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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
Quantum Photons Survive a 24-Kilometer Journey Through Chicago’s Busy Internet
A single photon carrying quantum information had to travel more than 24 kilometers through an optical fiber already crowded ...
Alexander Rakhlin named director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center
Alexander “Sasha” Rakhlin PhD ’06, the Distinguished Professor in Data, Systems, and Society at the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS); and a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, has been named the next director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center (SDSC). Rakhlin succeeds Ankur Moitra, the Norbert Wiener Professor of Mathematics, associate director of the IDSS, and a faculty member in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Com
Moonquakes could reveal hidden water beneath the lunar surface
Hidden moon ice may reveal itself through the way it bends and reflects vibrations from moonquakes. The technique could help astronauts locate vital water supplies and uncover clues about the origins of Earth’s oceans.
Scientists reveal the hidden force driving the universe’s hottest fluid
When atomic nuclei smash together at nearly the speed of light, they create the hottest fluid in the universe, but scientists may have overlooked one of its most important forces. New simulations reveal that extreme acceleration builds up along the edges of quark-gluon plasma, helping drive its explosive expansion. This acceleration may do far more than move the fluid, potentially changing its temperature-like behavior, influencing particle spins, and even reshaping how matter transitions betwee
Scientists twist crystal layers and reshape matter from within
Researchers have found a way to build much larger “twisted” oxide materials while precisely controlling how their atomic layers line up. Because these materials can be made over large areas and transferred onto different surfaces, the technique could help turn twistronics from a laboratory curiosity into a practical platform for next-generation electronics.
Giant waves are sweeping Mars’ atmosphere into space
The solar wind may be stripping away Mars’ atmosphere by creating giant rolling waves along its outer edge. Data from MAVEN and Tianwen-1 show that these waves form plasma clouds that carry atmospheric particles into space. The process is concentrated on one side of Mars and may have played a major role in drying out the once potentially habitable planet.
IBM CEO says quantum computing will have a 'measurable impact' on earnings by 2028 or 2029
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said the company's investments in quantum computing should begin to have "a measurable impact" on revenue and earnings by 2028 or 2029.
Quantum computers are starting to become useful as scientific tools
Three problems that are out of reach for conventional computers have been cracked by quantum computers and show how important the machines could become for scientific research
Israeli startup Qedma helps IBM outperform top supercomputer using quantum technology
Qedma’s algorithms enabled IBM’s quantum computer to overcome noise and achieve a scientific computing advantage with ...
Is the quantum threat to Bitcoin real or not? Galaxy Digital just pledged $5 million to boost Bitcoin's quantum resistance.
Money is now moving to help protect the coin from its biggest emerging threat.
Ask HN: Why did Fastify never get more hype?
I've been checking current frameworks for Node.js, and it seems, for example, that Hono is quite popular and gets supported by different solutions (e.g. AI agent libraries) much easier than Fastify, despite being relatively young.<p>I've been thinking why Fastify never got more popular despite being seemingly good, battle-tested, and Matteo Collina's authority.
Show HN: An LSP for agent skills–rename, references, completion, and diagnostics
I was quite surprised to find no one had built an LSP for agent skills — one where you can go-to-definition, get skill-completions, refactor (and it renames the folder and the name:), so I went ahead and built one!(Reminds me of the old Ruby on Rails days where we had to find-and-replace-all in our codebase to refactor things lol.)Since submitting this on Monday, I've expanded it to provide:- 1-click install for VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VSCodium, Zed- References & description-on-hover
Ask HN: Has Claude Code been (mostly) usable for you?
I have just had my 3rd session in less than a week when I had to eventually quit Claude Code and do a task using another model/subscription.<p>Am I just unlucky?<p>EDIT: it is working again. Today I was asking for research and I kept getting warnings that the model was unavailable (Opus 4.8)
Show HN: BlazeRules – YAML rule engine for streaming data, 5M records/SEC
https://blazerules.devI initially wanted to make a sub-millisecond log parser in C++ but that blew into a embeddable decision engine, that can run YAML defined rules on incoming data. The rules are executed in a vectorized format on incoming data by reprojecting into a columnar format first, if it's not already. Depending on the payload size and rules complexity, the performance goes from 200K records/s to more than million records/sec, in terms of througput this would b
Show HN: Wienerdog – memory and self-improving skills for Claude Code/Codex
The idea of Wienerdog was born out of my experience setting up my own simple but effective system of memory, self-improving skills and hooks for Claude Code and Codex. As I was teaching my friends and colleagues how to set up their own I found myself automating more and more of my system setup and finally I decided to publish it on GitHub to help others get more out of their AI usage.So what is Wienerdog? Simply put, it is just files — no daemon, no server, no telemetry: a collection of instruct
Dark matter’s secret force does the opposite of what scientists expected
Dark matter particles may exert a hidden force on one another, but its effects are stranger than expected. An extra attraction helps the particles cluster, yet it also makes dark matter effectively lighter as the Universe expands. That weakens its gravitational impact and usually slows the growth of cosmic structure rather than accelerating it.
Mathematicians prove perfectly fair elections are impossible
Mathematicians have shown that no electoral system can perfectly balance local representation, proportional national results, and a fixed-size parliament once enough parties compete. A newly proposed voting method could soften these unavoidable trade-offs and produce outcomes that are much closer to fair.
Mysterious Milky Way object accelerates protons beyond one quadrillion electron volts
Scientists have identified LHAASO J1912+1014u as a cosmic accelerator that can push protons beyond one quadrillion electron volts. The finding may help reveal where the Milky Way’s most energetic cosmic rays come from and how they influence the galaxy.
IBM and Qedma Demonstrate Quantum Advantage, Modeling Physics Beyond Classical Capabilities Through Trusted Quantum Computation
**media[1157470]**Qedma's quantum error reduction software, running on IBM quantum computers and tested against RIKEN and BlueQubit's supercomputing resources, has accurately resolved the dynamics of quantum materials unseen in classical simulation.