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Court lets NSF keep swinging axe at $1B in research grants

news.ycombinator.com Carly Page 2025-09-22 07:00:16

A US court has cleared the way for the National Science Foundation to press ahead with the cancellation of more than 1,700 research grants worth upwards of $1 billion. The ruling, handed down this week by Judge Jia Cobb of the DC District Court, rejects a request from researchers, universities and scientific societies to reinstate the cancelled grants while the case is heard. The plaintiffs had argued that NSF's mass terminations were arbitrary, unlawful and would do irreparable harm to the cou

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Some dogs can classify their toys by function

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-24 11:00:45

Certain dogs can not only memorize the names of objects like their favorite toys, but they can also extend those labels to entirely new objects with a similar function, regardless of whether or not they are similar in appearance, according to a new paper published in the journal Current Biology. It's a cognitively advanced ability known as "label extension," and for animals to acquire it usually involves years of intensive training in captivity. But the dogs in this new study developed the abili

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Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation

news.ycombinator.com Olaf Alders 2025-09-24 15:01:45

Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation Today The Perl and Raku Foundation is thrilled to announce a donation of USD 10,000 from Geizhals Preisvergleich. This gift helps to secure the future of The Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. Perl has been an integral part of our product price comparison platform from the start of the company 25 years ago. Supporting the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund means supporting both present and future of a substantial pillar of Modern

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How to measure the returns on R&D spending

technologyreview.com David Rotman 2025-09-27 14:00:00

Sure, it’s easy to argue for the importance of spending on science by pointing out that many of today’s most useful technologies had their origins in government-funded R&D. The internet, CRISPR, GPS—the list goes on and on. All true. But this argument ignores all the technologies that received millions in government funding and haven’t gone anywhere—at least not yet. We still don’t have DNA computers or molecular electronics. Never mind the favorite examples cited by contrarian politicians of se

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Jack Altman raised a new $275M early-stage fund in a mere week

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-09-28 11:52:53

In Brief The Altman brothers sure have a knack for being venture capitalists. On Tuesday, this especially applied to Jack Altman, co-founder of $3 billion-valuation HR software startup Lattice and brother to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Jack Altman just announced a second $275 million fund for his solo-run firm Alt Capital. And from start to finish, it took him a week, he told The Wall Street Journal. His first fund, raised in early 2024, was $150 million, so this is a big step up. He used it to in

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Figure reaches $39B valuation in latest funding round

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-09-28 23:49:44

In Brief Humanoid robotics company Figure raised its largest round of funding yet, a sign of growing investor interest in robots designed to work alongside humans in warehouses, factories, and other settings. San Jose, California-based Figure announced on Tuesday that it raised a Series C funding round that values the company at $39 billion. The round, which “exceeded $1 billion,” said Figure, was led by Parkway Venture Capital with participation from Brookfield Asset Management, Nvidia, and I

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Robinhood plans to launch a startups fund open to all retail investors

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-09-30 15:22:16

Robinhood announced Monday it has filed an application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to launch a new publicly traded fund that will hold shares of startups. The idea behind the “Robinhood Ventures Fund I” is to allow every retail investor access to make money on the hottest startups before they go public. While the current version of the application is public, Robinhood hasn’t filled in the fine-print yet. This means we don’t know how many shares it plans to sell, nor other

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Death to type classes

news.ycombinator.com Jappie J. T. Klooster 2025-09-28 02:46:57

Death ( XIII ) Symbolizes significant change, transformation, and endings, rather than literal physical death. Have you ever seen a Number grazing in the fields? Or a Functor chirping in the trees? No? That’s because they’re LIES. LIES told by the bourgeoisie to keep common folk down. But I say NO, no longer shall we be kept down by deceit! Come brothers and sisters, come and let us create a system of values. Where values are no longer constrained by their type class, but instead merged as a si

