X-ray scans reveal Buddhist prayers inside tiny Tibetan scrolls
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Email address Sign up Thank you! Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A delicate, antique Buddhist scroll crafted by Mongolian nomads has finally been unfurled after spending decades in museum storage. But the team at Germany’s Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) research institute […]
Dyna – Logic Programming for Machine Learning
About the Dyna Programming Language Dyna is a programming language designed by and for machine learning researchers. Dyna builds on the paradigm of logic programming languages such as Datalog and Prolog. However, Dyna goes much further in that it allows for flexible execution orders and for rules in the program to be “weighted“. This means […]
Office on HP-UX and Unix
Several office, productivity and publishing programs were ported to HP-UX throughout the 1980s and 1990. While technical design and engineering was the main use case for PA-RISC computers on Unix, graphics and documentation programs allowed engineers to stay integrated into the wider office environment for documentation and exchange. Several office suites were ported to Unix […]
Show HN: Lue – Terminal eBook Reader with Text-to-Speech
✨ Features Feature Description 📖 Multi-Format Support Support for EPUB, PDF, TXT, DOCX, DOC, HTML, RTF, and Markdown with seamless format detection 👄 Modular TTS System Edge TTS (default) and Kokoro TTS (local/offline) with extensible architecture for new models 🌌 Rich Terminal UI Clean, responsive interface with customizable color themes and full mouse & keyboard […]
One person was able to claim 20M IPs, or 9% of all IPv4 hosts
I operate an online service at https://ipv4.games/ that invites people to send http requests to my web server from a lot of different IP addresses. In order to claim an IP, you need to successfully make a tcp three-way handshake with a VM on Google’s network. Somehow a player in Europe named femboy.cat has successfully […]
Tversky Neural Networks
Psychologically Plausible Deep Learning with Differentiable Tversky Similarity Authors: Moussa Koulako Bala Doumbouya, Dan Jurafsky, Christopher D. ManningPaper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11035 Once a year, some interesting architecture inevitably appears where they change some fundamental building block. This happened with KAN last year, where they changed the parameterization of the neuron activation function (though it’s unclear what the […]
OpenAI Progress
If I could talk to a future OpenAI model, I’d probably say something like: “Hey, what’s it like to be you? What have you learned that I can’t yet see? What do you understand about people, language, or the universe that I’m still missing?” I’d want to compare perspectives—like two versions of the same mind, […]
Netflix Revamps Tudum’s CQRS Architecture with Raw Hollow In-Memory Object Store
Netflix replaced a CQRS implementation using Kafka and Cassandra with a new solution leveraging RAW Hollow, an in-memory object store developed internally. Revamped architecture of Tudum offers much faster content preview during the editorial process and faster page rendering for visitors. Netflix launched Tudum, its official fan website, in late 2021, to provide a destination […]
Payment Processor Fun 2025 – Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider
Valve and Itch have been in the spotlight for being more or less forced by “Payment processors” to pull certain adult content off their storefronts. The short story of it is Valve pulled a couple of games down while Itch pulled down everything marked mature/adult temporarily and had to sort through their entire library to […]
Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way
This is a project about onions and math. Why? Because tens of millions of people are curious about how to properly dice an onion, according to YouTube. In 2021, chef and food writer J. Kenji López-Alt broke out some math to get optimal uniform piece sizes. But there is more than one way to dice […]