Hacker News

Links for the intellectually curious, ranked by readers.

• DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones
• A Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster’s Wheel to Upload to Strava
• Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs
• DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
• U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative
• What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
• k-Coloring is Faster than Computing the Chromatic Number
• Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
• Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires
• Assembly Hall of Shame
• ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014)
• Show HN: Rotating torus in terminal (but with kitty graphics protocol)
• Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it
• No One Can Afford to Make Myst Games Anymore
• NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year
• 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out
• SupererDuperer
• Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale
• New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.
• The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
• From One Seed to a Thousand Leaves – Merkle's Authentication Tree
• An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes
• Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did
• Carl's Required Reading
• Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice
• Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities
• Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD
• Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK
• Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates
• Show HN: Sign language translation with smart glasses