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Death to Type Classes

news.ycombinator.com Jappie J. T. Klooster 2025-09-29 13:46:57

Death ( XIII ) Symbolizes significant change, transformation, and endings, rather than literal physical death. Have you ever seen a Number grazing in the fields? Or a Functor chirping in the trees? No? That’s because they’re LIES. LIES told by the bourgeoisie to keep common folk down. But I say NO, no longer shall we be kept down by deceit! Come brothers and sisters, come and let us create a system of values. Where values are no longer constrained by their type class, but instead merged as a si

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Repetitive negative thinking associated with cognitive decline in older adults

news.ycombinator.com Ye 2025-10-01 18:37:33

The present study suggested that the risk of cognitive impairment increased with higher RNT scores among older adults, and the robustness of the finding was confirmed through adjustment for various potential confounding variables. Additionally, individuals aged 60 ~ 79 years, junior high school and above were more prone to suffer from cognitive impairment with a high RNT score. However, the correlation between RNT and cognitive function was not significant in older adults aged 80 to 90 years, or

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Visual programming is stuck on the form

news.ycombinator.com Wil Chung 2025-10-01 23:53:31

Underlying great creations that you love—be it music, art, or technology—its form (what it looks like) is driven by an underpinning internal logic (how it works). I noticed this pattern while watching a talk on cellular automaton and realized it's "form follows function" paraphrased from a slightly different angle. Inventing a form is a hard task, so you must approach it obliquely—by first illuminating the underlying function. This made me realize something crucial about visual programming: it’

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Scientists: It’s do or die time for America’s primacy exploring the Solar System

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-02 03:48:17

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth's climate, exploring the Solar System, and probing mysteries of the Universe. This year's budget expires at the end of this month, and Congress must act before October 1 to avert a government shutdown. If Congress passes a budget before then, it will most likely be in the form of a continuing resolution, an extension of this year's funding levels into the first few weeks or months of fiscal year 2026. The White Hou

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A beginner's guide to extending Emacs

news.ycombinator.com Tyler Langlois 2025-10-03 06:32:11

With that prelude out of the way, let's begin. Inside of emacs you can call up a list of potential completions by using the keyboard shortcut M-. (that’s "hit the meta key along with period", where "meta" is the Alt key for me). This applies in a wide variety of scenarios, like when completing class names or variables. If we want to ask emacs to hand us a list of potential references, then the system we want to hook into is this completions system. (This is the only time I'll assume we know wh

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A Beginner's Guide to Extending Emacs

news.ycombinator.com Tyler Langlois 2025-10-03 11:32:11

With that prelude out of the way, let's begin. Inside of emacs you can call up a list of potential completions by using the keyboard shortcut M-. (that’s "hit the meta key along with period", where "meta" is the Alt key for me). This applies in a wide variety of scenarios, like when completing class names or variables. If we want to ask emacs to hand us a list of potential references, then the system we want to hook into is this completions system. (This is the only time I'll assume we know wh

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Introduction to Nyquist and Lisp Programming

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-30 16:54:00

From Audacity Development Manual There is also a standalone version of Nyquist available from the Carnegie Mellon University Computer Music Project. Nyquist was written by Roger B. Dannenberg and was intended to be used as a complete programming language for audio synthesis and analysis, with support for MIDI, audio recording and playback, file I/O, object-oriented programming, profiling, debugging and more. Audacity uses a subset of Nyquist's functionality, allowing you to use Nyquist functi

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NT OS Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability

news.ycombinator.com Hieu.Q 2025-10-05 10:13:09

Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction Microsoft mitigated many traditional kernel information leaks starting with Windows 11/Windows Server 2022 24H2, including calls such as NtQuerySystemInformation() (when used with the SystemModuleInformation class), by suppressing kernel base addresses unless the caller had the SeDebugPrivilege , typically reserved for administrative processes. That change effectively neutered one of the most accessible KASLR bypass techniques, and, without knowledge of the

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Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 20:10:15

