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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: Shoehorn, a library to quantize an LLM to fit your Mac's VRAM
I made this after seeing someone posit the idea online yesterday over lunch then spent some time refining it. So far it's pretty impressive IMO! Right now I am running Qwen3-30B-A3B on my 24gb unified memory m4 MacBook Pro at 50 tok/sec and this should definitely not be working for such a large model on my middling hardware.<p>Things are detailed in the README to get up and running and DESIGN.md has details on all the choices and such made along the way.
Scientists detect a nuclear reactor’s ghostly afterglow for the first time
Nuclear reactors may go dark, but their fuel continues producing a faint antineutrino “glow” long after shutdown. Researchers have now detected that residual signal for the first time, finding it closely matched predictions of radioactive decay inside the reactor and nearby spent-fuel pools. The breakthrough suggests antineutrino detectors could eventually monitor reactors even when they are offline.
World’s first superconducting quantum heat engine could help unlock massive quantum computers
A tiny superconducting engine has successfully converted heat near absolute zero into useful work, demonstrating the first cyclic quantum heat engine of its kind. Future versions could operate autonomously inside quantum computers, potentially eliminating huge numbers of costly, noise-producing microwave cables.
Quantum Latin squares cannot solve Euler's 36 officers problem without entanglement
Latin squares are arrangements of symbols in a grid in which every symbol appears exactly once in each row and column. These symbol arrangements, which were first studied more than three centuries ago, are now widely used to optimize experimental designs and develop secure cryptographic systems, puzzles or other complex combinatorial structures.
PyTorch Asynchronous Assert
Using torch._assert_async for PyTorch Development
High-speed microscopy reveals electrical activity across the brain
Within the brain, neurons compute by generating electrical impulses. These signals travel throughout neurons, which are in turn connected in vast networks that control brain functions such as sensory perception, memory formation, and control of movement. In an advance that could help neuroscientists map those neural networks, leading to a better understanding of how neural activity underlies behavior and other brain functions, MIT engineers have invented a new microscope that can
Quantum entanglement is key to solving 250-year-old maths problem
Quantum entanglement is key to solving a 250-year-old mathematical puzzle – and the discovery could ultimately help build quantum computers that are more resilient to errors. In the 1700s, according ...
DARPA Taps Qunnect to Strengthen the Reliability and Resilience of Quantum Networks
For decades, the distribution of quantum information has been confined to laboratory demonstrations because of the fragile nature of maintaining the fidelity of quantum entanglement across today's deployed telecommunications fiber. However, today, Qunnect is the first company in the world to anchor multiple quantum networks distributing quantum information across the telecom fiber spanning some of the world's busiest cities. Qunnect announced today the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency h
Show HN: Virtual Private LLM, fixed fee with no usage or token limits
Over the last few months I've been exploring a bunch of different startup ideas.<p>One thing that came up time and time again was data safety and sovereignty in AI inference. Once you go looking for EU-based options, your choices become quite thin quite quickly.<p>That's why decided to launch Solheim: Your own "Virtual Private LLM", a flat fee for reserved compute, no token meter, 100% EU-based
Weekly VSCode Grumbling
Why is it constantly changing and most basic problems are under the rug?<p>Long time ago I reported it and went to backlog or sg. It may seem like a minor issue, but it can be quite frustrating and has a straightforward fix.<p>When scrolling horizontally, it's not apparent that the characters are still there, they're simply not visible.<p>https://i.postimg.cc/C5bN0CQT/vscode.jpg
Show HN: Carolina Cloud Nextflow
Nextflow is an orchestration platform not entirely unlike Kubernetes, Slurm, Snakemake and others. It is quite popular in the bioinformatics community. Some details:-Uses gVisor containers
-Reuses input file with "host locality"
-10% faster than AWS HealthOmics
-First-class support for LLMsIf you're into bioinformatics, or just curious about how biologists are using compute, please check it out!Link to launch post: https://carolinacloud.substack.com/p/nf-ccloud
Show HN: Snippety.app – macOS snippet manager I've been building for 6 years
Snippety is my most important project - an advanced, 100% native text expander for Mac and iPhone.I originally started building it for myself, but over time I decided to make it useful for others too. I've really enjoyed working on this app, and in March I quit my job to take some time to rest and focus more on Snippety.Since then, I've added a lot of features, including a compact interface, conditional blocks, a CLI, and more.I've created and maintained this app from top to botto
Designer Enzyme Strips Decades of ‘Rust’ From Aging Human Tissue
Sugar damage in the body was thought to be irreversible. But the new enzyme made 75-year-old tissue look chemically like a 30-year-old’s. The scent of fresh bread straight from the oven is intoxicating. As sugars and proteins react under heat, they create compounds that give golden-brown crusts their rich aroma. Called advanced glycation end products (AGEs), these molecules also form inside us. Our bodies are essentially ovens running at around 98 degrees Fahrenheit, and AGEs slowly build
Neptune’s tiny moons may be the wreckage of shattered ancient worlds
JWST has uncovered surprising clues that Neptune’s strange inner moons may be the wreckage of an ancient cosmic catastrophe. Researchers detected clay-like minerals on Larissa, Galatea, and Neptune’s rings that form in the presence of liquid water—yet the moons themselves show no obvious water ice. The material likely came from deep inside much larger icy moons that were shattered when Triton was captured by Neptune, destroying much of the planet’s original satellite system.
A massive new cosmic map is revealing black holes, rare stars, and hidden gas
Astronomers have released more than three million new spectra in a sweeping expansion that, for the first time, brings SDSS-V optical observations to the Southern Hemisphere. The data reveal everything from rare stars and glowing nebulae to hundreds of thousands of X-ray sources and supermassive black holes changing over time.
Oracle set to bring quantum computing to OCI for hybrid AI workloads
Planned OCI service will provide cloud-based access to Quantinuum’s Helios system, integrating quantum computing with AI and HPC environments.
Oracle, Quantinuum Bring Quantum Computing Into the Enterprise Cloud
Quantinuum, a leading quantum computing company, and Oracle announced a multi-year strategic partnership to bring quantum computing to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
BOLTS CEO says all modern encryption is ‘a good guess’ and quantum will call the bluff
The uncomfortable secret of digital security isn’t that quantum computers are coming, it’s that nobody can prove today’s locks will work when they do. Yoon Auh, founder and CEO of BOLTS Technologies, holder of 37 patents in applied cryptography, told TheStreet Roundtable how his business is ...
Oracle is adding Quantinuum’s Helios quantum computer to OCI for direct cloud access
Larry Ellison’s company Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) announced on Wednesday that it is bringing Quantinuum’s Helios quantum computer ...