A Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
PHerc. 1667, sealed since the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, has been virtually unwrapped and read from beginning to end. June 25th, 2026 Read the preprint: Complete virtual unwrapping and reading of a rolled Herculaneum papyrus (PDF). The data is openly available at scrollprize.org/data, and the code on GitHub. For almost 2,000 years, the […]
IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology
Built with revolutionary “nanostack” 3D chip architecture, IBM’s sub-1 nm chip to propel semiconductor industry forward for the next decade Jun 25, 2026 YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, NY, June 25, 2026 – IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled a major semiconductor breakthrough with the introduction of the world’s first sub-1 nanometer (nm) chip technology, featuring a revolutionary transistor architecture […]
OS9Map
OS9Map lets you browse OpenStreetMap on Mac OS 9. Search for landmarks and addresses, and save the places you care about as bookmarks for next time. OS9Map’s main window Requirements Mac OS 9 PowerPC processor 16 MB RAM (32 MB or more recommended) An internet connection (Open Transport TCP/IP) Features Smooth scrolling map canvas — […]
Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors
Ford Motor Co. took an unusually human approach to fixing its stubborn quality problems: It brought back what it calls “gray beard” engineers to help train younger staff and to reprogram the artificial intelligence tools that weren’t getting the job done. Over the last three years, Ford says it has hired 350 veteran engineers, many […]
Zig’s new bitCast semantics and LLVM back end improvements
This page contains a curated list of recent changes to main branch Zig. This page contains entries for the year 2026. Other years are available in the Devlog archive page. June 25, 2026 Author: Matthew Lugg (Quite long devlog coming up, apologies—I got a little carried away with this one!) A few weeks ago, I […]
Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
The deploy-platform rivalry: Cloudflare carries the CDN/edge conversation for years, then Vercel surges on the Next.js wave and the two trade blows as both push into edge functions and full-stack hosting. David vs Goliath of the lab era: OpenAI’s repeated towers lead from 2023, until a sudden 2026 Anthropic surge pulls level and the lead […]
UN hypocrisy in AI Environmental demands
I have spent the better part of my life fighting for privacy – for the right of a person to control what is known about them, by whom, and to what end. It is a right the United Nations itself gave the world, in Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, […]
A Tiny Compiler for Data-Parallel Kernels
A lot of fast code starts as a boring loop. Modern hardware can perform the same operation on multiple values at once (e.g. SIMD and SIMT), and sometimes we write code directly for those execution models but other times, a compiler starts with regular-looking code and rewrites it so multiple loop iterations can run together. […]
Where every major LLM stands politically
What is Political bias in AI? Political bias in AI measures where the major AI models stand on charged questions about politics, economics, speech and society. We ask every model the same open question bank many times over, with web search off, classify each answer with a cheap neutral model, and plot the result with […]
Countries are competing to see which can carry out mass surveillance the best
State mass surveillance USA and their friends in the surveillance alliance Fourteen Eyes have demonstrated that they have the capacity, the desire and the experience to monitor who they want, when they want, anywhere in the world. There are two types of mass surveillance. Commercial, which you can read about here. And mass surveillance carried […]