We are announcing a Series C funding round of 1.7B€ at a 11.7B€ post-money valuation. This investment fuels our scientific research to keep pushing the frontier of AI to tackle the most critical and sophisticated technological challenges faced by strategic industries. The Series C funding round is led by leading semiconductor equipment manufacturer, ASML Holding NV (ASML). “ASML is proud to enter a strategic partnership with Mistral AI, and to be lead investor in this funding round. The collab

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Go for Bash Programmers – Part II: CLI Tools

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 22:26:15

This is the second part of a series introducing Bash programmers to Go. This part is about basics of writing CLI tools in Go. See the first part for the language building blocks. Our first CLI tool Bash is often used to write small CLI tools and automation. Let's start with an example CLI tool that prints "hello" to terminal. The Bash version is pretty simple: #! /bin/bash echo hello Now, let's implement a Go version. We start by creating a directory where the first version of our program wi

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Mistral AI raises 1.7B€, enters strategic partnership with ASML

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 03:10:15

We are announcing a Series C funding round of 1.7B€ at a 11.7B€ post-money valuation. This investment fuels our scientific research to keep pushing the frontier of AI to tackle the most critical and sophisticated technological challenges faced by strategic industries. The Series C funding round is led by leading semiconductor equipment manufacturer, ASML Holding NV (ASML). “ASML is proud to enter a strategic partnership with Mistral AI, and to be lead investor in this funding round. The collab

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Mistral AI raises €1.7B to accelerate technological progress with AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 08:50:43

We are announcing a Series C funding round of 1.7B€ at a 11.7B€ post-money valuation. This investment fuels our scientific research to keep pushing the frontier of AI to tackle the most critical and sophisticated technological challenges faced by strategic industries. The Series C funding round is led by leading semiconductor equipment manufacturer, ASML Holding NV (ASML). “ASML is proud to enter a strategic partnership with Mistral AI, and to be lead investor in this funding round. The collab

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Contracts for C

news.ycombinator.com Jens Gustedt 2025-10-07 13:36:49

C++ seems to finally converge with their contracts proposal, https://wg21.link/p2900. I decided to give it a try and come up with ideas how such a thing would look for C. This is in early stages, not a full proposal yet, and still would need implementation by some of the major compilers. In particular, the C++ feature is full of sidetracks that I don’t like at all, such as user-defined global handlers and ignorability. But there is a core of ideas, syntax and semantics that I found interesting

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NPM debug and chalk packages compromised

news.ycombinator.com Written By 2025-10-12 19:37:57

Starting at September 8th, 13:16 UTC, our Aikido intel feed alerted us to a series packages being pushed to npm, which appeared to contain malicious code. These were 18 very popular packages, backslash (0.26m downloads per week) chalk-template (3.9m downloads per week) supports-hyperlinks (19.2m downloads per week) has-ansi (12.1m downloads per week) simple-swizzle (26.26m downloads per week) color-string (27.48m downloads per week) error-ex (47.17m downloads per week) color-name (191.71

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How Trump’s policies are affecting early-career scientists—in their own words

technologyreview.com Eileen Guo 2025-10-13 15:45:00

Looking ahead, an academic at a public university in Texas, where the money granted for indirect costs funds student salaries, said he plans to hire fewer students for his own lab. “It’s very sad that I cannot promise [positions] at this point because of this,” he told us, adding that the cap could also affect the competitiveness of public universities in Texas, since schools elsewhere may fund their student researchers differently. At the same time, two people with funding through the Defense

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Anonymous recursive functions in Racket

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 11:39:33

Anonymous recursive functions in Racket Context Some languages, like PowerShell, have “anonymous recursive functions”. That is, normally, a function needs to use a name to refer to itself to recur. But “anonymous recursion” means the language has some special mechanism by which the function can refer to itself without having to explicitly introduce a name. In some contexts, this is called an anaphoric reference. Code Here we show how we can easily implement this feature in Racket. The file a

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Developing a Space Flight Simulator in Clojure

