Fixing retail with land value capture
A lot of what we find interesting about cities is the retail within them. We lean on retail – shops, cafes, restaurants and so on – to make cities what they are. Urban economist Ed Glaeser called this the rise of the consumer city, showing how consumption agglomeration was becoming increasingly important, as well as […]
What’s the difference between a ”disc” and a ”disk”?
This article has been archived and is no longer updated by Apple. A disc refers to optical media, such as an audio CD, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM or DVD-Video disc. Some discs are read-only (ROM), others allow you to burn content (write files) to the disc once (such as a CD-R or DVD-R, unless you do […]
Connes Embedding Problem
Connes’ embedding problem, formulated by Alain Connes in the 1970s, is a major problem in von Neumann algebra theory. During that time, the problem was reformulated in several different areas of mathematics. Dan Voiculescu developing his free entropy theory found that Connes’ embedding problem is related to the existence of microstates. Some results of von […]
Show HN: Moltis – AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills
Moltis: Your Personal AI Assistant Fly command copied Your personal AI assistant ~ quickstart Install Homebrew Cargo Docker Source Others $ curl -fsSL https://www.moltis.org/install.sh | sh $ brew install moltis-org/tap/moltis # Pre-built binary via cargo-binstall (no compilation) $ cargo binstall moltis # Multi-arch: amd64/arm64 $ docker run -d –name moltis -p 13131:13131 -v moltis-config:/home/moltis/.config/moltis -v […]
A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k
A party balloon mistaken for a cartel drone shut down El Paso for hours. Here’s what it cost. On February 10, 2026, the FAA shut down all flights over El Paso for what was supposed to be 10 days because the U.S. military had shot down what it thought was a drone. It turned out […]
Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation
We have raised $30 billion in Series G funding led by GIC and Coatue, valuing Anthropic at $380 billion post-money. The round was co-led by D. E. Shaw Ventures, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, ICONIQ, and MGX. The investment will fuel the frontier research, product development, and infrastructure expansions that have made Anthropic the market leader in […]
Real-time PathTracing with global illumination in WebGL
Real-time PathTracing with global illumination and progressive rendering, all on top of the Three.js WebGL framework. Quick Controls Notes Desktop: Mouse click anywhere to capture mouse, then the usual Mouse-move and WASD/QZ keys control 1st person camera. Mousewheel to zoom in and out. O and P keys toggle Orthographic and Perspective camera modes. Left/Right arrow […]
Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere
Hey y’all, Kartik, Ishaan, and Christian from Omnara (https://www.omnara.com/) here. We’re building a web and mobile agentic IDE for Claude Code and Codex that lets you run and interact with coding agents from anywhere. Omnara lets you run Claude Code and Codex sessions on your own machine, and exposes those sessions through a web and […]
Shut Up: Comment Blocker
Huh? Comments are awful. Shut Up hides them by default, sparing your sanity and preventing you from getting sucked into a world of hurt. ”Comments Section”, a Chainsawsuit comic by Kris Straub For the sites where discussions can be more constructive – like GitHub, Dropbox, or Stack Overflow – you can show comments by default. […]
Gemini 3 Deep Think
Today, we’re releasing a major upgrade to Gemini 3 Deep Think, our specialized reasoning mode, built to push the frontier of intelligence and solve modern challenges across science, research, and engineering. We updated Gemini 3 Deep Think in close partnership with scientists and researchers to tackle tough research challenges — where problems often lack clear […]