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A Mathematician's Lament – Paul Lockhart (2002) [pdf]

Article URL: https://worrydream.com/refs/Lockhart_2002_-_A_Mathematician%27s_Lament.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48390400 Points: 9 # Comments: 0

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Flesh-eating screwworm infection detected in South Texas, USDA says

If confirmed, it would be the fly's first breach of the US-Mexico border.

Technology Jun 3, 2026

WiiM expands its whole-home ecosystem with a new soundbar

WiiM, the audio company that's challenged the idea that audiophile-level performance requires a small loan, is expanding...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Defense tech is flooded with money, but who’s built to last?

Defense tech is red hot right now. Anduril and Mach Industries just doubled and quadrupled their val...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Ableton Extensions SDK

Article URL: https://www.ableton.com/en/live/extensions/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48389681 Po...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Show HN: Mnemo – local-first AI memory layer for any LLM (Rust, SQLite,petgraph)

Article URL: https://github.com/zaydmulani09/mnemo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48389586 Points: ...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Google ordered to put clearer links in AI search and let UK publishers opt out

Google must change AI Overviews after claiming users don't want "lots of sources." ...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

A Man Who Reads Books for a Living (One Every Two Days)

Article URL: https://lithub.com/the-man-who-reads-books-for-a-living-one-every-two-days/ Comments URL: https://news.yco...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Uber to put 500 data-collection vehicles on the road this year

The modified Ioniq 5 will be loaded with sensors to capture data for Uber's new AV Labs division.

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Nvidia is already planning N2X and N3X chips — the goal is the Star Trek computer

Just in case you were wondering, Nvidia's RTX Spark isn't supposed to be a one-off. The company is not just flirting wit...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Dashlane issues opaque advisory warning 20 encrypted vaults were stolen

Security advisory leaves out key details. Dashlane maintains complete silence. ...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Self-hosted dev sandboxes with preview URLs (Docker, Go, no K8s)

Article URL: https://github.com/tastyeffectco/sandboxes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388909 Poi...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5

Article URL: https://brume.aftertone.co/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388870 Points: 7 # Commen...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Alphabet’s record-breaking $85B raise for Google’s AI business is a helluva good signal

If Alphabet's record-breaking, $85 billion stock sale signals investor appetite for AI-related offerings, we can see tha...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Building iOS Apps with Doom Emacs

Article URL: https://wassimans.com/blog/building-ios-apps-with-doom-emacs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Meta mercifully spun out VR fitness game Supernatural instead of just killing it

Meta appears to have listened to the Supernatural users who protested the app's sad fate after sweeping layoffs.

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Google's new Gemma 4 12B model is designed to run on any laptop with 16GB of RAM

Gemma 4 12B uses a new encoding scheme and token prediction to punch above its weight. ...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Substack’s new ‘Reply Rules’ feature lets creators control how people respond

Substack's new Reply Rules feature is currently available for all English-language publications and is designed to give ...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Google’s Dreambeans, its weirdest-named AI tool to date, will turn your life into a cartoon

Dreambeans is a curated list of AI-illustrated "stories" culled from the personal data in your Google account.

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Elixir v1.20 released: now a gradually typed language

Article URL: https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2026/06/03/elixir-v1-20-0-released/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Rootshell: A new E2EE email service hosted in Iceland

Article URL: https://rootshell.is Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388253 Points: 5 # Comments: 1

Technology Jun 3, 2026

xAI Asks Court to Strip Alleged Grok Deepfake Nudes Victims of Anonymity

Four people suing Elon Musk's AI firm under pseudonyms due to the risks of being identified may face a difficult choice:...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Elon Musk and America’s Far Right Stoke Anger Over Murder of UK Teen

Influential figures, including Nick Fuentes, have been accused of “hijacking” the murder of Henry Nowak to push a ra...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Trump plan to test AI models has a problem—US security teams were gutted by DOGE

Critics say Trump plan to test AI models is short-sighted, performative.

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Amazon Employees Show Up to City Council Meeting to Demand Limits on Data Centers

Activists say it’s the first time big tech employees have publicly called for regulations governing data center projec...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

The Humanoid Robot of the Future Is a 6-Foot-Tall Beefcake With a Chinese Body and an American Brain

Spencer Huang, Nvidia’s robotics lead, tells WIRED that the new bot combines the best of both worlds.

Technology Jun 3, 2026

The best Qi2 batteries for iPhone and Pixel

Compact power banks have gotten a lot faster in the past year — and it’s not just their USB-C charging speeds that h...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang

https://web.archive.org/web/20260603173839/https://www.theat...https://archive.is/bcpZl Comments URL: https://news.yco...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

Embryos shape their limbs: a key discovery of "genetic brakes"

Article URL: https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2026/06/02/how-embryos-shape-their-limbs-a-key-discovery-of-gene...

Technology Jun 3, 2026

As AI gets better, it reveals an empty promise

This week we've got tandem hands-ons with Google's new Gemini AI agent - Spark - from my colleagues David Pierce and Jay...