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 08:39:01

Developing a Space Flight Simulator in Clojure In 2017 I discovered the free of charge Orbiter 2016 space flight simulator which was proprietary at the time and it inspired me to develop a space flight simulator myself. I prototyped some rigid body physics in C and later in GNU Guile and also prototyped loading and rendering of Wavefront OBJ files. I used GNU Guile (a Scheme implementation) because it has a good native interface and of course it has hygienic macros. Eventually I got interested

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Heap-based buffer overflow in Kernel Streaming

news.ycombinator.com Aleksandr.K 2025-10-15 00:39:41

Reading Time: 4 minutes From time to time, while digging through internals during our research, we stumble upon quirks or vulnerabilities that, although not immediately useful for operations or exploitation, are still noteworthy. Rather than letting these findings fade away, we decided to responsibly disclose them to the vendor. One such case is CVE-2025-53149, a heap-based buffer overflow in the Kernel Streaming WOW Thunk Service Driver, which Microsoft patched on August 12, 2025. The vulnera

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What Is the Fourier Transform?

news.ycombinator.com Shalma Wegsman 2025-10-15 23:11:09

As we listen to a piece of music, our ears perform a calculation. The high-pitched flutter of the flute, the middle tones of the violin, and the low hum of the double bass fill the air with pressure waves of many different frequencies. When the combined sound wave descends through the ear canal and into the spiral-shaped cochlea, hairs of different lengths resonate to the different pitches, separating the messy signal into buckets of elemental sounds. It took mathematicians until the 19th centu

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How Anthropic's enterprise dominance fueled its monster $183B valuation

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-10-17 03:13:14

PM Images/DigitalVision via Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Anthropic is valued at $183 billion after a new funding round. The company currently serves over 300,000 enterprise customers. A marketing emphasis on safety could be a major driving factor. Anthropic is soaring, and the popularity of its tools among enterprise clients is providing much of the lift. The AI start-up announced on Tuesday that its latest funding round raised $13 bill

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Lisp interpreter with GC in <750 lines of Odin (and <500 lines of C)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-17 06:35:32

komplott / komplodin A tribute to: Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I (as found in paper/recursive.pdf ) A micro-subset of scheme / the original LISP in a single C file: komplott.c ! New in 2025! The LISP interpreter translated to Odin in komplodin.odin . More lines of code, but I am less familiar with the language and am translating directly from C, so there are probably ways to make it a cleaner solution. When I posted this to lobste.rs,

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Physically based rendering from first principles

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-21 02:07:22

Physically based rendering from first principles In this interactive article, we will explore the physical phenomena that create light and the fundamental laws governing its interaction with matter. We will learn how our human eyes capture light and how our brains interpret it as visual information. We will then model approximations of these physical interactions and learn how to create physically realistic renderings of various materials. Chapter 1: What is light? We are all familiar with li

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Latest Tech News

Court lets NSF keep swinging axe at $1B in research grants

Some dogs can classify their toys by function

Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation

How to measure the returns on R&D spending

Jack Altman raised a new $275M early-stage fund in a mere week

Figure reaches $39B valuation in latest funding round

Robinhood plans to launch a startups fund open to all retail investors

Death to type classes

Death to Type Classes

Repetitive negative thinking associated with cognitive decline in older adults

Visual programming is stuck on the form

Scientists: It’s do or die time for America’s primacy exploring the Solar System

A beginner's guide to extending Emacs

A Beginner's Guide to Extending Emacs

Introduction to Nyquist and Lisp Programming

NT OS Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML

Go for Bash Programmers – Part II: CLI Tools

Mistral AI raises 1.7B€, enters strategic partnership with ASML

Mistral AI raises €1.7B to accelerate technological progress with AI

Contracts for C

NPM debug and chalk packages compromised

How Trump’s policies are affecting early-career scientists—in their own words

Anonymous recursive functions in Racket

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Heap-based buffer overflow in Kernel Streaming

What Is the Fourier Transform?

How Anthropic's enterprise dominance fueled its monster $183B valuation

Lisp interpreter with GC in <750 lines of Odin (and <500 lines of C)

Physically based rendering from first principles

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