Wired profiles Schematik, a startup developing an AI-assisted tool for designing physical electronic devices — drawing a parallel to how Cursor accelerated software coding. Anthropic has taken an interest in the compan...
Wired's security roundup reports that the EU's new age-verification application was found to be hackable in approximately two minutes. The digest also covers significant data breaches at a gym chain and a hotel group, a ...
Wired has published a shopping guide directing vinyl enthusiasts to platforms like Discogs, Bandcamp, and eBay as superior alternatives to Amazon for sourcing records online....
Wired has released its monthly streaming guide for April 2026, highlighting titles including 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Crime 101, and Deathstalker as top picks across major streaming platforms....
Wired explores the Lonely Runner Problem, a decades-old mathematical conjecture asking whether each runner in a group circling a track at distinct constant speeds will always experience a period of isolation. Despite its...
A chapter on orders from the 'Category Theory Illustrated' online series has gained traction on Hacker News. The resource offers an accessible, diagram-driven introduction to mathematical order theory within the broader ...
A website dedicated to Amiga graphics has surfaced on Hacker News, showcasing the visual capabilities and techniques of the classic Commodore Amiga platform. The resource appears to serve as a reference for retrocomputin...
A technical blog post argues that stripping or collapsing double slashes (//) in HTTP URL paths is incorrect behavior and violates the semantics of the URI specification. The piece has sparked discussion on Hacker News a...
Once close enough for an acquisition deal, Stripe and Airwallex are now competing head-to-head in the global payments market. TechCrunch reports that the two companies, which historically operated in different geographie...
A developer has built and shared an open-source calculator that performs arithmetic over disjoint sets of intervals, addressing a known weakness in standard interval arithmetic where division by intervals containing zero...
A Hacker News-linked blog post by Marcos Magueta examines the concept of 'Casus Belli Engineering,' applying the geopolitical term for justifying conflict to software engineering decisions. The post attracted minimal com...
The White House and Anthropic held what both sides described as a 'productive' meeting amid growing concerns about Anthropic's Mythos model. The talks signal that the AI firm's technology may have become too strategicall...
A new paper on arXiv explores using large language models to automatically generate hierarchical JSON representations of scientific sentences. The research targets structured extraction of scientific knowledge, a step to...
A tutorial shared on Hacker News walks developers through hosting a blog on a subdirectory rather than a subdomain, a setup that can offer SEO and routing advantages. The post generated active community discussion with 1...
World, the Orb-based anonymous human verification project backed by Sam Altman, is scaling its reach through new partnerships, with Tinder as a first major stop. The initiative aims to broaden its influence in digital id...
A landmark ancient-genome study discussed on Hacker News found a surprising acceleration in the pace of human evolution, based on analysis of ancient DNA across West Eurasia. The findings point to pervasive directional s...
A widely-read Hacker News post by corsix.org presents a simplified conceptual model of Fil-C, a memory-safety approach for C programs. The article attracted 119 upvotes and 59 comments, reflecting strong community intere...
Grinex, a US-sanctioned cryptocurrency exchange based in Kyrgyzstan, is halting operations after a cyberattack it attributes to 'western special services.' Grinex initially reported $13 million stolen, but blockchain res...
Bill Peebles, who led OpenAI's Sora video generation team, announced he is leaving the company. The departure follows OpenAI's recent decision to shut down the Sora project as the company shifts its strategic priorities....
The Arc Prize Foundation, a YC W26 company, is recruiting a Platform Engineer to serve as benchmark lead for ARC-AGI-4, its next-generation AI reasoning benchmark. The role focuses on building and maintaining the infrast...