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What if the Universe Isn’t as Uniform as Scientists Think?

What if the Universe Isn’t as Uniform as Scientists Think?

A study based on 47 million galaxies found that the cosmic web retains patterns on enormous scales, which could force a reevaluation of a pillar of co…
ICE’s Internal Watchdog Is Now Investigating Online Critics

ICE’s Internal Watchdog Is Now Investigating Online Critics

The Office of Professional Responsibility has opened more than 100 cases over what ICE officials call “incidents of doxing and threats” against ICE em…
Good News! Turns Out the Earth Will Never Be Swallowed by the Sun

Good News! Turns Out the Earth Will Never Be Swallowed by the Sun

A new study suggests that when our star becomes unstable in 5 billion years or so, Earth may avoid being engulfed by its fiery demise.…
Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret Palantir bills

Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret Palantir bills

Article URL: https://www.readtheline.ca/p/al-vigier-canadas-ai-strategy-shouldnt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799256 Points: 1…
South Korea’s hottest new bachelors are chip workers

South Korea’s hottest new bachelors are chip workers

Baek, a 35-year-old manager at the South Korean semiconductor titan SK Hynix, was enrolled in Sunoo, a matchmaking company based in Seoul, a year ago.…
How Palestinians Are Building a Digital Archive That Can't Be Erased

How Palestinians Are Building a Digital Archive That Can't Be Erased

Distributed backups, cyber resilience, and a half-million records are preserving Palestinian history beyond any single building or border.…
New AI tutor achieves 0.71-1.30 SD effect size in Dartmouth course [pdf]

New AI tutor achieves 0.71-1.30 SD effect size in Dartmouth course [pdf]

Article URL: https://intextbooks.science.uu.nl/workshop2026/files/itb26_s1s2.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796817 Points: 1…
Completing a computer science degree on Coursera

Completing a computer science degree on Coursera

Article URL: https://notesbylex.com/completing-a-computer-science-degree-on-coursera Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48798061 Point…
Has_not_been_viewed_much

Has_not_been_viewed_much

Article URL: https://iamwillwang.com/notes/has-not-been-viewed-much/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799155 Points: 163 # Comment…
Europe's new climate in seven charts

Europe's new climate in seven charts

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8e2j0j87reo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48792790 Points: 147 # Comments: 233…
GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex

GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex

Article URL: https://twitter.com/thsottiaux/status/2073933490513752151 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799614 Points: 148 # Comme…
Fable created novel 4D splat format

Fable created novel 4D splat format

Article URL: https://adamraudonis.github.io/splats4D/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48786245 Points: 149 # Comments: 58…
Verizon is about to break our Gizmo watches

Verizon is about to break our Gizmo watches

Article URL: https://www.jefftk.com/p/verizon-is-about-to-break-our-watches Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48787329 Points: 152 # …
As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers

As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers

https://web.archive.org/web/20260704133227/https://www.seatt... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48787725 Points: 148 # Comments: 20…
Starring the Computer

Starring the Computer

Article URL: https://www.starringthecomputer.com/computers.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796093 Points: 153 # Comments: 37…
Reparaible and open source paper printer

Reparaible and open source paper printer

Article URL: https://www.opentools.studio/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48797916 Points: 208 # Comments: 55…
Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)

Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)

Article URL: https://www.acc.org/about-acc/press-releases/2025/03/17/15/35/cannabis-users-face-substantially-higher-risk Comments URL: https://news.yc…
The future of Flipper Zero development

The future of Flipper Zero development

Article URL: https://blog.flipper.net/future-of-flipper-zero-development/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796552 Points: 156 # Co…
Some of the nation’s rich are letting AI teach their kids

Some of the nation’s rich are letting AI teach their kids

Most Americans don't trust AI. It's proven that it doesn't know what safe toppings for pizza are. People don't even want to listen to AI music. But no…
It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership

It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership

Article URL: https://popcar.bearblog.dev/its-about-ownership/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794750 Points: 194 # Comments: 149…
Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets

Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets

Article URL: https://www.mbl.edu/news/jellyfish-can-heal-wounds-minutes-scientists-want-their-secrets Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?…
Mr. Lif’s Emergency Rations EP is post-9/11 hip hop at its most daring

Mr. Lif’s Emergency Rations EP is post-9/11 hip hop at its most daring

There was a period in the early aughts when Definitive Jux (nee: Def Jux) seemed like it was going to be the future of hip hop. While the label featur…
EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track

EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track

Article URL: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Chat-Control-1-0-EU-Council-forces-messenger-scans-via-fast-track-11353659.html Comments URL: https://news.y…
Introduction to Compilers and Language Design

Introduction to Compilers and Language Design

Article URL: https://dthain.github.io/books/compiler/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48793454 Points: 192 # Comments: 26…
“Beyond the limit”: Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky

“Beyond the limit”: Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky

Article URL: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2607/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48787042 Points: 182 # Comments: 290…
Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray

Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray

Article URL: https://stories.tamu.edu/news/2026/04/14/scientists-reverse-brain-aging-with-a-nasal-spray/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it…
Organic Maps

Organic Maps

Article URL: https://organicmaps.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794446 Points: 278 # Comments: 67…
Where to preorder Grand Theft Auto VI

Where to preorder Grand Theft Auto VI

Rockstar's long-awaited Grand Theft Auto VI is launching November 19th, 2026 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X consoles. The game will be availabl…
Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix

Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix

Article URL: https://ui.shadcn.com/docs/changelog Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791328 Points: 195 # Comments: 85…
How Keurig saved — and ruined — your coffee

How Keurig saved — and ruined — your coffee

Before Keurig, the coffee in your office was almost certainly terrible. Old, burned, made by someone who would rather poorly eyeball than properly mea…