers already wish they could go back. Nearly two-thirds (65%) of 2,500 knowledge workers surveyed by digital consulting group Adaptavist said they often feel...
Victoria’s Secret quietly closed 38 stores. What shoppers should know
Victoria’s Secret has closed dozens of stores worldwide this year, but the brand is still raising its full-year sales outlook. The news comes from a recent report from The Street, which explained that between Jan. 31 and Aug. 31, the chain closed 38 stores globally....
Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/nobody-is-saying-why-openai-and-anthropic-had-outages-today/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567594 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Judge blocks X rival from using Twitter name, but allows ‘Tweet’ for now
A federal judge temporarily barred an X rival from using the Twitter name, but found that X was likely to have abandoned the “Tweet” trademark and bird logo. The startup has since relaunched as Tweet.app.
Georgi Gerganov on llama.cpp/ggml future after Nvidia acquisition of HuggingFace
Article URL: https://twitter.com/ggerganov/status/2095897173376618881 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567357 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer
Hey all, i just launched my Eink Bike computer project and think it is cool.Another tidbit, in the crazy things that AI has done... It has helped create a ANT (common sensor wireless protocol used in workout/biking) implementation for ESP32 by messing around with...
Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific ‘John DOE’ Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive
Article URL: https://torrentfreak.com/adult-film-producer-unmasks-prolific-john-doe-torrent-pirate-as-meta-executive/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567053 Points: 12 # Comments: 1
Hiring bounces back in August with 162,000 jobs added
The U.S. labor market bounced back in August as employers added a surprising 162,000 jobs, ending a summer of lackluster hiring growth with a bang. The unemployment rate remained at a low 4.1%. Hiring far exceeded the 65,000 jobs that forecasters had expected,...
Frozen blueberry recall expands to product sold at Walmart as E. coli hospitalizations rise
Another blueberry product is being recalled due to concerns that it may be contaminated with E. coli. The latest product is believed to be linked to an ongoing outbreak that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been investigating since May. This...
Louisiana judge rules against NCAA in high-profile LSU case over ex-NFL players
LSU coach Lane Kiffin’s chances of fielding former NFL players improved Thursday night when a Louisiana judge issued a preliminary injunction against the NCAA in a high-profile eligibility case.East Baton Rouge Parish Judge William Jorden issued his ruling the night...
What will Apple’s John Ternus era look like?
It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge launch next week” — timing that puts Apple’s next iPhone event on his desk before he’s even...
Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration
Article URL: https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/github-copilot/project-hydrafusion-frontier-quality-via-multi-model-orchestration/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49566788 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Nvidia’s Free Tool Turns Your Idle Home Computers Into a Personal AI Hub
Got a few computers sitting around? Now you can run your own little data center.
Hackaday Podcast Ep 385: 3D Printers with Lasers, Wicked RAM Prices, and Reverse Polish Notation
As the calendar turns a leaf into September, Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List for our weekly look at all things Hackaday. In the news, our retrocomputing competition is well under way, but there’s plenty of time to get an entry in if you’ve got a cool old-style...
No little kids allowed, and other new info about Tesla’s Cybercab
The company says no children under 13 can ride -- even with a parent. That's more restrictive than the Model Y SUVs it's using as robotaxis.
Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge
It's the latest failure of OpenAI's internal monitoring and security systems.
Phishing Campaign Sends Millions of Emails Using Invisible Unicode to Evade Filters
Microsoft is alerting of a "high-volume phishing campaign" that's using invisible Unicode tag characters to bypass email filters. "Instead of using these characters to hide instructions from people while exposing them to AI models, the attacker used them to split...
PostgreSQL Fixes 12-Year-Old Logical Decoding Flaw Enabling Replication-Role Code Execution
PostgreSQL has released updates to address a security flaw that allows an account with the REPLICATION attribute to run arbitrary code as the operating-system user running the database server. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-6471 (CVSS score: 7.2), has been present...
My Word. Microsoft’s prepping Similarity Checker for retirement
Microsoft is retiring Word's Similarity Checker on October 3 and stripping the feature from Microsoft Editor. Other writing and editing tools, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, won't be affected. But if an organization uses Similarity Checker as part of its workflow,...
In Other News: Microsoft’s Cloud Patches, Hacked Dropbox Accounts, Guardio’s $1.1B Valuation
Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Microsoft rolled out patches for cloud services, hackers compromised 5,000 Dropbox accounts, and Guardio is now valued at $1.1 billion. The post In Other News: Microsoft’s Cloud Patches, Hacked Dropbox...