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OpenAI model disproves long-standing discrete geometry conjecture
An OpenAI model has produced a counterexample that falsifies a central conjecture in discrete geometry, a branch of mathematics concerned with combinatorial pro
OpenBSD 7.9 lands with SpacemiT K1 RISC-V support and heterogeneous CPU scheduling
OpenBSD 7.9 brings broad platform work alongside meaningful kernel changes. RISC-V gets first-class support for the SpacemiT K1 SoC, including a new clock/reset
Oxford study links right-hand dominance to the evolution of bipedal walking
Researchers at Oxford propose that the overwhelming prevalence of right-handedness in humans traces back to the shift to walking upright. As hominins moved onto
Railway Hit by 8-Hour Outage After Google Cloud Wrongly Suspended Its Account
On May 19, 2026, Google Cloud's automated systems incorrectly suspended Railway's production account, knocking out the platform's API, dashboard, control plane,
Railway outage exposes lingering GCP dependency despite bare-metal migration
Railway's status page on May 19, 2026 shows a widespread degradation across nearly every customer-facing surface, with most services dropping to roughly 98.85%
Strawberry Rendered as Interactive Gaussian Splat on SuperSplat
A Show HN post links to a Gaussian splat scene of a strawberry hosted on SuperSplat, a browser-based platform for viewing and editing 3D Gaussian splat captures
Tesla's Texas lithium refinery accused of discharging carcinogens into public ditch
Drainage workers in Nueces County, Texas stumbled onto an unmarked pipe in January 2026 that turned out to belong to Tesla's $1 billion spodumene-to-lithium-hyd
Three decades in: nobody actually writes correct C or C++
A veteran C/C++ developer argues that undefined behavior is so pervasive in the languages that even disciplined experts cannot reliably avoid it. The core misco
Virtual OS Museum bundles emulated operating systems from 1948 to today
A one-person preservation project has packaged a vast catalog of operating systems into a single Linux VM that runs under QEMU, VirtualBox, or UTM, with a custo
Volunteer index resurrects FiveThirtyEight's archive after ABC shutdown
A community-built site catalogs FiveThirtyEight's back catalog as preserved on the Internet Archive, offering navigation by publication year and by author bylin
What N tokens/second actually feels like: an interactive demo
Local-LLM benchmarks throw around throughput numbers — 47 tok/s on an M3, 500 tok/s on Groq — but raw figures don't convey what streaming output at those rates
2b2t archivists release 24TB world download covering 1M-block Minecraft area
A team led by 'crayne' and funded largely by collaborator 'Fuch' has published roughly 24TB of world data scraped from 2b2t, the long-running anarchy Minecraft