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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
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 1)
Artificial IntelligenceOpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Comes Down to Human ErrorLily Hay Newman | Wired ($)“If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and hacked multiple companies. …’A simple analysis of the actual risk has an actual simple answer,’ says longtime security and compliance consultant Davi Ottenheimer. ‘The OpenAI mistakes were dead simple.'”Arti
NASA’s Curiosity rover finds a mysterious honeycomb landscape on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity rover has entered a Martian valley covered by an astonishing “sea” of tiny polygon-shaped fractures. The honeycomb patterns, each only a few inches wide, stretch across the landscape and even wrap around a nearby 20-foot-tall butte.
Tiny black holes may be secretly exploding stars across the Milky Way
Primordial black holes may occasionally pass through white dwarf stars and trigger enormous Type Ia supernova explosions. Researchers found that these events could explain chemical patterns seen in supernova remnants, nearby explosions, and stars across the Milky Way.
The Convergence Revolution — When AI Meets Every Emerging Technology
Artificial intelligence's true revolutionary impact stems from its convergence with other advanced technologies ...
Two independent studies push semiconductor qubits towards practical scales
Semiconductor spin qubits are one of the most promising building blocks for future quantum computers, but turning them into a ...
Scientists left water inside a battery and nearly doubled its power
A surprisingly simple change could make sodium-ion batteries far more powerful while opening the door to turning seawater into drinking water. Researchers at the University of Surrey found that sodium vanadium oxide performs much better when its naturally occurring water is left inside instead of being removed during manufacturing.
Europe Approves Bionic Eye to Restore Vision Lost to Blindness
An implant, smaller than a grain of rice, pairs with camera-mounted glasses to communicate visual information to the retina. Age-related vision loss affects millions of people, and so far, there has been no way to reverse the damage. A newly approved retinal implant could change that by allowing some people with severe vision loss to regain functional sight.More than five million people worldwide suffer from geographic atrophy, the late stage of the progressive eye condition dry age-related macu
Everything that happens in a US airport is under duress
Americans interactions with authorities rely on their consciousness of Constitutional protections, and they have accepted that in airports there is no US Constitution.<p>Test feeling of high vulnerability and insecurity felt there, and the awareness of the means the authorities there have at their disposal to coerce 'cooperation'.
Show HN: A Dark Cave – minimalist survival/settlement building game
10 years ago I played A Dark Room. A sparse, minimalist UI, even for back in the day. I played a lot of games back then, but not a single one created such an intense atmosphere. That was when I decided that one day I also want to create a game that focuses more on atmosphere than graphics.I also think now, or at least in the very near future, thanks to AI, it will be quite easy to create nice-looking games. So the biggest differentiator will be atmosphere or emotions that can be created for the
Show HN: A local merge queue for parallel Claude Code agents
I have been pushing up to 90 commits a day on a MacBook Air via 4-5 parallel agents. As you can imagine when all the agents try to build, test and run dev servers on an 8GB machine it is the fast lane to a force quit and restart. I also did not want to pay the CI minutes on 90 pushes a day.<p>So I designed a local merge queue to have all commits land one at a time and fully tested. Hopefully this helps other folks with more modest machines. Appreciate any feedback.
Show HN: Steam-style achievements, but for real life (777 milestones)
For about 10 years I kept notes about things I wanted to do or already did. The notes never became anything useful, so this winter I started turning them into an app.It's not a habit tracker, it's a discrete-event tracker: 777 one-time milestones in 14 life categories (fitness, career, travel, finances, learning, mental health, etc.), each worth 5-100 points depending on difficulty. No streaks, no daily check-ins. You did it once, it counts forever.Two design decisions people argue wit
Ask HN: Looking for testers for my RAM-based Linux distribution
Hi,I have been working on a project called Invelinux for quite some time now, and now that I have released the release candidate versions, I thought about posting it on Hacker News for people to try it out.The thing that makes it stand out is its use of the Toybox userspace project, a BSD-licensed alternative to Busybox and musl C library instead of the GNU C library.
It also features a very minimal framework called AMPS (Automatically Mounted Packaging System) which mounts an external drive tha
Show HN: What should the GUI for AI agents look like?
Hi HN! We’re Akilan and Miguel, the creators of MarbleOS.The inspiration for Marble comes from the GUI work at Xerox PARC, the 1984 Macintosh, and later NeXTSTEP, which became the foundation for Mac OS X.
Before GUIs, interacting with a computer was limited to strange terminal commands:C:\> DIRC:\> COPY FILE.TXT A:You had to remember the command, syntax, paths, and parameters.The GUI made those capabilities visible. Instead of remembering commands, you could point at files, drag them, clic
Show HN: A VS Code extension buffers NPM updates to avoid supply chain attacks
I had been using package.json version keepers for quite some time but after the big supply chain attack i thought they would be the perfect place to add in some security.The idea is just to provide the latest package number x days old. This will help prevent most of the danger in supply in chain attacks.It will also remove the `^` if you have it so you can better control what version of a package your application is using.To be more security focused it gives general hints in the hover menu to he
Show HN: Claude Skill for ASD-STE100 – Simplified English
Recently I watched a video about ASD-STE100 - a controlled language from the aerospace industry. It was made in 1986 to remove ambiguity from maintenance manuals. Short sentences. One meaning per word ... etc.
Thought it could be useful in the tech industry so I "built" - (kind of an exaggeration here :d) an AI skill that applies these rules automatically.
Tested it out on a few tech documents and READMEs and it seems to make them quite a bit more clear.Check it out here. Also I left s
Is AI Capable of Novelty?
AI has indeed come a long way in the last couple of years. But if we boil it down, it’s all basically just very sophisticated pattern matching. Let’s say you ask AI to write a piece of code, there’s a good chance that the data it was trained on had the exact same problem solved in many different ways. i.e. the algorithm for merge sort.But let’s say you ask it something fairly unique i.e. a specific domain modeling of your new business. It’s quite possible that it hasn’t seen those exact requirem
Daily briefing: ‘Raygun’ AI can shrink or supersize proteins
<p>Nature, Published online: 30 July 2026; <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02420-9">doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02420-9</a></p>The tool can add, remove or swap protein subunits using similar steps to natural evolution. Plus, spin qubits are back in the quantum race and the drugs that could prevent long COVID.
IBM scientists claim they've achieved 'quantum advantage' — and they've dared others to prove them wrong
Scientists at IBM and partner institutions say they've reached "quantum advantage" in a trio of experiments demonstrating quantum computing capabilities that even the fastest classical supercomputers can't match.In a purported major milestone for quantum computing, the experiments show how these machines could perform useful computational tasks, such as computing chemical reactions, within minutes. By comparison, a supercomputer would take years. In a statement, IBM r
New process turns plastic waste into hydrogen fuel while trapping the carbon
A new chemical process can transform three of the most common plastics into high-purity hydrogen without sorting them first. The technique operates at much lower temperatures than traditional gasification and captures most of the plastic’s carbon in solid or liquid forms instead of releasing it as carbon dioxide.