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MIT engineers develop a magnetic transistor for more energy-efficient electronics
Transistors, the building blocks of modern electronics, are typically made of silicon. Because it’s a semiconductor, this material can control the flow of electricity in a circuit. But silicon has fundamental physical limits that restrict how compact and energy-efficient a transistor can be.MIT researchers have now replaced silicon with a magnetic semiconductor, creating a magnetic transistor that could enable smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient circuits. The material’s magnetism strongly
Show HN: QF STEM Ledger – Logging Structured Cognitive Work
I built a tool to log structured cognitive work, including proofs rebuilt from first principles, research notes drafted, and concepts properly mastered, after noticing that serious technical effort is rarely recorded in any structured way.<p>Curious to hear what HN thinks.
Show HN: JSON Maps – Describe Maps as JSON, Render Them with React and MapLibre
I have been building a library that lets you define interactive maps as a JSON object. Now the already existing Maplibre Spec is quite strong, but every time I needed to put a map together with markers, widgets, a legend, layer controls and a nice color palette, I'd end up writing a lot of boilerplate html, Even writing with AI it would mess up the layer management and working with different kind of formats, So I started building a layer on top. Its inspired by the json-render library by ve
My journey from a todo app to a VM where tasks are stateful executable programs
# How it all started?Sometimes, there are moments when you feel loosing control over your life, when there is to much on a plate and all this overwhelms you, makes you anxious.
For me, solution always was to use kind of "get things done" tools, to organize myself. I tried various todo apps, even bought a paper todo, but this wasn't enough this time. Every restriction in functionality, every missed feature made me feel I'm loosing control again.
And one moment I gave up and d
Ask HN: Why do so many digital banks have such unreliable APIs?
I have for years synced all my financial data through aggregators (Mint for a long time until it was shut down, YNAB for a bit, Monarch Money now, and have experimented with a dozen others along the way). I probably have 20 accounts across credit cards, bank accounts, investment accounts (traditional and crypto), retirement accounts, and others (HSA, transit/commuter card).Something I have anecdotally noticed is that the institutions that struggle the most (whether initial connection setup,
Show HN: mvntSTUDIO – AI model that generates dance choreography from music
I think Suno opened up music. Kling and Runway opened up video - but there's one creative domain nobody has touched yet: dance.So my team built an web app — give it a YouTube link to your music and it generates a 3D dance animation in under 2 minutes. The core is a diffusion-based music-to-motion model (mvnt-m4) trained on proprietary mocap/label data from professional choreographers.I think dance is the missing piece of AI-generated content — just like how performance made K-pop a glo
Show HN: High Tech Before/After Cleaning Gallery
My apartment is a mess. Between day work, kids and all the side projects cleaning is the thing that usually takes the back air. It’s embarrassing really, I can come up with a sophisticated tech strategy, find the right words to say to an employee who’s down and I can’t seem to fold the laundry when I take it out of the dryer. I’m a developer by heart, so after a little bit of self pity, I decided that my daughters are to blame for the mess and thus dug head deep into debugging the problem ans re
Sparks of Genius to Flashes of Idiocy: How to Solve AI’s ‘Jagged Intelligence’ Problem
We need to give models knowledge that anchors their behavior to the realities of our world. Modern AI chatbots can do amazing things, from writing research papers to composing Shakespearian sonnets about your cat. But amid the sparks of genius, there are flashes of idiocy. Time and again, the large language models, or LLMs, behind today’s generative AI tools make basic errors—from failing to solve basic high school math problems to stumbling over the rules of Connect Four.This instability has be
Putting sports stats to the test: Unpredictable play helps pick a winner in soccer
A comprehensive game plan and strategic tactics are critical to winning soccer, but how much does a team's unpredictability in moving the soccer ball around the pitch matter? In a new article published in PLOS One, an international team of researchers analyzed event data from top-tier association soccer competitions to provide insights into match analysis, player tactics and game strategy.
MIT-Royalty Pharma Faculty Founder Initiative supports biotech innovators
The MIT-Royalty Pharma Faculty Founder Initiative, recently renamed in recognition of a gift by Royalty Pharma, runs a two-year program that supports biotech innovators and faculty entrepreneurs interested in commercializing their solutions. The $3 million gift will support four years of the initiative.Over the course of two years, participants receive wide-ranging support to help advance and grow their biotech solutions into startups and companies ready for commercialization. This includes
James Webb reveals a barred spiral galaxy shockingly early in the Universe
Astronomers have spotted what may be one of the universe’s earliest barred spiral galaxies — a striking cosmic structure forming just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. The galaxy, COSMOS-74706, dates back about 11.5 billion years and contains a stellar bar, a bright, linear band of stars and gas stretching across its center, similar to the one in our own Milky Way.
Iron outperforms rare metals in stunning chemistry advance
Researchers at Nagoya University have created a more efficient iron-based photocatalyst that could reduce the need for rare and expensive metals in advanced chemistry. Unlike earlier designs, the new catalyst uses far fewer costly chiral ligands while still precisely controlling the three dimensional structure of molecules.
Scientists turn methane into medicine in stunning breakthrough
Scientists have unveiled a breakthrough way to turn natural gas—long burned as fuel—into valuable chemical building blocks for medicines and other high-demand products. By designing a clever iron-based catalyst powered by LED light, researchers managed to activate stubborn molecules like methane and transform them into complex compounds, even creating the hormone therapy drug dimestrol directly from methane for the first time.
Quantum computers go high-dimensional with a four-state photon gate
The collaboration of TU Wien with research groups in China has resulted in a crucial building block for a new kind of quantum ...
Breaking encryption with a quantum computer just got 10 times easier
The commonly used RSA encryption algorithm can now be cracked by a quantum computer with only 100,000 qubits, but the technical challenges to building such a machine remain numerous ...
World-first: Quantum-inspired optimization computer installed on mobile robot
Japanese firms Toshiba and MIRISE Technologies have demonstrated a breakthrough in autonomous mobility. The ...
Cracking encryption with a quantum computer just got 10x easier
A team at Google Quantum AI, led by researcher Craig Gidney, has shown that breaking RSA-2048 encryption could require roughly 20 times fewer physical qubits than previously estimated, collapsing the ...
John Lilic: Quantum computing threatens all classical cryptography by 2030, the dynamic quantum ecosystem reshapes finance, and investment is crucial for advanc…
Quantum computing's rapid evolution threatens to upend cryptographic security by 2030, urging immediate industry action.
Want to Invest in Quantum Computing? 2 Stocks That Are Great Buys Right Now
Quantum computing is still years away from becoming practical for mainstream use, but we're seeing incredible progress in the ...
Italian court suspends €47m quantum computing contract with IBM following tender process appeal
An Italian court has suspended a €47 million ($56m) contract between IBM and the University of Salerno for the delivery and ...