This year's dig at the Hittite city of Samuha (modern Sivas) recovered 131 cuneiform tablets and fragments, more than tripling last year's haul of 53 and making it the largest Hittite-language archive found this century. The texts, written in Hittite and Hurrian and dated to King Tudhaliya II's reign, describe a fatal fever epidemic in an infant princess, rituals monitoring royal and official children's health, and a general's urgent plea to the king for military reinforcements.
A Hacker News 'Ask HN' post from a hobbyist woodworker who currently uses Shapr3d to manually design projects asks whether large language models can speed up 3D modeling for woodworking. The poster is soliciting recommendations from the community for AI tools or workflows suited to this use case.
Leaker Kepler_L2 says AMD's RDNA 5 graphics card lineup will launch in the second half of 2027, with a possible unveiling at Computex 2027 in June. Unlike past generations, the mid-range AT2 chip may arrive first in 2027, while the flagship AT0 and lower-end AT3/AT4 chips could follow in 2028. The leaker also said upcoming 4GB GDDR7 memory chips likely won't be used in these consumer cards, being reserved instead for AI and enterprise products.
Companies have been rapidly appointing chief AI officers as a top executive priority in recent years. Observers now question whether the role will remain a permanent fixture or prove to be a temporary position tied to the current phase of AI adoption.
Sui Foundation announced on October 12, 2026 a $30 million investment in DATA Network, the AI training-data project formerly known as Story Protocol, which will shut down its own Layer 1 and migrate to run natively on Sui. The project's Trace registry, which logs provenance and licensing rights for training data and has logged over 250 million registrations since its June 2026 launch, will move to Sui, with Sui's Walrus storage platform becoming the default storage layer for DATA Foundation applications.
Linus Torvalds said AI tools are helping spot security vulnerabilities and improve the Linux kernel, but are also burying maintainers in low-quality bug reports and what he called 'mindless band-aid kind of patches.' He reaffirmed that Linux's progress still relies on incremental, small-scale changes rather than sweeping rewrites.
The IMF's Global Financial Stability Report, released Tuesday in Bangkok, warned that sovereign bond yields could rise sharply and disorderly as inflation, high debt loads and rollover risks strain government bond markets. It noted global public debt is nearing its highest level since World War II and approaching 100% of GDP, while AI firms' borrowing now makes up about 10% of global investment-grade bond issuance, up from under 1% since 2024.
A business columnist for Entrepreneur argues small businesses should build a 30-day cash flow plan to spot payroll shortfalls before they hit, citing Xero data showing U.S. invoices are paid about eight days late on average and Canadian ones about 11 days late. The piece also cites Canadian government survey data showing roughly 45% of small businesses seeking debt financing needed it for day-to-day operations like payroll, while only 40% say payroll data informs their decision-making.
SK Hynix fell more than 8% and Samsung Electronics dropped 7.9%, both hitting their lowest intraday levels since August, as a US semiconductor sell-off spread to Asian markets. SoftBank Group shares sank over 8% in Japan, dragging down chip-related names including Tokyo Electron, Advantest, Lasertec, Disco and Renesas Electronics. The moves followed a 0.44% Nasdaq decline and a 3.9% drop in Micron Technology after China's ChangXin Memory Technologies reported progress on a new chip architecture.
A technical blog post from researcher Ben Recht examines a math result released by OpenAI that claimed to compute faster Fourier transforms. Recht explains the mathematics behind the Fast Fourier Transform, originally devised by Cooley and Tukey in 1965, and argues that OpenAI's claimed speedup does not represent a genuine algorithmic breakthrough.
A developer with 20 years of experience, known for maintaining popular Ruby packages and writing programming books, says he has applied to more than three dozen jobs and received 24 rejections. Citing the toll of repeated rejection on his mental health, he says he is stepping away from the tech industry. He also notes that remote work from his home in Warrnambool, where he has worked for six years, appears incompatible with current hiring expectations.
A writer who contributed to The iOS App Icon Book shared a personal archive project: a single graphic compiling screenshots of the macOS Dock's design from early Mac OS X through recent macOS versions. The compilation draws on images sourced from the 512 Pixels site, and the author published a high-resolution version for preservation.
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