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Orbify demos patent-pending 'warping' 3D navigation that bends the map
Orbify, a Norwegian company (Orbify AS), is showing off an interactive 3D navigation demo built around what it calls patent-pending 'warping' technology — the v
Pollen Robotics' Microduck: a $399 open-source biped you train with RL
Pollen Robotics has opened pre-orders for Microduck, a 25 cm, 800 g bipedal robot whose every behavior is a reinforcement-learning policy the owner can retrain.
Show HN: Voronoi Go — no summarizable content available
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SSRI Withdrawal Was Downplayed for Decades — Now Guidelines Are Being Rewritten
SSRIs were adopted as the safe successor to older antidepressants like tricyclics, trading serious cardiac and toxicity risks for milder side effects. That repu
Stanford's Terminal-Bench-Science tests AI agents on real research — top model hits 30%
Terminal-Bench-Science is a new benchmark from Stanford researchers and the Terminal-Bench team that measures how well AI agents handle actual scientific work r
Stripe-led consortium walks away from $50B PayPal takeover bid
Stripe and its investment partners — a group that, per Bloomberg's reporting, included private-equity firm Advent International — have dropped a roughly $50 bil
The Twelve-Factor App: Heroku's Blueprint for Portable, Scalable SaaS
The Twelve-Factor App is a methodology for building software-as-a-service applications that stay portable, scalable, and easy to deploy on modern cloud platform
507 Mechanical Movements: A Classic Engineering Reference, Now Being Animated
The site 507movements.com is a digital rendering of Henry T. Brown's classic 19th-century reference '507 Mechanical Movements,' which catalogs gears, linkages,
AI Agents Decompile Nintendo 64's Snowboard Kids in 84 Days
A developer chronicles how a harness of AI coding agents reconstructed C source for the entire Nintendo 64 game Snowboard Kids in about 84 days—a fraction of th
Amazon to Shut Down Mechanical Turk, Its 20-Year-Old Crowdsourcing Marketplace, Sept. 30
Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk, the microtask marketplace that connected businesses with a distributed, on-demand human workforce, on September 30. Launched
Asahi Linux Cracks Apple Silicon Power Management Without EL3 Firmware
The latest Asahi Linux progress report centers on a stubborn obstacle to good battery life on Apple Silicon: getting CPU idle states to work within Linux's upst
Cheap, fast AI models hit good-enough — and rewrite the economics of consumer apps
The author argues that small, inexpensive language models have quietly crossed a usefulness threshold. Running a model like the fictional gpt-5.6-luna, he clock