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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: Dracula-AI – A lightweight, async SQLite-backed Gemini wrapper
I'm an 18-year-old CS student from Turkey. I've been building Dracula, a Python wrapper for the Google Gemini API. I initially built it because I wanted a simpler Mini SDK that handled conversational memory, function calling, and streaming out of the box without the boilerplate of the official SDK.Recently, I got some well-deserved technical criticism from early users: using JSON files to store chat history was a memory-bloat disaster waiting to happen; forcing a PyQt6 dependency on se
Show HN: Quantlix – Runtime enforcement layer for AI systems
Hi HN,I'm building Quantlix, a runtime control plane for AI systems.Most tooling focuses on training, fine-tuning, or deployment. In practice we've found many failures happen at runtime when requests reach the model.Quantlix sits inline in the request path and evaluates requests before execution. It can enforce:• schema contracts
• policy rules
• budget limits
• retry amplification controlsEvery decision produces a structured enforcement log.I'm currently looking for feedback from
Show HN: I built a LLM human rights evaluator for HN (content vs. site behavior)
I built Observatory to automatically evaluate Hacker News front-page stories against all 31 provisions of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights — starting with HN because its human-curated front page is one of the few feeds where a story's presence signals something about quality, not just virality. It runs every minute: https://observatory.unratified.org. Claude Haiku 4.5 handles full evaluations; Llama 4 Scout and Llama 3.3 70B on Workers AI run a lighter free-tier pass.M
These Supercharged Immune Cells Completely Eliminated Solid Tumors in Mice
The technology, which uses genetically engineered T cells, could target nearly two dozen different solid cancers with one treatment. Few cancer treatments are as ferocious as CAR T cell therapy.Often derived from a patient’s own immune cells, CAR T cells are genetically modified to hunt down and destroy cancer cells. The FDA has approved treatments for deadly blood cancers, and treatments tackling autoimmune diseases and preventing tissue scarring in the heart and kidneys have shown promise.Yet
Is Reality an Illusion? New Theory Challenges Modern Physics
A physicist proposes that consciousness is the fundamental basis of reality, with matter and spacetime emerging from it.
Tiny atomic tweak turns silicon into a high-efficiency light source for quantum internet
In the strange world of quantum physics, even the tiniest tweak can unlock outsized rewards.
CT Comptroller Projects $77.3M Budget Surplus, Touts Quantum Tech As Key To State’s Future Economy
Connecticut has become a budding center of quantum technology, according to Michelle Parlos, an economist in Scanlon’s office, ...
A new 'uncertainty relation' for quantum measurement errors
One of the most striking features of quantum physics is that certain properties cannot be measured at the same time. Every measurement may inevitably affect the object's physical state being ...
From Quantum Spam to Quantum Minds: Why the ‘Best’ Revolution in Physics Is Only Getting Started
Physicist Paul Davies looks back at the past century of quantum mechanics—the most disruptive theory in the history of modern science.
Quantum dynamics show 'memory' depends on whether states or observables evolve
An international group of researchers have investigated the role of memory in quantum systems and dynamics. Their findings show that a quantum process can appear memoryless from one perspective while ...
Shadow sculptures evoke quantum physics
The display comprises seven sculptures that are illuminated from two different directions. The result is two very different ...
Consortium to Build Quantum-Enabled ‘Brain-on-Chip’ Platform for Neurological Drug Discovery and Screening
Platform to detect human-relevant insights for discovery and development of therapies for neurological diseases, ...
Aussie quantum joins brain-on-a-chip biotech research effort
Treatments for severe brain diseases like Alzheimer’s, epilepsy and schizophrenia could be fast-tracked with a prototype research platform under development by a collaboration of Australian and ...
Inside the company selling quantum entanglement
Cables underneath New York City are teeming with entangled quantum particles of light thanks to Qunnect, a company that has spent a decade working on building an unhackable quantum internet
How some skills become second nature
Expertise isn’t easy to pass down. Take riding a bike: A seasoned cyclist might talk a beginner through the basics of how to sit and when to push off. But other skills, like how hard to pedal to keep balanced, are more intuitive and harder to articulate. This implicit know-how is known as tacit knowledge, and very often, it can only be learned with experience and time.But a team of MIT engineers wondered: Could an expert’s unconscious know-how be accessed, and even taught, to quickly bring a nov
Show HN: The Content Repurposing Fallacy: AI Clips Underperform
The Content Repurposing Fallacy: Why Your AI-Generated Clips Underperform (And How to Fix It)Most teams think repurposing = cutting a long video into clips and posting everywhere. They're wrong. We tested this for 3 months with naive repurposing:Platform Avg Views Engagement Cost/Engaging View
TikTok 187 1.2% $2.84
Instagram Reels 243 1.8% $2.11
YouTube Shorts 156 0.9% $3.47
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The Retention Imperative: Why AI-Powered SaaS Companies Are Winning in 2026
The SaaS growth playbook has changed: retention now beats acquisition 2.5x. AI-powered companies grow 27% faster and reach $100M ARR 1.7 years sooner.Key shifts:
- Median ARR growth: 35% (2021) → 15% (2026)
- CAC payback: 18mo → 23mo; cost per $1 ARR: $1.24 → $2.08
- NRR drives growth: >106% = 2.5x faster than peers
- Expansion ARR = 40% of total new (50%+ at scale)AI transforms retention:
1. Product: predictive analytics, churn-preventing workflows
2. Operations: agents automate CRM, save re
Show HN: Self-Protecting Files for the Agentic Era
We've been building Honeycake, a file-native security platform that embeds encryption, access policies, and audit trails directly into files.The thesis: AI Agents are moving data at machine speed across workflows, platforms, and organizations, often without explicit human approval. Conventional security protects locations (firewalls, IAM, DLP), but once an Agent copies a file somewhere new, those controls don't follow. The file is unprotected.Our approach is a new file primitive called
GAEB4Linux – An Open Source GAEB XML Viewer Built with Spring Boot and Vaadin
Hi HN,
I’m building GAEB4Linux, an open-source GAEB XML viewer for Linux.
GAEB (Gemeinsamer Ausschuss Elektronik im Bauwesen) is a German standard used in construction for exchanging bills of quantities (BoQ), pricing, tenders, invoices, etc. Most existing tools are Windows-only and closed source.
What it currently does
Loads GAEB XML files (DA80 / DA81, e.g. X81)
Parses via JAXB (generated from official XSD 3.3)
Extracts BoQ structure and positions
Displays:
Position number (OZ)
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