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Science is open software · Jens Egholm Pedersen

💥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TL;DR I claim that modern science is synonymous with open source software. This post explains why, why it matters, and what you can (and should) do next.Why do you care about (open source) software? - EveryoneI spend a lot of my time working on software. I have been asked why software matters more times than I can remember. Software is, people say, not science. It’s a time sink, something to rush past in the pursuit of what really matters: results (and papers if you’re…
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How I Vibed a Proof of Conway’s Conjecture — overreacted

How I Vibed a Proof of Conway’s Conjecture — overreacted

🚀 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A few months ago, AI math results started making headlines. “Do a breakthrough” became a Twitter meme. Naturally, I became curious whether I, too, a math noob, can find some open mathematical problem and then have a frontier model solve it. It took me an entire month of my free time and a boatload of tokens, but I believe I’ve obtained a Lean proof of this conjecture posed by John Conway 50 years ago: Conway’s refinement conjecture claims that omnific integers have a refinement property:…
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Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug

Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug

🔥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TL;DR — Photon-emission microscopy allowed us to locate a register responsible for the enabling of debug features on the Raspberry Pi microcontroller. — Laser pulses at two nearby positions then restored debugger access to the chip’s Secure world, even though debug had been permanently disabled. — Using that access after a rescue reset, we recovered a secret from one-time-programmable memory. The reset halted the chip before firmware could apply its runtime lock, so the page stayed Secure-readable. — The attack requires physical access, destructive preparation,…
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Jalapeño Shows Power of LLMs for Chip Design

Jalapeño Shows Power of LLMs for Chip Design

🚀 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: On 25 August, OpenAI fully unveiled Jalapeño, the company’s debut AI accelerator chip. Jalapeño delivers up to 13.4 petaflops of 4-bit compute and accesses 232 gigabytes of the most advanced memory available, linking to it at a blazing 15.4 terabytes per second. Benchmarks cited by OpenAI show that Jalapeño can reduce end-to-end latency (the time between prompt to last token) by up to 3.6 times when compared to Nvidia’s GB300—a chip the company currently relies on—and do so while consuming less power.Whether these figures translate…
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say

Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say

🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program. The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of…
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Saving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust)

Saving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust)

✨ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Cloudflare operates at a scale so big that even after working here for years, it doesn’t seem real. We have thousands of servers all over the world with petabytes of RAM and millions of CPU cores, and all of it is pushed to the max. As vast as those resources feel, they are still finite, and when you need every service to run on every node, it doesn’t leave room for wasted space.At this scale, small improvements are greatly magnified, so even 1%-at-a-time improvements are…
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South Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue

South Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue

🔥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Companies behind major negligent data leaks can now face fines of up to 10 percent of annual revenue under revised privacy rules. Personal Information Protection Commission Chairperson Song Kyung-hee speaks during a plenary session of the watchdog at the government complex in Jongno District, central Seoul, on Sept. 9. YONHAP Korea's privacy regulator is sharply raising the cost of data breaches, aiming to push companies to treat data protection as a preventive investment rather than a routine cost of doing business.Starting Friday, companies found to have…
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Direct Semantic Communication Between Large Language Models

Direct Semantic Communication Between Large Language Models

🚀 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: [Submitted on 3 Oct 2025 (v1), last revised 2 Mar 2026 (this version, v2)] View a PDF of the paper titled Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between Large Language Models, by Tianyu Fu and 6 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Multi-LLM systems harness the complementary strengths of diverse Large Language Models, achieving performance and efficiency gains that are not attainable by a single model. In existing designs, LLMs communicate through text, forcing internal representations to be transformed into output token sequences. This process both loses…
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Introducing Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0

Introducing Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0

💥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Today we're releasing Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0, our latest speech-to-text model. Across our real-world evaluations, Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 is one of the most accurate transcription models available today and twice as accurate as Grok Voice Transcribe 1.0, at the same price. Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 is built on the audio foundation model behind Grok Voice. Grok Voice already powers tens of thousands of customer-support calls a day, transcribes millions of hours of video narration, and runs voice agents in physical products, including the Grok…
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There’s no point at which turning your brain off will work

💥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: In early 2025, I started seeing people turn off their brain as they use LLMs. They would have an LLM take an action (summarize text, write some code, etc.), and just assume that it worked. This generally didn't work in early 2025 and the result was often quite silly. As LLMs have gotten better, I've seen more of this. Sometimes, people will try to get the LLM to write some code for them and basically just assume that it works. Sometimes there's a human in…
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