China launches Shenzhou-20 crew for six-month Tiangong mission
Three astronauts headed to China’s space station for maintenance, debris-protection work and experiments spanning physics and medical science.
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Whistleblower Says DOGE Accessed NLRB Case Data in Early March
A security architect alleges that new DOGE accounts were granted high-level access to NLRB systems and that unusual data transfers and login attempts followed.
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Spegel Maintainer Says Microsoft Fork Reused His Code Without Proper Credit
The creator of Spegel says Microsoft’s Peerd project closely resembled his own P2P image-sharing code and left users confused about the relationship.
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Google brings Gemma 3 QAT models to consumer GPUs
Google has released int4 quantized Gemma 3 variants tuned with Quantization Aware Training, positioning the models as a way to run stronger AI on consumer graphics cards.
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Synology’s drive-locking move risks alienating NAS buyers
A report cited by ServeTheHome says Synology plans to restrict features in upcoming 2025 Plus NAS models to its own branded hard drives, a move critics say deepens lock-in.
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A Doom-like game now fits inside a QR code
An open-source project called Backdooms compresses a browser game into a QR code, using decompression in the browser to turn a scan into a playable game.
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Google previews Gemini 2.5 Flash for faster, lower-cost reasoning
Google says Gemini 2.5 Flash is in preview and designed to improve reasoning while keeping speed and cost efficiency at the center for developers.
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CISA rescues the CVE program with an 11-month extension
After a contract lapse threatened MITRE’s CVE program, CISA executed an option period that keeps critical vulnerability-tracking services running for another 11 months.
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Webb telescope finds tentative chemical hints on exoplanet K2-18b
A Cambridge team reported possible DMS or DMDS in the planet's atmosphere, but the signal falls short of discovery standards and does not prove life.
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Rare Colossal Squid Filmed in South Atlantic
Scientists have captured the first-ever footage of a juvenile colossal squid in its natural deep-sea habitat near the South Sandwich Islands.
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Blue Origin’s NS-31 carries six women on suborbital flight from West Texas
Katy Perry, Gayle King, Lauren Sánchez, Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyen and Kerianne Flynn completed an approximately 11-minute New Shepard mission beyond the Kármán Line.
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A Reddit bot drove one writer to the edge of sanity
The post is a personal account of a bot experiment gone wrong, told as a tale of automation, irritation and eventual breakdown.
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A faster horse was not the point
The post uses a familiar innovation lesson to argue that people often ask for improvements inside old frames instead of rethinking the product itself.
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Why the best programmers stand out
The post is a short reflection on what separates top engineers from the rest, focusing on habits, judgment and execution.
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Sister’s Donated Womb Enables Landmark UK Birth
Baby Amy’s arrival completed a years-long clinical pathway for Grace Davidson, from transplant surgery and immunosuppression to IVF and a Caesarean delivery.
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Colossal Biosciences De-extincts Dire Wolf
Colossal Biosciences has successfully used genetic engineering to bring the dire wolf back to life, with three pups born in recent months.
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Standard Ebooks builds a high-craft library for public-domain readers
Standard Ebooks presents itself as a volunteer-driven project that turns public-domain titles into carefully formatted editions for modern ereaders.
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An argument for banning digital advertising entirely
A post on Simone.org argues that advertising has become such a structural problem online that the better answer may be to outlaw it.
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“Bored of it” turns an old phrase into a meditation on digital exhaustion
Paul Robert Lloyd’s short piece examines boredom, repetition and the uneasy sense that modern life keeps looping back on itself.
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A satirical image prompt revives the old adventurer archetype
A Substack post about an archeologist adventurer uses a familiar cinematic figure to explore how image models and prompt culture remix pop-culture tropes.
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Trump unveils broad US tariffs as markets and trading partners react
A 10% baseline levy on most countries, with higher rates for several major partners, prompted sharp market losses and plans for possible retaliation.
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A tiny Rust web framework pitches itself as lighter than a React button
The Show HN post presents Nue as a deliberately small alternative for app builders who want less framework overhead.
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A First Amendment warning says multiple pillars are under attack
The post argues that legal pressure, retaliation and institutional chill are converging on speech and press protections.
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FBI search at a prominent computer scientist’s home leaves questions unanswered
Authorities carried out court-authorized activity at a Carmel, Indiana address linked to a noted computer scientist, but did not disclose the target or purpose.
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